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The same goes for the "chargegate" which were fixed in software, yet somehow completely fine because it's Apple.
But for a news post, you seeing it as "clickbait" is subjective, and considering it hate while wanting topics to be cherrypicked shows you have a really clear bias.

Why do I read this so often? Androids can last, I'm still using a s5 and enjoying it. And yes, the battery has degraded very noticeably, but if it ever gets so bad that I don't make it to the end of a day, I can just replace my battery without any tools or effort.

Usually the home button works when apps freeze. If the Os itself freezes then nothing but the power button responds (sometimes it doesn't and you gotta take out the battery)

So sir, how much would you like to be paid. 
 
Oh, well, I don't want to be greedy, so 20k is fine. 100k is too much.

Wonder how many years it'll be until Apple catches on. Who knows, maybe Apple will remove the screen next to make the phone even thinner lmao.

this isnt limited to just games
bugs and issues are all over now days
phones/cars/mobos/cpus/consoles/gpus/os/software/etc
 
its practically how it works now days
everything is purchased as public beta lol

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I have only ever heard people warn against CVT's here in Aus.  Much of the narrative I hear is attributed to mechanics who claim they are scrap metal after 100K.  I know nothing about them personally, but with that kind of reputation going around it doesn't surprise me that we don't see many of them advertised as a selling point.

Even worse *runs into the hills screaming*

No they do not, it's the motherboard makers setting the cTDP value above the Intel spec.
 
Edit:
And the reason why I care is because I care about correctness of information so we are all more educated. What something actually means is important, what it's for is important, the conditions a test is done under is important.
 
I don't care about someones opinion on a spec very much, so spreading an opinion like it's factual is what I disagree with, a lot.
 
The fact is Intel CPUs have a cTDP and the default value is that which is stated on the Intel spec sheet. If it says 95W then the default package TDP is 95W and sustained power draw will be 95W. If you see higher than the spec then the cTDP has been changed and therefore the CPU is no longer operating in default configuration or in rated spec.
 
You're trying to blame Intel for other 3rd parties, not Intel, for changing the cTDP and then using that to try and show the TDP spec is pointless and does nothing when in fact it does.
 
The issue is, as far as I can see with the information at hand, that motherboards for a while now have been setting cTDP above the Intel spec by default. This means pointing to a review with a sustained power draw above the TDP does nothing to prove that the TDP spec is useless because the CPU is not running under Intel spec.
 
I'm not saying, nor have ever said, not to add a max all core turbo power draw to the spec sheet. TDP however has a set purpose and we should not dilute or change it's meaning, it's a thermal specification not a power specification. If a system designer sets the cTDP above 95W then the cooling solution needs to match it and that has nothing to do with Intel.
 
That's a bit hypocritical is it not? You say Intel's spec is irrelevant then also harp on about the spec, if it's irrelevant then why do you care? You bring up this rhetoric about Intel violating the spec but ignore the motherboard makers are the ones actually doing it. How about to criticize the ones actually causing the issue.
 
If something is wrong, being collectively wrong about it doesn't make it right, it's still wrong. Everyone thought the Earth was flat until is was proven otherwise, everyone was wrong about that until they were educated otherwise, or are you also part of 'that movement'.

I just dont see the point to having so many cameras. I'd probably never bu-
 

You do realize AI cannot just fill in imaged that a wide angle would capture? Its not fucking magic

And that is not what people want.
That just postpones updates. Microsoft still gives you the middle finger if you want to turn updates off. Microsoft wants to control the schedule for when your PC gets updated, regardless of what you want. Sorry Microsoft, but you don't know better than me when it comes to how I want to use my computer, and you really should have no business controlling my computer. I bought it, I own it, and I want to use it however I want.
 
 

For casual use, you do not need to use the terminal.
I don't get why this myth is still being repeated, and it seems like it's repeated mostly by Windows users who barely knows anything about GNU/Linux.
 
 
 
I've talked to a few supposed Microsoft developers, and their stories seem to mirror those stories pretty well. I wouldn't be surprised if those stories are true.
 
 

I've said this before, but I'll say it again, the feedback hub is useless. I actually used it a lot while Windows 10 was still in development. I submitted maybe 15-20 different things I wanted changed, issues and so on. Some of them even got quite a lot of traction (well, if you call 100-200 votes a lot, but I do) and I voted on lots of other suggestions. Barely any of them got implemented at all, a few of them were done half-assed (like when people asked for transparency in the start menu and title bar, and they only added it to one and then locked all other threads asking for it), but most seemed to have gotten ignored.
 
You might as well send your complaints or suggestions to a document shredder.
 
 

Are you on LTSB? That version don't have the photos app. If you aren't, you can try and redownload it from the store.
By the way, isn't it sad that a single thing such as a photo viewer from Microsoft themselves has to be labeled "Offers in-app purchases"? Apparently Microsoft can't resist the urge to monetize even basic functionality like viewing images in their OS anymore.
 

Most people basically only need a browser, and for that GNU/Linux is more than a decent alternative to Windows, and no you do not need to even touch the terminal in Ubuntu to do that.
 

Same goes for Windows really. I still believe that a lot of things in GNU/Linux are fundamentally easier to do than on Windows, but because people have gotten used to doing things the Windows way they believe they are simpler.
 
 
I think there is a weird mentality on this forum where a lot of times when things go wrong on Windows, it is the users' fault. But when something goes wrong on GNU/Linux it is the OS's fault.
 
 

You're downplaying the difficulties of properly installing something on Windows quite a bit there.
Installing something on Ubuntu which isn't in the software center: A single command which you can either look up with the package manager, or find through Google.
Installing something on Windows requires finding the correct website to download from, making sure it's the right version, possibly installing separate dependencies (not always installed automatically since the Windows installer doesn't have a package manager to check those things) and then making sure you uncheck all the things you don't want in the installer (why do you think so many people have a bunch of toolbars and adware on their computers?).
 
You don't think of all the extra steps in Windows because you are used to that workflow, but if you look at it objectively from the POV of someone who has never touched a computer before, the Ubuntu way seems far easier. The package manager takes care of a lot of things you have to manually do in Windows, such as selecting the correct version and installing dependencies.
And on top of that the update process is so much smoother on GNU/Linux. Once again, the package manager takes care of it. On Windows 10 different programs might all have 10 widely different ways of updating.

If people would stop modifying the shit out of windows unnecessarily so of the stuff they claim is "broken" would actually work, or if people actually took their time and configured their shit correctly there would be fewer issues. I know it has its issues but blaming the tool for the user's incompetence is a whole other issue.

So you're doing something wrong then.

Anyone that can read above a 2nd grade level can.

Dark theme is nice, I enjoy having as much stuff as I possibly can using it.

Dear god, I can hear the squeakers already q.q, but good fucking job sony, if only you guys would allow other games like GTA V to be cross play I'd be fucking happy.

Dear god, I can hear the squeakers already q.q, but good fucking job sony, if only you guys would allow other games like GTA V to be cross play I'd be fucking happy.

Buut.... Google does!!!
 

I've got bluetooth VModas. They sound so much better wired and bluetooth is really inconvenient.

A wet rock would be better than OpenGL in terms of those things >.>
 
The biggest benefit to Vulkan is getting rid of all the legacy cruft and implimentation bugs of OpenGL, I'd have to imagine that's why development of OpenGL has largly been halted, because at this point Vulkan is both more intricate *and* easier to use than OpenGL was. With AMD's Memory Allocator it's basically a streamlined OpenGL without all the garbage.
 
I totally agree that Direct3D isn't going anywhere but I just want to point out that Vulkan can be used with the Xbox One and Windows 10 UWP via the Vulkan Portability Initiative.

So Khronos, the group behind OpenGL and Vulkan among many other things, just announced a new extension for Vulkan. I know this may not interest many people here but it peaked my interest so I thought I'd share it.
 
https://www.khronos.org/blog/vulkan-has-just-become-the-worlds-first-graphics-api-with-a-formal-memory-model.-so-what-is-a-memory-model-and-why-should-i-care
 
The basics of this is that it's an extension that will allow developers to better handle memory synchronization between different shader threads, allowing them to ensure that the data that needs to be shared between shader cores and the CPU is synchronized while the information that's not needed gets ignored for improved performance.
 
Direct3D 12 and Metal (currently) have nothing like this, and it's a big departure for low level memory management in these kinds of shader systems. With it being brand spanking new I haven't gotten to play around with it but I'd imagine it's likely pretty complex for your average game studio to impliment directly (memory access is complicated  after all). Hopefully we see it partially implimented into GPUOpen's Vulkan Memory Allocator and adopted into some of the larger engines and their shaders.
 
Based off the Memory Model implimented in C++11 for memory synchronization between CPU threads, they've implimented the features they need to get it working with GPUs and are continuing further research into performance optomization and ways to improve it.
 
There's a lot more info in the source article, it's pretty dense. Everything from them rolling out conformance tests for your shaders, to offering their first full spec description as an Alloy implimentation, to the GitHub page for the new Memory Management Extension itself ( https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-MemoryModel ).
 
But yeah while we probably won't see real world implimentations for a couple years (outside maybe DXVK/VKD3D/ANGLE which could benefit from it), I think it'll be interesting to see how developers can leverage this and hopefully it pushes more graphics APIs to introduce formal Memory Models like the C++0x spec did to kick-start formal memory languages in the CPU space.

Get literally the cheapest GPU that Nvidia, AMD or Matrox makes, slap it in a PCIe slot and job done. Why make things harder with a more complex motherboard layout probably requiring more PCB layers for what would be a totally garbage graphics solution that is unlikely to be able to run a 4k monitor, server motherboards have what you're asking for and they are terrible, you don't want it.

>looks at Note8
>laughs at the ability to use wired and wireless headphones without issue
>cries while looking at other phones
 
Irony is that the port that's supposed to be universal ended up being a clusterball