AkatsukiKun

Yeah, none of this really changes the stakes. The Z Flip 4 (that's the one that costs $999, by the way) and Z Fold 4 are still mainly suited to early adopters who are willing to live with a few quirks to say they have a foldable phone. If I had to buy a Samsung phone right now, I'd pick the S22+ instead.
 
I do like that the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro offers a titanium case for $449 ($499 with LTE), though. Apple's titanium Series 7 starts at $799; I suspect there's more to the price difference than meets the eye, like material composition, but it still means you can get a light-yet-strong smartwatch for Android that won't break the proverbial bank.

Before we even get to the Type-C standard, the USB 3.x protocol and its naming scheme, and standard(s) has it's own pile of mess to clean up, if you need a chart to understand the prefixes, versions, etc. especially for someone knowledgeable about modern pro/consumer technology, that's a big failure on the consortium/group as a whole.
Sony didn't make Playstations 4.1/.2/.3/etc. they made the regular, then pro, and off to the next generation. It's like they brought in the person in charge of the Kingdom Hearts naming scheme or director.
 
There's an absolute better way to resolve this, but they chose not to pursue it. They as in the the USB consortium group.

Before we even get to the Type-C standard, the USB 3.x protocol and its naming scheme, and standard(s) has it's own pile of mess to clean up, if you need a chart to understand the prefixes, versions, etc. especially for someone knowledgeable about modern pro/consumer technology, that's a big failure on the consortium/group as a whole.
Sony didn't make Playstations 4.1/.2/.3/etc. they made the regular, then pro, and off to the next generation. It's like they brought in the person in charge of the Kingdom Hearts naming scheme or director.
 
There's an absolute better way to resolve this, but they chose not to pursue it. They as in the the USB consortium group.

And even once you finish your studies, whether that be college, university or whatever and you still have it downloaded on your computer, you still have access to it, though it only pesters you to sign in with an active account or asks to renew the license. Other than that I still got full functionality even after 1.5 years after I graduated.

And even once you finish your studies, whether that be college, university or whatever and you still have it downloaded on your computer, you still have access to it, though it only pesters you to sign in with an active account or asks to renew the license. Other than that I still got full functionality even after 1.5 years after I graduated.

And even once you finish your studies, whether that be college, university or whatever and you still have it downloaded on your computer, you still have access to it, though it only pesters you to sign in with an active account or asks to renew the license. Other than that I still got full functionality even after 1.5 years after I graduated.

And even once you finish your studies, whether that be college, university or whatever and you still have it downloaded on your computer, you still have access to it, though it only pesters you to sign in with an active account or asks to renew the license. Other than that I still got full functionality even after 1.5 years after I graduated.

Depends on the school, if we're talking about High School, then it's gonna be obvious who's clearly playing a game with their chromebook in the physical class, but unless it's all eLearning, I don't think it'd be too hard for school districts to block websites and certain apps from running on their distributed chromebooks.
 
If we're talking about college/universities, most profs don't care, hell I was playing osu, Dirt rally in the middle of a lecture. I don't have the audio blasting out through my headphones. As long as it's not too obnoxious you won't get in trouble.

Depends on the school, if we're talking about High School, then it's gonna be obvious who's clearly playing a game with their chromebook in the physical class, but unless it's all eLearning, I don't think it'd be too hard for school districts to block websites and certain apps from running on their distributed chromebooks.
 
If we're talking about college/universities, most profs don't care, hell I was playing osu, Dirt rally in the middle of a lecture. I don't have the audio blasting out through my headphones. As long as it's not too obnoxious you won't get in trouble.

Depends on the school, if we're talking about High School, then it's gonna be obvious who's clearly playing a game with their chromebook in the physical class, but unless it's all eLearning, I don't think it'd be too hard for school districts to block websites and certain apps from running on their distributed chromebooks.
 
If we're talking about college/universities, most profs don't care, hell I was playing osu, Dirt rally in the middle of a lecture. I don't have the audio blasting out through my headphones. As long as it's not too obnoxious you won't get in trouble.

Saved me quite a bit, I knew a single coupon for Lenovo, but Honey had a better coupon for Lenovo's online store. I'd say I saved $120-200 from Lenovo's overpriced online MSRP.

Hey Amazon, don't you do the same? Or is it only bad when others do it.

So problem I see with this is variants of the same phone don't get treated the same with regards to support, if product X rev1.1 and so on doesn't get the same treatment as rev1.0 it'd suck for the owner/user. I owned an S4 mini I was lucky to get a year and change of software support for it. I moved up to the S6 after, the regular version got better treatment, until Samsung got rid of the mini variants, and started releasing the A-series variant (I think).

Buys the new iPhone, doesn't come with a charger, if you want to be able to use your phone past the first day $100 for the charger.

How many 115x sockets have we been at now? Don't forget that Skylake, Kabylake both used 1151, same with Coffelake using the same 1151. Basically intel has been effectively using the same architecture deep down for 4 generations of cpus and the same socket. Don't get me started on tick-tock, they're running out on both by now.

The only real risk is to there income from fines.
As for the statement that knowing where the police is puts them at risk is BS, if people really wanted to harm police they can just call and report a fake crime then have them go exactly were they wanted. 
As for checkpoint it will now mean they actually have to patrol and do there jobs.

Slap on an Arc reactor in the middle and some fans, but really have you seen Colorful's gpu?

Slap on an Arc reactor in the middle and some fans, but really have you seen Colorful's gpu?

Slap on an Arc reactor in the middle and some fans, but really have you seen Colorful's gpu?

This reminded me of the milk crates we used to use back in shop class to stack as chairs or for carrying around tools and parts for cars.

I feel like Intel is just loosing control of their own product lines. If the i3 has HT, does that mean the i5 will? Why add HT to all the CPUs suddenly, when just last generation they removed it from all but the new i9 series? What happens to the 4c i5 when you can get a 4c i3, if both have HT? They spent that last few generations flooding the market with products for the only reason of charging obscene prices that now their own product lines are likely going to be cannibalizing each other.

It's a bit more complex than that.
It is possible to change the apps so that we have encryption, but that can be broken. For example instead of how WhatsApp does it right now:
encrypts on one phone -> Never gets decrypted and can not be decrypted on the way -> decrypts on the other phone
it could be:
encrypt on one phone -> send to Facebook's servers -> Decrypt the message -> re-encrypt it -> send it to other phone -> decrypt on the other phone
This is how it works for Facebook Messenger right now, and it allows Facebook to read your messages and possibly hand them over to the government. The drawback is... Facebook can read all your messages and possibly hand them over to the government.
 
The biggest worry and threat to security is when the government tasks for backdoors in the software itself, or unrestricted access. For example ask for a way to send a special command to a WhatsApp enabled phone and it starts spitting out unencrypted message logs. That's where the massive risk of third parties discovering and abusing it. I haven't read the full letter but it seems like 5 eyes aren't asking for a backdoor they themselves can use. Just that they want Facebook to keep the current design where Facebook can read all messages, and they can hand it over to whoever.
 
It actually seems somewhat reasonable to me (as long as they are asking for the design to say the same, and not weaken it further) but on the other hand, I think privacy has become such a massive issue that we need to fight back and assume the worst. Since things are the way they are, I feel constantly monitored and unsafe using my devices and the only thing that can change that, is more and better encryption with strong emphasis on privacy like WhatsApp and Signal has.
 
If the 5 eyes wanted to be able to catch criminals then they should not have overstepped their boundaries by doing mass surveillance. Besides, it's already been proven time and time again that more surveillance does not equal more criminals stopped. After the Paris attack for example the investigators said that they had collected every single message and phone call the perpetrators made before the attack happened, but that they had so much data to go through that it overlooked them.
It's like trying to find a needle in a haystack, and their solution is to dump MORE hay on it because "if we triple the amount of hay we also double the amount of needles, thus increasing the odds of catching something!".

I think at this point Microsoft has sullied the name Cortana, such a cool thing back then, now it's just a sad former shell it once was.

I don't think we should give Google a pass here.  There's no practical excuse for why a company as large as Google cuts off updates so quickly, and why security updates are often seen as "nice to have."
 
This is one of those areas where Google should explicitly follow Apple's lead.  All Android devices should have four or more years of OS updates.  All security updates should be available over the support period no matter which device you have.  If vendors complain?  Too bad -- tell them the security of your phone isn't optional.

Next thing should be fixing Android Studio, OTHO sadly I don't think my S8 will be getting updates once S11 releases or next Note comes out, even basic security updates are non existent on flagship devices that aren't incredibly aged say around 3 years old. A price to pay for non closed eco-system.