Posts by Piro

2 years? Whoops, my main phone is one from 2017. Guess I missed that memo.

Re: Win 10 is good enough

I know this specifically is shallow, but when I go back to a 7 machine I'm always taken by how much more attractive it is than newer versions. And look ma, one control panel!

Re: Bad things happen

I can't give you another upvote, as you already have 11. Satisfying when things fall in to place.

Re: Win 10 is good enough

It was true of 7 though. There are still updates to 7 if you use a special script allowing you to receive them, as Microsoft is still patching it until 2023.

10 will still be patched until 2032, if you have a very specific version of it, so that's the next best version of Windows once 7 has finally expired.

Even the XP hold outs had updates until 2019 by using a workaround.

Re: Apple will still sell proprietary chargers anyway and make more money still.

The Dell thing was smart to be honest, you could use a lower power adapter with a workstation Dell, and it would inform the laptop of its capabilities and throttle back. Better than the laptop just pulling all it can, and the power brick burning up or simply cutting out.

There was probably no standard to communicate that data at the time, so they did it their way.

Re: What about USB-D?

They've been extended USB-C to a great degree.

USB 4 is USB-C only and allows PCIe and USB 3.2, essentially Thunderbolt.

USB-PD up to 100W is already absurd for phones, and if it isn't, we're doing something wrong with chip efficiency. Extended power delivery up to 240W is already in the spec.

It might be a total cluster in terms of what works with what, but the actual connector seems to have been designed with some forward thinking in mind.

iPhone users are happy with 480 Mbps right now to their device, USB 2 - an upgrade to 20Gbit/s is a comical leap.

Re: Always-on Security Hole

If it's that cold, the mechanism in the door would also be susceptible to freezing.

Not to mention the fact that Tesla's presenting door handles (or even just the ones that flip out) would be impossible to use.

Not at all, they could implement their own fast charging standard that wasn't USB-PD. Money money money.

Well, I mean that you still need accessories to get any work done. If you're talking about simply docking it at a desk with keyboard and monitors, then yes, fair enough - but the idea of a mobile device is to be able to work on the move.

I couldn't get much done on a phone, which was my point - a laptop is a far more useful form factor for actually getting anything done, and it has a much larger space to play with, and thin-and-lights are only now fast enough for most purposes.

A phone that docks to be used as a desktop was done years ago, 2011 with Motorola Webtop.. Motorola Atrix as the first to do it, if I recall correctly.

Nobody was saying it worked particularly well, necessarily, but the concept has been floating around a bit since then, Samsung have also done it, among no doubt others.

Fact is though, only recently have I been happy enough with my corporate issue laptop to give up my desktop machine at work, swapping a Skylake 6700 with an 1165G7. If it took so many years to get a corporate thin-and-light I was happy with (without spending big money on a workstation), that kind of performance in a phone is probably some distance away.

Not to mention the fact that having a laptop with a large screen and integrated keyboard makes the thing usable when on the move, utterly unlike a smartphone, which then needs all kinds of accessories filling a bag to become vaguely usable to the same degree.

Re: There is some weird stuff going on

Not just ransomware, I've seen plenty of articles about incidents affecting plants in the US, mainly fires.

Could just be cherry-picked events thrown in to the light of day to cause panic. No idea.

Re: Firefox is dead

"It's not like anyone cares about this subject anymore"

Patently false, due to this article existing, and lively debate occurring.

Using the same rendering engines.

Re: A well worn story.

We can discuss as to whether certain people have had a negative impact on the company, but one of the largest problems lies in the fact that Mozilla is a company without a good business model, propped up, perversely, by Google.

Then there's the lack of response to user feedback. You'd think the underdog would be responsive to user feedback and would build the ultimate browser, but I feel like ever since they killed the old extensions and neutered the UI, that isn't so. They could readily re-implement features that have been long asked for (like a status bar, and no, HTML injected in to each page is not a substitute.. as so many add-ons have had to do), but they don't.

The Android version was buggered up many versions ago, and I moved on to Vivaldi. I want real tabs on a phone, and if I can have both address bar and tabs on bottom, then I'm sold. Only Vivaldi has that, although I intensly dislike the search engine lock-in.

I use Firefox (on desktop), and will continue to do so (although with a lot of the reporting "features" disabled), but it's a browser and company in decline, which saddens me, as I've used it as my main browser since version 2.

Re: I am disappointed.

Biting the hand that feeds IT is still in the footer of the page, luckily. Still, I agree that the sarcasm needs to be upped a notch.

Re: High requirements

You need to enable fTPM in the BIOS