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by arthurfm 11y ago
> I am also not sure if Apple music is useable without an iDevice. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.andr... http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/11/16/apple-mu
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by arthurfm 11y ago
Since Chrome OS currently includes Flash Player but Android doesn't, could this mean that Flash Player will be removed from Chrome on all platforms in 2017?
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I live in the UK too and have never heard anyone refer to Lego as Legos. The latter sounds extremely odd (in the same way that 'sheeps' does). I wish North Americans would use the correct pronunciation.
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Does anyone know why the fingerprint reader on the Surface Pro 4 keyboard is only available in the US? http://i.imgur.com/0GfZtzz.png
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... or Cheetah Mobile [1] perhaps? [1] http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/08/29/popular-photo-galler...
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> I have never found any of them remotely useful The only Quirky product I own is the Pivot Power [1][2] and that has been useful. [1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00E62X9WO [2] https://www.quirky.com&#x2F
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This is the certificate in question: https://crt.sh/?id=9314698
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by arthurfm 11y ago
> maybe because of adblockers, maybe tracker blockers. HTTPS Everywhere makes the page blank (at least it did for me).
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wusa /uninstall /kb:2952664 /norestart wusa /uninstall /kb:2990214 /norestart wusa /uninstall /kb:3021917 /norestart wusa /uninstall /kb:3022345 /norestart wusa /
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Apple have recently made a few changes to how you enable/disable System Integrity Protection... https://www.reddit.com/r/osx/comments/3hv3kk/update_on_rootl...
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Just an idea, but would it be possible to add support for the GIFV format [1] so that the source images or videos aren't converted into GIFs? Maybe it's just me, but it seems crazy to create a much larger and lower quality animate
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by arthurfm 11y ago
The person who wrote the aforementioned batch files for Windows 10 also created "firefox-tweaks" [1]. These also contain some very dubious and/or irresponsible suggestions [2] which implies the author doesn't actually kn
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by arthurfm 11y ago
It's not opt-out with mobile broadband connections. These are automatically set to metered by default [1]. [1] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-8/metered-interne...
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> If a user is on a metered connection, and "seeding" Windows updates pushes them over their bandwidth cap, then MS is quite literally stealing from them. That scenario would never happen since P2P updates (a.k.a delivery optim
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by arthurfm 11y ago
uBlock Origin does a more thorough job at blocking network connections [1] compared to uBlock since the former disables prefetching and the latter doesn't. [2] uBlock is also missing the per-site switches and strict domain blocking fea
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by arthurfm 11y ago
> And Microsoft won't curate nor provide a mirror for popular open source binary downloads, right? Developers will be able to upload regular desktop applications to the Windows 10 app store once they have converted them into the App
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I agree! Many of the SSD "tweaks" mentioned are unnecessary and seem to originate from the early days of consumer SSDs (2007-early 2009). For some bizarre reason they still perpetuate and I am not sure why. Disabling the browser c
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> Took about four years before the drive started failing (well, failing noticeably as a user). Was the SSD made by OCZ or had a Sandforce controller by any chance? Also anecdotal, but my 160GB Intel X25-M 'G2' has been working
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There isn't any need for the OS to be virtualized now that Android supports dual-personas (i.e. Android for Work). [1] [1] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/a-revi...
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> Home editions cannot join a domain so that rules them out for business and education. The Home edition of Windows 10 sounds like it might be able to join Azure Active Directory. [1] Support for modern form factors. Azure AD Join will
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I thought Let's Encrypt had finally launched too. :(
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The notes can be shared via email, social networks or added to OneNote. http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/03/30/introduc... "Inking and sharing so you can capture and communicate your t
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> Yet Apple continues to produce beautiful devices that people buy for their dopamine hits. I wish Microsoft would seize the opportunity and make an OS X-like OS* that runs common productivity and creative apps so we could not be beholde
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Previous HN discussion about WoSign... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8982013
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by arthurfm 12y ago
> some other factors I'm probably forgetting The verified phone numbers of 800 million people [1] and the ability to act as a gateway drug to other Facebook services [2]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhatsA
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by arthurfm 12y ago
> Adobe's best course forward would probably be to rename Adobe Flash to something like Adobe Vectorshop, discontinue support for .swf and replace it with SVG animations. Why go to all that trouble when Adobe already have a web deve
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by arthurfm 12y ago
How do you get 1TB of Dropbox storage for a one-off price of $9.99?
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I'm confused too, since it could also mean "Get a free server in 30 minutes"?
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There's a short video on Microsoft's Channel 9 website showing Nano Server in action [1]. [1] http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Regular-IT-Guy/Quick-Nano-Ser...
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I think the reason Microsoft are allowing OEMs to enforce Secure Boot is because Dell, HP et al are going to sell Windows 10 PCs that only run trusted code. [1] > With Windows 10 Enterprise edition and specially configured OEM hardware

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