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by arthurfm 10y ago
> The trouble is, I'm still waiting for the year of Linux on the laptop. Do Chromebooks count?
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Not if you want lossless tracks. Beatport's lossless surcharge is absolutely insane. A good example is 'Ils - Bohemia (Remixes & Exclusives)'. [1] This album consists of 35 tracks which in MP3 format is £18.35 inc. VAT ($
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The Dell Latitude 13 (7370) is the business version of the XPS 13 [1] [2], although for some strange reason Dell decided to swap the Core i5 and i7 processors in the XPS for Core M5 or M7 CPUs. [1] http://www.dell.com/uk&#x2
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> It's also made even uglier by the fact that VMware has discontinued Fusion It doesn't look like Fusion has been discontinued. [1] "The Fusion and Workstation teams are having a very busy year. Since we shipped Fusion 8 a
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by arthurfm 10y ago
Eugene Kaspersky isn't too fond of AV-Test. https://eugene.kaspersky.com/2013/05/09/av-test-certificatio...
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> Only thing really stopping me is the rather bulky form factor (my current mini fits snugly under the shelf that holds my monitors). Problem solved... http://snazzylabs.com/article/skylake-mac-mini-hackintosh/
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> Malware/Ransomware hit only if you go around the dark corners in search of porn/free stuff without knowing what you're downloading. As a Windows user myself even I know that's simply not true. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6
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> you now can't charge your phone and listen to music at the same time, unless you have some weird Y-splitter-type cable Rather than have a splitter cable, couldn't you have an additional USB-C port on the headphones which coul
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by arthurfm 10y ago
Depending upon how long the full-size graphics card is, the Dan A4-SFX [1][2], NCase M1 [3][4], and NFC Systems S4 Mini [5][6] mITX cases might be worth a look. [1] https://www.dan-cases.com/dana4.php [2] https:/&#x2F
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Chrome Remote Desktop [1] from Google. [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-remote-desk...
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by arthurfm 10y ago
> that would mean acknowledging that there are other hardware platforms out there. I guess this also explains why Apple doesn't make a web-based version of iTunes (similar to Spotify's web player or Google Play Music) or even t
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by arthurfm 10y ago
> have you seen case of SSD data loss due as result of not powering up for couple years? In normal circumstances an SSD is not going to lose data if left powered off for two years. [1] [1] http://www.anandtech.com/show&#x
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by arthurfm 11y ago
Apparently [1] the binaries are hosted on the same server as their forums. [1] https://twitter.com/leifnixon/status/706786995029340160
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by arthurfm 11y ago
> Also the Chromebook Pixel may have been an attempt to get Google employees to use something other than Macbooks. I think it's most likely due to Apple's weak enterprise management tools for OS X [1] and the mid-2009 cyber att
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by arthurfm 11y ago
> So I suppose they now use the Pixel brand to either represent that style or to indicate that it's in-house hardware. The latter. [1] "Pixel is Google designed hardware; Nexus is hardware we work closely with partners to desig
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by arthurfm 11y ago
> Not even mentioning Dell tells me this guy misses a few things. I fully expected to see the (2015) XPS 13 mentioned too and perhaps Microsoft's Surface Book (which could be used as a laptop 100% of the time if required). The way h
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by arthurfm 11y ago
> Fun fact, third party apps can't modify Chrome on Windows. AVG managed to. [1] > When a user installs AVG AntiVirus, a Chrome extension called "AVG Web TuneUp" with extension id chfdnecihphmhljaaejmgoiahnihplgn is for
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by arthurfm 11y ago
> Don't really see what it has to do with ChromeOS or the Chrome Books other than the reuse of the name According to Google [1], "Pixel is Google designed hardware; Nexus is hardware we work closely with partners to design&quot
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by arthurfm 11y ago
I have rented lots of Blu-rays and never found one that was upscaled from DVD to 1080p. Can you provide more details please since I am having a hard time believing that's true.
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by arthurfm 11y ago
Instagram's Android app plays (MP4) videos [1] without audio by default. You just tap it to turn the audio on. I don't see why others couldn't do this? [1] https://www.instagram.com/p/BA10BpWrbz9/
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by arthurfm 11y ago
> That said, it would be great if we got a compromise Wouldn't a better compromise be to support MP4/WebM videos in the IMG tag? Videos embedded this way could play without audio by default (just like GIFs).
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> I've seen something like this demoed for rooted Android phones The amount of data XPrivacy [1] can fake is impressive. It's a shame it isn't a built-in feature. [1] https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacy#f
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by arthurfm 11y ago
> If you insisted on using blank CDs for backup, you could do 200 CDs for $40. Wouldn't 2 x 100GB Blu-ray discs be better for the same price? Less physical storage space required and less time to burn the data.
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There isn't one. Remix OS 2.0 is due to be released on 12th January 2016 [1]. [1] http://www.xda-developers.com/jide-announce-multi-window-and...
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> Applications are compiled to native machine code upon installation What about apps created with the NDK?
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Sadly white van man will be correct in the not too distant future [1]. [1] http://road.cc/content/news/156795-road-tax-back-chancellor-...
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by arthurfm 11y ago
> No local admin nonsense and you mitigate 90% of endpoint issues. According to Kaspersky [1] it's possible to mitigate 85% of threats by restricting administrative privileges, using application whitelisting and keeping the OS, brow
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by arthurfm 11y ago
a.k.a. BBC One ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone ).
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by arthurfm 11y ago
Is it possible that Apple are waiting until all of their computers have 100% flash storage before switching to a new file-system?
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by arthurfm 11y ago
Asus' VivoStick [1] would be a better choice since it is uses Intel's new "Cherry Trail" SoC rather than the slow "Bay Trail" SoC found in Intel's own Compute Stick. [1] https://www.asus.com&#x2

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