nickflood

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by nickflood 6y ago
Updates are pushed to Windows once a month. In fact, they are published on Update Tuesday - the second Tuesday of every month.
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by nickflood 6y ago
Finding a usb-c adapter which has a good DAC may be a process in itself. I got several $20-$40 adapters from China, and they all have a very tinny, absolutely atrocious sound on their headphone jack.
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by nickflood 6y ago
Given that HoloLens already exists, I guess, they're looking to leverage their investor selling skills on some enterprise execs that don't need this stuff...
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by nickflood 6y ago
Throttling got better with every revision of the XPS 15 that I had. On 9550 it was abysmal - sudden downclocks to 800 Mhz, mouse cursor starting to lag and making the laptop unusable. On 9560 it got mostly fine, with occasional downclocks t
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by nickflood 6y ago
Credit card companies and banks receive 1-3% of commission on all of the transactions made throught he card. Banks normally pass parts of these along to the consumer in the form of cashback or other benefits. Privacy.com just uses these com
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by nickflood 6y ago
Naughty Dog's stuff (Last of Us and Uncharted) is above the rest. Quanti Dream's Detroit: Become Human borders on interactive branching novel and is also good (as, most likely, their other two previous games Beyond: Two Souls and
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by nickflood 6y ago
I think, Geekbench favors bursty performance because it gives very close scores to new MacBook Air with the Y-series Intel chip (7 watt TDP) and newest Dell XPS 13 with U-series chip with TDP of 25 watts.
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by nickflood 6y ago
Or just ship on consoles with keyboard/mouse support. Current gen consoles have not been jailbroken in their 7 years on the market.
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by nickflood 6y ago
It seems that video game APIs require lots of investment, and Valve has worked on their version of Wine and other stuff which is quite successful at running Windows games on Linux, so you've got that option - giving your money to Valve
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by nickflood 7y ago
Huh, the benchmarks are similar, you're right! Very interesting, and the Dell's CPU has a suspiciously low base clock, too. It'd be interesting to see some numbers on the sustained performance from both of those and I couldn&
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by nickflood 7y ago
What you're missing is that the CPU in Dell is the U series, which has a base TDP of 15 watts and goes up to 25 watts if the cooling is good. The CPU in MB Air is a 10 watt Y series, which is really weak (MacBook 12" leve weak). S
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by nickflood 7y ago
Come on, Oracle was always predatory. You always knew exactly what would happen to anything they acquire.
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by nickflood 7y ago
Have you looked at the new Palm phone? [1] It looks like an ideal small phone, with a camera that, judging at least by the marketing copy, should be quite good. It's advertised as Verizon's exclusive, but at least in Europe you ca
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by nickflood 7y ago
On the other hand google search and youtube show the popup for Chrome when you use any other browser, and was showing for years, and yet nobody's mad at that pretty much identical anti-competitive bundling. But no, if Microsoft tries t
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by nickflood 7y ago
Most remote desktop solutions don't even use video and instead transmit parts of the screen that have changed as still images. When not consuming media content this approach is better because the fine details look more crisp. In video
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by nickflood 7y ago
Yep. When I read somewhere here another article about thebpromotion processes at Google, the early Stadia launch started immediately making so much sense. It was a launch for internal reasons. > https://news.ycombinator.com&#x
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by nickflood 7y ago
As a OneDrive user, I'd say it got much better in the last year or two. Before that it was kinda janky, but now it's fast and reliable on Windows to the point where I trust it as much as Dropbox (occasionally I use it too). It&#x2
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by nickflood 7y ago
Tunnelbear is owned by McAfee https://www.tunnelbear.com/blog/tunnelbear_joins_mcafee/
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by nickflood 7y ago
Nothing in the XPS 15 is glued in place. I'm literally using a laptop that has a screen from 9550 (4 years old), battery from 9560 (3 years old), motherboard from 9570 (2 years old) and other parts that I've accumulated randomly w
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by nickflood 7y ago
Moreover, XPSs have a screwed-in battery and replaceable keyboard, which would make restoring and reusing the laptop much more viable. With macbook, if you keyboard is broken, you trash half of the laptop, including the battery.
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by nickflood 7y ago
With proper encryption solutions there is always a way to have a backup key printed out that's used when the drive is in another system.
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by nickflood 7y ago
Some ruggedized laptops have two separate batteries for hot-swapping while keeping the PC on, and this way you can take a laptop with more than 100 Wh on a plane. The same way I take a 95 Wh laptop with a 75 Wh power bank. So never say neve
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by nickflood 7y ago
Target disk won't help you if one of the critical ICs on the mobo dies.
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by nickflood 7y ago
That's what everyone does now. Microsoft Teams versus Slack, Facebook versus Snap. Nobody wants to be hit as hard as Microsoft was
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by nickflood 7y ago
Oh yeah, he's definitely biased, but if you filter the stuff, and I understand how you wouldn't want to, but if you filter it, there are descriptions of issues that you can't avoid with care. Some examples: 1. dGPU that'
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by nickflood 7y ago
There is Samsung Pay
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by nickflood 7y ago
Outlook.com offers something very similar to priority inbox, and in my experience it works quite well from the get go. Not telling you it'll definitely work for you, but there is something similar out there.
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by nickflood 7y ago
If you'll decide to go with pre-2016 MacBook, find a Louis Rossmann video about what mac to buy. He repairs MacBooks for a long time and thus has a good idea about which model will serve you the longest. As I recall, his recommendation
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by nickflood 7y ago
The CPUs may not be as little as you think. Samsung's latest consumer NVMe SSDs - 970 line - can have up to 6 watt TDP at load (and have metal heatspreaders even), and if I remember correctly, the controller is like an 8-core ARM chip
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by nickflood 7y ago
Yep, they've trained my neuronet that they always show the images in a 3-2-1 or a 3-1-1 sequence, so now even if shows me something weird, I know I need to select the number of most likely things they want me to. This way I almost alwa

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