Its currently a proposal that was passed in the NA, and they’re debating over whether they should reduce the 30% royalties for certain situations.

Would not be surprised if it gets passed by the president.

I bought one of these 64GB packs for less than $50 not even a year ago

why/how do these guys design a product this way

Its just one of many business applications that MSFT provides as you get vendor locked into the Windows platform.

Technically it was the successor to skype for business, and skype itself was its own product that was acquired by MSFT.

It doesn’t matter how crappy it is because MSFT can sell it to you as part of a complete package with stuff like Azure, M365, etc, and you would find it annoying to pay extra for a better platform like Slack.

Does it mean Microsoft can keep running any app which necessarily doesn’t appear on my task manager?

iirc it shouldn’t be hidden in task manager but it might be easier to use process explorer from sysinternals: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer

Haven’t touched hot garbage windows in a long time so I don’t remember if teams has a non obvious process that runs in the background.

I don’t know why this thread is complaining specifically about Chinese OEMs when Samsung has been doing this for years.

“This is totally unacceptable. Venezuela would never take threats and orders from the United States. We maintain our sovereignty against such an audacious adversary. Anyway in unrelated news, we are opening up the oil industry to privatization to help stir the economy. I can assure you this idea was 100% of our own making and has absolutely nothing to do with American demands.”

I made a half joke last year that the antichrist would probably be an AI model that convinces people to worship it.

And here he is saying that’s totally not going to happen.

Seems legit lol.

Sound awfully similar to the gonculator from Hogan’s Heroes.

This whole fiasco also sounds awfully similar to the pilot episode of Mission Impossible. Except without the nukes.

Okay fair but do you know anyone who actually used D-VHS lol.

VHS next to DVD on a CRT is why lol.

Good sound fidelity is easier to reach on a vinyl record than good video fidelity on magnetic tape. Hence why even old TV shows that were shot on film look great on modern TVs, but their tape counterparts look dated.

That all being said, VHS has inherently more sentimental value due to its widespread use for personal and home video. Anyone still using vinyl is either a hobbyist, collector, or moronic audiophile who can’t cope with stuff like opus or even flac/wav.

I tried protonmail not for the privacy purpose but just to have a normal web email client.

After wasting an hour before finding out you can’t disable the “sent from protonmail” footer without manually deleting it in each draft you make, I said screw it and deployed my own email server with stalwart lol.

It’s receive only because outgoing SMTP is a pain to make reliable these days and my ISP blocks outgoing SMTP anyway, but for everything else I now use Thunderbird.

Which forum lol?

Been on it permanently for years now. Only complaint is that I found XFS to be better than BTRFS, though most people probably wouldn’t notice.

Only other “complaint” is Fedora doesn’t have a lot of support for embedded arm devices, so you’re on your own if you want an RPM style distro on something like an Orange Pi.

Its funny because all these grand Japanese OEMs like Sony and Panasonic got undercut by Korean rivals like LG and Samsung in the 2000s, which forced Sony to move further into exclusively high priced devices and for many other OEMs to leave the US or global market.

Now TCL and HiSense are undercutting the grand Korean OEMs, which is slowly forcing them out of the low-middle end market.

I upgraded from a 20+ year old Phillips LCD to TCL’s QM8K, and the display technology for being a QLED panel is astounding. It looks 95% like a high quality OLED for a fraction of the cost.

Only downside is Google TV (Junk Android that you have to debloat a bit) and for some reason the TV can’t passthrough Dolby Atmos from app players like Kodi, even though it can do DTS-X just fine. I’m pretty sure the second issue is just a software bug, but TCL has been taking ages to respond. Pass through from an external source works perfectly fine though.

If you’re in the market, I highly recommend seeing it in person at a hardware/electronics store. The side by side comparison is insane.

That’s because that game requires mad skills with the stylus lol. It required ridiculous precision to make your shots, so most of us would resort to spamming dunks.

But I had one friend who was actually good with shooting and could destroy anyone in multiplayer and was the only one who unlocked every character.

The 4 player multiplayer was also fun because it was just item spamming with no hoops so you didn’t have to worry about shooting, passing, etc.

X to Shaun

SHAAAAUN!!!

I actually think its bait to encourage China to invade Taiwan.

If you want to ruin a concert’s day, change the thermostat a few clicks lol.

Funny thing is you can actually conduct pretty well with just your hand.

Also a good conductor is usually an astoundingly good player of multiple instruments themselves.

It’s kind of like how football (soccer) team managers are retired players that can still play better than the entire stadium wearing loafers and a suit.

Or China, or Russia, or Ukraine, or any 3rd world country, or even some 2nd world countries.

Actually it would probably be easier to name the places you won’t see a gun than places you can.

I remember how utterly stupid this whole thing was when it first started.

It wasn’t even worth making fun over because it just confirmed they care more about saving donkeys than civilians or children.

Even more insane when you consider that in the west bank, they just opt to slaughter the livestock to ensure Palestinians are financially ruined before kicking them out or killing them.