ozymandias117

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ozymandias117 , to Technology in Microsoft says “Prism” translation layer does for Arm PCs what Rosetta did for Macs

Huh?

32-bit ARM and x86 were both from 1985…

It did take ARM a lot longer to make 64-bit work

ozymandias117 , to Technology in Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead"

I can’t speak for Apple, but every company I’ve worked for has split their region reporting as soon as one of the traditionally smaller regions gets big enough

It creates hype and a boost to their stock price

ozymandias117 , to Technology in The Mac vs. PC war is back on?

It depends on the wake up source you’re talking about, but, yes

Your BIOS can configure the hardware, then Windows gets to modify parts of the configuration through ACPI

ozymandias117 , to Technology in Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead"

Most companies group MENA separately. They must sell so few devices there that they don’t want to show the numbers separately

ozymandias117 , to Technology in The Mac vs. PC war is back on?

It’s also that “Shutdown” doesn’t shut the computer down. It puts it into a sleep mode so it will “boot” faster next time

The hibernation mode has more wake up sources than if it was actually off

ozymandias117 , to Technology in Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams

It’s ubiquitous because it was added for free to Office 365, so companies would use it instead of its competitors

Microsoft changed that for new customers a couple weeks ago and it’s now a separate subscription

The standard make it free until it’s ubiquitous then start charging for it

ozymandias117 , to Technology in Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs

The push towards large vehicles was due to the fact that they used a truck chassis, and were exempt from safety and emissions requirements of a “car”

ozymandias117 , to Technology in After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year

As bad as Epic is, probably worse…

Even though Bandcamp was profitable the new CEO said this after buying it

the financial state of Bandcamp has not been healthy

So they’re probably looking for any way to cut costs.
They fired half of the staff on day 1, including anyone who tried to unionize

ozymandias117 , to Technology in FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole

fast.com is pretty good, too.
No nonsense, and run by a company renowned for server throughput optimization, so it should rarely be on their end if it’s a slow result

ozymandias117 , to Technology in A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well.

If it increases in pressure every time, I’m now curious how many times you need to close the trunk to cut a finger off

ozymandias117 , to World News in Number of writers jailed in China exceeds 100 for first time, says report

Is anyone familiar with what they define as “exercising their freedom of expression”?

With the total number of people imprisoned globally for exercising their freedom of expression estimated to be at least 339

339 globally sounds extremely low to me

ozymandias117 , to Technology in FCC fines big three carriers $196M for selling users’ real-time location data

They made so much more that they can afford to keep spending their lawyers time on it

All three major carriers vowed to appeal the fines after they were announced today

ozymandias117 , to Android in The not-so-silent type: Vulnerabilities across keyboard apps reveal keystrokes to network eavesdroppers - The Citizen Lab

Are the on-device pinyin keyboards unusably bad at typing?

I know it’s complex to get the right meaning with the English alphabet, but I’m surprised at cloud-based keyboards

ozymandias117 , to Android in ROM scene. Where?

“Generic system images”

Since device manufacturers don’t support their hardware, Google has tried adding another layer of abstraction between hardware and the Android UI

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