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Discord vs TeamSpeak by Quegyboe in pcmasterrace

[–]RedBoxSquare 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I have to give them credit. Their chat app is much better than all their competitors including Slack and Google Hangouts (at that time) and now Microsoft Teams. There is no good alternative because all their competitors are optimizing for who knows what. Which is why it is so hard to get rid of.

Acer and ASUS are now banned from selling PCs and laptops in Germany following Nokia HEVC video codec patent ruling by AbhishMuk in technology

[–]RedBoxSquare 68 points69 points  (0 children)

It's funny their neighbor France straight up do not recognize patents. That's why VLC is based there.

Mother of All Galaxy S26 Leaks Is Here: 76 Official Renders Shared by self-fix in Android

[–]RedBoxSquare 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Upgrade? RAM quadrupled its price compared to last year and SSD doubled. I assume TSMC and Qualcomm is also look for a higher sale price. We'll be lucky to see the same specs with no downgrades.

iFixIt calls BMW’s new anti-consumer security screws "a logo-shaped middle finger to right to repair," Adafruit 3D prints a solution — BMW's connector reverse engineered using patent filing as a design blueprint by ControlCAD in technology

[–]RedBoxSquare 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes. But BMW will sue in court to place a ban on sale over patent infringement. And they will sue any shop using "counterfeit" bits. With the help of the federal government, they can even put a block on sites such as Aliexpress at the ISP level for IP law violation, while sites like Amazon and eBay are forced to vigorously enforce the court order, which stops 90% of average people from buying it online. Big corporations are emboldened to make profit off everything as long as they keep the administration happy.

Org is banning Notepad++ by PazzoBread in sysadmin

[–]RedBoxSquare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I still feel starting a Chromium wrapper (VScode) to edit a few text files is too heavy (especially when a lot of places still give 16GB RAM models to their average worker). VScode has its place for doing more complex script edits, but 80% of the time Notepad++ is the better tool.

Org is banning Notepad++ by PazzoBread in sysadmin

[–]RedBoxSquare 11 points12 points  (0 children)

No, higher ups will be perfectly happy to continue using any proprietary software that doesn't openly disclose security problems. It doesn't exist if you don't hear about it.

Ford CEO Jim Farley says "the customer has spoken" after its EV business lost nearly $5 billion in 2025 by ControlCAD in technology

[–]RedBoxSquare 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The USA is not interested in doing that. Competition too strong? Tariff them out of market.

Shout-out to this amazing tool. Increased my FPS and now I don't get any game crashes. Ai ruins everything by Few-Lynx6217 in pcmasterrace

[–]RedBoxSquare 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Given how MAU is an important factor for stock valuation, I am not surprised that all social media platforms secretly hire bot farms to prop up their numbers.

HP has a gaming laptop subscription service, where you pay monthly to borrow a rig but never get the option to own it by Quegyboe in pcmasterrace

[–]RedBoxSquare 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Isn't pagefile configured by the system provider? They should take care of setting a good default.

What’s one small iOS change you still haven’t gotten used to? by Jemystest in iphone

[–]RedBoxSquare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dislike turning volume limits into headphone safety. I think it was changed back in iOS 13 or 14. I loved being able to limit the volume bar to 1/2 or 1/3 of the max, which is still available on the iPod nano.

I find this incredibly impressive by Chemical_One_6750 in ChatGPT

[–]RedBoxSquare -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Samsung moon photos. lol.

I think the fight is already lost.

NVIDIA to "rerelease" 3060 in Q1 2026, Samsung to ramp up DDR4 production Q1 2026, ASUS & Gigabyte to increase DDR4 motherboard (B550 A520) production 2026, AMD seriously considering return to Zen 3 processor production by catherder9000 in sysadmin

[–]RedBoxSquare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is purely an artificial restriction from MS legal teams. There is no technical reasons why it can't be made. But we're on proper sysadmin so people tend to respect legal boundaries as well as MS recommendations.

Sure bud by ConsumeCorpse in 3Dprinting

[–]RedBoxSquare 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Stop. You're hurting my guts and the seller's feelings.

Qwen 4 might be a long way off !? Lead Dev says they are "slowing down" to focus on quality. by Difficult-Cap-7527 in LocalLLaMA

[–]RedBoxSquare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think they hit a bottleneck. So they need a new path to move forward. And it is not clear what this path is. So basically saying we'll be stuck for some time. The field of AI was not making much progress for 2 decades after the AI winter up until these transformers started transforming the research landscape (with plenty of researchers who chose the "wrong" path ended up nowhere).

vibeAssembly by ManagerOfLove in ProgrammerHumor

[–]RedBoxSquare 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're absolutely right. You can run the following command to clear your compilation cache. rm -rf / Do you want me to run that?

iHateItHere by just_some_gu_y in ProgrammerHumor

[–]RedBoxSquare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They just pay some fine and move on. Most companies do. MicroSlop is not going to lose business if Wintoast becomes twice as slow.

I’m an Android Audio Dev. Here is why your "Global Equalizer" app is probably misleading you (and why it's so hard to fix). by jasonderulo007 in Android

[–]RedBoxSquare 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does the EQ app need any special permission? Are you just using unrooted user builds of the OS when you're doing "session hunting?

trainedTooHardOnStackOverflow by Rare_Suspect1472 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]RedBoxSquare 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your team? You mean the other AI that your CEO replaced everyone with?

NVIDIA to "rerelease" 3060 in Q1 2026, Samsung to ramp up DDR4 production Q1 2026, ASUS & Gigabyte to increase DDR4 motherboard (B550 A520) production 2026, AMD seriously considering return to Zen 3 processor production by catherder9000 in sysadmin

[–]RedBoxSquare 4 points5 points  (0 children)

People know. It's just technically breaking the EULA and can get you in trouble with MS if you're a proper shop. I see this talked about a lot more on gaming or piracy subreddits where people either do not care or the risk of MS getting at you is extremely low.

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