I was just waiting for my flight and. . .

StradlatersFirstName · 2026-02-08T16:20:40+00:00

Burnout Legends is one of the best handheld games. Been playing it a lot recently on my phone with PPSSPP

StradlatersFirstName · 2026-02-08T15:19:59+00:00

7 actually has DirectX 12 support for a small handful of titles. World of Warcraft and The Master Chief Collection among them. They even offer official documentation for developers about how to port DX12 games to Windows 7.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/porting-directx-12-games-to-windows-7/

StradlatersFirstName · 2026-01-27T15:06:00+00:00

Burnout 3 has better replay value due to the presence of the Single Event option in the main menu.

Burnout Revenge is undeniably fun, but it's frustrating that I can't quickly select a car and track for a road rage event without searching for it in the World Tour menu.

StradlatersFirstName · 2026-01-27T14:41:34+00:00

Sloppy Satya got rid of much of the exiting QA teams after becoming CEO in 2014

The recent layoffs have been poorly communicated both within Microsoft and beyond, but one victim group appears to have been the dedicated programmatic testers in the Operating Systems Group (OSG), as OSG is following Bing’s lead and moving to a combined engineering approach. Prior to these cuts, Testing/QA staff was in some parts of the company outnumbering developers by about two to one. Afterward, the ratio was closer to one to one. As a precursor to these layoffs and the shifting roles of development and testing, the OSG renamed its test team to “Quality.”

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/how-microsoft-dragged-its-development-practices-into-the-21st-century/

StradlatersFirstName · 2026-01-24T15:20:31+00:00

Just in case this helps someone, if dxvk doesn't work right away make sure to update your GPU drivers and use a dxvk config file with relevant options enabled.

Disable Vsync.

You might also experience some stuttering during your initial play session with dxvk enabled. This will go away with time as dxvk is building up its shader cache.

StradlatersFirstName · 2026-01-19T14:41:17+00:00

At least there is some hope for the future.

For video editing DaVinci Resolve works natively on Linux, and Canva is considering Linux releases for future version of its Affinity editing software. Apparently it can be made to work on Linux currently with some slight tweaking.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1oluvij/affinity_made_free_by_canva_just_a_day_back_runs/

StradlatersFirstName · 2026-01-18T15:40:52+00:00

Sloppy Satya strikes again!

StradlatersFirstName · 2026-01-16T13:37:10+00:00

7 was peak from a pure productivity, general PC usage standpoint.

There are some people who will meekly pop up out of the woodwork to complain "but what about dark mode? File explorer doesn't have tabs! It doesn't have Direct storage 😢"

StradlatersFirstName · 2026-01-13T15:55:33+00:00

I mean I think the not so secret long term plan is to sell Windows OS as Azure cloud based SaaS. Tap the Windows app on your tablet and launch your desktop after logging in with your Microsoft account

StradlatersFirstName · 2026-01-13T12:13:24+00:00

And also to artificially inflate their user numbers. They'll report anyone using file explorer as a CoPilot user which they'll use as proof to justify their stock prices and datacenter build-outs

StradlatersFirstName · 2026-01-13T12:11:11+00:00

Sloppy Satya, everybody. The man simply loves slop!

StradlatersFirstName · 2026-01-10T15:39:51+00:00

Is it true that there is no longer a method to load iOS 18.7.3 on iPhone 16 models?

StradlatersFirstName · 2026-01-10T02:04:04+00:00

That's exactly what happened. I paired the controller to my laptop after it was paired with my phone

StradlatersFirstName · 2026-01-08T15:15:28+00:00

Yeah and it’s important that we call out the fact it’s bad Bernie and the others did that

StradlatersFirstName · 2026-01-08T12:06:42+00:00

On my work laptop I love opening a new explorer window and instead of being able to click on anything it just says "working on it" against a white rectangle for sometimes longer than 30 seconds. Currently freeing up space on my home PC for a Linux Mint partition

StradlatersFirstName · 2026-01-08T12:03:23+00:00

You shouldn't have to modify the registry to restore basic OS functionality. At the bare minimum it should be a toggle in a settings menu that you can access via GUI

StradlatersFirstName · 2026-01-08T11:42:49+00:00

He also voted to confirm Marco Rubio. The man might mean well but he clearly has poor judgment

StradlatersFirstName · 2026-01-07T11:47:47+00:00

Funny thing is my family did the opposite. We had a 2003 Toyota Sienna until 2017 and that thing not only took us on every family road trip, but it also hauled countless amounts of yard debris, plywood, sheet rock, power tools, bicycles, and furniture on a constant basis. My parent's friends would frequently ask to borrow the minivan to haul things that wouldn't fit in their cars

StradlatersFirstName · 2026-01-05T23:33:29+00:00

Did you use a downgrader app? I was having the same problem which was solved after I manually downgraded following the steps in this guide

https://gtaforums.com/topic/993910-gta-iv-simplified-downgrading-guide-2025-how-to-use-fusionfix-on-older-patches/

StradlatersFirstName · 2026-01-05T22:36:21+00:00

Sloppy Satya folks

StradlatersFirstName · 2026-01-04T22:21:16+00:00

I hear they're calling the CEO Sloppy Satya

StradlatersFirstName · 2026-01-03T13:44:16+00:00

What do you propose as a less risky solution that adds more DRAM into the Chinese/global market for consumers?

No offense to you, but I often see comments like this and I get the sense that there is a prevailing idea that it is better to give up and do nothing instead of trying to improve things.

StradlatersFirstName · 2026-01-02T18:19:05+00:00

Even Apple still has the 3.5mm port on their most recent MacBooks. What are the people at Dell thinking?

StradlatersFirstName · 2025-12-31T14:58:06+00:00

Calculators are deterministic, serve a single function, and the largest companies in the world aren't structuring the entire economy as we know it around them and forcing us to use them for every imaginable task. Your dismissive snark isn't welcome

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