I'd love to know how many of the 320M users are forced to use it because the bean counters saw "Teams messaging" as a free line item with their Office360 subscriptions and decided to make everyone use it instead of practically any other team messaging/interactive platform on the planet.

Apple added animated wallpapers a while back. I turned it off immediately. While Iâ(TM)m not one of those people who do everything full screen (why do people do that with a terminal on a large screen?!), my desktop is rarely visible, except for little bits of it around windows. Thatâ(TM)s enough though that if thereâ(TM)s any movement, itâ(TM)s distracting. I constantly felt like something was happening in one of my windows in my peripheral vision, making me look.

What is it with Microsoft and wanting moving crap on the screen. Itâ(TM)s always been a pain remote accessing Windows servers, sometimes over slow connections, whose default web page is animated and kills the performance and interactivity. Why?!

Have you seen these things?
https://hilo.com/

Been thinking about getting one myself. It looks way more useful than Appleâ(TM)s approach of just sending a notification because it gives you a log with real numbers. The only downside for me is I hate wearing things on my wrist, although it is narrower than an Apple Watch.

When you look at all of Europe, it's more like a weekly thing, and sometimes a daily thing. The ones that make the news are the bigger bombs like the thousand-pound bomb mentioned in TFS or the rare ones that cannot be made safe and have to be detonated in place, which can mean a lot of new business for window installers even with dampening.

You can't be the "baddest kick ass person on the block" without having an effective ability to fight. That means weapons, and it means training on how to use them most effectively. When going up against the Soviet Union, that means a nuclear arsenal. We made plenty of mistakes along the way, but we also helped ensure through deterrence that the Soviets never moved on Western Europe, and we helped ensure through diplomacy that World War III never broke out.

If you put programmers inside the Rust straitjacket until they understand the nature of it and the reasoning behind it, and then let them use C++, they'll probably be conditioned to be memory safe. Rust forces you to do what you should be doing anyway in a language like C++. And Rust can compile-time check that stuff.

I'm very much a 'do the experiment' person when it comes to C++ vs Rust. There is plenty of will to write stuff in Rust, so the rest of us can grab popcorn, watch, and then observe the outcomes. (Personally, I rarely stray from bash and python most of the time. Except web stuff, where it's then PHP and vanilla Javascript.)

Europe not buying LNG from Russia distorts the market. US producers can get a better price selling to Europe, so prices go up in the US too. If you donâ(TM)t like this, youâ(TM)re better off crushing Putin so Europe starts buying Russian LNG again. You canâ(TM)t just sit back and ignore it if you donâ(TM)t like it.

Maybe you bought before it was available or didn't buy a device that has the option. It's available for the M4 MacBook Pros, for example. You can see it here if you search for "nano-texture configuration": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Interesting. Our parent company is an 8,000+ multi-national and that isnâ(TM)t the case. Their standard laptop is a Microsoft Surface. Theyâ(TM)re not a technical company and weâ(TM)re a strange fit in there. I got one of these for my tech writer that I hired a few years ago, foolishly thinking she didnâ(TM)t need something more high end. Doxygen builds were incredibly slow and the machine wasnâ(TM)t upgradable. I found her a spare Acer with more memory and cores and the dox build is so much faster yet still takes 2 mins (compared with under 20s on my five year old MacBook Pro). Point is, a lot of business also donâ(TM)t have need for more expensive devices that allow upgrades. Iâ(TM)m sure it makes IT simpler, especially in a place that only does spreadsheets, PowerPoints and social media campaigns.

Or turn it around: why the fuck are people buying phones with such powerful CPUs?

I have a couple of Intel Core Duo powered laptops from 2007 (Win7) and 2008 (macOS 10.11) that I still use, the MBP quite frequently. Theyâ(TM)re fine for a lot of tasks and more convenient than my phone for many things, but vastly less powerful. Itâ(TM)s not the CPU that will hold back this rumoured device but the amount of RAM or local storage.

I still have my very first credit card. It's 20+ years old, sits in a lockbox, and has a thousand dollar limit, by far the lowest of my cards. It costs me $10 a year to maintain. It's there entirely because it anchors the oldest account ranking for me.

These have returned already: you can choose to have a nano-texture display.

In psychology, this is not hallucination. The proper term for making stuff up like this is "confabulation."

One of these days they'll realise this. Abandoning DST will make a tiny difference compared to what health diet and exercise would achieve. But this would decimate the junk food industry, and treating exercise like a luxury for the middle class and for those with the time for it is going to cost dollars. So obesity it is.

Bluetooth keyboards and mice are annoying when you have multiple devices. I have a 2.4 GHz USB dongle for mine that's plugged in to my Thunderbolt Display. Then whichever of my couple of laptops or my desktop is connected to the display gets the mouse and keyboard.