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Comment Re:I've been frustrated with gemini on my pixel 8 (Score 2) 73

On a Pixel 7. I cannot set reminders anymore. Previously I would just push mic icon and "Say remind me at 7AM to do ...." and I would have a reminder. Now? I don't know, it brings up search results. While this was the only thing I use the assistant for, it is sorely missed.

Comment Re:It does. (Score 2) 93

Completed my taxes a couple of days ago with TurboTax. She is absolutely right that it is deceptive. It is unclear what particular product you are using, and it appears impossible to do anything other than move to a more expensive version.

That said,, Turbo tax is so damn slow - why does each item of information need its own screen? And why does it need to spin and animate stuff as I move from one screen to another? Terrible, and its nagging about me setting my farm income to 0 (I don't have a farm, hence no farm income) is super annoying.

Comment Ads? Pay for More? (Score 2) 61

Reading the article prompted me to install and try out Amazon Music. It seemed to work fine, bit annoying that I couldn't see what was coming next or add something to play next (likely me not sure how the UI works). It did however have an ad smack in the middle of the now playing screen asking me to subscribe to Amazon Music Unlimited. Is the Amazon Prime Music not unlimited?

Aside for the ad, the UI is typical Amazon.

Comment Re:Windows 10 Now On 400 Million Active Devices, S (Score 1) 153

I'm actually curious as to what their definition of active is. I have a Windows 10 / Android hybrid tablet. It pretty much just run Android, but, I have booted it into Windows a couple of times and have even let it apply the anniversary update. But, this machine is really only being used when it is running Android. So, how is it counted?

Comment Re:Solution looking for a problem (Score 1) 117

I thought pretty much the same: smart watch is stupid, doesn't offer anything I don't already have, ... Then I received an Android Wear watch for my birthday, I really like it, I really like that notifications appears on my wrist and that my phone doesn't do anything at all, and, I really like have the time right there on my wrist. I'll definitely replace my current Android Wear watch with another when this one either fails, or the state of the art has moved far enough ahead that it would be worth it. I'm hoping that there will be bunches of sub $100 Wear watches on the market in a few years, doesn't appear to be happening yet, but I think it will.

Comment Re:EMACS Memory Footprint? (Score 1) 133

I thought I was the only person that operates this way. Emacs for all editing, compiling and Visual Studio for debugging only. Visual Studio at 250 MB and Emacs at 75 MB right now. They are both looking at the same project except Emacs has SQLPlus running and a whole bunch for files open.

I honestly tried to use Visual Studio as my editor when I started at my position and it just wasn't as good as Emacs.

The only things I want is for Visual Studio to open command line applications in an Emacs shell instead of cmd.exe.

Comment Re:Because KDE 4 was terrible (Score 1) 818

Focus-follows-mouse is exactly the setting I use. KDE 4.8 supports this no problem without annoying auto raise or click to raise. In fact it supports the slightly better than the old sloppy focus-follows-mouse (mouse isn't in a window, focus remains on the previously focused application). If anything KDE supports all the various focus policies nicely and well.

For copy / paste I'll agree with you. KDE does support Windows style and X style copy paste. It does this at the same time and the combination often doesn't work correctly, particularly when interacting with an application that only supports X style copy paste. But, I'm not actually sure that the issue KDE and not the various applications. The pinch point for me has been copying from google-chrome and pasting into Emacs. It seemed that google-chrome was inconsistently marking the source and Emacs was failing to use to Windows style copy paste buffer. It annoying me for a long time until I finally switched Emacs to use the DE copy buffer instead of the X buffer.

Comment Re:My personal opinion (Score 1) 195

It seems that MS is trying to blame accounts getting hacked on people sharing their password online. My son had his account hacked while he was playing a game, they purchased $90 in points and transferred them to another account. It took him a month to get his money back from MS and have his Live account reactivated and that was only after his pleading to get refunded. MS appears to be denying this like they denied red rings.

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