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Students for sure 100%, we've got classes of 8-year-olds with cellphones, and its a flapjacking nightmare because they do stupid shit that would land anybody slightly older in jail and then the parents have the audacity to blame teachers, and the IT staff that their Kids are face timing...

Yeah it’s 100% a policy issue and a clear case of the policies not matching our actual workflows. But if you create a broken policy with a non functioning work flow you can’t get mad at people who aren’t able to get work done as needed when trying to adhere to it. But the case is so many school...

Our schools have instituted this policy, and while I agree with it, there are far too many use cases that are complete bullshit without it. If a teacher had a problem with a student and needed help, they would text the principal and the principal would take the needed action. Now teachers are...

In all fairness, Microsoft has fired all those developers… So clean slate?

Problem is Intel didn’t break any laws, they were being shitty, but there aren’t any laws against saying “If you order 100,000 of these we’ll sell them to you at a 20% discount”. The catch is Intel knew they would only need some 90,000 units at most. So by selling them at that discount with...

Internally Google is scrambling. BingGPT and other LLM’s cropping up are eating into their search market. Googles search market fuels the data to their advertising engines, pair that with a rapid increase in Ad Blockers and tighter security around tracking cookies and advertising ID’s and Google...

That makes more sense in every conceivable way.

I’m not so sure, the new PS5 coming at the end of the year will support it, Microsoft will be forced to update the XBox platform to even remain in the game, and the upcoming Switch will have Raytracing and all the DLSS goodies. Expect non ray traced options to be the new potato mode in the next...

That just means Nvidia can safely tack a 14-25% to their cards for extra profits, but if their cards are exempt from the tariffs, but say AMD (who still has all their manufacturing in China) isn’t what will that potentially do to margins there.

Well when the US placed all those restrictions on Nvidia on what they could sell to China it’s easy to forget that those components are made in China. Subsequently that means that those components can’t enter China for manufacturing, so Nvidia and their partners had to find alternative...

Point is the reasoning “they can just use new smaller boats” has so many flaws it’s laughable to the point where they can’t be taken seriously.

Microsoft could buy A/B because they make huge amounts of money, but make up a small fraction of the gaming space. Microsoft buying Valve would create a chokehold on the PC gaming space with the only real competition being Epic. And we all know how the general populace feels about Epic in...

Yeah for sure it’s easily one of those “they are a monopoly but they haven’t abused their position as a monopoly” situations.. Microsoft doesn’t get that same benefit of the doubt as they have routinely abused their position.

No in this case I meant Costco, because for some reason Environmental activists don’t seem to understand how expensive freighters are and you just can’t go out and buy one off the shelf, they are ordered years in advance. And frankly Canada isn’t big enough that some company is going to spend...

In Canada virtually all electronics get imported through the US ports, so the tariff is applied on landing regardless of where the cards final destination is. In Canada when the government banned “Tankers” from landing in Vancouver and Montreal they didn’t ban tankers, they banned all freighters...

The fact it’s such a PITA to do regardless makes me sort of happy they didn’t try to create a patch and automate the process. I can only imagine the shit show that would cause. Where I can though my go to solution has just been to completely reimage the machine with an image that already has...

You don’t necessarily have to delete it, but you do need to make sure the partition has the correct labeling and ID’s otherwise it doesn’t always get recognized correctly. OEM PC’s are notorious for messing with partitions as well re labeling them for their own recovery tools which can make the...

Electronic recycling is big business, as is Landfill reclamation. Lots of valuable minerals and materials found in older landfills. In North America most old landfills were paved over and turned into urban development projects and housing subdivisions. But elsewhere in the world where they...

Well revenue is one thing, but what does Valve pay out to developers from that revenue? If Valve does only skim their 20% off the top and assume some 1.5B in first party lootboxes and such then you are looking at less than $3B left for them to cover all the costs of running steam. Which given...

With studio cuts and team claw backs expect DLSS and RT to only become more necessary. Why spend time and resources manually optimizing textures and lighting when you can leave them raw and let technologies like Nanite, Lumen, Ray Tracing, DLSS, and Fame Generation get 99% of the results with...

https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/ifixit-terminates-self-repair-deal-with-samsung iFixit says that the high prices encouraged some Samsung users to upgrade their phones instead of repairing them, contrary to iFixit's mission. The company had to conclude that Samsung's lip service for...

Above i have a link to a support article that hasn’t failed me yet, https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5028997-instructions-to-manually-resize-your-partition-to-install-the-winre-update-400faa27-9343-461c-ada9-24c8229763bf The instructions are for Windows server but its been working on...

Java edition requires Optifine and the ray tracing package in there, but it can be done, Bedrock edition is the only officially supported ray traced version though. But before you get too far into it, nobody plays the Java edition purely vanilla, Optifine and Sodium are pretty much required for...

Yeah, Bloomberg and their $8M is probably conservative at best, but the likelihood of it being allowed to even proceed is so low Microsoft could up that number to $32B and it wouldn't make a difference. Valve makes up something like 80% of the PC gaming sales, toss in the figures done by the...

Splits just make it easier for people to buy the stock, buying 3 or 4 shares at $100 is a lot easier than 3 or 4 at 1000 for the smaller guys, the big guys it’s completely irrelevant as you said because $2M is still buying $2M in shares.

Valve is currently valued around $8B, so a $16B offer is basically double, which is pretty good.

That said, Gabe currently owns something around 25% of Valve, so Microsoft just needs to make an offer the remaining 75% doesn’t want to refuse. But if Microsoft purchased Valve that would put a massive spotlight on them, I am not sure that would get approved, the EA thing was tricky enough...

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In our case that is all managed in Intune as part of the preferences and best practices so users don’t even get that option you build your profile and push it out and the systems act accordingly. If Microsoft were to mess with those profiles, sweet baby Jesus would there be lawsuits, even if it...

Microsoft allows API access but does have options to do so with no data upload. It’s how they support enterprise clients, Microsoft would have more lawsuits lined up than even it could handle if CoPilot was uploading business data for mining. In the Microsoft agreements they make it very clear...

Same number of PCIe lanes as the 7000 series, it has the secure memory controller and better support for memory. Put 4, 48GB sticks in a consumer 7000 series chip and try to boot, you will spend a lot of time trying to make that work. Also that 128MB in L3 Cache It’s just a good platform for...

Quoted the wrong thing, my bad.

Win 11 Pro for Workstations doesn’t have to deal with it, you pay extra for it over Pro, but you then don’t have to deal with the annoyances but certainly far cheaper than trying to source Enterprise licenses. If you are doing work from it though and its your money maker the extra $100 or so is...

While I agree, I also think it will be a pretty tough nut to crack in that respect, the systems that have them activated will be locked down pretty hard in general, probably paired with a next Gen AV from someone like Sentinel One, and probably running full local encryption. The system there...

The overwhelming majority of the computers I have here will be lucky if they ever fill out 128 GB let alone 256. The local drive houses the OS and installed programs and nothing else, it's a liability, set up cloud sync and have it all kept in OneDrive or Sharepoint. Consumer use yeah you are...

The more I read about what Recall does, the more it looks like a tool for monitoring what workers are doing on their PC, there are lots of "workplace productivity monitors" that do exactly what Recall does, but they have a significant performance impact, not something most notice when they are...

Yeah that’s a major PITA and it caused me one hell of a bad week, it was fixed via drivers and BIOS updates but it was a windows update that broke it for sure.

I’ve got the rapid run optical cables, they have more termination options so if I need to change them from HDMI to Display Port down the road I can. Just need to change out the plate connectors, can also upgrade HDMI versions if needed that way. It seemed like a slightly more future proof...

But Nvidia doesn't use OAM, they already use their own Proprietary SxM form factor, which supports more power and more connectors for better communication between sockets.

Yeah I can see that, I had some flickering issues with the stock cables that came with my GSync monitor, bought a generic Amazon Basics brand one and it went away. I suspect at the facility that does the packaging they just grab a cable off the shelf and put it in the box. The worker doesn’t...