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Apparently, as far as I can tell from the TH article, you can't pre-emptively disable this, but only when you are actually doing the install/upgrade. I didn't see a mention of what happens if/when Windows Update rolls out 24H2, whether it will try to do it to you.

I found out this morning that the studio knew that PSN linking was coming, but if I heard why they didn't enforce that on release, I've forgotten. That doesn't reflect well on them. I read yesterday that Sony was refusing refunds, but Steam was granting them. That's probably what tipped...

So, not people who walk into Best Buy or Walmart looking for a new laptop.

I'm already annoyed by the little red dot next to my account name that got added recently, nagging me to fix an issue with my account, which is that I'm not signed in with my MS account instead of my local one, for example. Oh, and the truncated context menus in Explorer.

My guess is that Copilot was thinking in terms of whole numbers. It's not as if generative AI actually knows anything but how to string words together. 5 (rounded) is not greater than 5.

It's WCCFTech, so, you know, treat with skepticism, but the claim comes from GoldenPigUpgrade who I guess sometimes is right. This appears to be only talking about the discrete cards, not the iGPUs. Intel Battlemage Xe2 GPUs Reportedly On Hold, Celestial Xe3 GPUs Might Be Delayed Too...

If you click through to the MS article, all it says is "VPN connections might break...". I think from that you kind of need to assume any VPN could be affected.

Today I noticed a little orange dot on my user icon at the bottom of the new, ad-friendly Start blob. Moused over it, saw this: So I clicked on the icon Damn it.

If a fraction of what Steve says is true, his (and Jayz2cents) earlier comments about EK being able to recover from this are just not possible. Some of that stuff is the kind of thing that puts people in jail.

It's all fun and games until the Butlerian Jihad kicks off.

Don't forget Diablo Immortal.

Steve's video mentioned this. I kind of wonder why they didn't buy a bunch of CNC machines and laser cutters. You'd think they could build a lot of their own parts JIT that way. I'll grant I have no idea how many they'd need, but you'd think it'd relax the 3rd-party MOQ dependencies.

LOL. Poor timing.

Heh, he mentioned [H]ardforum around 1:30.

I used a 12600K for a year and a half or so, switched to a 14700K in January. Haven't seen any bending issues so far, and never got around to using a support thing, FWIW.

This is the kind of thing that puts CEOs in jail...or causes them to flee the country and disappear after looting the bank accounts.

In case anyone is interested in an update, I applied the latest, 3401, update this morning. Took a 16GB USB 2 flash drive, formatted it as FAT32, unzipped the bios download into it (2 files--the bios itself and the biosrenamer.exe), ran the renamer and then deleted that so there was only one...

*Windows 10 has entered the chat*

My last like 3 computers at my last job were all Dells and I always underspecced the RAM and then bought some to install myself exactly because Dell's prices were a ripoff.

XBox One 2.

Here's a better example: Apple and Google (and Valve) charging 30% is like getting a table at a flea market and whoever runs the show demands 30% of everything you sell, instead of $10/table or whatever.

The free speech-hating loons at Arse Technica love the idea of bringing it back.

No. Absolutely not.

I had a customer that had an old unix-of-some-type system that they used as a database server for a couple of applications, including ours, and they were proud of the fact that they hadn't run an update in a decade. They were paranoid about an update breaking something. They got mad one day...

I read an article about this yesterday that mentioned that there have been two main contributers for the last few years--one guy who was a long-term primary dev, and a newish person who got commit privileges about a year or two ago. Odds are it was the second one. Edit: post #11 update 2...

The meat of the email is that Intel's apparently going to finally start reporting new CPUs as something other than Family 6 at some point, and the discussion was about not duplicating the mess of various processor features, as code using Family 6 does. The email itself is actually kind of...

https://wccftech.com/intel-next-gen-cpu-cores-families-douglas-cove-adams-lake-sheldonmont-cooper-forest/ WCCFTech misread an email on the Linux Kernel mailing list talking about new Intel CPUIDs. In it, the poster writes about a way to redo #defines that will make kernel coding that is...

An APU is just AMD's term for a CPU with integrated graphics.

The Copilot taskbar icon just appeared on my computer last night after Windows Update.

Yes, but it's also a pair of animated gifs, so it would.

I know about file extensions--I have the "hide them" setting turned off on that PC, plus I used the biosrenamer tool to do it, so a bad name wouldn't have been my fault. My best guess is the "drive wasn't empty" theory, but I have to say that's a stupid reason for it not to work, because the...

Eh, the regular flash from inside the bios worked fine, I just wanted to try the other way.

Probably (and certainly, the bios can read the drive to find the file when I do it the regular way) and yes. The correct port's clearly marked on the back panel, too.

I would expect the SSD's PCB to break long before the socket snapped like that.

No, it was in the root drive, the directions are clear about that, but they didn't say the drive had to be emply, so it wasn't.

A couple of years ago, I bought an HP laserjet pro m118dw, because I needed an actual HP printer for work, because I needed something with a functional PCL5 driver for a legacy app. It works fine, no games with the toner so far, although it did want to install that stupid HP Smarrt app or...

They already are. I saw a story last week about someone who spent two days trying to figure out why their printer refused to print before contacting HP, who told them the debit card they were paying their ink subscription expired. HP disables the printer and doesn't tell you why until you...

This also gives them an excuse to make them even lower quality so they DO fail after two years.

Big Clive used one of those things--I can't think of the word at the moment--it's like an insulin needle but no needle, and you can suck up liquids with it--on an inkjet cartridge and found it actually had more less the claimed amount in it, but it is suspended in the sponge, so you need to...

I mean, if it makes sense financially, I suppose it's fine. I realized I have almost no need to print color, so I avoid the whole "print head clogging" thing by not using inkjets.