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brucek
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Microsoft: Windows 11 requirement for a TPM 2.0 chip is "non-negotiable"
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Missed the point by a mile. Few people are demanding Windows 11 - many would like to stay on Windows 10. More generally, people...
Thursday at 1:16 PM
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Microsoft: Windows 11 requirement for a TPM 2.0 chip is "non-negotiable"
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I am finding Microsoft's position on this difficult to reconcile with my anecdotal memories of how most real world security problems are...
Wednesday at 7:12 PM
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Another cloud provider bails on VMware after receiving a 900-percent price hike
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Maybe that works on your established customers, for a time. But what does it do to your efforts to gain new customers? Given their...
Dec 3, 2024
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I bet a lot of these watchers actually just have a stream playing in the background while they're doing other things, it's like TV now.
Dec 3, 2024
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NZXT responds to damning Gamers Nexus video accusing it of running a "predatory, evil" rental scam
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NZXT's rental offer is not a sale in any sense, nor is it a loan. The customer does not ever own the computer at any point. You can not...
Dec 2, 2024
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Part of the bigger issue GN brings up is NZXT is paying influencers to advertise the rental program and it seems very clearly targeting...
Dec 2, 2024
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NZXT responds to damning Gamers Nexus video accusing it of running a "predatory, evil" rental scam
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If there's any possible use case for this rental program, it would be for short-term usage. NZXT implies there's "no strings" and you...
Dec 2, 2024
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CEO fires 90% of his company for missing a meeting, many were unpaid workers
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There is no evidence of this in the article. And while I have no idea what happened, to me a 99 out of 110 unexcused absence rate...
Nov 27, 2024
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CEO fires 90% of his company for missing a meeting, many were unpaid workers
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Not too sure about this being some kind of legal genius strategy. It sounds like these were at will employees who he could fire any time...
Nov 27, 2024
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CEO fires 90% of his company for missing a meeting, many were unpaid workers
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When one employee misses a meeting with no good excuse, that may be an employee problem. When 90% of them do, that's an...
Nov 27, 2024
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Don't Buy a GPU Now: Wait for Next-Gen or Grab a Discount?
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Are you claiming that you have the market data to back all this up? Because otherwise this sounds as common sense, yet as contrary to...
Nov 26, 2024
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Don't Buy a GPU Now: Wait for Next-Gen or Grab a Discount?
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I agree with almost everything in the article, other than making a distinction between when new information will be available - which...
Nov 26, 2024
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If the issues are limited to one developer, then I'm more inclined to think that developer is abusing the Windows API in ways it wasn't...
Nov 25, 2024
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As a benchmark to compare CPU's, this is true. I appreciate and enjoy looking at these articles. Most people use reviews and...
Nov 21, 2024
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Microsoft introduces Windows "Quick Machine Recovery" to prevent another CrowdStrike-like incident
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34,000 developers are assigned fulltime to this feature? I'm going to need to see the task breakdown on that... And just think, before...
Nov 20, 2024
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