Posts by aidanstevens

Glaring omission

It's fanless!

I maintain that there is a market for small smartphones, most notably in the <£100 category (i.e. not iPhone price).

It's really advantageous to be able to use a phone with one hand, and, everything else being equal, smaller phones are less fragile, take up less pocket space and are lighter. You could have a well-specced phone - nice camera, fast processor, high DPI display, large memory - without a massive screen.

Could you imagine going back twenty years and telling people that in the future you'd need two hands to operate a mobile phone? They'd think you were mad!

Not everyone wants watch Netflix on their phone, personally I couldn't think of anything worse. The only video I watch on my phone is the odd Twitter clip and even then I take little pleasure in it.

MS have confirmed that he used one of their drives on one of their systems. If the reason for the alleged data theft is to benefit the new employer (MS) then why are they co-operating with the Intel investigation, or am I missing something obvious?

I can't stand Signal. It's riddled with problems:

- clunky app

- can't set different alert tone for personal messages and group messages

- rubbish desktop client, can only leave groups or mute people via mobile app

- messages sometime fail for no reason, especially in large groups

- more that I can't think of off-hand

Obviously the Signal protocol is solid because WhatsApp are able to implement it really nicely.

Telegram has the best feature set in my mind and the UX is SILKY smooth, plus doesn't have irritating group size limits like WhatsApp.

The Signal changelogs are witty, though!

Aerosols

Surely the problem is aerosols from one passenger still being present in the air in the back of the cab - it's a sealed box, after all - ready to be inhaled by the next occupant?

NUC killer?

Anyone that can make a good quality, off-the-shelf, passively cooled (silent) mini PC out of one of these is going to absolutely rake it in. A far better solution for your average home user than a fragile and expensive laptop with no upgrade capability.

"a sudden splash of brightness turning them to dust"

Journalism for our times!

Two screens?

One screen is bad enough!

I'm still waiting for a reasonably specced phone that you can use comfortably with one hand.

Space Cadet pinball

Debuted in Windows 95, I believe.

They're just too big and too fragile!

What is with this fetish for faster broadband speeds? May I kindly suggest that if 34.6Mbit/s is not fast enough for you then you need to get a life? Yes, a small number of people have lousy speeds and high latency, but most people are just fine.

We need to talk about...

We need to talk about news articles with the heading beginning "We need to talk about..."

I think this is a tad unfair - anyone with any experience with dealing on Gumtree knows how useful a gun would be.

Anyone got an idea of the wholesale cost of a SIM? Must be pennies!

Still waiting for a decent smartphone that you can actually hold and use with one hand.... I know Apple released the iPhone SE but that's Apple so doesn't count. I fear for the day my LG L40 packs up, but it would appear to be indestructible.

90% of jobs might require "digital skills" but how many of those will be exclusively using proprietary systems that a GCSE won't teach them?

Will! Miss! Tired! Register! Meme!