Posts by GiantKiwi

Re: World of Warcraft

It was one of the first to natively support Apple Silicon. Even 2 years later the vast majority are still using the compatibility layer or not even bothering (Valve).

Re: Testing?

Luckily for us, implied contracts are not legally binding.

Re: There is an official update available from Apple

Just update the mac, stop being facetious over something so meaningless.

At this point, pretty much both options.

Re: Too much to hope...

Less invasive?

I'm not sure it's physically possible to be any more invasive. In the past 4 months we've had an absolute crapstorm of cumulative updates which interfere with just about every process in existence.

Re: Can this redesign stem browser's decline?

Enterprise is enforcing use of MFA absolutely everywhere. Who does the most widely supported MFA library? Google. Which browser supports Google the best? Chrome.

Anyone tooting their own horn about the privacy argument - best idea overall if you are that concerned about it? Unplug your internet.

Re: dot org - not just for charities

Technically, neither is this - that title is held by NCSC.

Re: OpenReach

I think you missed a few zeros at the end of that invoice.

Re: Still a lot of work to be done porting, but Rosetta 2 is picking up the slack

Eh?

VM's on Linux boxes are still a thing, you know.

Re: @ Mr Cumberdale Perixx

Corsair K63 - Has a proper layout, doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg if you get the refurbished version. (£45 from a certain PC retailer in Bolton) It even escapes death by RGB, as it predates that fad.

Re: MagicBook

Honor don't sell in the US to avoid this problem. Only US Law allows companies to sue for a likeness of an existing trademark or patent, most other countries will only allow chasing for infringement if it were literally called the "Honor Macbook".

They, like the true Huawei macbook-esque laptops, will continue to remain safe from Apple lawyer trolling whilst they remain outside of the US market, as nothing has been broken.

Not that it matters, because LineageOS takes an absolute age to produce anything for any chinese brand at the moment, as they're trying to dodge use of libraries owned by US companies, which would fall foul of US foreign policy - regardless of whether it's considered as an AOSP or not.

Re: So another one falls

You'll soon struggle to get any applicants then. They're were all going that way a decade ago, it's now the old boys club that are finally following the new kids.

I'm typing this on a 6.5 year old macbook pro which still has a battery health of 86%, despite being nearly 50% above the recommended power cycles. Still comfortably getting above 5 hours charge on semi intensive tasks. Prior to getting macbook's i went through 7 Dell Latitude and Precision laptops in a similar time period, because they were always obselete 10 months after launch, with batteries that needed replacing 6 months after purchase.

I recently explored selling this one to assist in the costs of getting a newer one and discovered that even in the shoddy external condition i have it in, the likes of CeX were offering as much as £400 for it (in-store appraisal prior to lockdown). A similarly aged and specced Dell can be bought used for £20.

I'd say that fairly well contradicts your biased view on reusability.

Re: Are WordPress plugin developers the worst, or ...

Not at all, Drupal has some quite awful vulnerabilities in it produced by developers who've stopped maintaining the modules despite lots of users still having them active, but it doesn't get the same coverage because of it's pitiful market share. The sector I work in believes Drupal to be all singing, all dancing, lord of all - whereas i'd quite like to drop it's use into the Marianas Trench.

Re: Intellectual property

No huge loss there, only in the states can you own an idea without actually having created it.

Re: IE6

Too late. Firefox already beat them to it. Lovely when nothing but the Mozilla-rolled CSS/JS libraries work consistently in FF as of late..

Quirky CSS declarations that work in all browsers (including IE11 *shudder*) apart from FF just doesn't feel right.

Re: BullMerde

It may be bonded on, but replacing the entire assembly is complete tosh. The bonding strips just need to be replaced, which takes an "amateur" like myself doing it for the first (and preferably only) time no more than half an hour utilising a plastic spudger, a microfibre cloth and a bottle of rubbing alcohol. End cost is less than a tenner in consumables and tools.

A question remains about how safe they are to inhale

I'd hazard a guess that PG is definitely safe to inhale seeing as UK hospitals have been pumping it through their air vents for the best part of a decade as an MRSA suppressant.

Re: Eh?

Discord is basically Slack for gamers.

Re: Another major difference -

No downsides? I take it you aren't using it for software development then. Most IDE's inexplicably stopped being at all stable with Sierra. Which in a development environment is tantamount to worst nightmare, some of my compilers wouldn't even initialise, luckily i had the common sense to VM it before installing it on my main machine. 6 months is my usual time delay for upgrades, hell, I only started using EC 3 days before Sierra went live. Security updates never required installation of EC, so didn't bother. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Re: Hah Ha. Fuck off AdBlock Plus.

I suppose you're in marketing or work for one of the companies producing the semi-illegal adblock blockers. Either way, that kind of thinking is conceited beyond belief.

Full fat internet filled with pages that take minutes rather than milliseconds to load, or eat through already limited data allowances on mobile phones, etc etc.