The pot calls the kettle black?!
Microsoft on its knees. I love it! Life is good!
Posts by binary
50 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Oct 2018
Microsoft CEO whinges about Google's default search deals
Microsoft adds features to Windows 11 monthly – managing it is your problem
Microsoft to move some Teams features to more costly 'Premium' edition
Mozilla drags Microsoft, Google, Apple for obliterating any form of browser choice
Saturday 24th September 2022 22:19 GMT
Re: Firefox not ready for heavy work
If you want an unbiased opinion about why Firefox can't perform 'heavy work,' you need to find this out for yourself, if you can't, you can get by with Firefox. My work load may not equal your work load so, if you are happy with Firefox, it's OK, nothing wrong with that.
I tried many Firefox, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi versions to replace Google Chrome but I always came back to Chrome because whoever designed Chrome, did good homework. If you need more proof that Chrome is better, Microsoft 'borrowed it,' too :).
I find it pitiful that the inability of Mozilla to beat Google Chrome resulted in their shameless blaming of everyone else but themselves.
Saturday 24th September 2022 02:53 GMT
Firefox sucks! Mozilla blames the successful products but, it still sucks!
It so happens that I just removed the Firefox browser from my computer 10 minutes before reading this article. Firefox, for me, is still buggy and unreliable, not ready for real heavy work. It so happens that Google Chrome doesn't have Firefox's annoying glitches. Shame on Mozilla for blaming the world for their mediocre product.
Meta accused of breaking the law by secretly tracking iPhone users
MX Linux 21.2: Middleweight Debian-based distro is well worth a look
Thursday 1st September 2022 23:01 GMT
MX Linux... Worth a Look
MX Linux is worth much more than just a look. I've used this distro for a few years now and found out that it's just as good - if not better and more functional - than Windows 11. After using Redhat, SUSE, Fedora, Manjaro, and the not-so-ready-for-prime-time Linux Mint, I think MX Linux should be the choice for Linux users. Ninety nine Linux distros listed below MX Linux, in my opinion, should be tossed in the garbage, but then, what will the Distrowatch maintainers do? :(
Chips still down for Toyota: Low semiconductor supplies dampen output
Tuesday 30th August 2022 17:45 GMT
Chip Shortage for Toyota...
Car dealers are trying to maximize profits as a result. Many of these dealers - if you are not careful or if you are desperate to buy a car - will rip you off. In these hard times, if you pay the asking sticker price of the car, you are doing OK.
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/08/30/1119715886/inside-the-rise-of-stealerships-and-the-shady-economics-of-car-buying
General Motors charges mandatory $1,500 fee for three years of optional car features
Google gets the green light to flood US Gmail inboxes with political spam
Too little, too late: Intel's legacy is eroding
Intel experiences another kind of meltdown
Tim Hortons offers free coffee and donut to settle data privacy invasion claims
Samsung has 24Gbps GDDR6 ready for higher-performance graphics cards
Apple's new MacBook Air: Is the jump to M2 silicon worth another $200?
China rallies support for Kylin Linux in war on Windows
Monday 4th July 2022 04:59 GMT
Re: ChAOSIC thinking?
"At least with Linux you can examine the source code..." Really? I'll bet my left nut that most Linux users are not capable of examining source code.
Remember, every OS, browser, Android, iPhone, are all built with spying on you in mind regardless of where they are made. Though, I would never ever trust a Chinese Linux even if I had the capability to examine its source code.
Brave roasts DuckDuckGo over Bing privacy exception
Friday 17th June 2022 21:05 GMT
Brave CEO Brendan Eich is a hypocrite!
Mr. Eich, jealousy won't get you anywhere!
In my view, your browser, Brave (not!) - which I tried like probably everyone else here - is just as abysmal for a browser as the duck one. I suspect your jealousy because the duck may have more users? This is what it's all about, isn't it?
Thunderbird is coming to Android – in K-9 Mail form
Wednesday 15th June 2022 18:43 GMT
Why do I need another app to spy on me?
I use an Android and perfectly happy with Gmail, which works well and seamlessly with my Android, and iPhone before that. Why is Thunderbird necessary/needed? More clutter? Just like the browsers for Android, they all suck so why do need so many of them? They won't all fit where the sun don't shine.
Google calculates Pi to 100 trillion digits
I love the Linux desktop, but that doesn't mean I don't see its problems all too well
Wednesday 8th June 2022 18:11 GMT 
Too Many Linux Distros Lessens Its Value!
"We have many excellent Linux desktop distros, which means none of them can gain enough market share to make any real dent in the overall market."
Exactly! The reason no one picks up coconuts in the streets of Miami is because there are tons of them laying in the streets, which diminishes their value so no one cares.
After using Redhat, SUSE, Manjaro, and Mint, I found that Mx Linux does everything better for me than the rest, so I am done with pointless installations of distros.
Distrowatch can, and should bring up Linux' value by ignoring the wannabees past the top three distros posted on its site.
Makers of ad blockers and browser privacy extensions fear the end is near
Sick of Windows but can't afford a Mac? Consult our cynic's guide to desktop Linux
How Intel can use its Granulate acquisition to maintain cloud footprint
FTC says Frontier lied about its internet speeds amid $8.5m settlement
Microsoft backtracks on lack of easy Windows browser choice
Distributor dumps Kaspersky to show solidarity with Ukraine
Russian IT pros flee Putin, says tech lobby group
File Explorer fiasco: Window to Microsoft's mixed-up motivations
Microsoft freshens up its in-house container Linux, CBL-Mariner
Microsoft slides ads into Windows Insiders' File Explorer
FYI: If the latest Windows 11 really wants to use Edge, it will use Edge no matter what
Saturday 13th November 2021 00:28 GMT
Re: Great plan
I, too, use Linux over Windows. "Linux," as we know it, means three things if I remember correctly: deb, rpm, and Arch packages and - they are not compatible with each other.
If I was a developer, I wouldn't waste precious time developing for all three packages. As I finally found a Linux distro that I feel comfortable to work with, essential programs lacking support because the package I need is not available - because I am using the 'wrong' Linux distro.
To solve this annoying problem, Linux developers should pick and work on the best of the three existing Linux distributions otherwise, methinks that Linux will never grow to be anything worthwhile other that a meaningless number on Distrowatch.
Facebook fined £50m in UK for 'conscious' refusal to report info and 'deliberate failure to comply' during Giphy acquisition probe
Wednesday 20th October 2021 21:07 GMT 
Facebook reeks despite the name change
In the U.S., it's a common practice of failed companies to change their name in times of failure and hope that business will keep running as usual. The problems with this, though, as I see it, if they decided to call "sh*t" a "rose," the "rose" will still smell like "sh*t," so why bother?
How about Bacefook? Zucfook? Zucwhimp? Zucwuss?
Whatever it ends up being, it will always smell like a rose.
Want to check out Windows 11 but don't want to buy a new PC? Here's how to bypass the hardware requirements
Facebook far too consumed by greed to make itself less harmful to society, whistleblower tells Congress
Wednesday 6th October 2021 14:09 GMT
Re: "Facebook’s algorithms [..] put immense profit before safety and society"
Why is it a surprise suddenly that Facebook prioritizes profits over safety and well beings of its users? Wasn't this a known fact to all of us since its inception? For me it was. The sad and bleak future of all those who use Facebook to 'socialize,' will keep Facebook operating as if 'whistlers' are just attention seekers.
Microsoft's Edge browser for Linux hits the Beta Channel ... if you're into that kind of thing
LibreOffice 7.1 beta boasts impressive range of features let down by a lack of polish and poor mobile efforts
Windows to become emulation layer atop Linux kernel, predicts Eric Raymond
No more installing Microsoft's Chromium-centered Edge by hand: Windows 10 will do it for you automatically
Thursday 4th June 2020 18:00 GMT
Windows 10 Will Do It For You... not necessarily
If you don't want the new Edge automatically installed, you need to download a file from Microsoft (it has a .cmd extension) and run it as administrator:
EdgeChromium_Blocker.cmd [<machine name optional>] [/B] [/U] [/H]
/B= block distribution
/U = unblock distribution
/H= Displays the following summary help:
This tool can be used to remotely block or unblock the delivery of
Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) through Automatic Updates.
DirectX comes to Linux (via WSL2): Microsoft unveils tricks needed to flash a GPU at a penguin
What do you call megabucks Microsoft? No really, it's not a joke. El Reg needs you
'Literally a paperweight': Bose users fume at firmware update that 'doesn't fix issues'
Monday 18th November 2019 21:30 GMT
Re: There’s a reason people say
It makes sense to me what BOSE stands for. I owned a BOSE speaker set in the past and was very disappointed with the sound output. Please note that BOSE never reveals the output frequency of their speakers. I can't understand why the REG calls BOSE products "Lexus." I am assuming it refers to the 2002 Lexus SC 430 which is rated 3rd worst car ever made:
https://www.thestreet.com/story/12927306/1/the-10-worst-cars-of-all-time.html
It's Prime Minister Boris Johnson: Tech industry speaks its brains on Brexit-monger's victory
Enjoying that 25Mbps internet speed, America? Oh, it's just 6Mbps? And you're unhappy? Can't imagine why
One man went to mow a meadow, hoping Trump would spot giant grass snake under flightpath
The Year Of Linux On The Desktop – at last! Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 brings the Linux kernel into Windows
Tuesday 7th May 2019 02:54 GMT
Microsoft has things backwards!
Instead of running Linux in Windows, Microsoft would be much better off if it dumped Windows completely - because Windows will never be better than Linux - and develop its own version of Linux. Only then, I'll give Microsoft a try. Windows 10 right now, is a complete drag.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
