I bought one of these 64GB packs for less than $50 not even a year ago

why/how do these guys design a product this way

Its just one of many business applications that MSFT provides as you get vendor locked into the Windows platform.

Technically it was the successor to skype for business, and skype itself was its own product that was acquired by MSFT.

It doesn’t matter how crappy it is because MSFT can sell it to you as part of a complete package with stuff like Azure, M365, etc, and you would find it annoying to pay extra for a better platform like Slack.

Does it mean Microsoft can keep running any app which necessarily doesn’t appear on my task manager?

iirc it shouldn’t be hidden in task manager but it might be easier to use process explorer from sysinternals: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer

Haven’t touched hot garbage windows in a long time so I don’t remember if teams has a non obvious process that runs in the background.

I don’t know why this thread is complaining specifically about Chinese OEMs when Samsung has been doing this for years.

“This is totally unacceptable. Venezuela would never take threats and orders from the United States. We maintain our sovereignty against such an audacious adversary. Anyway in unrelated news, we are opening up the oil industry to privatization to help stir the economy. I can assure you this idea was 100% of our own making and has absolutely nothing to do with American demands.”

I made a half joke last year that the antichrist would probably be an AI model that convinces people to worship it.

And here he is saying that’s totally not going to happen.

Seems legit lol.

Sound awfully similar to the gonculator from Hogan’s Heroes.

This whole fiasco also sounds awfully similar to the pilot episode of Mission Impossible. Except without the nukes.

Its funny because all these grand Japanese OEMs like Sony and Panasonic got undercut by Korean rivals like LG and Samsung in the 2000s, which forced Sony to move further into exclusively high priced devices and for many other OEMs to leave the US or global market.

Now TCL and HiSense are undercutting the grand Korean OEMs, which is slowly forcing them out of the low-middle end market.

I upgraded from a 20+ year old Phillips LCD to TCL’s QM8K, and the display technology for being a QLED panel is astounding. It looks 95% like a high quality OLED for a fraction of the cost.

Only downside is Google TV (Junk Android that you have to debloat a bit) and for some reason the TV can’t passthrough Dolby Atmos from app players like Kodi, even though it can do DTS-X just fine. I’m pretty sure the second issue is just a software bug, but TCL has been taking ages to respond. Pass through from an external source works perfectly fine though.

If you’re in the market, I highly recommend seeing it in person at a hardware/electronics store. The side by side comparison is insane.

I actually think its bait to encourage China to invade Taiwan.

If you want to ruin a concert’s day, change the thermostat a few clicks lol.

Funny thing is you can actually conduct pretty well with just your hand.

Also a good conductor is usually an astoundingly good player of multiple instruments themselves.

It’s kind of like how football (soccer) team managers are retired players that can still play better than the entire stadium wearing loafers and a suit.

I remember how utterly stupid this whole thing was when it first started.

It wasn’t even worth making fun over because it just confirmed they care more about saving donkeys than civilians or children.

Even more insane when you consider that in the west bank, they just opt to slaughter the livestock to ensure Palestinians are financially ruined before kicking them out or killing them.

Yeah as long as they have Saudi in the name, it won’t be anything “new” or “different”

People forgetting even if Trump will be or had been assassinated, Vance would just take his place and continue the train. Besides, Iran has been claiming they can do this since forever with nothing to show for it.

I remember this article was suspiciously titled similar to another one from a different outlet about a Gazan teenager who suffered loss of limbs and family, while sheltering outside a a school in a makeshift refuge camp.

Almost as if CNN saw it and wanted to do a reverse take.

With dems busy repeatedly shooting themselves in the foot, he’ll probably make it to 2028.

Why are these mainstream media journalists going out of their way to make Linux work and look harder than it is?

You don’t need to open the terminal to install software or configure anything, that’s literally the whole point of every big DE that ships well made GUI apps.

He solved his problem by switching off of Ubuntu to Fedora, I think I almost shed a tear lmao

Nah I’m betting NATO does jack all and continues to be subservient to the USA.

It’s like watching a “how much can they get away with” show with no practical limit.

A much easier way to start WW3 would be for a sizable country to copy the US, like China taking Taiwan.

The reason is that the US itself has to be on board with an opponent that threatens to do the same thing, meaning they’ll lose “territory”.

Their dumb counter argument was AVIF, for the same reason as webp which is reduced total size since they’re a massive cloud provider and want to penny pinch costs wherever possible.

JPEG-XL also has a progressive loading algorithm that increases the quality as you download instead of classic vertical scan loading, which is sick but I don’t think any browser actually bothered to implement it yet after the Google hit job.

Hopefully will see it in action soon.

This just seems like a repeat of these companies buying all the similar/unicode like domains to ensure no one can grab a domain with resemblance to the name.

Considering a most of them aren’t even used for anything practical, I wonder if this was just another ploy by ICANN to make money lmao.