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Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

The Management posted:

has Microsoft done anything relevant in the last decade?

influenced apple's strategy for ipads, which is pretty significant

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Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
can't wait for the xb1xx to flop and signal microsoft's final failure and retreat from the video game market

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
the ipad pro literally only exists because tim got terrified of surface ads and demanded they rush out a competitor product in the ipad maxi

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
tim watched a surface ad and cartoon steam shot out of his ears and he made the ipad team design a lovely snap on keyboard the very next day

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
tim literally saw a commercial for the surface and decided to rush out the ipad maxi as a competitor and destroy the macbook line out of spite because it didn't have a touchscreen

you can tell it was a rush job because of how much half-assed compromise and poor design went into the istylus

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
mods please ban all anti-nintendo controller posters tia

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Potato Salad posted:

Make poo poo hardware, make poo poo sales.

this doesn't track with the graph because it's showing sony with more sales and the ps4 is thoroughly poo poo, the xb1x moreso

moreover it's including nintendo in a graph of console sales which is inaccurate as nintendo makes gaming devices, not consoles

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
it still blows my mind that people willingly upgraded to windows 10 despite knowing full well it was ad-driven and bug-riddled free software

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Krankenstyle posted:

computers arent for gaming except maybe emulators or a single player campaign once in a while

pc gaming is the pinnacle of video gaming achievement, the true choice of the video game connoisseur

second only to nintendo gaming

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Lambert posted:

You can just Google .reg files to mitigate that.

lol yes just go and grab some random system files you find with a google search

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

dont be mean to me posted:

it's a loving text file; people can tell what it does or nope out of it on grounds that it's over their head by looking at it

if they can read anyway

which explains your incredulity i guess

yes i'm sure that someone aimlessly googling for "registry hacks" is going to be scrupulously investigating the files they find on goodregistryfix.ru

of course even if they weren't credulous enough to use them, it doesn't fix their very poor reasons for wanting to force-alter windows behavior in the first place

Stymie fucked around with this message at 04:41 on Jun 25, 2018

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

syscall girl posted:

the constant grinding of the useless search indexer

that's right i forgot yosposters all use ssds and have to constantly fret about wearing them out with "useless" operations like too many disk writes

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

syscall girl posted:

how would i hear an ssd?

it's just that in this day and age microsoft makes a search indexer that turns on without prompting (gently caress you shaggar it does) using 100% of the disk which i mean i know where my files are, it's all videos in directories labeled tv and movies and program + system files on the ssd which who cares

how it can just merrily go on "indexing" them for an indeterminate period of time and then when i go to search for a file have search be absolutely useless in very unpredictable and obnoxious ways (documented by plenty of people itt for the memory impaired) is beyond me

tl;dr search is broken, fine, such is windows. search indexing is bloated, fine, same. but pick one ffs

if your computer is making noise you need to get better components for it

and if you can't use search properly then i don't know what to tell you other than perhaps computers aren't for you

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
lol at usb-c and lightning connectors

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Fiedler posted:

no it's a useless dual display phone, not a laptop.

you don't seem to get the progression here, it goes like this:

some company shits out a stupid device concept to try and make some sales on novelty alone

some desperate microsoft exec catches wind and demands that their engineers make a me-too product, because they can't fall behind in this valuable new market space

tim sees the advertising for the hastily cobbled together microsoft product and gets scared, he then demands apple rush out a slapdash competitor and the race to the bottom accelerates further

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
how often do you need to update a text file that says “it’s a bunch of slapdash bullshit nobody needs”?

it’s evergreen when it comes to software

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Shaggar posted:

windows 10 is really good

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
lol at there being a microsoft console following the xb1x

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

this makes me imagine tim anxiously watching the clip over and over, battling the urge to demand engineering make the ipads perform worse to keep feature parity

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

pram posted:

yes nice fantasy but microsoft is actually bad IRL outside of your fanfiction

yes, that's the point: microsoft is bad and tim is all too eager to copy their badness because he's got crippling business fomo

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
on the plus side, windows 10 won't be free software for long since it's been revealed they're getting ready to roll out subscription-only updates

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
here's the official microsoft page about ads in windows mail: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/about-ads-in-mail-for-windows-10-1444e1d2-0edb-4af8-b8d7-6d5e5223edfa

hope you got windows enterprise

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

SRQ posted:

20 bucks says they didn't just delay it until 2019 was re-released because someones bonus was riding on releasing on time

to go with a side benefit of embarrassing the windows server division for failing to release "on time"

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

SYSV Fanfic posted:

Speaking of worthless, what's the point of WSL? It seems like a toy vs. just running a full VM.

look, if we're going to start discussing the worthlessness of software we're going to be here a while

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Toady posted:

wtf is happening with windows, i thought 7 was pretty good for a windows

it still remains the best os ever made, the fools who installed windows 10 have only themselves to blame

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
nintendo's online strategy is perfect because enabling online multiplayer games should be a chore and voice chat even moreso to discourage its use

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
plus everybody and their sister uses skype or discord anyway instead of integrated chat clients so why bother putting any effort toward them?

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
nintendo got burned real bad with the 3ds message sharing tool being used to send minors pornography so they're extra skittish about online stuff, and rightly so

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
netflix isn't just going to ignore a platform that is growing insanely rapidly in user base and is basically just a tegra tablet with novel input devices

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

My Linux Rig posted:

they probably will. I doubt they saw many users from the other Nintendo consoles, so why would they spend the effort here

the wii had faster adoption of netflix watchers than the 360 my dude and they're only shutting down access to it next year despite the wii being 12 years old

also what effort? it's a tablet with a mobile processor, not some hacked together abomination like the ps3

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
which is fine because 4k is for chumps and nintendo knows that

however i will grant that netflix might be dumb enough to ignore a massively growing market out of apathy in keeping with their terrible business decisions

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

pseudorandom name posted:

the Switch already has a working Chromium so you can log on to captive portal wifi, Netflix is a Chromium app on most platforms

edit: I guess the question is whether or not the Switch Chromium has the video decoding wired up

they've developed an app for every nintendo platform since the wii, including the 3ds

hell, they developed an app for the ps3 and that thing is an absolute loving nightmare to program for

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Pinterest Mom posted:

I feel like it's probably getting held up over a dumb thing like Nintendo asking for data on the shows people watch and netflix refusing

more likely it's because nintendo wants more money to host/offer the app and netflix is being cheap

either that or netflix's dev team doesn't have the resources to develop for a new platform and is dragging their feet

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
lol @ nintendo being creatively bankrupt

meanwhile, in console land players eagerly await the release of battlefield 6, black ops 5, madden/nba/fifa 2k20, halo infinite, marvel/dc cash-in property #23a, remastered 90s platformer collection 2, untitled hideo kojima movie, and desperate imitation of a nintendo compilation device among other iterative microtransation-laden console trash

nintendo gaming products are the best, bar none

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
please don't smear nintendo gaming devices with the epithet "console"

that is reserved for the garbage products made by sony and microsoft

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
"i hate joy and pleasure and quality so i deliberately avoid nintendo games and gaming platforms"

gamers truly are the worst, why deny yourself good things?

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Linguica posted:

i don't seek out old games that I never played due to never owning a nintendo console, just because hot topic sells a line of merchandise based on them. I also don't quote people who should not be quoted.

lol you do know that nintendo makes games nowadays, right grampa? jesus christ and a hot topic dig in 2018

i am constantly reminded how old yosposters are

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
official legend of zelda hierarchy

god tier:
majora's mask
wind waker
link to the past
link between worlds

great tier:
ocarina of time
breath of the wild
link's awakening
skyward sword

good tier:
oracles
twilight princess
minish cap

fair tier:
phantom hourglass
spirit tracks
original loz

bad tier:
cdi zelda games

trash tier:
adventure of link
four swords
tri force heroes

Stymie fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Dec 4, 2018

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Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:

the crap zelda games were on the philips cdi not the 3do

thank you, edited appropriately

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