Saturday, January 25
Daily News Stuff 25 January 2020
Wombats Ahoy Edition
Wombats Ahoy Edition
Tech News
- YouTube never ceases to find new ways to not fail to disappoint.
Google is the world leader in applying AI to complex cognitive tasks. Looks like everyone's job is safe for a while yet.
- Cyrus Vance is a great name for a Manhattan District Attorney. You could just see Raymond Chandler using that name. Unfortunately he's an idiot. (TechDirt)
- Google claims that their recent changes to their search results were just them trying to make everything better and the fact that it made natural results indistinguishable from ads was entirely unintentional and they will immediately experiment with minor adjustments that will make things even more annoying. (Tech Crunch)
Fuck 'em.
- Update to Windows 10 with a probably illegitimate and possibly stolen key for just $9.95 or on second thought don't do that. (WCCFTech)
Because your existing Windows 7 key should work to activate Windows 10.
- Quora is laying of an indeterminate number of staff. (Tech Crunch)
I don't like to see people lose their jobs, but Quora's site is awful and their users are idiots.
- One crazy man's look at the Samsung Galaxy Fold. (Ars Technica)
It's not so much a review as an extended episode of Fold-induced epilepsy. Suffice to say they didn't like it.
- China is having a hard time tackling the Wuhan Bat Soup Death Plague because the country is run by lunatics. (Quartz)
You can't solve a problem if everyone involved is too scared to provide accurate reports.
But wear pyjamas and they're right on that.
- Oh, almost forgot this one. The GTX 2060 KO that EVGA just released to tackle the Radeon 5600 XT is, internally, actually an RTX 2080.
Seriously.
But it's an RTX 2080 that has been seriously throttled and can't be unthrottled, so it's no better than a regular RTX 2060 for games. But if you're using it for compute tasks like 3D rendering in Blender it can be nearly 50% faster than a regular RTX 2060.
Neither Nvidia nor EVGA told anyone about this. Steve from Gamers Nexus discovered it when he looked under the heatsink.
Disclaimer: Cyrus Vance, Attorney at Law. Cyrus Vance and the Case of the Exploding Moose. Cyrus Vance and the Mysterious Taxicab. Cyrus Vance and the Crooked Mayor. Cyrus Vance Gets Fitted for Cement Overshoes.
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Bear in mind that Fold review is by Ron Amadeo, whose ideal phone is thinner than a piece of paper and whose screen extends 5mm past the body of the phone in all directions, based on his constant comments about bezels and how think phones are. (It's to the point where there are ALWAYS multiple people cracking jokes in the comments of his phone reviews.)
Posted by: Rick C at Sunday, January 26 2020 06:34 AM (Iwkd4)
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A bit surprised I haven't seen you cover the latest M$ idiocy where they announced plans to browser-jack Chrome in their corporate customers.
Posted by: StargazerA5 at Sunday, January 26 2020 10:59 AM (bLfy6)
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Wait, what's that about my Win 7 key and activating Windows 10?
(Just got my Samsung EVO SSD, and I'm trying to figure out how to migrate without losing every setting. But an upgrade looms in the future.)
(Just got my Samsung EVO SSD, and I'm trying to figure out how to migrate without losing every setting. But an upgrade looms in the future.)
Posted by: Mauser at Sunday, January 26 2020 04:19 PM (Ix1l6)
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Eh, looked at the link. Another corporate key leak scheme.
Posted by: Mauser at Sunday, January 26 2020 04:21 PM (Ix1l6)
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Mauser, you can probably still use Win 7 keys to activate Win 10. I know you can use Win 8 keys because I just did that this week--got a new, larger SSD, did a fresh install of Win10 from an ISO I made a while ago, accidentally chose Win 10 Pro, and then realized my spare Win 10 keys were all for Home, and tried using an 8 Pro key on a lark, and it activated first try.
Technically they were supposedly going to stop letting you do that a couple years ago but apparently never did.
Technically they were supposedly going to stop letting you do that a couple years ago but apparently never did.
Posted by: Rick C at Monday, January 27 2020 04:55 AM (Iwkd4)
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Hmmm, the question becomes how to get the right ISO....
I also need to figure out how to switch between my two bootable drives without having to unplug every time. I've got the SSD running (the clone of the 2 TB I did a clean install on worked the first time). I need to copy all the data from my 3TB WD Red boot drive, but I've run into the issue before of ownership - both drives have accounts by the same name, but they have some different underlying ID. Then there's the matter of re-installing things (I don't even HAVE a uTorrent Installer any more) and transferring browser user profiles and other settings....
I miss MacOS 8.6 at least in this regard.... It was so simple for a single user system. And you could install anything by hand.
I also need to figure out how to switch between my two bootable drives without having to unplug every time. I've got the SSD running (the clone of the 2 TB I did a clean install on worked the first time). I need to copy all the data from my 3TB WD Red boot drive, but I've run into the issue before of ownership - both drives have accounts by the same name, but they have some different underlying ID. Then there's the matter of re-installing things (I don't even HAVE a uTorrent Installer any more) and transferring browser user profiles and other settings....
I miss MacOS 8.6 at least in this regard.... It was so simple for a single user system. And you could install anything by hand.
Posted by: Mauser at Monday, January 27 2020 11:34 AM (Ix1l6)
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Getting a Windows 10 ISO is easy, search "download windows 10 iso". It'll take you to here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
Eventually you'll get asked which edition you want.
Eventually you'll get asked which edition you want.
Posted by: Rick C at Monday, January 27 2020 12:41 PM (Iwkd4)
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