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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Requires COPR repository because Microsoft repos can be versions behind. Microsoft can't keep their packages up to date in their own repo?
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Requires COPR repository because Microsoft repos can be versions behind. Microsoft can't keep their packages up to date in their own repo?
Is that a surprise? A lot of their software was written decades ago, and just gets updated once something breaks.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
consumers don't buy based on innovation
I do. Innovation can and does tend to lead to better products. Unless it's Apple. I don't consider a larger screen, extra button bar, or new color innovative.
All consumers say that they do, but very few actually do. And even if a few do, it has to be the majority - enough to make innovation more profitable than advertising.
Or being able to market new innovative features or tech for an existing or new product...
No new features needed to market as if you have them. Just ask Apple.
Clearly that's not working so well for them now with the XS and XR - sales are terrible for them.
That might be other factors, like high price. In the past a lack of innovation has worked just fine. So logically, lacking innovation isn't the deciding factor, it's just coincidental.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Requires COPR repository because Microsoft repos can be versions behind. Microsoft can't keep their packages up to date in their own repo?
Well they can't on Windows, why would Linux be so much better for them?
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@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://lifehacker.com/customer-service-chat-services-see-everything-you-type-1830680747
TL;DR... author had a illogical and unfounded assumption and is surprised to find the world is a logical place even though he is not.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
consumers don't buy based on innovation
I do. Innovation can and does tend to lead to better products. Unless it's Apple. I don't consider a larger screen, extra button bar, or new color innovative.
All consumers say that they do, but very few actually do. And even if a few do, it has to be the majority - enough to make innovation more profitable than advertising.
Or being able to market new innovative features or tech for an existing or new product...
No new features needed to market as if you have them. Just ask Apple.
Clearly that's not working so well for them now with the XS and XR - sales are terrible for them.
That might be other factors, like high price. In the past a lack of innovation has worked just fine. So logically, lacking innovation isn't the deciding factor, it's just coincidental.
I suppose lack of innovation itself wasn't enough - but things like performance enhancements were generally there - and that alone could drive a lot of sales... we've about reached peak performance needed on a phone like device for the normal user, so that no longer matters - hell, we might have actually reached that back in the iPhone 7 days and people are only now starting to realize it.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
consumers don't buy based on innovation
I do. Innovation can and does tend to lead to better products. Unless it's Apple. I don't consider a larger screen, extra button bar, or new color innovative.
All consumers say that they do, but very few actually do. And even if a few do, it has to be the majority - enough to make innovation more profitable than advertising.
Or being able to market new innovative features or tech for an existing or new product...
No new features needed to market as if you have them. Just ask Apple.
Clearly that's not working so well for them now with the XS and XR - sales are terrible for them.
That might be other factors, like high price. In the past a lack of innovation has worked just fine. So logically, lacking innovation isn't the deciding factor, it's just coincidental.
I suppose lack of innovation itself wasn't enough - but things like performance enhancements were generally there - and that alone could drive a lot of sales... we've about reached peak performance needed on a phone like device for the normal user, so that no longer matters - hell, we might have actually reached that back in the iPhone 7 days and people are only now starting to realize it.
A lot of people want some powerful phone features, like dramatically better gaming.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
consumers don't buy based on innovation
I do. Innovation can and does tend to lead to better products. Unless it's Apple. I don't consider a larger screen, extra button bar, or new color innovative.
All consumers say that they do, but very few actually do. And even if a few do, it has to be the majority - enough to make innovation more profitable than advertising.
Or being able to market new innovative features or tech for an existing or new product...
No new features needed to market as if you have them. Just ask Apple.
Clearly that's not working so well for them now with the XS and XR - sales are terrible for them.
That might be other factors, like high price. In the past a lack of innovation has worked just fine. So logically, lacking innovation isn't the deciding factor, it's just coincidental.
I suppose lack of innovation itself wasn't enough - but things like performance enhancements were generally there - and that alone could drive a lot of sales... we've about reached peak performance needed on a phone like device for the normal user, so that no longer matters - hell, we might have actually reached that back in the iPhone 7 days and people are only now starting to realize it.
A lot of people want some powerful phone features, like dramatically better gaming.
The current issue I see with that is battery life.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
consumers don't buy based on innovation
I do. Innovation can and does tend to lead to better products. Unless it's Apple. I don't consider a larger screen, extra button bar, or new color innovative.
All consumers say that they do, but very few actually do. And even if a few do, it has to be the majority - enough to make innovation more profitable than advertising.
Or being able to market new innovative features or tech for an existing or new product...
No new features needed to market as if you have them. Just ask Apple.
Clearly that's not working so well for them now with the XS and XR - sales are terrible for them.
That might be other factors, like high price. In the past a lack of innovation has worked just fine. So logically, lacking innovation isn't the deciding factor, it's just coincidental.
I suppose lack of innovation itself wasn't enough - but things like performance enhancements were generally there - and that alone could drive a lot of sales... we've about reached peak performance needed on a phone like device for the normal user, so that no longer matters - hell, we might have actually reached that back in the iPhone 7 days and people are only now starting to realize it.
A lot of people want some powerful phone features, like dramatically better gaming.
The current issue I see with that is battery life.
Elon Musk has a fix for that!
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
consumers don't buy based on innovation
I do. Innovation can and does tend to lead to better products. Unless it's Apple. I don't consider a larger screen, extra button bar, or new color innovative.
All consumers say that they do, but very few actually do. And even if a few do, it has to be the majority - enough to make innovation more profitable than advertising.
Or being able to market new innovative features or tech for an existing or new product...
No new features needed to market as if you have them. Just ask Apple.
Clearly that's not working so well for them now with the XS and XR - sales are terrible for them.
That might be other factors, like high price. In the past a lack of innovation has worked just fine. So logically, lacking innovation isn't the deciding factor, it's just coincidental.
I suppose lack of innovation itself wasn't enough - but things like performance enhancements were generally there - and that alone could drive a lot of sales... we've about reached peak performance needed on a phone like device for the normal user, so that no longer matters - hell, we might have actually reached that back in the iPhone 7 days and people are only now starting to realize it.
A lot of people want some powerful phone features, like dramatically better gaming.
The current issue I see with that is battery life.
Innovation includes ways to use power when needed and not when you don't. ARM procs often have fast and slow cores for exactly this reason. Async threading.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Requires COPR repository because Microsoft repos can be versions behind. Microsoft can't keep their packages up to date in their own repo?
Well they can't on Windows, why would Linux be so much better for them?
At least with Windows, you can just go download the latest .exe or .msi installer.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Requires COPR repository because Microsoft repos can be versions behind. Microsoft can't keep their packages up to date in their own repo?
Well they can't on Windows, why would Linux be so much better for them?
At least with Windows, you can just go download the latest .exe or .msi installer.
What do you mean "at least"? COPR is way better than that.
That should read "At least on Linux you only need to choose COPR then you get a fully managed, up to date package rather than having to download an EXE or MSI and maintain it yourself manually like on Windows."
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@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/11/802-eleventy-which-802-11ax-and-802-11ay-explained/
Pretty interesting. 802.11ax seems like a good upgrade (WiFi 4 to WiFi 5).
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Microsoft (briefly) passed Apple to become the most valuable US company today
Microsoft's cloud strategy has impressed. Apple's smartphone sales? Not so much.
Microsoft reached a market capitalization of close to $813 billion today, with Apple falling only about a billion behind. Apple has fallen a long way since earlier this year, and Microsoft has also seen declines along with many other tech companies, but Microsoft's struggles have not been as pronounced, at least in terms of investor confidence.
The last time Microsoft secured this lead was in 2010. Earlier this year, Apple became the first US company to achieve a $1 trillion market cap. Amazon followed shortly after. Microsoft has still not reached that milestone, and all three are below it now, following a trying period for tech stocks.
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E-commerce site is infected not by one, but two card skimmers
Rival crime gangs race against each other to steal consumers' personal data.
Payment card skimming that steals consumers’ personal information from e-commerce sites has become a booming industry over the past six months, with high-profile attacks against Ticketmaster, British Airways, Newegg, and Alex Jones’ InfoWars, to name just a few. In a sign of the times, security researcher Jérôme Segura found two competing groups going head to head with each other for control of a single vulnerable site.
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Mac mini review—a testament to Apple’s stubbornness
Four years in the making, is the Mac mini finally worth buying?
It turns out that hardware can get a lot better when you wait four years between upgrades.
