Will they? It’s possible to do on Android but I’ve never heard of anyone doing it. Cordova on Android uses the Android web view component rather than ship its own copy of Chromium. Of course Android web view is now Chrome so it’s less likely that you would have difficult compatibility problems that would make you want to ship your own browser engine.

React Native and React are different. React Native does not use a web browser.

This is a real thing. It turns out more people than you would think are prone to paranoia and schizophrenia and if they spend too much time talking to LLMs they start to believe that the LLM is their friend, and then that the LLM is omniscient, and then from there it can spiral out of control as the LLM makes up a world of delusions for them. It’s hard to know how many people are affected because neither the victim nor the LLM realize there is a problem, and the problem is relatively new.

You’re wrong about not being able to levelage your Intel graphics. Intel 11th gen has hardware HEVC (h265) encoding. Your Samsung phone probably also has HEVC hardware encoding faster than your CPU encoding. You want the ffmpeg hevc_vaapi codec, and it should go even faster if you use -hwaccel vaapi for decoding.

Not Skype: Skype for Business, which is a different product from Skype.

Microsoft would go on to make this mistake again, naming both Teams and Teams the same thing before ultimately combining them into Teams last year.

People could still play the Overwatch that they paid for if the game hadn’t been designed to require Blizzard’s continued support and approval to function. In some number of years, Fortnite will be shutdown or replaced with something different and the people who grew up playing Fortnite will never be able to go back to play it again.

There’s clearly interest in online-only games that are killed. World of Warcraft and Runescape have classic versions so you can play a variation of the game how it used to be.

It also returns these auto dubbed videos in search results, making it increasingly difficult to find intelligible videos about foreign topics. You’ll get a native describing the problem to other natives with a common understanding, auto transcribed, auto translated, and auto dubbed.

Here’s a hilariously bad example. This video has an AI English dub. https://youtu.be/DNceEVQulwY?t=908 (warning: up close whispering) Have you ever noticed YouTube’s automatic translation system sometimes buffers up a lot of text and dumps a whole paragraph on screen at once?

Does that mean Grok has always trying to say this but this time the filter didn’t work?

Commit an unprecedented crime, pay an unprecedented fine.

The current version of PowerShell is already past 7.0. They all use the same syntax, but some PowerShell 4 commands for less common Windows features only work through a compatibility mode.

Isn’t this a complicated problem? Android has no “hotseat.” Each launcher has it’s own layout and each phone manufacturer has it’s own default launcher. The complaint makes it sound like Google just chooses not to do it.

You mean Crowdstrike? Cloudflare is a different problem.

Until a few years ago, it was common for Android devices to stop receiving features after about 1 year and then stop receiving security updates after 2 years. Unless you’re getting security updates another way, which may not work correctly and may even require you to build Android yourself, you should not use the device for anything important after that point. The batteries would be next to useless by that time. Now it seems more common to get three years, which isn’t great either. iPhones last longer, but they come with all the iPhone problems.

vdo.ninja?

The start menu being React Native is irrelevant. If it were React in an Edge web view that would be a different story.

Opening the start menu should cause a spike in CPU usage. You want the CPU to open the menu ASAP instead of dragging out the process so the CPU usage is more flat.

But everything in Windows these days is wasting time stealing your data, loading ads or other unnecessary data from cloud services, and interacting with “AI.” Performance is one of the lowest priorities, somewhere between software quality and privacy. Since mid Windows 10, Microsoft consistently replaces things with modernized, but worse, versions and never returns to finish making the new version as good as the previous version that evolved over decades. It’s a really expensive way to ruin a product. They could make a React Native start menu where people wouldn’t complain about the performance. They probably did and people are only noticing now because of a recent regression.

That’s part of it. The other part is that Google, and other search engines, assume you’re clueless and try to “fix” your query for you, and you can’t stop it because they’ve been removing support for searching exact words or using boolean expressions or excluding words.

In the 2020s we have new active USB to PS2 dongles like HIDman.

I’m less hopeful. People would just switch to the formatting tab and use that. Most people center text on a title page by repeatedly hitting the enter key to go down and then the space key to go right and then they get to the next page by pressing the enter key until they get to the first line of the next page like they’re using a typewritter.

In Markdown and HTML and TeX and even Microsoft Word you’re supposed to just use the Heading 1 style option instead of manually changing the style of the paragraph text. There are times when you don’t want to use Word, most commonly because you’re managing your documents as text files in a source code management system or because you’re an LLM and you’re incapable of anything besides Unicode text, and it has some limitations that make it unsuitable for typesetting, but it’s not bad for word processing, and the file types aren’t that terrible to work with anymore. People just don’t know how to use it.

Amazing. Is it a trojan?