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Microsoft has quietly announced that it will sunset the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) on Windows 11 next year. Support will officially end on March 5, 2025, and after that date, Android apps will no longer be supported on the OS.

https://www.thurrott.com/windows/298807/microsoft-killing-windows-subsystem-for-android-amazon-appstore-windows-11-march-2025

Would say the cost of enclosure also factor in low adoption, a good standard one cost about mid-range GPU price, which you could just use to buy PC. I do like the idea of having eGPU, for example during travelling I could bring my portable 13" laptop anywhere at daytime and use the eGPU on hotel's TV at night, but current implementation is just too expensive and too cumbersome. Maybe something like ROG XG Mobile or GPD G1 would be very interesting moving forward.

8 hours ago, bwalker36 said:

What is out there that would be awesome to side load?  Only thing that comes to mind for me would be taking my personal vintage game collection on the road.

 

Revanced Manager on IOS, that would be very awesome.

As much as I would like Nvidia open source driver, releasing employees credential is kinda dick move and they could release user credential too in the future. It is already hard to paraphrase a good password.

2 hours ago, Diffident said:

Will this be exclusive to printers or all their devices?

I have a Dymo label maker. (I should have paid the extra coin for a Brady) 

Not sure, seems anything with cartridge style which they can embed RFID on and system with auto detection.

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"The new label rolls come with a booby-trap," writes Doctorow, "a RFID-equipped microcontroller that authenticates with your label-maker to attest that you bought Dymo's premium-priced labels and not a competitor's. The chip counts down the labels as you print them (so you can't transplant it to a generic label roll)."

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I have no problem moving to Windows 11 if only they didn't remove the taskbar ungroup feature. That taskbar grouping is annoying and so far I have to resort alt-tab as a simpler alternatives.

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QNAP Systems, Inc. recently discovered that a ransomware called DeadBolt is attempting to attack NAS exposed to the Internet. The ransomware will hijack the NAS login screen and extort bitcoins from the victim. QNAP strongly urges all NAS users to immediately follow the methods below to check whether your NAS is exposed to the Internet, confirm whether the security settings of the router and NAS are complete, and update QTS to the latest version as soon as possible. More information regarding checking the level of access your QNAP NAS has to the internet, as well as how to change key settings to improve security can be found HERE

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On 31/08/2021 at 02:10, UltraMega said:

I guess I'm the odd man out, but I actually agree with Microsoft's choice to put raise the floor on hardware security. After all the spectre stuff and other security issues over the last 5 years or so, I think it makes sense. I am far from a security expert but in my laymen's understanding, I think the world is still kinda recovering from the stuxnet leak and added hardware security might be part of that. 

That said though, I get that it's a little awkward for a software company to impose new hardware limits, but it happens. I bet if Microsoft made a requirement that windows 11 will only install to an SSD and not an HDD (could still have secondary HDDs), not many tekkies would complain, a lot might praise the idea haha. The fact that windows 11 doesn't have any new features that matter also makes it less of an issue to me. Usually there's a new version of DirectX or something, but this time it just runs better on mobile hardware. 

The question is does TPM actually protect us from that?

On 28/07/2021 at 07:51, tictoc said:

 

Unless you want it, and then you're free to roll your own keys and encryption.

 

The AMA from the source is more or less worthless unless you were looking for an advertisement for Windows "cloud" services.

It will be interesting to see how this evolves.  Looks like jailbreaking Windows will be a thing in the future. It will also be interesting to see how in place upgrades work. I guess mbr2gpt will now be a part of the Windows installer.

 

Outside of this being the first step for more intrusive and restrictive DRM, I don't really see the point of secure boot and TPM being a requirement.  If anyone has it, I'd love to see a link to the non-marketing, actual engineering reasons behind these requirements.  "It makes your device more secure" has zero substance. 

 

The minimum CPU requirements are even more absurd.  If there is so much focus on helping me secure my device, then why is Microsoft even letting me run an 8700k?  What kind of "testing" are they doing that would make such an arbitrary minimum CPU requirement?

Agree, TPM doesn't make sense at all. Does it protect rootkit, ransomware, spyware or malware? At best it blocks malware on UEFI level.

One further improvement that can be implemented on iGPU side of things with Infinity Cache implementation too. This will be interesting moving forward.

if the byproduct is really helium, that also killing 2 bird with 1 stone with Helium scarcity we're facing/wasting right now.

Agree, remember kb5000802, that almost cost me my business as I can't print graphic. Why Microsoft is so fast on updates that are generally can wait and mostly unnecessary?

This update caused program in my office doesn't print graphic, I think they should be careful with forceful update especially security update that are bypassed from the deferred update program

On 11/15/2020 at 2:18 AM, J7SC_Orion said:

  

...whether they lean on their own fabs or go with TSMC per below, Intel had made a set of major misstep several years back (under the previous CEO) which has changed their corporate trajectory down.

 

In addition to CPU, a lot will also ride on the Xe tile graphics for the enterprise market. In any case, I certainly believe that Intel will eventually recover, but re. current and next step fab tech execution, TSMC leads by a country mile (and not just Intel). Now, as the previous 7 or so years  had shown, it is best not to have just one price setting and product cycle setting, dominant player - from that consumer perspective alone, I hope Intel will regain its strength. Trouble is, there's a long lead-time in that business, and mistakes made 4+ years ago have an impact for a long while after. 

 

Yep, and adding salt to injury Apple M1 also proof not that ARM arch are better but X86 has been complacent for too long. If next gen Exynos also a powerful CPU comparable to SD875 then fabs market will change quite far.

Yeah, but here also I see some provider do hybrid with Nokia/Ericsson platform too, at least on the FTTH side. They do move many 4G infras from Nokia to Huawei/ZTE tho and performance kinda drop significantly since then.

Xilink portfolio is quite big in AV industry, it will be interesting how AMD and NVIDIA spread their business wings.

Hope this pushes Risc-V forward, I don't think the compatibility layers between the 2 will be hard.

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Both the Snapdragon 875 and Exynos 2100 feature a heterogenous CPU design, with one large core, paired with performance and efficiency cores. The Snapdragon 875 will likely utilize a single X1 as its large core, for optimal single-threaded performance, together with a number of ARM A78 and ARM A55 cores. 

Silent user from the other site, saying hi here.

I also use Chrome for everything else that's blocked on Firefox. Seems easier second browser to do so.

15 minutes ago, GDSTi said:

AMD need Thunderbolt for the mobile market. Especially in the more premium end of the enterprise market. USB-C docks need to die. 

AMD also need to get some solid Bluetooth/WiFi/Ethernet options, Realtek and Broadcom often are not as reliable or feature rich as Intel's solutions yet alone driver support and ease of deployment in managed environments. 
 

Thunderbolt will be hard, even on USB4 the PCIE passthrough part is optional and Intel doesn't seems to be interested in releasing Thunderbolt to be manufactured by 3rd party (maybe this will change when Apple use ARM)

On networking side, I though some Ryzen laptop on 4th series do use Intel card? At least on the Wifi side.

At least the addition of remote is kinda useful. I always find Chromecast lacking remote a bit unnerving.