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Sad day. RARBG's releases were really top notch quality/size. Because video streaming services and legal video content services are absolute dog s**t.

The Bliss one looks really bad to me. It's a real photo with an ugly fake looking pond added to the bottom. The worst part is where the grass meets the water, the shoreline should be dirt and rocks. The bloom one is ok I guess since it was computer generated to begin with.

Microsoft needs to get their s**t together with their information releases as well as features releases. There is just so much info all over the place that I don't even know anymore what I got and what I didn't got on my system. The fact I STILL can't remove this idiotic infinite wall of "news" I give zero s**t about is a sole reason I have Widgets panel just entirely disabled. I'd even put a news source on there myself to stay in touch with happenings, but because Microsoft decided to shove all of it straight in my face, I just hate it with burning passion. And I know there is some guide to turn it off, but just glancing over it back when I've seen it made me hate it because it's a stupid workaround for something that should be a simple click of a X to remove the news and it's just not there. Why is "Interests" control done in Edge browser and not in proper settings for the damn Widgets panel? What moron at Microsoft thought this was a good idea?

I love how the performance widget recommends to kill the widgets proces 😅

"Woke propaganda", aka treating all people with respect and not being a hateful bigot.

This basically just puts data out of reach of common man and not mega corps, it looks good but is bad for independent researchers or even small educational institutes. Unfortunately musks cancer is spreading in tech industry...

Feels like an old friend died 😞

Itd help if you would at least include a picture of the card in your article.

If they put the seconds back in the calendar pop-up's time again as was the case in 10, that would be nice too. Then the seconds appear only when you want to check, for whatever reason, the way we could before.

WinRAR has more advanced options. Windows offer the basic stuff so they have nothing to worry about.

Please, without hurting yourself, define "woke"

Using ChatGPT to provide you with similar cases? Sure, that's ok. Not reading into those cases using other sources? You really brought that outcome on yourself... "I didn't know ChatGPT could lie to me!" This kind of thinking is how the computer uprising will happen.

Willow failed because it was boring.

I'm sure they lasted this long because they never enabled any type of monetary transactions, as this tends to attract authorities outside the copyright ppl.

I am just hoping the competition from upcoming Meta's and bluesky's twitter alternative will shatter this company. Don't like Zuckberg nor Dorsey but I will take their product any day over this clowns!

HEIC is supported with Windows 10 and 11, you should install HEIC and HEVC extensions from Microsoft Store

Willow failed because it went WOKE!!! It ruined the whole idea of more to the story from the original movie by forcing WOKE nonsense. Disney is just stabbing itself in the foot with not sticking to the history of movies from the past. Willow was a mostly dark story and for some reason they thought it would be funny to push current conversations, the way teens speak, outside the normal dark age behavior that would normally have you hung and burned at the stake. Glad it failed.

Edge market share declining. Yeah, Bing chat and bars in your face within Edge will do that to you.

RARlab should release some merch to use this undoubtedly scary time for them as a marketing opportunity. I'd buy a WinRAR t-shirt and USB drive just for fun. Bought a 3 PC license some 13 years ago and it's still one of the first things I install on a new build. Now it makes me want to search through my records to see exactly when I bought it.

Were they concerned with all the other companies that released apps over the years with rar decompression support?

I want to agree with you -- I really do. But let's be honest: the Enterprise computing market is multiple times greater than the consumer Gaming market. Also, there's no real competition in the SOFTWARE side of the hardware race. That's their "killer app" factor for their continued future hardware sales. Nobody has been investing in the toolchain and possibilities with mixed-reality and "A.I." at the same rhythm as Nvidia has been for the last 6-8+ years! Even they decried the crypto boom/bust as a distraction to their longer-term plans of advanced computing paradigms. Their software stack is like the next generation of DirectX or Unity -- capable of greater computational power and complexity in real-time atop any underlying hardware setup. Nvidia will eat many-a-lunches (akin to Netflix owning the on-demand/at-home video rental market for a decade-plus practically without meaningful competition). With Intel divesting their software tooling businesses, IBM doing the same, there's fewer players to step-up and disrupt Nvidia's march -- at this point in time.

"The Make in India campaign has come along for manufacturers at just the right time. For decades they have manufactured goods in China but as wages rise, it becomes a less appealing manufacturing hub. According to an India Times article from 2017, wages in China were five times higher than those in India at the time." Race to the bottom...

Yeah sure deleting tons of features can yield a performance gain. Not what Windows users wanted. Plus, productivity and usability thrown out completely. If everything takes longer to do, performance gains become pointless.

except it's not the gov doing it in the US at least... and all the gov can do is ask for it to be removed without a court order, and the company can fight it in court if they want to

Ah, the dictatorship strikes again. All of this is just code for: we don't like information that's not approved by us and us only, so we censor it.

I completely agree with you, but it's nice to have the option for whoever wants to use it. Options are good, people can turn them on and off if they're interested in them.

The best-looking OS in the world after Windows Vista of course.

7-Zip has better compression and is open-source. I hope Microsoft also implements support for that.

how about some proper heic image support? Still a pain to use in Windows 11. I can't make a heic photo as a Favourite in Photos app. Also, photo sharing in Windows 11 is still abysmal compared to Android (and IOS). Why do I have to switch to my mobile phone to do some basic functions whilst working on PC?

I'm sure you meant to say "reason", right?

Rest in peace, my sweet prince ;(

That Bliss one just looks....really, really bad.

7-Zip has better compression and is open-source. I hope Microsoft also implements support for that. MS announced support for both RAR and 7z.

If there is a backdoor, publish everything you know Russia, show us, the whole world would love to know

Exactly. I really liked Edge. But the amount of garbage and nagging made me switch back to Firefox.

Yeah, the moment this goes live, I'm actually uninstalling Reddit and unsubscribing from it completely. Discussed this with my coworker today at work. It's just absolutely sad for a company that had zero mobile presence to begin with where third-parties helped MAKE Reddit what it is today, only for them to turn around and demand obnoxious sums of money just so they can get everyone onto their own Reddit app and serve you ad after ad. No thanks, and I hope Christian's future remains bright. I had zero problem donating or buying little addons for Apollo, simply for the work he did and transparency provided. Between Reddit and Twitter, I think it's time we unplug for a while and go touch grass.

im sorry the world doesnt revolve around you?

RARlab's position should be that you can use RAR decompression free of charge if product you're making is non profit/open source. If it's for profit, you have to pay certain licensing fees. This way all the free archivers like PeaZIP and 7-zip can support RAR freely where Microsoft would be required to pay a fee. But I think it's a bit late to change the rules now... Unless licensing terms for their decompression libraries already state that. I know unRAR component isn't all open and free...

Plain and crumpled sums up 11 perfectly

I think you are reading this completely wrong. This isn't a niche at all. Not only is AI here to stay, but as more software starts to support ARM, Nvidia makes some of the most powerful ARM CPUs on earth. I agree that from an investor perspective, AI is the new buzzword, so some of this $1B market cap is a speculative, but still based on solid fundamentals and I don't expect the bottom to completely fallout.

seems faster /s

Impressive, but... I'm totally not waiting 1-2 seconds for my quick settings to open after starting my PC. Accomplishing the same tasks in W11 doesn't require extra clicks as compared to W10, not at all.

If it's something they've been doing for the past 23 years, there should already be hundreds of articles about it. Why don't you start by linking some?

And your evidence is..?

ok so you are twisting stuff to prove your point, China is a gov, China gov has totalitarian control, US Gov even if lobbied still doesn't have to do what lobbyist tell them, corporate influence only goes so far, and corporations don't go to the gov and say hey tell us to delete all these messages.. the point is the US GOV does not do what China did in the case of censorship and if they did it would have to go through courts, and can be challenged unlike in China

Good that they backtracked but disgusting that they even considered it in the first place. I criticised Microsoft for this so I will do the same with Mozilla. This should not be a race to the bottom.

i kind of feel back for them, they have to compete with giants which have constant stream of money while although being open source they also have to afford their engineers! If a non targeted/ un annoying ad lets them do it, why not ?

The problem with all this is licensing. Microsoft can not make a RAR compressor as it's against licensing. You have to use WinRAR or othe rlicensed products. Same for HEIC files, there are over 4,000 patents on it with complex licensing; that's why Microsoft won't build it in to create/edit them. In this scenario for new formats, they are using an open source library, so it will always be updated, and they mentioned you will be able to create encrypted zipx files - a big step forward.

I consume copious amounts of YT but have never watched these Stories. Apparently, I'm not alone in that. The article mentions Shorts. I've mentioned this before but for anyone who finds watching Shorts on desktop infuriating with the way the videos loop there is an add on called Youtube- shorts block and it forces them to play like normal video. https://chrome.google.com/webs...djbehhjgokpphdfgmapkobbnmjp

It is still slower than Windows 10 LTSC and... way less snappier than Debian.