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Re: Windows 10: The beginning of the end for Control Panel

8-Jul-20 6:22

You've got a point there. Maybe they could get around the issue with their fast ring builds (if they didn't require a complete ground-level install), and requiring telemetry in them. Then the MS guy could have made a statement like: "We've incorporated all of the Control Panel plugins that our early beta testers required in the latest and greatest Settings program! Try it out, and if we've overlooked one that you need, let us know before we eliminate Control Panel entirely in the next major build!" (In other words, sell it as a pretty much done deal, rather than something they are looking for feedback on.)

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Dan Neely8-Jul-20 6:28

Dan Neely

8-Jul-20 6:28

Maybe eventually, their progress has been slow enough since W8 came out that I'm not expecting them to get to the point of being able to axe the control panel for at least another 5 or 10 years.

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Re: Windows 10: The beginning of the end for Control Panel

David O'Neil8-Jul-20 6:36

Re: Windows 10: The beginning of the end for Control Panel

8-Jul-20 6:36

Dan Neely wrote:
for at least another 5 or 10 years.

That sounds about right.

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Joe Woodbury7-Jul-20 9:27

Joe Woodbury

7-Jul-20 9:27

Yes, follow the lead of Android where settings are scattered around; make it a treasure hunt!

Re: Windows 10: The beginning of the end for Control Panel

Nelek7-Jul-20 22:52

Re: Windows 10: The beginning of the end for Control Panel

7-Jul-20 22:52

And I wonder (again, and again, and again...) how many things will they break to make this completely undesired and unrequested ~~disaster~~ "feature" available? Sigh | :sigh:

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#realJSOP7-Jul-20 23:29

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7-Jul-20 23:29

I think they're just setting up a CYA moment for when a future Windows update accidently deletes all or part of the control panel.

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Re: Windows 10: The beginning of the end for Control Panel

David O'Neil8-Jul-20 6:26

Re: Windows 10: The beginning of the end for Control Panel

8-Jul-20 6:26

Can an organization that pretty much eliminated their QA department have the intelligence to think that far ahead? I doubt it.

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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz9-Jul-20 22:56

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

9-Jul-20 22:56

Windows had a QA department? Really? What did they do? Go on picnics all day?

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C# 9 Deep Dive: Records

Kent Sharkey7-Jul-20 8:46

Re: C# 9 Deep Dive: Records

7-Jul-20 8:46

Dave Brock[^]:
In a C# 9 deep dive, we go in-depth on records.

45s or 33s? (or 78s for the oldsters)

Greg Utas7-Jul-20 9:12

Greg Utas

7-Jul-20 9:12

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Designated Initializers

Kent Sharkey6-Jul-20 11:01

Re: Designated Initializers

6-Jul-20 11:01

Modernes C++[^]:
Designated initialization is an extension of aggregate initialization and empowers you to directly initialize the members of a class type using their names.

Are they the ones that drive you to the bar if you're already too drunk?

Even with all the size and age of C++, it amazes me when it just gets a feature common to many other languages.

Yes, I'm sheltered.

Nelek6-Jul-20 11:28

Researchers identify dozens of words that accidentally trigger Amazon Echo speakers

6-Jul-20 11:28

Kent Sharkey wrote:
Are they the ones that drive you to the bar if you're already too drunk?

Better to the bar than to the brothel, don't you think?

M.D.V.

Kent Sharkey6-Jul-20 10:16

Re: Researchers identify dozens of words that accidentally trigger Amazon Echo speakers

6-Jul-20 10:16

Venture Beat[^]:
As voice assistants like Google Assistant and Alexa increasingly make their way into internet of things devices, it’s becoming harder to track when audio recordings are sent to the cloud and who might gain access to them.

Alyssa eluted the electroanalyitical elixer mixer (order one of everything. send.)

Nelek6-Jul-20 11:20

Re: Researchers identify dozens of words that accidentally trigger Amazon Echo speakers

6-Jul-20 11:20

Accidentally... yeah, right.

Is it ever disconnected?

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Kent Sharkey6-Jul-20 11:44

Re: Researchers identify dozens of words that accidentally trigger Amazon Echo speakers

6-Jul-20 11:44

I know they're disconnected at my house. I keep them at the store to avoid accidental connection Wink | ;)

TTFN - Kent

Nelek7-Jul-20 8:30

Home router warning: They're riddled with known flaws and run ancient, unpatched Linux

7-Jul-20 8:30

Another possibility[^]

After reading it for the first time I did it at a friend's place... now it is always disconnected everytime we go to visit them Laugh | :laugh:

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Kent Sharkey6-Jul-20 8:31

Re: Home router warning: They're riddled with known flaws and run ancient, unpatched Linux

6-Jul-20 8:31

ZDNet[^]:
And there are no routers in the study from the Fraunhofer Institute without known security flaws.

Root route for routers is short?

Sorry, ran out of ideas a the end.

Nelek6-Jul-20 11:19

Re: Home router warning: They're riddled with known flaws and run ancient, unpatched Linux

6-Jul-20 11:19

So...
at one side the big players and their data slurping
at the other side government agencies and their data slurping
one side more is occupied by the hackers and their data slurping
and the last one by scammers and other parasits...

and in the middle of all that sh1t, we, the users.

I start thinking that a global EMP could be a good idea.

M.D.V.

David O'Neil6-Jul-20 15:46