That headline on this article is clickbait, nothing more. The tactic is, you fool the user into expecting a certain type of content, in this case a devil’s-advocate sort of counterpoint piece, then pull a 180 on them and use it to simply provide more information in favor of the viewpoint everyone already agrees with…

I commend your defense of your position, but really now, the headline is somewhat dishonest at best and clickbaity at worst. The article was decent enough, but it definitely had a poorly-chosen headline. Based on the headline, I expected an interesting and potentially thought-provoking sort of devil’s-advocate take on…

Can’t say I’ve had any issues with systray icons on my tablet (Samsung series 7). I can hit even small objects pretty darn precisely with no difficulty, but I don’t even consider systray icons to be particularly small. Their hit target extends the entire height of the taskbar, and there’s no neutral space between icon…

Just to expand on the ‘can make your machine slightly less secure’ bit:

I’ll take the ‘better security with the only tradeoff being the minor annoyance of one extra click every now and then’, kthx.

No thanks to removing or moving the system tray. Applications in the system tray act as status indicators, and I prefer to have important icons visible at all times. If you don’t like it, just hide all your icons.

And that’s fine. It’s still only proper, however, to keep feedback professional and constructive.

it’s comiket, people walking in with weird shit is pretty typical.

Okay, hold on a second; it seems like you may have read waaay too much into my comment and are arguing against a point I wasn’t making.

Basically any small-time developer. It’s kinda hard to be super thorough and perfect when you don’t have any real backing behind your efforts.

One issue with the “privacy by default” stance is that not all information collected by a given application or operating system is collected for the purpose of marketing. In many cases, data collection is desired for software analytics, which helps software developers *greatly* in discovering bugs and generally…

yeah, they both have their uses. I’m mainly digging the xbox tool purely for its ability to record regular apps, but I still keep the NVidia tool around for its streaming mechanism for my Shield.

Game DVR actually seems to utilize the same hardware encoding features as GameStream, evidenced by the fact that it also states 600-series as minimum requirement for NVidia cards, and that’s when they first got their onboard encoding functionality.

honestly, given who we’re talking about, I figure she collects them herself.

ah, shoko-tan. never change.

Basically if you had DVD capabilities *before* your upgrade (i.e. you had the media center package, i.e. you had windows 7) then you’ll have it after.

Upon disabling all of Cortana’s features, including bing integration... file searching still works fine here. Not sure what you’re on about.

I would star this comment so hard if the star icon was clickable in Edge. Thanks Kinja.

There’s really nothing new here. If you’re concerned about wifi access, you really should be the one inputting the wifi password into your guests’ devices (and unchecking the share option) yourself. Never actually tell anyone your wifi password at all. Tell them the password, and they could just as easily post that…

I’m fairly certain they are. I’ve only done one install so far where I added another user after the fact, and it’s been a couple weeks since then, but I do seem to recall it gave the standard two-page privacy toggle options during first login (of the added user).