Daily Tech News 11 July 2021

• How to enable the Windows 10 Start Menu on Windows 11. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Well, nice that they -
  
  
  
• Too slow. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  This falls under the Stardock Full Employment Act of whenever Windows 8 was released. (The original Windows 8 was unusable without Stardock's Start8. I lasted two days.)
  
  
  
• On the other hand, you can at least control positions for snapping windows. (Thurott.com)
  
  I run two monitors side by side each with two windows snapped into place. I really want a super ultra wide monitor with five or maybe seven windows and no gap in the middle, but Windows 10 doesn't support that.
  
  
  
• Sydney lockdown status update:
  
  

  💀 pic.twitter.com/jYcBfk90I8

  — Caldron Pool (@CaldronPool) July 11, 2021

  
  
  

• You're a slave to multiple masters, with no rights whatsoever. Here's why that's a good thing. (Gizmodo)
  
  The author explains that it's a good thing because she has the mental capacity of a retarded mosquito.
  
  
  
• AMD's 4700S might be a faulty PlayStation 5 chip with disabled graphics and not an Xbox chip. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Looking at the side by side photos, that assessment seems correct to me. The CPU cores are identical and the graphics switched off, so it was only by looking at the physical chips that someone outside AMD could confirm this.
  
  Asked to confirm this themselves, AMD said:

  AMD 4700S Desktop Kit is its own unique solution, designed to address the desire for robust, high-core count performance in the mainstream market – ideal for multi-tasking, productivity, and light 3D workflows.

  Which is a lot of words for yes but I'm not allowed to say so.
  
  
  
• How to merge two Apple IDs into one, part one of sixty. (Brian Stucki)
  
  1. Don't.
  2. No, seriously, don't.
  3. Beer.
  4. Wait, what was I doing again?
  
  
  
• Science Based Medicine shoots self in foot, reloads, repeats. (Jesse Singal)
  
  Science Based Medicine is an effort to defend medicine from obvious quackery - homeopathy, naturopathy, chiropractic bullshit, healing crystals and a hundred other kinds of fashionable nonsense - and also from irreproducible research, noting that half of all new research papers published in medical journals are wrong to the point of worthlessness.
  
  Unfortunately - and this is something I've noticed before, because I've been following them for more than a decade - they all lean left politically and are utterly blind to bullshit dressed in the trappings of progressivism.
  
  In this case it's the blatantly obvious moral panic of transgender teenagers, and the accompanying idea that irreversible medical interventions on minors are suddenly a good idea because shut up you bigot.
  
  This ideological blindness is why I dropped almost all the podcasts I listened to a year ago and switched to Hololive and other vtubers. It means I need to read the news rather than listening to it while I work, but it also means that I don't get enraged by fresh outbreaks of woke insanity every fifty minutes.
  
  If it comes to a choice between science and tech mixed with socialism and a Japanese-speaking Australian girl swearing at a thousand words per minute and singing the Aeroplane Jelly song, I'll take the latter.
  
  Oh, the article tearing Science Based Medicine a new arsehole is written by Jesse Singal, who is kind of annoying in his own right. He correctly identified the dangers of CRT and the rest of the woke bullshit but voted for Biden because he thought that would calm things down which is, if not quite the stupidest decision imaginable, at least commendable effort.

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