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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Threatened to Leave California. Meta's Board Cut Hi... on Thursday October 22, 2026 @03:00PM (#50199587)
Thank you, kind stranger...
Re:Microsoft 365 subscriptions now use shared cloud storage on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @12:18AM (#50082332)
I came here to say, Microsoft keeps with their strategy to give less, charge more, the family subscription (5 users) used to have 1 TB per member, now it is 2 TB per family.

What a ripoff… and the verbiage makes it more infuriating:

What happens if my family uses more than the storage quota?

You don't immediately lose access to your files. If your subscription approaches the 2 TB limit, you'll receive notifications so that you can plan ahead. You can free up space, purchase additional storage, upgrade your subscription, or take other steps to avoid disruption. If your subscription exceeds the limit, you can continue to access your files for up to one year while you manage your storage.

Re:Microsoft – Open Weights and American AI Leadership on Friday July 24, 2026 @02:07PM (#49039492)
Hopefully something good comes from this... But I certainly don't see the big players caving in: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47929951>

The Chinese open models are way ahead, not by how capable they are compared to frontier models, but on how they project to the world and how they improve over time.

Re:Microsoft Office renamed to "Microsoft 365 Copilot app" on Monday January 05, 2026 @01:44PM (#46502857)
Essentials

(sorry for the sh*tpost this naming thing is hilarious.)

Re:2025 was a disaster for Windows 11 as bugs and intrusive features e... on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @11:57AM (#46445876)
It is baffling how sluggish windows explorer has become, same with the start menu...

Even worse that there are no end-user settings to turn down what makes both suck... you have to run hacks, tweak registry keys in order to have it working ~normally~

Re:Microsoft's OneDrive is throttling speeds, as per multiple reports on Saturday March 01, 2025 @06:49PM (#43225420)
What puzzles me is the deflecting, on EVERY SINGLE ANSWER, hey guys, c'mon if you have over 30 people reporting the exactly same behavior then it is not longer on the end user, it is on YOU!
Re:Microsoft's OneDrive is throttling speeds, as per multiple reports on Saturday March 01, 2025 @05:47PM (#43224682)
URL <https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/onedr...>

Microsoft's OneDrive is throttling speeds, as per multiple reports

Posted by fcq on Saturday March 01, 2025 @05:43PM
from the login.microsoftonline.com dept.

https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/v2.0/authorize?client_id=a81d90ac-aa75-4cf8-b14c-58bf348528fe&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fanswers.microsoft.com&response_type=code%20id_token&scope=openid%20profile&state=OpenIdConnect.AuthenticationProperties%3Dcg_vZKfmL0IpihDiv0FhKmiv0MHnHWZAWjW_N0YkYJvtkk4xSAEgzjVAPWf4Uk6Ro-kMbqYx9eTk0C6crn7jiWQTVERjj31CVwabNui7UR8tajV_PwrPChN9srsvI5vny_01GcdS2EqvuN34gk1zA_aEl7bIX35Wli01QmQtC_biS34-UGVwUQ7ygUkQ3Zv9Aak_YbmXojY6XhDLOcpenu6LSlUYugEv9qOOTX68OEO0bnlVf5ohjGXRyDUU7mZxq88REJXk5HwLeb2P1pR0Q_WEPpHnfLRJohJ7PMIlEIg7QaiPIf6MSCvdBqIhsS0MIdx6cuQ-RISO3i4XXioQFIf2GqRmLFUqq0_-tNoZnAqfb_NsUV_4Kl02b_I3zdQewJ0G4LJSX7IcvdSdFZ48QNf-27HKFIzIS2V1WqJQXdY&response_mode=form_post&nonce=638764658230339000.ZDZjMzA3ODYtZTA3ZS00NDNiLTlhYTItMjk2MjE3ZGNkNDk3ZDYzMmJjNGUtZTkxMi00ZTgxLTg5OTUtOTZhNzZjYzY0NjEz&nopa=2&prompt=none&x-client-SKU=ID_NET472&x-client-ver=7.6.0.0

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Re:Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @08:39AM (#43012590)
Absolutely true! I concur 100% with your take.

Funny this breakthrough happens at same time Antirez made this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42983275

Re:Why Startup Wealth Never Trickles Down to Employees on Friday February 07, 2025 @06:31PM (#42978705)
This is the way to go <https://www.investopedia.com/articles/insights/051316/6-succ...>
Re:Cloudflare Is Blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @03:12PM (#42954451)
I have Firefox and Brave set to always clear cookies and everything when I close the browser... it is a nightmare when I come back the amount of captchas everywhere....

It is either that or keep sending data back to the Meta and Co. overlords despite me not being a Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp user...

Re:Windows 11 – There's still nothing worth my time on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @10:52AM (#42933958)
Not honoring previous settings, reverting back to whatever is more convenient for Microsoft or trying to push down of our throats Copilot on every single corner might be the most infuriating thing....
Re:Giant catapult sends satellites into space on Saturday February 01, 2025 @03:18PM (#42901832)
I wonder what would be the technical challenges of a railgun powered rocket/capsule to launch small payloads to space, technically the remaining concern would be the G force from the acceleration.

The Mysterious Bandwidth Drop caused by Dell's bloatware

Posted by fcq on Thursday January 23, 2025 @07:31PM
from the self-post dept.

I do remote work from our home office, we have redundant WAN, wired gigabit ethernet to each desk, a pretty decent Ubnt AP if we decide to roam, and a symmetric 600Mbps FTTH connection and it performs quite well…. Except for my girlfriend.A couple of months ago she got assigned a Dell Precision laptop besides her Mac, given her line of work she needs more beefy graphics adapter than those from...

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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025) on Friday January 03, 2025 @08:08PM (#42591275)
Hey Lars! Is swedish language skills a must?

Open to entertain a non European person willing to reallocate to Sweden by own means?