Polls: Technology & Internet

Former has 240hz refresh rate, FreeSync Premium but falsely advertised as having GSync, 25 inches wide, stand can be rotated and adjusted in height (not just tilting), has a fake 21:9 aspect ratio (just adds black bars and zooms out), 400 nits brightness, standard 1 year warranty, and comes with a huge price tag of 300 dollars. Latter has 180hz refresh rate, FreeSync but no indication of GSync, 23.8 inches wide, comes with 3 year warranty, significantly cheaper at 150 dollars, 250 nits brightness, but the stand can only be tilted. Otherwise, both are the same with FHD, LCD IPS, sRGB, GTG 1ms, HDR (not HDR10+), 1000:1 contrast ratio, HDMI 2.0 and DP 1.2 ports along with 3.5mm, crappy monitor speakers, 16:9 flat screen (so not curved), thin bezels, anti-flickering, eye care, and that shadow boost thingie.

Why/why--not

I use Threads!

Another day another 3 tech problems to deal with. While trying to sign into Outlook I kept getting the message "we can't sign you in right now, please try again later". but I needed to clear my cookies instead, why have a message saying "please try again later"? I've been trying again for 2 days and that would have gone on forever. the message should have said delete your cookies. not only is microsoft making more unstable software it's error messages are also misleading.

Some other good example are:-

having to entering your address 50 different ways so an online form will recognize you address as valid one.

Ringing mazda because the Vin you entered on a form was invalid. Then the man on the phone verified that in fact it was valid.

Also I hate robots that force you select from 20 different checkbox reasons for ringing none of which have anything to do with your actual reason.

I could go on and on really but I read somewhere that the average person spends more then 200 hours a year fixing these sorts of things. So if my math is correct 8.61 billion people x 200 annual hours each = 1.722 trillon global man hours each and every year and the number keeps growing. I think raising the bar for software engineers has become a better cause then curing cancer.

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In the office, you may have multiple monitors connected to your laptop or desktop computer.

At home, it's often easier to work or play games if you have an external monitor connected to your laptop.

So, the question is, for your laptop at home, not the one in the office...

How many external monitors do you have connected to your laptop at home?

Please vote in the poll.

Modern devices like smartphones and computers can be configured to use biometrics (ex: fingerprints, facial recognition) to identify the user and grant access to the device. Biometrics replace older security systems like passwords, passcodes, and PINs.

Do you use biometrics on your phone or computer, or do you continue to use passcodes?

If you do, have you thought about what might happen if you are incapacitated and someone else needs to access your device?

Please vote in the poll.

Feel free to add an opinion, and let us know if you also use two-factor authorization, typically a phone call or text message with a code that you must enter to get access.

Think about something like an artificial womb