The HEVC organization is raising its licensing fees by four cents per unit, so HP and Dell responded by disabling HEVC hardware support in its business laptops—tanking the ability for these laptops to do anything with video. Straight-up: This is a scandal.

Ars Technica

HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs

HEVC licensing gets more expensive in January.

I’m seeing some sky-is-falling posts about Affinity and download links. It is still possible to download v1 and v2 without logging in. Here are the links for Windows: v1: Windows: Designer:

Affinity Designer Updates (Windows)

Download the latest and previous versions of Affinity Designer (Windows)

Photo:

Affinity Photo Updates (Windows)

Download the latest and previous versions of Affinity Photo (Windows)

Publisher:

Affinity Publisher Updates (Windows)

Download the latest and previous versions of Affinity Publisher (Windows)

v2: Windows: Designer:

Affinity Designer 2 Updates (Windows)

Download the latest and previous versions of Affinity Designer 2 (Windows)

Photo:

Affinity Photo 2 Updates (Windows)

Download the latest and previous versions of Affinity Photo 2 (Windows)

Publisher:

Affinity Publisher 2 Updates (Windows)

Download the latest and previous versions of Affinity Publisher 2 (Windows)

Ever wonder why old computers have thick plates of metal inside of them? You can credit/blame the FCC—and indirectly, the CB radio fad—for that.

Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.

RF Shielding History: When The FCC Cracked Down On Computers

The FCC took a hard line on the radio frequency interference that computers created—creating huge headaches for early PC-makers. Why? Blame the C...

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So, I just wrote a 3,000 word piece about a great electronics what-if. What if we didn’t get transistors? What if we just kept using vacuum tubes? Would we be where we are today? That thought experiment led me to the story of the subminiature vacuum tube.

Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.

Subminiature Vacuum Tube History: Letting The Better Tech Win

For years, subminiature vacuum tubes were looking like the future of electronics—until a key figure in their rise heard about something better.

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Watching a video about NixOS and only now realizing that there's been a gun on the desk this whole time. I know Linux drama is serious but it's not that serious, Mutahar.

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) saw you got kicked off the blue site. Hope you're holding up

Kind of impressed that nobody seems to be talking about the Subway sandwich thing over here. That may be the most insane viral video I’ve seen in quite some time.

So apparently we are within the last 60 days of dial-up AOL being a thing.

https://help.aol.com/

Dial-up Internet to be discontinued

Learn about why dial up internet has been discontinued.

ht @Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)

Online ads. You hate them, they track you, yet they’re still with us. What’s their deal? A new book out this week, targeted at Google’s dominant, monopolistic role in adtech, proves surprisingly revealing. My review:

Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.

Ari Paparo’s “Yield”: How Google (And AdTech) Went Bad

Ever wonder why online advertising is so convoluted? A new book by an industry insider helps explain why—and how Google put its giant hand on the...

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