One of the most frustrating and annoying features of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 is waiting for the game to load past the splash screen logos (which take forever), only for it to go to a pointless screen that tells you to, “Press Any Key to Start” which then makes you wait for the game to load again.
It turns out that Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 has a fast launch flag you can specify which will skip the publisher and partner splash logos at the start as well as remove the background video. The game takes seconds to load.
Recently announced Nintendo financials reveal that Nintendo has posted an operating profit of 427.7% for the quarter of April to June 2020. In that single quarter, they made 144.7 billion yen ($1.4 billion USD). To put that into perspective, the same quarter in 2019 they made a 10.2% profit.
It makes sense considering for most of 2020 thus far, many of us have been cooped up in our houses and gaming is a great source of entertainment, especially if you have children and looking for family-friendly games. Nintendo has become the soundtrack to the pandemic, especially in our household.
Long story short, I needed to downgrade from Windows 10 Pro to Windows 10 Home and as I discovered, it’s a bit of a tricky situation that requires editing the registry. If you want to downgrade from within Windows using the Media Creation Tool and not have to create a USB key, this is what you will have to do.
In my situation, attempting to run the Media Creation Tool resulted in some error about not being able to upgrade (even though I was trying to do a fresh install). The following steps worked on my machine and should work on yours as well.
The Fetch API might seem new to some, but it’s already five years old with browsers rolling out support in 2015. It was a replacement for the dated XMLHttpRequest which was tedious to work with and a relic of the yesteryear of internet.
Still, all of these years one feature that is available in XMLHttpRequest is the ability to handle file upload progress, missing from the Fetch specification and we are now in the year 2020, almost 2021 and still, there is no across the board way to handle file upload progress. This is the last missing piece before Fetch can truly replace XMLHttpRequest.
But, can they run Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 at its highest settings?
The Nvidia RTX 3080 starts at $699 and the performance is being promised as twice that of the prized gaming graphics card the Nvidia RTX 2080.
If that’s not good enough for the avid hungry gamer, Nvidia also announced a new monster RTX 3090 which is double the price of the RTX 3080. The difference being, the RTX 3090 promises to support 8k gaming, nevermind the fact most people are not gaming at 4k in 2020.
Not that kind of scraping.
If you’re a developer, chances are in your career you’ve written a web scraper before. You either did it for a personal project, learning exercise or you were asked by someone else to build a scraper. My first freelancer job was a scraper on Freelancer.com years and years ago.
There is often confusion around the legality of scraping and it’s not illegal to scrape public data. This was further reinforced by the case of hiQ vs LinkedIn which ruled it is legal to scrape public data.
File this one under, “peak 2020”
Some Sony fans online are upset that the Playstation 5 console will allegedly not be backwards compatible with Playstation titles prior to Playstation 4. This means any games released for the Playstation 3 and older might not be playable.
https://twitter.com/VideoTech_/status/1300492599388786688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1300492599388786688%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.news.com.au%2Ftechnology%2Fhome-entertainment%2Fgaming%2Fplaystation%2Fplaystation-5-lack-of-backwards-compatibility-seemingly-confirmed-by-ubisoft%2Fnews-story%2Fd12d69a849e55421794a049c0199c043
The information comes from the next-gen support page on the Ubisoft website. The triggering line for Sony fans has since been deleted, quite possibly because of the backlash it seems to have generated and it now looks like this.
Well, it has barely been a day with Joe Rogan starting his new $100 million dollars multi-year deal with Spotify and already the move is already generating controversy.
Eagle-eyed fans have noticed that there are numerous existing Joe Rogan podcast episodes missing from Spotify, perhaps most notably are the infamous and highly entertaining Alex Jones episodes. A Reddit thread has compiled a list of missing names and there are some recurring guests that come up.
As some might be aware, there is currently a news war taking place in Australia. The Australian Government alongside the ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) have drafted legislation which will compel companies like Google and social media platforms such as Facebook to pay for news on their respective apps and sites.
Google recently weighed in on the issue with an open letter to Australians and now, Facebook has done the same issuing a straight-to-the-point press release about the legislation.
If you’ve been following any tech news for the last few weeks, you have probably heard about the TikTok situation unfolding in the US where Donald Trump via executive order is forcing a sale of TikTok in the US or banning it.
To say that 2020 has been a wild and unprecedented year is an understatement. TikTok has been a source of entertainment for those staying at home as the COVID-19 pandemic closes down schools, states, countries and limits movement.