Wow believe it or not I was thinking about that program about 2 weeks ago but thought I'd never be able to remember the name of it. You've made my week.
I used to use the Bdog871018 skin. Which one is yours?
Just have to right click the task bar and change the news settings to 'reduce updates' & turn off open on hover.
Turning on 'reduce updates' just has the taskbar display the weather and not change to some random stock ticker of a company you don't care about or whatever other item of interest they feel like showing.
If you read the article it was not a firmware issue, it was one of the security features it has downloaded an invalid config due to ASUS staff errors, the config caused the router to run out of available storage space and soft-brick. There was no firmware issue, any device will start crapping out when it runs out of available storage.
Shared passwords is a hard one, they've got you by the gonads there. I moved to Bitwarden and all I did was export my password database as a csv then import it into Bitwarden and it all came across with no issues.
I use Spotify in my car over Bluetooth and for the past couple months it has this super annoying bug where you get in, start it playing and it finishes off what song you were listening to but then doesn't continue playing the playlist, it just goes silent and when you open the main app screen there is no playlist in sight. Have to manually re-open a playlist and pick a track to keep it going.
On MacOS Mojave before Catalina ended support for 32 bit binaries I was surprised how many Steam titles were downloadable as Mac native. I'd say almost 20% of my library was downloadable for MacOS which impressed me a lot. Steam was the best thing for MacOS gaming, Catalina was the worst. Now that Apple are moving to ARM expect the library to shrink further.
Not just optimizations to blame, MacOS shipped with an extremely outdated OpenGL and Apple refused to update it. This caused many projects to drop support for MacOS entirely.
Apple have made it clear they don't want games on MacOS. They have not updated the OpenGL for way too long and it's missing any of the modern extensions. There is MoltenVK thankfully but none of that thanks goes to Apple who only push for Metal.
When Discord first launched and my usual TeamSpeak friends moved over there I was super annoyed by the extra latency. How a group of fairly serious gamers who otherwise complained about less lag in any other circumstance shrugged it off, I'm not sure.
More recently, I was surprised by low latency was between two Asterisk servers in the same city on different ISPs. It was a very adhoc setup with a cheap EOL Cisco IP phone on either end connected to an Asterisk SIP server on the local network. I'm so used to laggy voice chat that it actually caught me off guard how nice it was once I actually got it to work. Besides being a total nightmare to configure.
I struggle enough in person to find the right time to talk without interrupting, and >100ms of Discord latency makes it that much worse for me. I hope something peer-to-peer like this catches on for remote teams. I could really benefit from it. I don't think I would mind if a screen share lagged behind the speaker's voice. I'm sure Zoom already does that though.
The server I normally talk on is on US East, which is as close as I can get in Canada.
To be clear, I don’t have hard numbers on the actual voice-to-ear lag I’m experiencing, and of course it depends about a dozen different factors. I just know that it could feel better.
Less great for setting up at your it-challenged friends though. And most people expect some phone call interface that beeps at them when they get a call.
