JohnFen

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by JohnFen 10mo ago
> we’re signaling to users that we’re making their data invaluable for marketing, analytics, or third party sharing. I suspect that what you meant to say here is that you're making user's data not valuable for those purposes, b
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
Not even a little.
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
> Probably some weird case of masochism. Or keeping an eye on the opposition.
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
No, it means the app is sharing data with Facebook.
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
Yeah, I tried out a handful of launchers too and none of them forced a search bar on me. Most of the had a search bar widget by default, but it was easy to remove.
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
OK, Nova is gone from my devices. I replaced it with Smart Launcher. That seems OK. It's not as full-featured, but it does enough of what I need to be a good alternative.
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
That's a very capable machine. It doesn't really matter if it's slow by today's standards. It's fine, particularly if it's not running Windows. I recently bought a couple of machines that were older and less ca
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
There is an annual payment from the oil money, yes, but it isn't large enough to affect people's decisions about living there, nor is that the intent.
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
> The fundamental distinction is between knowledge that compounds and knowledge that decays. I don't agree with this at all. I don't think there's any such thing as "knowledge that decays" in this sense, and all
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
> As a Norwegian, I am genuinely curious how US citizens are reacting to Trump’s letter To Norway and demands. Almost all of the people around me are ashamed about this, and more than a little fearful. There is a huge opposition to the n
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
From our government.
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
Never trust anyone or anything that frequently showers you with flattery.
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
Not with fitbit, but this particular flavor of degradation -- nonsense notifications -- was incredibly irritating to me. I rarely install apps anymore, but as a result of this, when I do then the first thing I do is to remove the app's
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
I'm just saying what I actually see in postings here. I don't make postings myself, so I have no special insight beyond what I see.
945.
by JohnFen 10mo ago
OK, I did, but that didn't clarify what point you're making. What is your objection to the author?
946.
by JohnFen 10mo ago
I don't think so, since most of the submissions I see have the text appear as the body of the post and not as the first comment.
947.
by JohnFen 10mo ago
Replace "[redacted]" with "[insert your choice here]"
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
But are enough people willing to buy Teslas for that to make any real difference?
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
The DOJ isn't actually investigating anything. They've already decided what the conclusion is going to be.
950.
by JohnFen 10mo ago
"Unlimited" PTO, from an employee's perspective, is an obvious trap that borders on a scam. Everyone knows that, practically speaking, there can't really be unlimited PTO. When a company says it has unlimited PTO, what i
951.
by JohnFen 10mo ago
This is incredibly true, and has been a growing problem from before LLMs came around. Even wealthy families who presumably have plenty of resources they could use to better their children's fates are failing their kids. My sister is a
952.
by JohnFen 10mo ago
These are my personal systems on my home network. I have a strict policy that logins aren't shared, so everyone gets their own.
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
This is pretty much what I expect. Windows will be "Linux" in a similar sense as Android is "Linux". Or BSD, or whatever. It won't necessarily be Linux specifically, but I expect it will be something.
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
The amount that Windows contributes to Microsoft's revenue has been falling for years. In the 2024-2025 fiscal year, Windows accounted for 11.35% of their revenue (including enterprise and OEM sales). They make most of their money in c
955.
by JohnFen 10mo ago
It depends on the computer. Some of them have multiple local accounts because they're used by multiple people. Most of them have an account for me and for root. In most of those, actually logging in as root is disabled, though.
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
I don't really agree. Commercial music is getting more optimized for profitability, so whether or not it's getting worse depends on what you value in it. It's absolutely getting more homogeneous. The music that wins awards is
957.
by JohnFen 10mo ago
That post is totally about AI
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
I agree. Also, I have become very suspicious of articles like these. There are quite a lot them these days. It's just odd that so many people are taking such an extreme interest in pressuring other people to make the "right"
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by JohnFen 10mo ago
What other choice do they really have? The US has become, to put it politely, entirely unreliable. No nation should be overly dependent on us, and those that are need to diversify ASAP, and there aren't a lot of other options.
960.
by JohnFen 10mo ago
Everything is not amazing. We have some amazing tech, sure, but that doesn't mean anything else is amazing. Things are dark and getting darker every day.

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