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Zoom can do this. When she sets up her Zoom rooms, they can be set to record automatically. Then, she can share her whole screen or just one single app she has open with her students during the session. So she can share her PowerPoint with
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Nokia also decided to abandon CDMA production, which killed even the possibility of using a Nokia phone in vast swathes of the USA.
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They publicly said in interviews when Android was initially bought, that they were doing mobile so that people could do Google searches literally everywhere, so they could have ad revenue when people were away from their computers. They wer
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Firefox does run just fine on OSX.
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Because we paid money for this OS license, and we didn't go to Microsoft.com
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Chromebooks are far worse, if you have any privacy concerns.
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Google's ads on Google.com do not reach directly onto my OS (which I've already paid for, and should not have ads) GUI.
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Microsoft's marketing teams have been crap, well, forever. They somehow always fail to make the public aware of their coolest features, while at the same time doing slimy stuff like this. I do sometimes wonder if they intentionally try
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As opposed to "click an icon one time, and you're there".
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Buy them a Nintendo Switch, or even an old gameboy system. Durable, offline, and tons of kid friendly games out there.
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DSL development is so far behind, that it has been eclipsed by cable. DSL has such a short range of coverage (only works a few miles from a phone exchange facility), that it never became available to most of the countryside, while cable has
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In the USA, you can use your own router and your own modem, if you are aware enough to do so. Most common people just use whatever the ISP hands them, and pay $5 per month or more for years on end for the privilege of using boxes that never
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Time for geeks everywhere to practice their de-soldering skills.
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Adobe Apps on Windows are terrible for this. All screen recording apps on Windows have problems if your internal monitor and external monitor have different scaling as well.
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How do you find the power for intense tasks compares to that XPS 15?
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They announced yesterday a bunch of Ryzen 4000 laptop chip news, and a version of Dell's G5 15 Special Edition laptop is planned with one of these. https://www.engadget.com/2020/01/06/dell-g5-15-se-amd-r
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7y ago
Yes, please!
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Lack of affect can be a sign of depression or past trauma. Supressing emotional reactions to avoid triggering other negative effects of these things can become ingrained. To put it another way: You have become comfortably numb.
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Yes. Manipulate people to click. Once you get that down, you can point the manipulation in different directions.
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This book is still in editing, though. It isn't even available as a pre-release review copy at all yet.
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This has been a problem on Goodreads for a few years now.
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Yeah, it's just amazing how people completely forget that whole "bombed literally to bits in WWII" thing. Most Americans have no clue how long rationing lasted in the UK after WWII, and yet you guys managed to implement the N
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I think that it is largely the cultural brainwashing in the USA.
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12 hours days, six days a week is not a "comfortable life".
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In the 1990s, only the vehicles used on the observatory property were antique diesels. The people in the surrounding area drove normal cars and pickups. I imagine it is still the same.
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Max Headroom
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No, you are showing your ignorance. The World Wide Web is one of many things that can run on the Internet. The World Wide Web is not the Internet, just one aspect. What you are saying would be like claiming that TV was not TV until MTV appe
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That little book is a gem.
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Such sanity simply doesn't exist in the over-protective culture of the USA.
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7y ago
What you describe is completely different from the bland food shown in the article.
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