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by daveoc64 4y ago
That's been the default since Windows 7 though. Most people have been using the taskbar that way for nearly 15 years, only a minority of people would have switched away from the default.
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by daveoc64 4y ago
The concept is well-liked, but there were several issues with the execution: 1) Lack of targeted support - the scheme announced by the Truss government, covers everyone in the country - both rich and old. Using taxpayer money to subsidise c
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by daveoc64 4y ago
Chrome and Edge behave the same way as Firefox. You should think of it as a private session , not a private window . I doubt Firefox would want to change from the behaviour shared by other browsers.
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by daveoc64 4y ago
Why shouldn't they use cards? I think it's a good idea for children to have a bank account and to manage their own money. Here in the UK, debit cards with contactless are available from age 11. Apple Pay's minimum age is 13,
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by daveoc64 4y ago
Not sure about a restaurant, but being stuck behind someone using cash in a shop is a nuisance. It can be very slow for both the customer and the employee to deal with the transaction.
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by daveoc64 4y ago
Have you seen the news in the UK this week? She's had a terrible week (and that's saying something given her premiership to date). She had to sack the chancellor that enacted all of her campaign promises, bring in a new chancellor
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by daveoc64 4y ago
I think we need to remove barriers to people getting access to the technology that's needed to function in a modern society. In the UK, we have "basic bank accounts". These are aimed at people with bad credit history, and off
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by daveoc64 4y ago
But people aren't skeptical. I have seen too many fake social media posts that re-use footage from old natural disasters, protests, political rallies, terrorist attacks and even movies - all to forward some kind of false political view
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by daveoc64 4y ago
That's already legally possible to put imperial measurements on things now. The consultation asked whether people wanted to switch to imperial measurements only, alongside other less sensible options.
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by daveoc64 4y ago
They use Farenheit in the headline when it's hot to make it sound shocking (usually 100+ F). When it's cold they can instead say the temperatures have plummeted below zero (C). They just use whatever adds the most drama.
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by daveoc64 4y ago
I have bought the new 4090 and it doesn't seem any louder than the 3080 Ti it's replacing. Quite often the GPU turns the fans off when the PC is idle or doing low-intensity tasks (e.g. web browsing, word processor). Even at max fa
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by daveoc64 4y ago
You're using the subscription product, so it behaves like a subscription product. If you bought the retail version you wouldn't need to to log in at all.
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by daveoc64 4y ago
Microsoft Office has always been available as a standalone purchase. 2013, 2016, 2019, and 2021 perpetual versions have all been released alongside the subscription offering. I'm not sure what you mean in another comment by "not o
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by daveoc64 4y ago
> I'm not an expert dealing with PSP, but situations where a payment is validated through a "return to merchant URL" is risky and could lead to payment being captured without the merchant being notified. There are ways to
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by daveoc64 4y ago
> Civil rights should never be left up to the whims of the public. That’s what the US constitution gets right. I don't see anything about the constitution that protects it against the whims of the public. If a majority of the people
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by daveoc64 4y ago
I have used many other payment providers (in the UK) that deal with 3D Secure (and have done for decades), there's nothing about 3DS that requires things to be asynchronous. I am currently involved in a project to add Stripe support to
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by daveoc64 4y ago
The elected governments of the UK or Canada could choose to pass laws to make anything legal or illegal, but they don't. That suggests to me that the people and their representatives want these laws to be in place. Just like the people
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by daveoc64 4y ago
Since privatisation, the Post Office is a separate company to Royal Mail. While the Post Office does sell a lot of Royal Mail products, there are some that the Post Office has deemed unprofitable, and as such, the Post Office has nothing to
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by daveoc64 4y ago
Seems like another US-centric problem. Discrimination does happen in the UK, but I don't think there's the same motivation from the Police to arrest people for trivial matters during this sort of campaign.
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by daveoc64 4y ago
It seems like the US has a real problem with this. I've been driving for almost 15 years in the UK, and I've only been stopped once by the Police at a heavily advertised drink-driving checkpost set up during the Christmas season.
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by daveoc64 4y ago
It's great to be able to answer questions like "when did we go on that trip to X" or "how long has it been since we went to Y". I live in the UK, but I can go back to May 2014 and see everywhere I went in Florida on
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by daveoc64 4y ago
There are lots of very popular Microsoft services for consumers including Xbox and Office 365. Combined, these have hundreds of millions of paid subscribers.
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by daveoc64 4y ago
I have two LG Smart TVs with webOS. While both TVs have a PC connected, it's far easier to use the built-in apps to watch things like YouTube and Netflix. The apps support 4K without any fuss (which is often locked away on desktop OSes
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by daveoc64 4y ago
The US market has always been weird for Vegetarian and Vegan products, but here in the UK the "plant based" market has been booming. Virtually every major fast food chain (including McDonald's, Burger King, KFC, Subway, Pizza
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by daveoc64 4y ago
To play devil's advocate - why do you not think that is the government's responsibility?
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by daveoc64 4y ago
Absolute nonsense. As others have noted, that's why there is a contract in place - if you don't pay the monthly bills, they can seek to recover the costs from you. Also, what you're saying would do nothing to stop someone sel
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by daveoc64 4y ago
The problem with the dislike button seems to be that nobody agrees on what it should be used for. In previous HN discussions, it's become apparent that some people use it to say "I am not interested in this video". That is of
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by daveoc64 4y ago
This is relatively common in the UK, although there are clearer requirements to put up signs in advance of restrictions being imposed. London has a centralised system where you can check if your vehicle has been removed to a pound/relo
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by daveoc64 4y ago
The way Christmas Lights are wired in the US is very different to the UK. They usually come pre-wired with a standard 3-pin plug in the end, or a transformer block with a propreitary connector (probably outputting DC), so you don't hav
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by daveoc64 4y ago
How do you use an app without a data connection? A physical SIM requires no data connection to use. You can collect it from a vending machine, put it in your device and it works immediately. Carriers often don't let people outside of t

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