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by fckgw 2y ago
Yes, but the effects of that abuse are observable and easily fixable. If suddenly a whole site goes offline for a bunch of people a change like that is likely to get reversed very quickly.
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by fckgw 2y ago
When you joined ICQ you received a UIN and that was the only publicly searchable method to connect to other people. You could update your profile with email or username, and manually make that public, but it wasn't searchable by defaul
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by fckgw 2y ago
This issue had nothing to do with iCloud.
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by fckgw 2y ago
Southwest does still have amazing customer service.
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by fckgw 2y ago
I believe Windows 10 was the first with a dark mode built in. Maybe to compliment that?
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by fckgw 2y ago
Did you know you can just click the unsubscribe button and then you won't need a filter?
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by fckgw 2y ago
I have had my battery replaced on my iPad and on my kid's iPads. They did them both with no questions asked but they were pretty worn out. If it's out of warranty they don't care that much.
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by fckgw 2y ago
A new battery is ~$100 parts and labor
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by fckgw 3y ago
Why not now?
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by fckgw 3y ago
Oh no, a sneaky politician trying to win my vote by making material changes that improve my life!
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by fckgw 3y ago
I setup my parent's routers to use my NextDNS account and turned on adblock and scam/malware filtering. It has help cut down on a ton of issues they might have seen otherwise.
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by fckgw 3y ago
Tech accessible to everyone, yes.
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by fckgw 3y ago
Those are larger serving spoons though, not a teaspoon.
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by fckgw 3y ago
In a capitalist society, voting with one's wallet is one of the only actions of power one has.
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by fckgw 3y ago
But it's also assuming everyone has a desktop PC capable of this stuff that can be upgraded.
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Amazon HQ2 was supposed to add jobs last year. It shed them instead(washingtonpost.com)
120 points by fckgw 3y ago|114 comments
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by fckgw 3y ago
What country? It's $14/mo in the US now, or $23/mo for a family plan. I wish they would unbundle the stupid Youtube Music from Premium.
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by fckgw 3y ago
No, it is not a valid comparison to make between an entire laptop and a single PC part. "The computer I have" is doing a ton of heavy lifting here.
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by fckgw 3y ago
There was an explosion about 6-7 months ago reported on Reddit in the amount of phishing emails with QR codes in them. Because they have no URLs in them and the actual phishing happens off-device with no endpoint security, they seem to be b
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by fckgw 3y ago
Vlad is justified to reach out and try to start a conversation but when the author says no, you drop it. That didn't happen here and it's a bad look.
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by fckgw 3y ago
It's not a hit piece, it's someone's personal experiences on their own personal blog.
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by fckgw 3y ago
It does because Amazon does this insidious thing there they keep adding new categories of what are, effectively, advertisements and sponsored content. There used to be something like 3-4 checkboxes I turned off on my Alexa Show to disable s
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by fckgw 3y ago
I guess? Every platform has bugs and zero days.
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by fckgw 3y ago
It's not a replacement, it's an alternative. Sometimes it's nice to have choices.
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by fckgw 3y ago
Apple never officially publicly announced the Apple car project though. They didn't announce it's end either. The whole thing was known through leaks.
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NYC's AI Chatbot Tells Businesses to Break the Law(themarkup.org)
6 points by fckgw 3y ago|1 comments
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by fckgw 3y ago
Absolutely
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by fckgw 3y ago
Go read the victim impact statements sometime. He destroyed lots of people's lives.
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by fckgw 3y ago
Apple sells several different models of phones which, in fact, are not $1000
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by fckgw 3y ago
The author goes on to state that the problems are with their cables, which for many Apple users is well known. The plastic coating they used that was engineered to be be more supple and "bendable" than other cables was prone to de

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