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by gib444 1mo ago
Definitely. They'll be like the obnoxious people on public transport who play music and videos out loud, people who don't give up seats to the elderly etc
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by gib444 1mo ago
£1200 / £1300 and 256GB storage lol (Pixel 11 512GB / 16GB RAM is also £1200 - not an endorsement) edit: and Apple Care got a huge price increase (31%) on the new Pro: the 2 year £179 option is gone - now it's £129 for 1 yr.
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by gib444 1mo ago
All existing iPhones: https://www.macworld.com/article/3229342/iphone-price-increa...
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by gib444 1mo ago
Think of how bad the average big company is, and realize half of them are worse than that
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by gib444 1mo ago
In practice, it'll just be for TikTok (or other shorts) permanently on one side, right? I guess people spend more money than even this on other addictions
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by gib444 1mo ago
Surprised Pikachu face when the public who carry spying devices in their pockets, purchased HomePods and Echos for their homes, championed American big tech, bought lots of other smart devices by the bucketload, gave away all their data..
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by gib444 1mo ago
The Economist is just a pro-capitalist shill
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by gib444 1mo ago
> There are certainly job openings — black holes into which you can lodge your resume And recruiters are just flat out creating fake job listings on Indeed, with no pretense, describing them as "an opportunity to register your inter
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by gib444 1mo ago
> UK was pretty good at some point (though all the really good jobs were gate-kept by IR35 regulations), Then we got a PM, who's father in law is the founder of Infosys, who changed the law to favour the likes of Infosys (by making
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by gib444 1mo ago
Do you think it's not?
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by gib444 1mo ago
> /e/ does have services collecting data on their users which isn't disclosed including user tracking via unique identifiers in the update client. Source? And what else?
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by gib444 1mo ago
> Fairphone provides very poor updates much worse than iPhone, Pixel, Samsung flagship or many other devices. They lag far behind partial backports of security patches to older releases of Android. They lag a year or more behind full sec
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by gib444 1mo ago
You don't deny the flagging operation. Thanks for confirming it More world salad to distract. No sources. I'll send you some proof that my device is running GrapheneOS btw. How would you like to arrange that? Yes my support of the
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by gib444 1mo ago
It's easy to falsely assume readers expect you to be native, or that they are even native English speakers themselves Or that they want AI text over imperfect English
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by gib444 1mo ago
It's not heroin that's bad, it's what you do with it and how you use it
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by gib444 1mo ago
But one must limit oneself to only 1 hour of window shopping to avoid falling foul of Reckverhilfplatsteinbedenkt
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by gib444 1mo ago
> Unfortunately, it breaks about 30% of the web Only 30%? In 2026? With CloudFlare and Anubis et al absolutely everywhere? Not to mention SPAs
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by gib444 1mo ago
There's something funny about the site needing JavaScript to display anything
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by gib444 1mo ago
> There’s a get-out clause in the law As all too common GDPR: "legimate interest" EU261: "exceptional circumstances", no deadlines for paying compensation etc yes yes, "no law is perfect" etc..nobody could f
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by gib444 1mo ago
I don't owe my bank charity. It's a business transaction - let's not confuse things. Also, this is a bank that loves to shout about how it's keeping its branches – a promise to keep its branches open, no less. Perhaps ad
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by gib444 1mo ago
Agreed Btw (not sure what you were suffo) but you can still order via a human at most if not all McDonald's in the UK. You just need to go up to the counter, smile and wait a few seconds for someone to come over, and pay cash. Pretty e
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by gib444 1mo ago
Yes, of course. That would be more believable if it were a comment at the end of the transaction along the lines of "just in case you want to save time next time, our app has the feature" But immediately responding before I'v
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by gib444 1mo ago
> "I don’t have a smartphone," is what I tell people and professionals nowadays I did this today too. I happened to walk past a branch of my bank, and remembered my debit card is playing up due to wear-and-tear, so I popped in
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by gib444 1mo ago
That's genuinely hilarious.
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by gib444 1mo ago
Heh yeah the 'oh god 2 minutes with my own thoughts !? Must blare music to stop the pain' or 'look at me, the main character' crowd lol
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by gib444 1mo ago
Whenever I hear leaking earbuds on public transport, it's invariably AirPods
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by gib444 1mo ago
Vanadium is a good browser but I wish it had Firefox's Private Mode toggle, for permanent private mode * It's fiddly to even manually wipe history in Vanadium as it defaults to the '15 mins' option, and then it tries to
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by gib444 1mo ago
> I really wish Firefox will catch up on the debug/devtools front. Genuine curiosity: what's it lacking?
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by gib444 1mo ago
Without wanting to sound rude: you're talking about browsers – serious business. Most hackers – I feel – need a bit more than 'I strongly suggest it' to even consider switching to a nascent browser :D
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by gib444 1mo ago
That isn't the done thing here, lamentably. Downvote is a de facto disagree button

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