janwl

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by janwl 1y ago
I’m used to all browsers adding features that I don’t want every few months. I just disable them and forget about them.
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by janwl 1y ago
I don’t know why assume that in every country in the world that is free. In my European country until 15 years ago or so you had to hire someone to do your taxes for you, and currently the free method only works for the most simple tax fili
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by janwl 1y ago
Can’t you file your taxes for free in the US if you know how?
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by janwl 1y ago
All that audio engineering expertise and you can't remove the background noise from your microphone.
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The United Nations Is About to Tax You(wsj.com)
5 points by janwl 1y ago|5 comments
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by janwl 1y ago
I feel the same about pensioners and civil servants.
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by janwl 1y ago
A professional who didn’t use an ad blocker?
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by janwl 1y ago
So will Windows 10, and it will receive as much support as a KDE version from 2015.
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by janwl 1y ago
>Case in point: Microsoft is stopping free support for Windows 10 on hundreds of millions of computers this very week. Many of these old yet perfectly usable devices will not be able to upgrade because of spurious hardware requirements.
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by janwl 1y ago
Instagram has had broken web notifications for a month or so. You click the notifications and nothing happens; the post doesn’t open. The first days I thought someone had messed something up but after a month I’m not so sure. And there obvi
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by janwl 1y ago
The phone vendors want you downloading and using apps.
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by janwl 1y ago
Cities aren’t expensive because of white collar jobs.
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by janwl 1y ago
There were a few copycats, but they 1) weren't as good (mostly because they wanted to do more than google reader!) and 2) they weren't free.
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by janwl 1y ago
There are EU-wide mandatory air quality standards that get stricter as time passes and that are being enforced through low emissions zones which practically make diesel cars illegal. This may not be the case in your country yet but it will
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by janwl 1y ago
Unfortunately increasingly illegal in the EU because of the ULEZs, mandatory driving aids, etc. Buying a car from 2010 is a guarantee that you won't be able to drive it in 5-10 years..