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>There should be some signs somewhere that could be recognized universally as either "stay away" or "come here". There might be ones who don't bother to try to communicate at all and instead prefer focus on thems
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> But I'm sure we'd figure out a way to feel superior to them Imagine all these scifi fans who aren't able to see actors in their favorite franchise but the characters. All of this bumped by factor of 10: pestering alien
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> Maybe they’re a cooperative, altruistic society with an innate desire to help, and maybe had been helped by others before. Then I'd be worried about us - we aren't the best ones in the Orion Arm. Surely there would be a clown
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Maybe I'm in the minority but I consider religious text books, prayer tracking/reading apps as the low-effort ones - doesn't matter which religion it is. These will eventually show up in the "store" in countless ver
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Probably because people tend to think in extremes and "1984" shows the ultimate dystopian world set around totalitarian regime, mass invigilation with no place for individuality. "Brave New World" is indeed much closer t
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During Vista times MS introduced this modal window spawning shortly after system was booted for the first time. It was asking user to join Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program (lovely classic MS name by the way) [1]. By defaul
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They tried once - they released interface guidelines with Vista and for a while it worked but soon they started to flip everything over as usual. W7 was relatively a polishing up release but they mangled everything with W8 - not only becaus
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During pandemic I started playing with smart home stuff and since I'm already within apple playgrounds I've got homepod mini since they stripped ipads from hub feature. After configuring the speaker I had apple music ad for about
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I'm pretty sure there was some keyboard shortcut to skip apple id login/creation during initial setup - not sure if that's still possible nowadays but I did used it once on my mbp few years ago
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If you look at EU and its inaction over Microsoft privacy shenanigans with Win10 and 11. How it spins around Apple and cannot enforce them to fully open their mobile operating system then I sadly have little hopes they can do anything regar
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Can you tell which tablet is that? I'm lurking around and wondering if I should pick Samsung one once iPad battery dies out
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I'd rather guess that they've pick 3 as a passive-aggressive attempt to provide a false pretense of choice in "you can change it but in the end it's gonna be our way " style than thinking they're attributing s
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I remember people on mastodon saying that project leader went too much political by focusing on gender and identity while actual system development was pushed away. But since my journey with elementary was over years ago I didn't care
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If he comes with such requirements then I'd stick with LTS releases as system base and flatpak programs to keep stuff updated frequently. And if he wants a familiar to Windows environment then Zorin would do the trick out of the box.
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Years ago I installed it on my sister's computer as Windows replacement. She was initially happy but soon started to complain that it was hard for her to use, apps would freeze and graphic artifacts would remain on the screen in simila
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I'd guess that unlike AI a PR person would just simply stay silent or demand to continue with a different question or end the interview/talk and leave
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It's an illusion of choice. For over a decade now companies either are spamming you with modals/notifications up until you give up and agree to a compromising your privacy settings or "accidentally" turn these on and pre
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Got it yesterday but after quickly glancing over I dismissed it - telegram spams with "provide your birthday so people could celebrate" banner
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How ironic considering how many features they put behind subscription - especially the very basic one of ignoring messages from unknown contacts. Not mention that encrypted messages are available only on mobile - if you pick proper menu opt
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I saw "vegetarian rice" made out of Basmati rice last month - a clear marketing ploy to grab particular customers but my brain got mental fart and I wondered for a few seconds amused "as opposed to what - meat based rice?&quo
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> a regulation designed to give farmers a stronger negotiating position Honestly, this feels like a smoke and mirrors done ahead of Mercosur agreement enrollment which may put European farmers especially the smaller ones on lost positio
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This isn't limited to reddit - normal forums and discord also suffer from mods with overgrown egos who treat maintaining the order as personal fight of good versus evil where they're of course the omnipotent gods of truth you can&
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Projection Mapping(en.wikipedia.org)
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Oh yes I remember reading news about that and being dumbfounded how's that actually possible
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Each commercial OS during OOBE phase should come with two choices paths: express settings for majority and experienced for advanced users, professionals where you can tweak everything before system is ready to use, incl. telemetry and any s
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And yet still happens along with rest of dark patterns, data hoarding. Somehow no consumer protecting organizations were interested in this aspect of Microsoft practices.
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> Something called a .NET Passport also comes to mind during the mid-XP days That's essentially Microsoft Account nowadays, which went thru few rebrandings on the way. In XP it was promoted via Windows Messenger with popup message
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> I believe most of those POS systems can operate in offline mode, in Europe at least. I was able to pay "offline" for my groceries at corner store nearby when their terminal had really bad or no connection at all - and that di
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No, not only Germany should stand firmly against this bullshit Brussels tries to push but ALL member states should be. Especially the former soviet republics and other countries of the Eastern Bloc which during communistic times ran censors
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At least cataract surgery once done won't be likely repeated. But there's also the age-related macular degeneration that goes by... AMD acronym. The treatment method for wet form involves intraocular injections, which basically me

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