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by satysin 5y ago
Glad I am not the only one who read through all that and was confused why they went to all the effort to write such a long piece about a failed software update. One failure in 19 years is pretty damn good imho. I’ve had more macOS updates f
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by satysin 5y ago
IMHO yes it would be a violation but WhatsApp would technically still be end to end encrypted. Do all the data mining and pattern matching on the device then upload some blob of data whenever needed to better shape the advertising profile
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by satysin 5y ago
Exactly. They don't have to "break" the E2EE design. Simply make use of the "end device" to analyse the contents and feed that into their advertising profile for the user(s). TBH I am surprised they're not alre
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by satysin 5y ago
> If we stopped emitting carbon immediately, warming would halt (not reverse but halt) within a few decades Again it comes down to caring about decades in the future. Look at the age of people who control everything. There are very few p
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by satysin 5y ago
Yes. A person isn’t really selfish and will almost always make sacrifices to be better. But people as a whole are selfish for exactly the reasons you said. When I say people I don’t mean an individual person.
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by satysin 5y ago
I totally agree with the article but god do I hate when people say "we only have N years left!" as it is something for all the climate change deniers to focus on and attack to discount the points made so the conversation just focu
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by satysin 5y ago
Ha maybe :) I started wearing glasses about ten years ago. Probably should have started a year or two earlier tbh. For me providing the UI controls are the right size I’m quite happy with limited screen space though. I just find it easier t
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by satysin 5y ago
I am 37 so not old but also not young :) For me I find the opposite. I prefer a high quality and high resolution but smaller monitor. By smaller I mean sub-30" which isn't small by any means but it is smaller than what I see man
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by satysin 5y ago
Correct however changing how the OS handles that is a real pain in the ass on Linux. On Mac and Windows it is a simple setting change but on Linux it requires trial and error terminal commands which is very annoying. This seems like the kin
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by satysin 5y ago
Can one finally adjust scroll wheel speed/sensitivity under Linux with this without it being a major pain??
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by satysin 5y ago
It is less common these days thanks to activation lock, Find My Phone, etc. but it still happens a fair bit for parts. The system board is useless thanks to activation lock but the battery, screen, cameras, housing, etc. are all useful to a
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by satysin 5y ago
All valid points. However as someone who was diagnosed with C-PTSD back in 2009 and spent 4 months in hospital for treatment of panic disorder, depression and anxiety this is different to what I experienced back then. It is a near constan
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by satysin 5y ago
Last week my doctor prescribed me something called Stresam (aka Etifoxine). Apparently it is a lot like the benzo Lorazepam (Ativan) but without the whole benzo addiction problem. I had never heard of it nor know anyone on it before but app
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by satysin 5y ago
I am having daily heart palpitations and they are almost unbearable now. Sometimes I wake up and feel fine almost all day but not a day has gone by in the past two months where I don't have some kind of chest discomfort around my stern
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by satysin 5y ago
Ever since having COVID back in March 2020 I haven't been the same. I still have regular fatigue but my biggest issue is chest pains. For the past few months I have had worsening discomfort/pain in my chest. It was so bad a few we
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by satysin 5y ago
Indeed. In fact it was J Allard's[0] 1994 memo "Windows: The Next Killer Application on the Internet" that caught the attention of Bill Gates. Before then it was clear many (most? everyone else?) at Microsoft didn't see
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by satysin 5y ago
On a recent (i.e. the last 2 or 3 major releases) Windows 10 install (any edition) you can create a local account during the post-install setup assistant by selecting to make an offline account and then selecting "limited experience&qu
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by satysin 5y ago
Correct, this is a limitation in the Home Edition only according to the system requirements.
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by satysin 5y ago
To clarify there are still local accounts in all versions. However to complete the setup a Microsoft account is required in the Home edition. You can then create other local accounts. In other editions you can create a local account during
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by satysin 5y ago
Correct you can left align the buttons but there is no longer settings related to locking the taskbar and dragging it does nothing in the leaked build. Hopefully that changes however with the new widgets fly-in from the left side it may be
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by satysin 5y ago
They didn't say however in the leaked build last week the taskbar could not be moved to the left, right or top of the screen as it previously could. Hopefully it was just a limitation in that particular developer build.
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by satysin 5y ago
So to summerize what they have announced (so far) - * A new look task bar. Centred similar to the macOS dock by default but lacking the ability to position on any other screen edge? * A new start menu design * Windows have rounded corners *
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Sony Music writes off artists' decades-old debts(bbc.com)
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by satysin 5y ago
This was my experience with a ThinkPad last year. They could not do on-site (in home) service due to the French lockdown so I had to do mail-in. They even emailed a PDF with instructions on how to remove the drive. Sadly this is not possibl
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by satysin 5y ago
Possibly. Of course they could have contacted me first rather than modifying my program to pass it off as theirs. I mean it was GPL2 so they could have just used it as is. Of course this was the early 2000s where many people saw "open
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by satysin 5y ago
Yes the tools were all open source. This was in 2004 and I just zipped up a compiled exe, the src directory and a license.txt (GPL2) and put it on my website. Similar to Nirsoft which is what inspired me. The reason behind it being awkward
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by satysin 5y ago
I have a similar experience to this myself. A long time ago (early 2000s) I wrote a handful of tools to ease physical to virtual (P2V) migration for Windows Server. I was a systems administrator in the UK working for a large American firm.
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by satysin 5y ago
I am British but have lived in France for a while now and I feel the same as you about both the British and the French. If Brexit showed us anything it is that the UK is no way near as important as they like to think they are. Watching the
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by satysin 5y ago
For personal use very, very little these days. My step-father often still emails photos but otherwise for most family communication we use Signal (both one to one and we have a few family groups for various things). For friends it is a mix
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by satysin 5y ago
I just tested this in Firefox and it works on the highlight which is inconsistent with how it works elsewhere. Usually it selects the word under the cursor not the selection. Perhaps Firefox is doing something to change the default behaviou

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