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by zapzupnz 5y ago
I got stuck with this a few years ago. I live in New Zealand. My bank used iOS’ number pad keyboard to let me enter a deposit amount in its app. When I switched my phone to French language but left the region and formatting as English (New
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by zapzupnz 5y ago
I must say, I don’t encounter this issue. I live in New Zealand, you would expect English to default to English. Instead, because I use my computers in French, it defaults to French — even when I log in and tell it (repeatedly) to favour En
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by zapzupnz 5y ago
Iconography already exists for that. On Windows, it’s a symbol comprising an A and a 文. On Apple systems, it’s a globe icon. I think the globe icon is seen more often on other platforms and on websites. Having the localised language name ne
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by zapzupnz 5y ago
You can set per-application language settings in macOS. Go to System Preferences -> Language & Region -> Apps. Click the + button to add an app then choose the language you want. You can also do this in iOS and iPadOS. Go to Setti
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by zapzupnz 5y ago
That’s not a mistake. The English term ‘Return’ refers to a carriage return (on a typewriter, it means to move the carriage back when you’ve reached the edge of the paper). The French translation of “carriage return” is “retour chariot”, he
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by zapzupnz 5y ago
My favourite is autof = selfie. It’s auto-photo, but if you pronounce it, it’s photo said backwards — because you use the hold the camera backwards or use the front-facing camera.
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by zapzupnz 5y ago
More to do with anti-unnecessary-medical-procedures-with-no-benefit-yet-lifelong-consequences-performed-on-infants-without-consent. It’s a question of body autonomy rather than circumcision as a practice unto itself; obviously, it’s medical
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by zapzupnz 5y ago
In fairness, Microsoft includes Adblock Plus with Edge for iOS. It's not enabled by default, though. (And ABP isn't what it once was, anyway, that's for sure)
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by zapzupnz 5y ago
I'm kinda with you. I'm an Apple fan, I keep up with news relating to the company and its products; I hadn't heard about all these screens cracking before reading this. You would think something so apparently widespread would
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by zapzupnz 5y ago
You could use an app like BetterSnapTool or Tiles. With both, you can set up Aero Snap-like hot edges to change window size. With BST, you can also set right or middle clicking on the traffic lights to do custom actions, including Windows-s
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by zapzupnz 5y ago
Or just double click the titlebar, less effort.
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by zapzupnz 5y ago
Of course it's from the computer. It's an electronic message. What a weird and pointless distinction. It's still programmed to do that on behalf of the bank's fraud department, a service done by people at the bank that y
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by zapzupnz 5y ago
If distractions are the problem, how does full screen mode not fit the bill? It's literally just the window content, nothing else. You can choose to show the menu bar and you can see the Dock by placing your mouse cursor at the edge of
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by zapzupnz 5y ago
Because not every manager is, nor needs to be, Windows? Prior to the green button gaining the fullscreen functionality, it used to toggle between two sizes: (A) a developer-determined default size and (B) as large as the window needs to be
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by zapzupnz 5y ago
That's an alert from "people", for a stretched definition of what "people" means. A bank is full of people who (purportedly) represent your interests, so the notification is from their fraud team, not a machine. Per
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by zapzupnz 5y ago
Agree. It's not null that's the issue. Null can be fine, especially in a union type like Some|None (which in most languages is a type called Optional). It's mainly to do with languages that couldn't signify that some val
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by zapzupnz 5y ago
I'd be willing to be those 9 out of 10 users barely know how to use a desktop computer beyond "click on the button for the internet". I suppose that's the difference: the price they pay in user control and freedom is swa
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by zapzupnz 5y ago
Not really separate. Many extensions designed for other browsers will still depend on quirks of the respective extension implementations, JavaScript engines, rendering engines, etc. Of course, there are (supposed-to-be-but-aren't) brow
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by zapzupnz 5y ago
No support for Chrome extensions. Not even support for Safari Web Extensions bundled with iOS apps. Some browsers do have their own extensions (Edge has AdBlock Plus built-in, but that's all; iCab has quite a few Javascript-based exten
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by zapzupnz 5y ago
If you need browser dev tools, have you tried the iPadOS browser called Inspect?
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by zapzupnz 5y ago
They got in trouble for lock in. Their integration of Internet Explorer practically made out the de facto implementation and made Windows the de facto operating system on machines. But again, Sign In with Apple sits in addition to the other
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by zapzupnz 5y ago
Nah, the message itself could be justified, the messaging isn’t. Especially the hostility the writer has decided to show to their users . I don’t care how upset you are with Fruit Co., you don’t take it out on Fruit Co.’s users. Who does o
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by zapzupnz 5y ago
It isn’t that mind-boggling to me, it’s Microsoft’s way. Release a phone platform. Then another, incompatible phone platform that looks and behaves practically identically. Reminds me of Windows 11. Three different kinds of control panel, t
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by zapzupnz 5y ago
> For anyone suggesting giving a de-googled lineage phone to anybody who isn’t a technologist or doesn’t have days and days to spend tweaking a poorly-supported-outside-certain-jurisdictions device , just, please, don't. ftfy. I ge
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by zapzupnz 5y ago
If you have an Apple ID, you’re already implicitly trusting Apple to use that data appropriately. Apple doesn’t sell its user data. So anybody who is using Sign In with Apple trusts Apple to do the right thing. Besides, what monopoly? Apple
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by zapzupnz 5y ago
Crazy hurdles: right click the installer or app, click Open.
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by zapzupnz 5y ago
I love seeing more Mac-assed apps.
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by zapzupnz 5y ago
Read-only as in KeyFax was literally a broadcast image of Teletext, rather than actual Teletext. That way, people without a compatible set or decoder (everybody) could watch it. That had the knock-on effect of users not being able to call u
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by zapzupnz 5y ago
Practically everyone accepts them where there is no better solution. And usually there is no better solution because third party integrations to online services (think Stack, Discord, etc.) are limited or aren’t kept up-to-date with officia
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by zapzupnz 5y ago
When you spend more time arguing about how the message was said rather than what the message is actually trying to convey, it doesn’t matter what the response is: it’s unlikely that you were ever going to listen to the message anyway. This

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