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Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising ( www.techradar.com )

Windows 11 is getting out of hand with its push for advertisments, frankly - remember the recent full-screen pop-up to persuade users to install Edge or other Microsoft services? Then another advertisment was placed in the Start menu, and now Microsoft has finally worn my temper thin - with a new Game Pass ad coming to the...

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I get what you're saying but that still gives them unsolicited permission to post ads in the first place.

I want an operating system, not an ad system that also happens to be an operating system

CosmicTurtle0 ,

It's like when Trump ran campaign ads about police brutality and crimes going up in inner cities....that all happened under Trump with the tag, "This is Biden's America".

It is true what they say: truth has a liberal bias.

CosmicTurtle0 ,

The problem is that Time and every other news outlet think they are the cats pajamas and deserve your subscription. They suffer a similar problem to streaming platforms except news is not exclusive.

If these companies could organize and build a "pay once, get access to everything everywhere" model, they would see subscriptions go through the roof and get more money. But since the owners of these news outlets want only their own subscribers to go up, it's never going to happen.

I'm not going to pay for 5-10 news subscriptions no matter how great the reporting is.

But I'd be willing to pay $20 or so a month if that meant I can access any article on any news website.

CosmicTurtle0 ,

Never profits. Must be revenue.

Companies have ways of looking like they don't make a profit, especially when it comes to filing taxes.

"Oh, we created a subsidiary in Ireland and, gosh darn, they charged us a gagillion dollars for this pen. We actually have a loss this year."

Beat

"Stimulus please!"

CosmicTurtle0 ,

I've actually heard it the other way: if your employer knows you have cancer or other disability, they have to try even harder to fire you to ensure that they could survive a lawsuit.

Microsoft Account to local account conversion guide erased from official Windows 11 guide — instructions redacted earlier this week ( www.tomshardware.com )

Microsoft has been pushing hard for its users to sign into Windows with a Microsoft Account. The newest Windows 11 installer removed the easy bypass to the requirement that you make an account or login with your existing account. If you didn't install Windows 11 without a Microsoft Account and now want to stop sending the...

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As if they would ask permission.

We'll be fucking your wife now while we install features on your computer that you didn't ask for. If you'd like to be notified when we're done, please go fuck yourself.

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Fun fact: many cities had issues with female fruiting trees because their fruits would rot on the ground, causing bad smells and rodents. So they replaced them with male trees.

Unfortunately for allergy sufferers, this increased pollen counts exponentially. But that's not all. Because these trees can "sense" that they are competing with other male trees, they produce even more pollen than they normally would.

Edit: My information is outdated! It was based on an article that I read back in the early 2000s and it looks like it's been debunked.

CosmicTurtle0 ,

In an age where cities are getting less and less tax revenue, replanting new trees that don't fruit is often more cost effective in the long run.

And even if you did hire a crew, they aren't going to get every piece of rotted fruit. Animals, being what they are, will bury or hide them.

CosmicTurtle0 ,

So I had to look this up.

My information was based on an article that I read back in the early 2000s and it looks like it's been debunked.

CosmicTurtle0 ,

Another "study" by the woke liberal science ivory tower. It's a fact that women don't feel pleasure.

-- Charlie Kirk

CosmicTurtle0 ,

Did you know that nine women can deliver one baby in just one month?

CosmicTurtle0 ,

I absolutely hate being paid monthly. The last week to two weeks is brutal especially when you're getting paid paycheck to paycheck.

I'd say being paid every other week is best.

CosmicTurtle0 ,

Is that.....Suits?!

CosmicTurtle0 ,

It's about damn time. I hope this is true across all OSs. Dashlane is one of the biggest holdouts on supporting YubiKey on Firefox Linux because Firefox didn't support biometrics.

CosmicTurtle0 ,

I literally wrote like a week ago for a guide like this

This is awesome and answers so many questions. I kept trying to force IPv6 addresses to my machines and they kept not doing it! I also didn't know they would have multiple addresses.

CosmicTurtle0 ,

An issue I had the last time I tried to set up IPv6 up was pihole didn't work as well as I would have preferred. I assumed I just didn't set up things correctly and it's looking like that is the case based on the OP.

It kept resolving ad domains with their IPv6 address.

CosmicTurtle0 ,

If ad domains can be resolved to their IPv6 addresses, it means that they are not blocked. Your device connects to the IPv6 address and serves the ad.

I can't remember what the problem was but my window to rollback was closing so I reverted back to IPv4 only and pushed it to another day.

Apple is bringing RCS to the iPhone in iOS 18 | The new standard will replace SMS as the default communication protocol between Android and iOS devices ( www.theverge.com )

The long-awaited day is here: Apple has announced that its Messages app will support RCS in iOS 18. The move comes after years of taunting, cajoling, and finally, some regulatory scrutiny from the EU....

CosmicTurtle0 ,

Honestly, it'd be a good retort from Apple if they ran a commercial that said, "We'll support RCS once all your products do" and then show a screenshot of Google Voice.

CosmicTurtle0 ,

I agree with Putin! The fact that it took 4 fucking years to get a conviction out of the orange turd is absolutely a travesty. We haven't even seen charges for his part of the insurrection!

Justice delayed is justice denied.

CosmicTurtle0 ,

Same here. There has to be no network whatsoever. No wifi, no wired connection.

You can completely cut out any internet access to the device (via the router), and it will still cry like baby and say that you need to use a Microsoft account.

There is absolutely no reason why disabling this needs to require a special keystroke let alone command.

CosmicTurtle0 ,

Idk....seems like the average apple user to me.

Trillion dollar company Apple is right and can do no wrong.

It's all those other people who need to do better.

CosmicTurtle0 ,

Iirc cases where the central complaint is AI, ML, or other black box technology, the company in question was never held responsible because "We don't know how it works". The AI surge we're seeing now is likely a consequence of those decisions and the crypto crash.

I'd love CVS try to push a lawsuit though.

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I'm 100% torrents if I need it. Fmovies or other sites seem to have the majority of what I want to watch.

Is there a guide on how to use usenet? What does it offer that torrents does not? Is it nitch stuff?

CosmicTurtle0 ,

You normally pay an annual fee to keep your LLC registered.

CosmicTurtle0 ,

Actually I heard that Netanyahu has some details about the maintenance practices of Boeing planes.

CosmicTurtle0 ,

I would very unironically buy this shirt, hard!

CosmicTurtle0 OP ,

This comes the closest so far.

The saving feature might be the deal breaker, unless it can be done via a file (json, yaml, etc) that is committed along with the page. I'll explore this more. Thanks for the suggestion

CosmicTurtle0 OP ,

I can't host a matrix instance and would be overkill for what I'm trying to do.

Markdown isn't any better than my current method of writing in a text file. I don't need synchronization.

CosmicTurtle0 OP ,

Company has a wiki, but doesn't have the feature of doing a tag-based search. It wouldn't be much better than my notepad, though the benefit would be that it could copy html.

I can install apps but it has to clear cyber security.

CosmicTurtle0 OP ,

Ah...I never thought about it that way but you are right! Snibox wouldn't work for my use case but a quick google search came up with a few possible ones.

Thank you!

CosmicTurtle0 OP ,

I reviewed it and it looks like they use a proprietary license. Unless I missed something.

And MS Store doesn't help. Each program that shows up on my work's MS Store is approved.

As for trying it myself, I use Linux as my main workhorse. 😜

CosmicTurtle0 OP ,

I added context for Gilfoyle 😜

CosmicTurtle0 OP ,

Logseq seems very interesting. It looks similar to "OneNote" in terms of overall approach but open source. The main issue my company would have is that the license is AGPL. My company refuses to use any license that includes Copyleft.

CosmicTurtle0 ,

May I offer you a possible answer to at least your first question?

CosmicTurtle0 ,

I remember back in the days of broadband being brand new. Comcast insisted that you had to pay for each device that connected to the Internet. Using a router was considered against the TOS.

I do not miss those days.

CosmicTurtle0 ,

It's real

3D printer files linked in the article.

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And some Muslims and parks.

😦

CosmicTurtle0 ,

These are the same people who argued that forcing people to wear masks is fascism.

You literally can't make this shit up.

CosmicTurtle0 ,

No, you're wrong.

They get a 2 week paid vacation. If they play their cards right, they can say they got PTSD and get to retire early with a pension and start over in another jurisdiction.

CosmicTurtle0 ,

I got mine at the lost and found. Storage unit guy said that he has to get rid of them regularly or the box just fills up.

CosmicTurtle0 ,

I remember the transition from plain-text emails to HTML emails. I fought tooth and nail to keep my email fully plain-text because it offered almost 70-80% storage savings. This was when email quotas were measured in megabytes.

Then Gmail came along and made HTML the standard email because they offered 2 GBs of space.

The rest is history.

CosmicTurtle0 ,

Fwiw, AWS offers a one-time egress without charge in response to the EU order to allow people to switch cloud providers.

Once approved, we will provide credits for the data being migrated. We don’t require you to close your account or change your relationship with AWS in any way. You’re welcome to come back at any time. We will, of course, apply additional scrutiny if the same AWS account applies multiple times for free DTO.

So if you're going to do this for that one time you have to, probably not a big deal.

But if I were you, I'd be prepared to egress, kill the account, and then create a new account.

CosmicTurtle0 ,

If it's still in alpha, then a standard non disclosure should be fine.

A non-disparagement clause is overkill.

CosmicTurtle0 ,

This doesn't work for me. Regional hub is 20 miles from me. Two day shipping is now just "free shipping over $35 and takes a week to arrive.

I agree with your other points though. Amazon isn't the cheapest option anymore. My local Walmart is actually better. I know Walmart is still a shit company but still...better in terms of getting what I need.

CosmicTurtle0 ,

Good news though. If you wanted to break into wet work, nows the time.

CosmicTurtle0 ,

You don't need to be so explosive. Be more like Argon.

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Beaches jellyfishes remind me of Lurker zurg units in StarCraft. My understanding is that jellyfishes tentacles will still shoot their barbs long after the main part has died.

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