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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...

kalpol ,

Don't know what you mean. Have people on opens use here, and they do just fine without the command line.

Options for non-smart TV in UK 2024?

I am considering replacing my old 50" 1080p TV which I use with (external) Chromecast and Roku. I would like a 4K display 60" or greater but I really, really don't want any smart features. I am aware that I could purchase a commercial display to achieve this and that's my fallback option. Can anyone here make any useful...

kalpol ,

No commercial consumer-grade entertainment device that I know of does not do this.

kalpol , (edited )

https://www.insideairbnb.com

Just gonna leave this here. Pick your favorite city.

edit: guess we killed it. But there are a lot, a lot

kalpol ,

There are whole 30 story apartment buildings which are managed and run like a hotel but with units purchased by owners for STRs. Crowd-sourced hotels. So might be that company managing a whole building.

kalpol ,

In Linux you just download, extract, and change the symlink. It is really easy.

kalpol ,

Not gonna stop your knowledge being fed to an AI.

kalpol ,

All it needs is an account to access troves of training data?

kalpol ,

Really only if you're running your own email server. Otherwise as far as I know dynamic DNS fills the need.
You aren't in any more risk either way.

Sounds like maybe you want to look into pfsense to do traffic filtering. Highly recommend.

kalpol ,

I have to have MS apps for work and so have two devices, one with Lineage and one stock....its amazing how bad the stock experience is on a Galaxy Tab. Samsung and Google constantly bugs me to use apps I can't remove or turn off. Its infuriating that this is a tablet I paid for.

kalpol ,

Hey no did not know about this. Thanks!

kalpol ,

You forgot Windows 2000 which was good

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