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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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As tech support this has made my job a bit more annoying.

Tesla is recalling its Cybertruck for the fourth time to fix problems with trim pieces that can come loose and front windshield wipers that can fail | The new recalls each affect over 11,000 trucks ( apnews.com )

The company says in the documents that the front windshield wiper motor controller can stop working because it’s getting too much electrical current. A wiper that fails can cut visibility, increasing the risk of a crash. The Austin, Texas, company says it knows of no crashes or injuries caused by the problem....

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front windshield wipers that can fail

Seems irrelevant if the truck can't even get wet

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Very true. Now I'm angry at myself for missing an opportunity to use one of the worst contractions in the English language.

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I think it's the amount of recalls in such a short time combined with how long it took to ship the first one after you could place an order. And the ceo's attitude definitely doesn't help.

Edit: price might also be a factor. I'd never spend that much on a vehicle but if I did and it had this many recalls I'd be furious.

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How did you get "kill more" from that?

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just like Instagram is not Chinese

Do you mean tiktok? Because it's quite a bit more Russian than Instagram is Chinese unless there's some crazy zuck is owned by China conspiracy I'm unaware of.

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Oh I understand now. I thought you were saying Kaspersky not McAfee. I didn't think they were saying McAfee was Russian, just absolute garbage bordering malware.

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It's pretty hard to be a good person while denying the working class medical benefits.

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He should be ashamed to think nature doesn't make mistakes. Although, and not to "it was a different time" this, he probably didn't know about cancer and had some other excuse for birth defects.

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"well the kid is sold, now I just gotta sell the parents too"

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Why are Hamas" captives called hostages and Israel's captives called prisoners?

HP bricks ProBook laptops with bad BIOS delivered via automatic updates — many users face black screen after Windows pushes new firmware ( www.tomshardware.com )

On May 26, a user on HP's support forums reported that a forced, automatic BIOS update had bricked their HP ProBook 455 G7 into an unusable state. Subsequently, other users have joined the thread to sound off about experiencing the same issue....

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About halfway through windows 10 iirc

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Trick question! Isreal is immune to committing genocide!

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This is like seeing a kid take another kid's pencil and the other kid shoots the thief and you say "both did wrong here." Sure, technically. But one did way more wrong, no?

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Has political violence been ramping up all over the world or am I just reading too much news?

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I'm kinda speechless rn

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My town let some kids go around and paint stuff where graffiti usually pops up. Zero graffiti. They do a little upkeep so it doesn't fade and I haven't seen tags in a decade.

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There are 3 more casinos and about half a million fewer trees.

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or providing subjective negative reviews

I'm not sure what your argument is here but it doesn't seem solid. How is a reviewer supposed to do their job?

After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year ( www.billboard.com )

When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...

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Tidal is your friend

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This is why I went for Tidal:

Tidal takes a look back at a HiFi Plus subscriber’s top streamed artist at the end of every month, and then allocates the direct payment to that listener's most played artist. Qualified artists who enroll in the Direct Artist Payout program will be able to collect the payouts allocated to them on a monthly basis.

But they recently changed their pricing and I'm no longer paying 20 so I'm not sure if they still do that or not. I have heard good things about napster too.

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To me it sounds the exact same. The language doesn't say "printed propaganda that doesn't have a lot of nuance" it just says publications.

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Bottles have nipples

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I'm not a professional baby feeder I just know that when my son wouldn't latch on a tit they gave us a bottle and he did just fine.

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I debated abortion in school a couple decades ago. I would consider that a human right but I had to debate the opposite at the time.

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They're from the racist country that isn't allowed to talk about it. I get the US defaultism but cmon

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Oh so you want to groom children? (this is sarcasm trying to point out why we can't have nice things)

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It'd be like them finally getting doctors to make laws around medical shit but they just pick the ceos from big pharma

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I'ma take my complaint in a different direction even though the other comments make really good points. Wtf do I do now? This gives me no indication of what I should do once I recognize I'm burnt out.

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