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TORFdot0

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  • Funny I keep saving instead of spending and yet my savings never grow because the costs of living do instead

  • Verizon carriers start switching to 365-day device unlock policy, up from 60 days

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  • I jumped in the hot tub with my phone in my pocket last summer and needed a phone and couldn’t really wait for one to ship from a random eBay or swappa seller so I had to go to Best Buy.

    They had nothing carrier unlocked that was newer than the 128GB iPhone 15 for $800, refurbished. All else they had was a couple old pixels and galaxies and they weren’t much cheaper.

    Policies like impact the poor folks who can’t afford the cash for phones that are unlocked and are stuck paying high monthly service rates.

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  • 36 is not old lmao. Your friends probably have parents in their late 40s/early 50s and so expect your parent to be like theirs

  • Guys, what's the best Linux distro to install on my PC?

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  • They’ve played us for absolute fools

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    I don't get why they're okay with this

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  • On purpose? Not likely. Also I don’t expect them to be able to handle save and open of files using the web versions of M365.

    But I think they would use libre office and not question that it wasn’t Microsoft office since it would open their files like they are used too.

  • The Far Right Is Now Transvestigating Sydney Sweeney

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  • They just want to see what she’s packing in those jeans

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  • Apple computers, which is a higher market share than Linux, are more expensive. That’s what I was getting at.

    Windows became dominant because of enterprise software sales 20 years ago. Now everything runs in an electron wrapper that can run on any platform or in the browser.

    PCs don’t even have optical drives anymore. No normal consumer even knows how to install a program today, let alone is considering legacy program compatibility when making a computer purchasing decision

    I am qualifying my statements based on interactions with my coworkers of whom I deploy and manage their PCs. I could probably install mint on 50% of their PCs and the only reason they’d notice is because Microsoft office looks different and is called Libre Office for some reason

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  • 98% of Windows users, use windows because that’s what the OS that came with the computer they could afford.

    98% of windows users probably don’t know what version they are on or even what windows is

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  • I can see why you would say that. But it’s genuine. Just has the off glossy coloration that slop typically does

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  • Jonathan Ross should never have been put back on duty after his first incident. He fought in Iraq as he served for the Indiana National Guard and had a long, high stress, career for Border Patrol. He should have been recognized as needing PTSD therapy and a career change after his June incident. He didn’t have to be a murderer, he was set up to be one by his superiors at ICE.

    Not to absolve him of personal responsibility because he is a murderer. But I have to think it was known that he could do this and he was pushed to do it

  • TIL: Parental controls aren't for parents – Beast Hacker

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  • To be more clear, I mean when parental controls are added to an app they are almost always half baked and inserted as a marketing gimmick.

    As a whole parental controls are definitely important for parents to utilize to the best of their abilities, it’s just hard to actually implement them on the application level as opposed to the network or device level.

  • TIL: Parental controls aren't for parents – Beast Hacker

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  • It really shouldn’t be that hard to make a “block all” system. And then whitelist things you want to allow on a piece meal basis. The reason such a system doesn’t exist is because it would hurt engagement and monetization numbers and these corporations won’t stop until every man woman and child has been exploited

  • TIL: Parental controls aren't for parents – Beast Hacker

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  • Epic’s is probably the best because it’s the only one that has an easy “block everything but online play” button and lets you whitelist experiences with a parental pin

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  • Parental Controls are a marketing gimmick.

    Did you know that you can’t stop strangers on Roblox from sending your kid friend requests? And you can’t delete them from your child’s account. Just block them entirely.

    On PlayStation you can’t approve communication features with just friends. If you have it turned on so they can chat in game with their cousin, then strangers can send unsolicited voice calls to them.

    Children should not be on internet connected devices unless you are willing to monitor their usage 100% of the time or are willing to hope and pray you’ve taught them enough about the danger and risks (and even if you have, they aren’t developed enough to understand them anyway)

  • Can someone tell me about DemiGod Rick?

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  • To be fair, by being on .world; we give the admins of that server that power. We could collectively move our accounts to another instance or start our own if we don’t want them to have that power.

  • Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet

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  • I don’t think I called Microsoft to activate windows since 2012 at the latest to activate a copy of XP SP3. I’d be surprised if they got 100 calls the last decade to activate a copy of windows legitimately. Their amount of airgapped or remote systems that run windows that can’t be activated over the internet has to be miniscule

  • It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"

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  • Well hopefully the different forks have their ducks in a row to strip all these “features” out down the road. So glad I use LibreWolf and not Firefox proper anymore

  • Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price.

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  • ChatGPT might be, which is the point.

  • Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith

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  • Wasn’t expecting to see biblical wisdom on the fediverse today