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atrielienz

@ atrielienz @lemmy.world

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  • Uninstalled Copilot? Microsoft will let you reprogram your keyboard’s Copilot key

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  • This is literally what certain manufacturers do. Here's a side by side of the receiver remote for my setup and the one for the TV (which has never even been connected to the internet). One has these dedicated buttons. The other just has ones labeled for streaming or similar.>!

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    I'll add that the location of the buttons makes a significant difference. If they're easy to hit by accident you're more likely to have grandma launch a service she didn't mean to and not know how to back out of it. This causes more problems than it solves.

  • Uninstalled Copilot? Microsoft will let you reprogram your keyboard’s Copilot key

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  • Yeah some TV's these days come with streaming built in and have this kind of remote. Plus if you buy a set top streaming box like a Roku, they come with this kind of remote also. It's stupid, but a real world thing.

  • Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer

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  • Yeah. Airlines still use it for log books and reports.

  • Uninstalled Copilot? Microsoft will let you reprogram your keyboard’s Copilot key

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  • Let me?

  • Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox

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  • I got so tired of the "update chrome because new zero day" articles so I removed chrome altogether from every computer I own except the work one because one specific vendor's schematics work in chrome and are broken in the other browsers. I haven't looked back and I don't think I will.

  • UBO Lite Pulled from Firefox Store by developer

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  • On lower end smart phones? It probably just slows the phone down less specifically because of how few processes it uses in the background. But I don't know. I'm not a lite UBO user. It definitely doesn't have the same number of features as the regular variant of UBO though.

  • UBO Lite Pulled from Firefox Store by developer

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  • My guess is that it's used predominantly by people who own budget smart phones. Having lite versions of apps be available to people who don't use thousand dollar flagships I think is kind of important. However, I intended the post to be informational.

  • Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price

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  • Yeah, but he didn't pay $44Bn out of his own pocket.

  • Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

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  • Agreed. I can understand fearing being as bloated and bot filled as reddit. But we don't need to grow that big to be a thriving active community of users.

  • Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price

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  • This is just conjecture though. I do think he originally did not intend to buy Twitter. I do think he was essentially forced to buy it. I know from news articles around the time of the sale that he gave significant pushback when relevant parties forced the issue. Things may very well have changed after he became the owner (and what deals he made to be able to afford it may never be known).

  • Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

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  • They counted comments and the number of upvotes (or what have you) in an attempt to stop trolls and bad actors. If you didn't have enough comments you couldn't post anything to the message boards and therefore could really engage with the message oars above a certain level. I remember that some also used to limit the number of comments any one user account could make per day, especially new users. It's been 20 years or more at this point and I don't remember those blogs or message boards, honestly.

  • Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

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  • To be fair, a lot of users don't seem to want the user base here to grow at all. I don't feel that way but I've had enough discussions here to know that this is literally not the case for everyone and it kind of sucks because stagnation is how social networks die.

  • Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

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  • That would have been a lot like how I remember message boards being back in the day, (late 90's early 2000's) and honestly I don't think I like it. People like me (with both low number of comments and posts) wouldn't be able to reach that bar to entry. I get the bots wouldn't either, but that still eliminates human users as well and I don't know if that's a good thing.

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  • My understanding from the other comments here is that qobuz is a good option, and Tidal also. Might want to check those out.

  • Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price

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  • It would appear that he didn't want to buy Twitter and was literally forced to do so. I think for him Twitter is a temper tantrum. He didn't get what he wanted so he's destroying everything around him as a result.

    More to the point though, I do wonder why he didn't just pay the billion dollars to get out of the deal (with his 270 billion net worth - which by the way includes assets not necessarily liquid cash).

    I don't know that he's not in it for the money. I think the point is to destroy it so he doesn't have to pay back what he borrowed to buy it.

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  • It all depends on the generics. I buy generic cereal. But only certain ones because other ones I have tried aren't the same as the name brand and I like the name brand. Sometimes it's as simple as texture difference or a difference in flavor.

    In the case of my epi-pens, the generic injectors don't work exactly the same and that can be a bit much in an emergency where your throat is swelling shut or you're having difficulty breathing.

    In the case of something over the counter, I'd still wager things like mouth feel, smell, or other sensory factors are a reason. Like for instance, I prefer the smooth coating on Advil to the matte coating on Motrin or other ibuprofen generic meds.

  • How much do you think gender matters on Lemmy?

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  • In the context of the internet at large seeming to believe every user is male? I'd say that's still standard practice here even if it's not as prevalent an assumption as on other social media. How much that matters though is subjective.

  • Australia’s 3G Shutdown - Telcos to Block Working 4G/5G Phones!

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  • From the article:

    "Why this is a Problem

    While the amendments aim to ensure access to emergency services, the changes will have severe consequences for consumers, competition, and the overall accessibility of mobile services. Whilst also not addressing the core technical standardisation failures with VoLTE Calling and Emergency Calling.

    This policy essentially penalises customers for using devices that work but were not purchased directly from the telcos or their partners. Once in effect, this would further concentrate profits and market control to the telcos & major handset makers, and severely limit competition & choice in the market.

    Under the updated ECSD, telcos must identify and notify users of phones deemed incapable of accessing emergency services, assist them in finding alternative devices, and ultimately cease service to these phones.

    This will likely impact devices that have been manually updated to work for VoLTE Calling and Emergency Calling as they aren’t ‘officially’ supported."

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  • Having been on the other end of this where they picked an applicant from outside so they could pay them less, despite more than one person being more qualified and already working for the company, I'm not sure who's side to be on here. On the one hand, if you've already got someone lined up for the job, this is disingenuous. On the other hand, if someone already working for you can do the job but you don't want to pay them what they're worth, that's just messed up on several levels.