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Gestrid , 1 day ago to Technology in FCC proposes ending cellphone carrier locks after 60 days

People can usually unlock the carrier on their own. Many phones (or at least every phone I've ever gotten from T-Mobile) even come pre-installed with a carrier unlocking app. It's just not automatic, and certain conditions need to be met.

People may also sometimes be able to buy phones already unlocked directly from the manufacturer if they want to. (Whether or not they're able to do this depends on the manufacturer.)

Gestrid , 12 days ago to Technology in Internet forums are disappearing because now it's all Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.

You're right about the forums. While they're useful as smaller chat rooms separate from the "main ones" (for example, someone in a Discord server I know started a forum for fanart and discussion about a specific upcoming video game), they're completely useless as a replacement for traditional forums.

Also, like you said, the search feature simply isn't good enough to be able to efficiently search through all those forums. While Reddit's (and probably Lemmy's) search engine isn't great either, it at least has the benefit of being indexed by other search engines.

Gestrid , 12 days ago to Technology in Internet forums are disappearing because now it's all Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.

its completely unbearable

How so?

Gestrid , 13 days ago to Technology in YouTube is experimenting with Notes, a crowdsourced feature that lets users add context to videos

And, once they discontinue it, I hope someone creates an add-on to bring it back like they did with dislikes.

It's a bit out-of-scope, but it'd be a great SponsorBlock feature!

Gestrid , 13 days ago to Technology in YouTube is experimenting with Notes, a crowdsourced feature that lets users add context to videos

Yeah, the dislike bar used to be a thing. You could see how many dislikes there were compared to likes, all represented on a line below the two buttons. It was sort of like this image, except imagine the "yes" and "no" as a single line (but retaining their separate colors).

Gestrid , 13 days ago to Technology in YouTube is experimenting with Notes, a crowdsourced feature that lets users add context to videos

They're at least understandable (usually), but they're like 5-10 seconds behind the video (sometimes longer), and they can be difficult to interpret at times.

Gestrid , 13 days ago to Technology in YouTube is experimenting with Notes, a crowdsourced feature that lets users add context to videos

Honestly never seen that happen.

Most times, I see it used on ads, political figures, and Elon himself.

Gestrid , 13 days ago to Comic Strips in I sure don't miss working in a bar.

That only barely looks like a face of an older woman.

Gestrid , 15 days ago to Technology in Google, Cloudflare & Cisco Will Poison DNS to Stop Piracy Block Circumvention * TorrentFreak

4. Sue website admins -> Users find/ create a new site

Gestrid , 15 days ago to linuxmemes in Many such cases

The last time I had to setup a Windows profile (late last year on my then-new laptop), that was the case. Has that changed?

Gestrid , 16 days ago to Technology in Mozilla defies Kremlin, restores banned Firefox add-ons in Russia

I recently blocked that instance, so who knows?

Gestrid , 17 days ago to linuxmemes in Many such cases

Being forced to be online to log in and forced use of OneDrive confuses new users just as much

You're not forced to use either of those, IIRC. Just set it up without connecting to the internet or without signing in.

Gestrid , 17 days ago to Technology in YouTube's next move might make it virtually impossible to block ads

That assumes every ad is exactly the same (or at least the same length) and at the same spot for every user.

Gestrid , 20 days ago to Technology in Raspberry Pi launches its IPO

No, silly, that's Audio Over Ethernet! /j

Gestrid , 20 days ago to Technology in All three game console makers, Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony, have now abandoned X (formerly Twitter) integration

This isn't a joke I made up on my own, either. That's legitimately what Sony calls it.