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Cries in USA, paying $230/mWh. At least solar effectively zeroes out my usage via net metering, in the warmer months.

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Irony is, a lot of larger office building thermostats are really only there for display purposes (thermometer), not for control purposes (actually functional).

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Our profit margin demands you buy over-priced books from our shop

College material monopolies should be illegal, just like all other monopolies. Want to give students an education in the real world? Let the free market determine textbook prices.

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It's funny. Security folks say how insecure Windows XP is, and how it becomes compromised within seconds/minutes of having an internet connection. It's like Microsoft took that as a playbook challenge to repeat as an OOTB feature, instead of waiting for malware to do it.

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Teams is doing the same thing. I can't go anywhere close to anything Microsoft without some Copilot I didn't ask for getting jammed in.

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Until you get hit by a card skimmer. Encrypted NFC is safer than a physical card.

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"AI" is the new "cloud"

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I was referring to services like Apple Pay

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Or when playing a station, ans saying "Siri, I dislike this song". Instead of disliking the song, it just restarts the station, and some times, it'll even play the dame damned song again.

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That's likely the plan, but they have to start with known-working hardware configurations first.

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Yeah, Apple 2FA is infuriating, especially since you can do all factors from the same device. Kind of defeats the purpose of traditional 2FA/MFA. Also, companies that decide you 2FA experience has to use their app, instead of a standards-compliant TOTP app of your choosing....ugh.

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If I'm on my laptop, and the 2fa code shows on that same laptop, it defeats the purpose of it. The point is sortation of security privileges, ask this just adds more work while providing no less security to the device. It does protect you from remote compromise, though.

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Yeah my point is it does not protect the local device well. It does protect well from remote compromise though.

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Ad tech IS the tracking, so if you're not blocking ads, you're not actually refusing said tracking. I think you might be conflating cookies with being tracking (they are), but that's only a part of it.

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The only time I ever fell for a "lifetime" software purchase was back when Trillian (the IM client) was popular. That lasted less than 5 years. Then they released "Astas", which was just a UI refresh, but they treated it like it was a whole new company and product. "Lifetime" is always a scam.

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Yeah, Plex lifetime was worth it.

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I just listened to the Criminal podcast on that, recently. Fascinating cultural moment.

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I just went in and manually edited my display name to my previous asshole of a boss. Two can play this game. If they want to get rid of anonymous content, then let them deal with poisoned content.

Team Blind is decent, at least in the tech sector.

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His rates doubling wouldn't be considered damages?

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Doeyour post comments constitute "personal data" though?

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I didn’t know that either but I’d also never divulge that info on an inbound phone call.

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That's not always a choice, without hurdles. I have a truck with it, but I would have no idea how to disable it short of cutting the antenna wire for it.

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"Sharing" is a funny way to word a headline. They are selling it, for a profit, because it's legal. It's immoral and shady as hell, but "prevent it or expect it" applies here.

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Maybe a ChromeOS machine? It doesn't get more simple to use than that.

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Well that sucks

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So they sell it all to a shell company in India, which then resells it to China. We all know how this works without actual penalties and actual enforcement. GDPR is successful because it has actual teeth, even for companies that are not HQ'd in Europe (but do business with EU citizens).

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I get Copilot to bail on conversations so often like your example that I'm only using it for help with programming/code snippets at this point. The moment you question accuracy, bam, chat's over.

I asked if there was a Copilot extension for VS Code, and it said yup, talked about how to install it, and even configure it. That was completely fabricated, and as soon as I asked for more detail to prove it was real, chat's over.

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I don't nave a citation, but in general, layoffs are usually used to cut costs. Spending less means more profits. More profits generally means the company looks better to the investors, and hence, better stock price.

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They are ten years in at this point. I think they are doing it right.

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That's so surreal in this day & age. I can't think of any other example where that happened. I use Bitwarden because I don't want all my eggs in one basket, even for Proton who I trust. But good on them for doing a solid for their customers instead of bowing to the forces of pure capitalism.

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You think the forced birthers are buying this data to show ads? Oh sweet child...

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Your ad blocker doesn't block location data if your mobile carrier is selling it to these brokers (and they almost certainly are).

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That’s been the trend for more than a decade though. Some companies are more militant about it than others.

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Yeah, didn't want to name it, lol.

Walmart in talks to buy Vizio for more than $2 bln, WSJ reports (www.reuters.com)

Walmart in talks to buy Vizio for more than $2 bln, WSJ reports::Walmart is in talks to buy smart-television manufacturer Vizio for more than $2 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, a move that could bolster its advertising business and give it control of more than a fifth of the U.S. television market.

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With volume set to max

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Crazy how he gets 40 years for leaking secrets, but literal insurrectionists are barely getting 1/4 that, with very few exceptions.

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How could they launch this and not support login.gov for the auth...

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“Protect your privacy” is literally why we use uBO…

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Select "All", you'll find them in about 7 out of 10 posts...

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I use Voyager and my meme consumption quota is fully met

Pi-Hole or something else for network ad blocking?

I've been aware of pi-hole for a while now, but never bothered with it because I do most web browsing on a laptop where browser extensions like uBlock origin are good enough. However, with multiple streaming services starting to insert adds into my paid subscriptions, I'm looking to upgrade to a network blocker that will also...

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NextDNS.

Also, be wary of relying on anything blocking ads on streaming services this way. They will likely serve them within the video stream, so not network-blockable.

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It’s like $20 year, not everything good can be free.

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Their intent was to cut jobs/costs. They worked as designed. The user experience being improved was never the real goal of these, both on the employee and customer side. I'm fine using them for a small number of items/one item, but if I'm going to buy a bunch of things or anything that requires special handling (alcohol), I just skip them. I also skip them if there's no line at a human checkout because I don't want to drive those folks out of jobs either.

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Ah, the retail theft claim...

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ATV is the only box I recommend. I'm anti-Google, don't trust Amazon (and now their service is going to do ads on a paid Prime membership), and Roku has major privacy issues at least in the past. Curious why you're seeking an alternative to Apple.

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