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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.

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"You've got mail, you piece of shit."

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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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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I feel like people who buy apple products aren't the same people who don't want apple seeing everything they do.

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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no one would be blaming the yacht manufacturer

I already don't support yacht manufacturers. I own foo fighters albums. There is a massive difference in your example.

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Assuming they're not already millionaires, correct.

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Fair as fuck

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I mean if you're using their servers for all of that cloud management can you really expect them not to take a look? You can buy a router and install open source firmware that doesn't scrub your data or keep giving money to giant corporations that put profits over customers.

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Sounds like ebay will be busy

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Wait is dude gendered now??

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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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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If you're referencing the bypass used on new windows 11 machines they patched it.

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If there is I still can't find it. I've been using a generic email address and creating a new profile deleting the Microsoft one. It's annoying af

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Unfortunately my boss doesn't want us using Rufus. Please don't ask me why, it doesn't make sense.

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Oh I tried a lot more than 3 times

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Nice thanks

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This is great thank you!

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That could explain why SwiftKey sucks now

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The people saying "we're destroying our planet and need to stop" want to see all humans go extinct but the people saying "nah oil belongs in the ocean" have our best interest in mind? Well I fully believe him.

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You're right I forget people don't realize destroying the planet is like burning your own house down but your house will be fine and you'll die.

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Anyone have any good ad blocking practices for this?

Don't buy gas from places that do this. Hasn't failed me yet and if more people did it maybe they'll stop.

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If it makes you feel better I'm half the country away and wake up to 3 new articles a day about it. I clicked the first one which I guess was my mistake but it seemed important.

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I've got a laptop with nvidia graphics and I've never had a problem.

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You when the only other option is to use public transport in a country with the worst public transportation of any western nation because instead of calling on the government to do something you said "it doesn't effect me so why should I care?"

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My phone number is registered to my phone carrier under my real name. My username is not. Unless I've misunderstood the question.

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If you don't think your voice matters in the ballot box, why do you assume it matters anywhere?

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"5-10 years experience" is a range of time anyone can understand. "MINIMUM 5-10 years" is a range that makes absolutely no sense. Imagine if the speed limit signs in your area said "maximum 35-45 mph" and tell me how fast you're allowed to drive.

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Google services don't last that long, sorry.

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It happened again.

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Yes.

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I'm slightly confused by your question but I'm still going to try to answer it. Ricing in the meme gets it's origins from those same cars so there's not another definition really it's just expanded it's grasp.

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I can make the n word into an acronym, it doesn't make it not racist.

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Dog that's literally where the term comes from. It's more like calling a low rider a beaner mobile, not like calling a Latino person Latino.

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Cloth?

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    Nobody would make the argument you're making with rape and murder.

    I'm on your side in this but this sentence is just wrong. We glorify violence in so many ways. Rape and murder included.

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    Because it has the same colors as the trans flag

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    I think I fucked up the last line

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