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- Comment on Tech giant Meta will pay Australians $50 million for enabling the Cambridge Analytica scandal 3 days ago:
That’s like fining me a penny. Ooh! I learned my lesson!
- Comment on HDMI 2.2 will be announced next month — and it may require a new cable 5 days ago:
Display Port isn’t typically an option for home entertainment centers and TVs.
- Comment on Three Men Die When Google Maps Tells Them to Drive Off Unfinished Bridge 3 weeks ago:
A more accurate title is “Three men die when road crews fail to barricade a broken bridge”.
- Comment on Cybertruck's Many Recalls Make It Worse Than 91 Percent of All 2024 Vehicles 3 weeks ago:
Those are a good deal safer than a Tesla. You won’t burn to death in a Little Tike because rescue services can’t open the doors, or break the windows.
- Comment on Cybertruck's Many Recalls Make It Worse Than 91 Percent of All 2024 Vehicles 3 weeks ago:
What are the 9% of cars that are worse?
- Comment on Insider: Tesla Is Breaking Tons of Rules Elon Musk May Slash Under Trump 3 weeks ago:
Winners write history. His legacy will be roses and puppy dog tails.
- Comment on Firefighters Struggle to Break the Tesla Cybertruck’s “Transparent Metal” Glass During Emergency Response Training 3 weeks ago:
What a stupid car.
- Comment on WhatsApp will finally let you unsubscribe from business marketing spam 4 weeks ago:
Same. I uninstalled as soon as I learned that it was owned by Facebook. Fuck zuck.
- Comment on US FCC to update undersea cable regulations amid suspected cable sabotage incidents — proposals include restricting Chinese companies from building cable components 4 weeks ago:
Good. It shouldn’t be so simple to completely isolate and cripple a country.
- Comment on Trump’s FCC chair is Brendan Carr, who wants to regulate everyone except ISPs 4 weeks ago:
SMALL GOVERNMENT
- Comment on Nike’s Air Max 1000 are almost entirely 3D-printed 4 weeks ago:
That has always been the case. Nike is notorious for using overseas sweat shops where children work their fingers to the bone for $0.50 an hour. It probably costs Nike a couple bucks to make a $200 shoe, if that. But they spend billions on advertising, celebrity endorsements, political
bribescontributions, and yachts, so it’s not all profit. - Comment on Nike’s Air Max 1000 are almost entirely 3D-printed 4 weeks ago:
I’ll download anything that is useful to me.
- Comment on Europe's DMA forces Meta toward 'less personalized ads' 5 weeks ago:
It’ll take them a full day to figure out a workaround.
- Comment on Microsoft stealthily installs Windows 10 update to nag you to upgrade to Windows 11 – and not for the first time 5 weeks ago:
Windows Recall is Windows 11 only. Additionally the keylogging is far more intrusive in 11 than any previous version. User telemetry is not the same as straight-up spyware, which is what Windows has become.
- Comment on Microsoft stealthily installs Windows 10 update to nag you to upgrade to Windows 11 – and not for the first time 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Microsoft stealthily installs Windows 10 update to nag you to upgrade to Windows 11 – and not for the first time 5 weeks ago:
Keylogging, and literally recording everything you do, then sending all of that information back to Microsoft.
- Comment on Microsoft stealthily installs Windows 10 update to nag you to upgrade to Windows 11 – and not for the first time 5 weeks ago:
This is why I shut automatic updates off six months ago. Yes, I’m aware of the security risks.
- Comment on David Zaslav says Trump will fuel big media mergers 1 month ago:
Arg matey!
- Comment on David Zaslav says Trump will fuel big media mergers 1 month ago:
I played a video game in the 90’s that was exactly this.
- Comment on David Zaslav says Trump will fuel big media mergers 1 month ago:
They just had 8 years of payday. I think you mean they’ll continue fucking everyone and everything in their insatiable desire for more.
- Comment on Trump’s likely FCC chair wrote Project 2025 chapter on how he’d run the agency 1 month ago:
These guys think streaming companies suck. They want to prop up their 95 year old friends at Comcast.
- Comment on Trump’s likely FCC chair wrote Project 2025 chapter on how he’d run the agency 1 month ago:
Let’s give this guy with $250 billion dollars a billion dollars worth of tax payer money, because fuck you.
- Comment on CrowdStrike part 2 crashes Microsoft Office on Windows 11 24H2 1 month ago:
LOL
- Comment on Trump plans to dismantle Biden AI safeguards after victory 1 month ago:
Of course he does. Don’t you guys remember 2016-2020? When presented with any possible choice, the trump administration will always choose the most damaging one possible. Just accept it. Get used to it. Or you’re going to go crazy.
- Comment on Google tests showing full recipes right in search results 2 months ago:
Hidden text or color matched text has resulted in an SEO penalty since like 2003.
- Comment on Google tests showing full recipes right in search results 2 months ago:
Google has been trying to steal people’s content since before they rolled out AMP. Google views users and creators both as roadblocks to their money.
- Comment on US judge says Google must open Android phones to rival app stores 2 months ago:
“Is there any reason why this calculator needs permissions for my camera, microphone, contacts, and files?”
—said no one ever who posts on facebook that their account was hacked
- Comment on Can’t upgrade your PC to Windows 11? Buy a new one, is Microsoft’s laughable solution 2 months ago:
Don’t be scurred! Download the Pop!_OS disc image, use Rufus to create a bootable USB drive. Put it into your USB port. Boot. Hit f12 if needed to select your boot device. Boot to the thumb drive. Follow the on-screen instructions. EZ!
PS: move your data off your primary hard drive before proceeding with step 3 above. You should follow a wiki, but it really is that simple.
- Comment on Can’t upgrade your PC to Windows 11? Buy a new one, is Microsoft’s laughable solution 2 months ago:
Nope, the vendors see that as a win too. Go buy new hardware. Stop being a poor.
- Comment on Can’t upgrade your PC to Windows 11? Buy a new one, is Microsoft’s laughable solution 2 months ago:
I have parts on the way to build a new PC. Believe it or not, also Linux.
