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- Comment on Please ban data caps, Internet users tell FCC 4 weeks ago:
Honestly, the FTC should be in charge of this
- Comment on DuckDuckGo blocked in Indonesia over porn, gambling search results 3 months ago:
Well, it is using Bing on the backend…
- Comment on If 1 million people sign a petition, a ban on rendering multiplayer games unplayable has a chance to become law in Europe 3 months ago:
What do you mean by political?
- Comment on Facebook refused to take down fake account, says TikTok star 5 months ago:
Facebook has no incentive to do so if the fake account is generating revenue.
- Comment on TikTok is testing hour-long videos 5 months ago:
Not necessarily. Yes, the majority of videos are vine-like, but people do post educational/instructional videos on the platform.
According to my wife, because I refuse to use it.
- Comment on China has flooded the market with so many solar panels that people are using them as garden fencing 7 months ago:
It’s because the companies own the government in the US.
- Comment on China has flooded the market with so many solar panels that people are using them as garden fencing 7 months ago:
You can probably get them on AliExpress
- Comment on looking for a dock that let's me connect my DVI monitor 7 months ago:
Make sure you get the right cable or adapter. There are a few different DVI standards, and they’re not all compatible with each other.
- Comment on “Temporary” disk formatting UI from 1994 still lives on in Windows 11 7 months ago:
I actually noticed that last week when setting up some repos to migrate from JavaX to Jakarta. It was a pleasant surprise.
Although getting to that menu was a pain in the ass. One of these days I’ll get around to memorizing the .msc list, but thankfully my job is fucking with RHEL
- Comment on US fines man $9.9 million for thousands of disturbing robocalls 7 months ago:
They are, though. The FCC and FTC have been working on doing things on their end, and the FCC is forcing telecoms to do things on their end.
This type of thing takes time to implement, though.
- Comment on “Temporary” disk formatting UI from 1994 still lives on in Windows 11 7 months ago:
What’s a pain in the ass is when you have to try to get to those menus to do something like change an environmental variable or restart a network adapter.
Microsoft has been making it more and more difficult to efficiently administer Windows.
- Comment on AT&T won't say how its customers' data spilled online 7 months ago:
That probably means they haven’t fixed the breach yet and are scrambling to do so.
- Comment on GitLab confirms it’s removed Suyu, a fork of Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu 7 months ago:
It’s not going to discourage enough legitimate users to matter. Plus, this has been Nintendo’s MO for a long time now.
- Comment on Airbnb is banning indoor security cameras 8 months ago:
It’s just a CYA, move. Now they can point to their policy to show they aren’t liable because it’s against the ToS.
- Comment on SteamOS alternative Bazzite v2.2 out now with lots of enhancements 9 months ago:
I’m using that desktop environment on top of Ubuntu, but I guess I should try the full distro.
- Comment on SteamOS alternative Bazzite v2.2 out now with lots of enhancements 9 months ago:
This is exciting. I’ve been using KDE Plasma on my TV, but it’s really not ideal. I’ll have to install Bazzite tonight.