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CaptSpify

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    Comment #21528284

    I don't have video/audio working on this install, so I'll try to get that set up later and make a video. I do have a video of the wifi in action though: https://tmp.thekyel.com/mon…

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    Comment #21519443

    Those switches are software under the hood though, at least as far as I can tell. I installed freebsd on my purism laptop, and it no longer shuts off the camera/microphone.

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    Comment #18592465

    I think it adds a lot to the conversation. It's an obviously poor argument, which points out how poor it is when Mozilla uses it to make obviously poor choices.

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    Comment #18395102

    Those two are far from mutually exclusive

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    Comment #18394685

    > Compounding the problem of enterprise software is customization. That's kind of the same-but-opposite of my experience. When software tries to control how it's going to be used, …

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    Comment #18392245

    This isn't isolated to doctors sadly. You see this in any medium to large organization: schools, cities, companies, etc. The problem, the way I see it, is that management is the on…

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    Comment #18384737

    > it's possible for apps to make the experience better in meaningful ways. Now if we could just get app designers to realize that! IME, apps are usually just poor front-ends for th…

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    Comment #18384497

    alternatively: don't send them the referrer

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    Comment #18374010

    Canonical only gave this a very half-assed attempt though. The purism 5 should be coming out relatively soon, and it looks like they work hard to make their laptops work decently. …

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    Comment #18358995

    > Honest question: does this actually help you get what you're after faster? For me, yes! Absolutely! Having worked in a call-center before, there is a large amount of undeserved t…

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    Comment #18354810

    Thanks! I've looked at nextcloud, but IIRC, you have to have the whole suite installed, right? I'd love a way to just use the calendar function.

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    Comment #18354218

    Which self-hosted calendar do you use? would you recommend it? I'm in the market for a new one, but the current offerings that I've seen aren't great.

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    Comment #18350921

    Because unfortunately, way too many of us depend financially upon poor security practices.

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    Comment #18346816

    Yeah, I did, which is why I'm asking. I never saw anything saying that women were inferior to men, or that "his co-workers are biologically incapable of doing their jobs" Can you p…

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    Comment #18341905

    > that spelled out that his co-workers are biologically incapable of doing their jobs, because... Can you point me to where it said that? I don't remember reading anything like tha…

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    Comment #18303183

    Ah, I apologize for misunderstanding you. I can't point to any specific trigger, but I notice that I get drawn to certain creators. If I start to recognize their name/brand, and I …

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    Comment #18302951

    As a Linux user and advocate, it's really frustrating to see these types of comments being down-voted. Linux still has a ton of issues OOTB, and disregarding negative experiences l…

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    Comment #18302853

    *should My experience is that it does not.

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    Comment #18297516

    Something can be a "dark pattern" and an industry standard at the same time. I agree that the consumers should change their behavior, but there aren't a lot of options for supporti…

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    Comment #18297495

    I don't know why you are asking me what you should sell. If it was easy to come up with a service/product to sell, everyone would do it. That's the challenging part of running your…

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    Comment #18297442

    But you don't need to be a battery engineer to understand statistics. If these batteries are dying early, then either Apple didn't do enough testing, they did and ignored the resul…

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    Comment #18286574

    > What ideas do you have for publishers to actually monetize their content? How about either: A) A traditional product or service, where you can skim some money off the top. B) Use…

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    Comment #18286247

    Because we saw the evidence: The batteries they shipped started dying early. I'm willing to believe that they did do proper testing and ignored the results, but I'm not sure that's…

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    Comment #18285134

    Apple's mistake was really that they didnt do proper load testing on their batteries. Had they shipped a battery that was capable of keeping up with the phone, this wouldn't have b…

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    Comment #18241031

    Probably because Gmail isn't the only email provider that lets you search. I run my own email server and can search them just fine.