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Interesting. How would this compare to making a while loop or recursive function, I wonder? And, what about switch statements? In theory it is said they should be faster, but I am …

Consider yourself lucky, because often Bloatware is not so innocuous. Very far from it. It is a heinous intrusion on our devices. Take Lenovo, for instance, with its addition of ut…

You could install a basic setup with a "apt install x x x" one-liner in ubuntu, and it would not take more than a few minutes to configure everything with sensible defaults. The ke…

It's the average per user, not a precise figure that fits on every user, but nevertheless I have seen no evidence to suggest that it would be inaccurate so far. Maybe you can find …

You could just opt out by using another platform – or better yet, self-host your own instance of Nextcloud, Mastodon, or similar. It's not like you are out of options. Meta's servi…

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That, I suppose, is why ad-companies typically invest in anonymization. It may not be perfect, but it is good enough in terms of reaching an acceptable balance between respecting p…

Would anonymization change your mind? I am not saying it should be required, because I do not think that personally. But, anonymization with sufficient entropy should presumably in…

Apples and oranges. Eh? And yet, while completely rejecting my post so confidently, you somehow managed to miss a central point: We can have targeted ads and privacy, and to an ext…

What specifically do you mean by "wrong end of the stick"? It seems you are just a troll incapable of engaging in meaningful discussions.

Your comparison is quite disgusting and grotesque of course, but let os ignore that for a moment and address the false idea that users are "paying with their privacy"; such opinion…

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Not to devalue the tireless work of authors, but we must also recognize that students in particular do not have enough money to pay for all these books. At the same time, it can be…

The part about search engine optimization is most probably highly inaccurate; you do not need special SEO skills to rank highly for low-competition niches, so that's that. The key …

I never ever smashed my phone. Why would I wanna do it? How/why can people be so clumsy? I think it is a symptom of having too much money.

Regardless of the reason, of course not acceptable. We have to insist on complete transparency, and life-time bans should always be liftable through some sort of dialogue. It is im…

The privacy argument is extremely important, also in regards to avoiding tracking via ads, but I do not think bypassing or blocking ads is the way forward. In the free democratic w…

Thanks for this. It is similar to how I feel these days; I am currently learning vue.js, and working on 3 different components at the same time (I should probably have focused on a…

It is far more likely that it is due to numerous other causes, some even with proven links – there is, however, still no links to mobile phone use, and no known mechanism by which …

Aspartame is still fine, and it is one of the most researched substances. This type of reasoning, that you are using, is down right unscientific, conspiratorial, and dangerous. htt…

This is the expected, most intuitive, and only sensible behavior, and yet Microsoft somehow, for some reason, decides it is okay not to use the default browser? Wait a minute. Are …