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"Spotify is currently not available in your country." Take my euros goddarnit. Probably fights involving licensing agreements, or competition buying whole markets. I don't know if …

You are choosing the most uncharitable reading which is not what he meant. How do I know that? Because, despite his meatheaddy appearances, he has consistently shown himself to not…

That's why should verbally slap him around a bit, preventatively, just in case? Because as you admitted "the context isn't inherently transphobic".

That's what you can do, sometimes. Step around dozens of dark patterns. It's not what your less tech-savvy relatives can realistically do.

I use Linux, I am pretty ambivalent about Windows, I don't like adware and telemetry in my paid-for software but if they really start doing that honestly that will irritate me enou…

If it's so obvious then why am I receiving security patches for my Linux desktop almost every day?

There's slight difference in that in Firefox's case tech journals will be writing about it, everyone else will be talking about it and it will be on front page of HN. In the case o…

That's why it's only fair we as users uphold the same rules by immediately severing any ties, present and future, with Blizzard. The rules are perfectly balanced, as all things sho…

Don't waste you money, malware is amazing as well.

> poorly calibrated for obviousness They should move way to the other side on the scale of obviousness. Patents should be there to protect investments, not to stake out ideas brigh…

Question: If it makes sense for games to be resalable then why not tickets for cinema or concerts? Ianal afaik both are contractual agreements.

And manufacturers. I tried to install system-wide cert on my Android to intercept and see exactly what system apps on my old Nokia phone were sending to Chinese servers but couldn'…

I have a suspicion that most libertarians would be completely fine with unplowed roads. On top of that, should people want to have plowed roads they are free and welcome to hire so…

> Every single company did stupid things in the past Perhaps there is some boundary that shouldn't be crossed. You seem to be arguing there isn't. Perhaps global and successful com…

> In the end, these devices do ship with Windows, which has privacy problems anyway. It does, but those are "theoretical" in comparison to the degree Lenovo stooped on, it doesn't …

> want to be in control of their data and devices, The other day there was a thread on HN about which laptop is great for Linux. Tons of people recommended Lenovo, a guy from Redha…

> but moving/resizing windows is still very painful Press alt and drag inside a window. Left mouse for moving, right for resizing.