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It's advertising. Smack bang in the middle of the OS you paid hundreds for.

One of the many reasons why I hate Windows 10. Just get out of my way and let me use my computer how I want. I'd put on my "smug Linux user" hat but to be honest my distro of choic…

This comment seems to be the mail order equivalent of the "they can't legally make you stay after the bell rings in class" kid at school.

It's mind boggling that they continue to make life so difficult for paying customers when it's possible to go to a site like Pirate Bay and get a bit-perfect rip in less than 15 mi…

Ubuntu takes all of about 10 minutes to install a full blown desktop and Just Works™ based on my recent experience. Not to take anything away from the amazing tweakability and cust…

I bought a DEC MicroVAX on ebay a few years ago and the seller lived in Swindon. I passed through the Magic Roundabout on the way there and the way back (during rush hour). Having …

To be fair this exact behaviour has been happening since pretty much day 1, Google no longer being run by engineers is a very recent development.

The Fastmail app is very good, for example.

Not just the constant notifications but it even shows messages on the lock screen!

Seems you have your answer right there. Time to get hacking!

8bitdo make some really nice gamepads.

To be fair I had to use this very process to book a hotel in the Caribbean just last year - a hotel owned and operated by a British company!

You have fake passport and credit card scans? I'm not sure you should admit that on a public forum.

I played the original to death "back in the day" so I'm really sad to hear that they went down this route. Probably also explains why nobody talks about Angry Birds anymore.

Why assume they're using non-renewable energy? These resorts are in mountainous regions where hydro, wind etc are all very viable options.

To be fair, Windows 10 does this.

I'm not sure about the others but Minecraft's code was notoriously bad for years, but it didn't seem to hold it back.

> They did not have any disadvantages besides the high price iPhones couldn't run Flash (which powered all of the interactive content on the internet at the time), couldn't send MM…

> And honestly, if you don't keep data of stuff you host on a server provider like this, you kind of get what you deserve... While I agree that everyone should have their own off-s…

They put a rude word on their homepage, that makes them edgy and cool and anti-corporation!

I'm not sure why you've been downvoted for this. I thought the same. I read it as: "This type of incident is extremely rare in the web hosting industry, because apparently the over…

Don't tell me, you could have done it yourself in your basement in a couple of hours? Well done.

I play a lot of retro games, so why not 4:3!?

This doesn't even make sense, Chrome is non-free to begin with.

What makes you think it's being treated as insignificant? It's all over the news.