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avra

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    Comment #48758152

    > We need to resist this! I agree. What do you suggest? How can we contribute to the resistance?

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    Comment #47923794

    Yeah, Lidl and Kaufland are store chains, with 14200 stores combined. 7500 employees is just Schwarz Digits, the digital services division.

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    Comment #47456256

    Exchanging files in ODF seems much more frictionless to me than in DOCX. Thankfully, there is much better support nowadays for both formats.

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    Comment #47452819

    Is the wiping functionality implemented so inconspicuously that you can't tell the device has been wiped?

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    Comment #47336302

    I was wondering the same. They just updated the status page but it was showing green for a while and I couldn't login. https://status.claude.com/

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    Comment #46752590

    How can a satellite connection be more weather independent than a landline? Not questioning your statement. Just wondering what could be the reason. A segment with a long distance …

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    Comment #46498887

    The snowflakes are a clever engagement hack. They doubled the amount of comments here. I find it funny for the moment, but I hope this will not become the norm for hn posts.

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    Comment #46211254

    In the EU we have 116117 which is not (yet?) implemented in all countries. It's part of the "harmonised service of social value" which uses 116 as a prefix and has also other helpl…

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    Comment #46211136

    > All without a co-pay The author of the blog post also mentioned they tried to avoid paying for an unnecessary visit to the doctor. I think the issue is somewhere else. As a Europ…

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    Comment #45750534

    from the Play Store This is not about the Play Store. This is about the whole Android platform. It's about running what you want on your own machine.

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    Comment #45364685

    Most of the times the user prioritizes more convenient options over privacy. "Pressure for competing options" will mean that options compete for the most convenient way, not most s…

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    Comment #32305495

    > This elderly woman, looked to be in her 70s, might lose the roof over her head, due to being unable to log into her Google account, because she lost her old phone and with it, he…

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    Comment #32194466

    If you think about it, that's more or less the original idea. Affordable accommodation for young solo travelers. People that do not have the time and energy to face the inconvenien…

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    Comment #26562174

    In Chrome you can right click the address bar and select "Always show full URLs". I prefer how Firefox highlights the most important part and still shows the full URL.

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    Comment #25747630

    Stories are implemented to keep the user engaged. I think the fact that people are even asking for them in other apps could be interpreted as clearly working or even as being addic…

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    Comment #25747457

    While this does still mean you have to trust your keyboard app, you can tell Signal to trigger your keyboards incognito mode. I don't think it should include its own keyboard. But …

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    Comment #25159915

    And mdemare was the loader.

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    Comment #22847448

    I'm afraid someone has to tell the author that what is already possible is worse than the concerns raised here. This technology is actually an effort to not use the available metho…

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    Comment #22246904

    This is exactly the experience I had with MS Dynamics. Hideous. So hideous I refuse to work in that field anymore.

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    Comment #19938081

    I'm curious why a CD would not work anymore after listening to it a lot? Is the laser powerful enough to damage it or is it the heat from the device itself which is degrading the m…

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    Comment #19938038

    I think holding shift just works for autostart when booting up. Autorun/autoplay of CD's can be disabled in the system settings.