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People who have grown to know and love ad blocking will move en masse to Firefox. That would be a good thing. The attempt to force users into a system they don't want when there ar…

They should modify it so after launch it is based on active users. That will keep good things growing.

It's just a thought, not a business plan :)

Because if I'm Safeway and I can get elderly people to come to my business (for shopping, prescriptions, etc.) they won't be shopping somewhere else. The business gains/retains the…

I expect the funding model for self driving taxis will be like validated parking. You ride free (or reduced) if you spend $x at whatever business, shopping mall, etc.

Use the ublock origin extension to remove the parts of Reddit that are annoying. Use the picker to select the problem overlays and create a rule and they will be gone. You have to …

I have the Essential Phone and love it. Here are some notes on building and installing Lineage OS on the Essential PH-1: https://headthirst.com/building-and-installing-lineageos.ht…

I hear this argument a lot but I disagree. While some advertisements can alert you to a product that will be helpful, many have the psychological intent of producing dissatisfactio…

I use LibreOffice and these appear as grey characters (at least some of the characters do). I've wondered what the grey characters were in the past and now I know. Copy and paste t…

Almost everyone I know willingly puts themselves under corporate surveillance (credit card?, cell phone?, license plates on car?, web browser?, cable tv?, netflix?, shopper rewards…

I'm more concerned about people I know taking pictures of me and posting it all over Facebook and the rest of the internet. That is far more invasive than this Amazon device. I hav…

I use mine almost exclusively for playing music. I just bought a second one and found they can sync play (which makes for a nice whole house audio solution for cheap). They also fu…

Anker.

I use Chrome and a plugin called Font Changer that lets one override fonts on pages. I don't need to have it turned on for all sites but it can be done. Mostly I just have everythi…

But rudeness in wait staff is a self-fulfilling prophecy. They treat you poorly so how can they expect a generous tip?

If extensions like this became ubiquitous, I wonder what Google's response would be? Would they refuse to run their apps on iOS like they do on Windows Phone, or would they still h…

I tried AdBlockPlus last year on my android tablet. It had a bug that didn't close video streams. If you started watching something and closed the app or started another stream, th…

PayPal has some serious issues with regards to what you say, but I used it last summer to transfer money from USA to Europe for my daughter and the fee was a fraction of what the b…

Ten folders puts me at the limit just on my family LAN with each user having their own folder and me having a couple so I can have a smaller set for syncing to laptop and a larger …