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This is a very smart strategic move on behalf of Microsoft that I would have never guessed (not because it doesn't make sense but simply out of corporate pride, considering they ar…

> If you sell your house, even in a sellers market like today, you will immediately become a buyer in a seller’s market, facing the same inflated costs to get back into a house. Wh…

I also have Win 10 pro. How have you disabled ads and app store/one drive?

More like $200 if you want Pro (retail) license and still get the same ads. I find it completely unacceptable.

Having to use something like Steam (Internet based DRM) to play games effortlessly on Linux seems to beat the purpose. At that point I'd rather just have a separate Windows 10 inst…

> - google can push chrome on people in their search results. and google pushed HARD. So hard they dominate the browser market and chrome is unfortunately not known for privacy. I …

2 ways I can answer this: 1. Personally, working from home has been a mixed bag. When I'm allowed to focus on one single task, I can do pretty well. The comforts of having my own o…

> Maybe album cover art is just less meaningful in the year 2021. I couldn't care less what the album art looks like when listening to music on Spotify or YouTube. Do you listen to…

I don't think I qualify for either introvert or extrovert (that is, I tend to be self-reflective about some things and outgoing about others). There are plenty of other reasons too…

You mean how all these Amazon attack articles are focusing on the systematic problem and not narrowly on a single company /s

Because the discussion is only focused on Amazon. If instead all such articles and complains would be "Amazon, among many other companies, give workers incentives to pee in bottles…

Well, at some point they will have managed to remove all need for unskilled labor and then everyone will be happy, right? /s

Agreed. I may not have agreed with most things Amazon twitter said but IMO it was definitely refreshing to see a company answering back instead of being just a punching bag mute fo…

Amazon is a big employer: what's the percentage of Amazon's employees engage in that? What's the percentage of employees of any other large employer, that directly competes with Am…

Which seems to apply to some of our politicians too. Like the reply from Elizabeth Warren saying that maybe Amazon should be split up because then maybe they wouldn't have time to …

I don't think having more wealth per capita is unreasonable, unexpected or unfair. In life you acquire things over time (capital, skills, experience, relationships), you get more o…

My wife liked it so much we bought a couple of new ones when the product was retired just to make sure we'll have at least one working for decades to come. Still using one every da…

Indeed I noticed the 2018 Macbook Pro became a much more useful machine for work and I was a lot more productive once I started using it clamshell-mode only with external keyboard/…

I think it mostly boils down to business loss that they would otherwise incur if they set themselves against those companies and thought them tooth and nail (the actual lawsuit cos…

> No, that's not correct. Google goes above and beyond what the DMCA requires in order to curry favor with the movie/TV/music studios. Presumably Content ID was a part of Google's …

> Do you honestly believe that the person can look around any code base and find significant speed increases? In my experience, YES! It is often the new set of eyes (especially if …

Yeah I would actually argue that a minimum amount of corruption IS necessary in real life. Unless you live in a utopian society with perfect laws and application of them, corruptio…

Was the shared data as a result of a lawful request? Any company would have to comply in that case.

And you make that trade by using another browser (or Internet search service, email service, etc).