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Yeah as a rule I cancel every service immediately after payment. If I still need it in the second month I'll just buy another month, it takes seconds and I don't need to track anyt…

But the legal notion from where you grew up might not apply worldwide right? People aren't saying you are wrong, they are just saying things are different in other places. Where I …

Europe is a big place, but in my area of Europe it is very illegal to monitor employees this way. If you were to be fired for something that illegal surveillance turned up, I would…

To provide my anecdata, my work MBP is 48GB and with nothing more than our dev environment, VSCode, Slack and Chrome it's at 34GB memory used. Modern NVMe drives make swapping to d…

I think it isn't as absolute as you suggest, and that it depends on city planning. I own a car but in the city I live it is not a better solution for everyday trips. Walking, cycli…

> For the most part he's not making streets safer, but just costing people money. It's not just a fine when caught using your phone while driving, it's also 6 penalty points (of a …

I know what you mean, though I have a device running SteamOS though and it runs extremely smoothly, the latency is no different than my windows PC (on titles where it can achieve t…

I somewhat suspect our difference here is cultural divide - I've never been to the US, but none of the things you mentioned have involved salespeople in my experience in Europe. I …

If you're aware of it and think you're susceptible then you can make it impossible to be influenced by it. Ie, You can disable all 'related videos'/feeds/home page on Youtube with …

Why would I, as a user, ever opt in to this instead of just using adblock and never seeing adverts at all.

Surely OLED is bad for a productivity device due to poor text rendering. For games or media, sure.

That isn't quite true, because the law was enacted on October 26, 2023, which was still the same party that drafted it. Of course, it is true that it is being supported by the curr…

I somewhat suspect you would not find it so amazing if you paid £9000/year for it, though.

> if you playing chess up to a decent level 1700+ (like me), you know that these argument its wrong and I assure you to learn chess to a decent level In a fascinating coincidence, …

This is exactly what high beams are for, and even 20 year old cars have very bright high beams that are plenty safe. The problem referred to in the article is dipped beam headlight…

I don't disagree but things would've been same under any of the major parties that could possibly get elected under FPTP. None of them have the political capital to really oppose i…

> Starmer’s government It seems worth pointing out (for any readers unaware) that the Online Safety Act, introduced by Conservative MP Michelle Donelan, was passed in September 202…

> and by staring at these monitors all day, we are slowly degrading it Yes, but that is probably accelerated more by sitting closer to screens than is healthy for too long, than it…

If you have 20/20 vision, a 27" display at 1440p (~110 DPI) has a visual acuity distance of 79cm - ie, if you are sat 79cm or further away from the screen, humans are not capable o…

I suspect what OP meant is that if the party is majority men, then they are still happy to hang out.

> There is no expectation of privacy in any place that is considered public. Well that entirely depends on the country - in the UK it is true, but it wouldn't be true in Switzerlan…

If someone's aim is to avoid a wealth tax, then moving to Switzerland (one of the few other countries with a wealth tax) seems like a confusing choice. The Swiss wealth tax is paya…

> As a country the UK is so quick to dismiss initiatives from other countries that are shown to work there I found British culture so depressingly defeatist that I stopped trying t…

I thought Stanley cups is a weird choice to make "more shit" sound wasteful or a bad thing. Typically I think the American lifestyle is people carrying fewer things usually. I walk…