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X11 screen lockers are not secure at all if you can get them to crash in any way, they revert to showing the full desktop unprotected.

What would be the point of a program owning a patent? Is it going to charge you royalties for use? Where does that money go? If it gets it’s own bank account, what happens when you…

Does it seem unlikely? the rise of buy now pay later services for non essential retail shows the average person is fairly financially illiterate and will put present comforts ahead…

Landlords will be extremely cautious from now on and only selecting tenants that they believe will continue paying through laws like these.

Australia did it better by just providing a regular income to everyone who lost their job. That way everyone keeps paying their bills/rent and things return to normal after.

There are absolutely some % of people who are so poor at financial management that they used the last year as a chance to not pay rent and instead buy luxuries. These people have d…

I feel like the “server test” rule OP talks about doesn’t really matter and shouldn’t. Who cares if the browser downloaded it from Instagram or the site itself. The actual result i…

Probably more of a pain if you have a large amount of data and a slow internet connection. For me it all fits in the 50GB file and downloads in a few minutes. I guess pulling out 1…

If a literal terrorist files a complaint then the police department can pick them up. The complaints department only needs to handle local citizen complaints.

Did this for years. Finally gave up last year. It’s so much work, discovery is a huge pain, listening on all devices is a pain. None of it was worth it. Now I just use Spotify and …

That’s fine and valid, but many people make enough money where slumming it for some small savings no longer makes sense.

macOS still offers benefits. If you have an iPhone, everything is synced up for you so your reminders set on your Mac will ping you on your phone. You get the anti loss/theft featu…

The catch is it costs more then an iPhone, gets about 2 hours battery even if the screen is off, and has a cpu slower than a $50 android.

This just proves it’s even harder. Even if by some insane luck you manage to build something that is very good, the general public still doesn’t want it.

And only a tiny fraction of them would care. I’m quite happy with my iPhone and don’t want a random HN freedom phone. I don’t ever even intend to develop something for my phone and…

Over 2TB is hidden behind an expanding button. They went up to 10TB iirc.

Which is why I download the Takeout backup monthly.

I’d argue it’s less steps than preordering the framework laptop, pulling it apart and swapping modules around. The average person can walk in to the apple store and walk out with a…

I don’t see a problem with them. The majority of users never need one and even when I use them I usually use them infrequently. I often leave them on the ends of cables. My display…

The pixel phones are virtually unfixable. I had one and there was no official google location to take it too. Went to a 3rd party store and they said they can attempt it but even w…

It’s unreal the difference. Almost every one of my android devices has bricked, failed in some other way, or become unusable due to a lack of updates while my apple devices have la…

Removing the battery is the official way of turning them off. If the anti stalker mode activates on your iPhone. It shows an animation of how to twist and remove the battery.

Almost all of the tags are on people’s keys which hold close to no value

This has to be at the OS level or it will either be killed by the OS or ruin your battery life.

It’s not surprising when people earning $200k aren’t so enthusiastic when the rest of the population gets the chance to buy a house. Honestly the lack of empathy from people here i…