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As I recall, there were plenty of legitimate user gripes when the very first iteration of Snow Leopard (10.6.0) was released. But by the time of the very last point-release (10.6.1…

False dichotomy. The books could have been digitized WITHOUT being destroyed. There’s no reason to assume that digital ebooks/documents will be accessible or readable to anyone in …

It aired on TV in some European countries, because at the time the actual series had not been picked up there. So for who-knows-how-many people, the alternate pilot was the only ve…

Reminds me of the alternate, feature-length version of the Twin Peaks pilot, created in case the series was not picked up, in which they continue the storyline set up in the first …

Extrajudicial executions are never justified. They are normally referred to as “murders”.

>overzealous lynching did I believe sometimes cross the line Very magnanimous of you to acknowledge that.

None of your three examples are actions that are willingly (either actively or passively) carried out collectively by people in society.

Supposed “exceptions” for the life of the mother are largely ineffective in practice. By design. https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/jun/23/all-abortion-...

I remember on my old DOS/Win3.11 machine, I imposed some order on things by only installing “minor” applications to C:\BIN, and larger programs to C:\APPS. Wanted as few top-level …

Awkwardly worded and delivered, but it seems his observation was that Black residents were disproportionately negatively affected by Katrina. A perfectly valid point. I am by no me…

Okay so until such time as this higher-orbit asteroid detection network is in place, let's have a moratorium on these Starlink things.

Surely you mean the Samsung/HTC/Motorola/Nokia/etc./etc. of the car world... https://dontholditwrong.tumblr.com

Possibly this is the "Automatically rearrange Spaces..." setting in the Mission Control prefPane?

> I was blown by that feature Is the feature Premium? Or only available in free mode? Just wondering...

The channel has now been reinstated. Source: https://twitter.com/GerritD/status/1409608525601443840

Some kind of Braille markings, or similar, really should be a standard part of the spec.

Tile just announced they’re partnering with Amazon so that Tile devices will participate in their ‘Sidewalk’ network. This will help them compete with the network of Apple’s billio…

Just a few days ago, Apple issued a security update (iOS 12.5.3) for the iPhone 5s, a phone that first came out in Sept. 2013. Not bad huh?

Zuck has nothing but contempt for Facebook users. The classic Zuck quote, "They trust me — dumb fucks" still applies. https://gawker.com/5636765/facebook-ceo-admits-to-calling-us..…

> (Ever notice that when Facebook wants to reach the most people, and the most important people, it uses newspapers, rather than its own platform?) They do this when they want to g…

(It’s Cmd-O, or Cmd-down-arrow.) Hitting “enter” to open a file makes it too easy to do it accidentally. What if I didn’t mean to start up a huge app like a pro video editor or som…

Yes I feel your pain in that one. There’s a way to turn this off in the settings... one of the first things I do with any new Windows setup. Another major peeve of mine: Windows le…

This should be entertaining. Cry more, Zuck.

Don’t you think that the main reason Canada et al recognized Guaidó, was precisely because he was the Americans’ favoured choice? You’re really not making the point you think you a…