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The word "need" is loaded and almost seems to be besides the point to me. Your father-in-law wants to talk a human rather than self-serve. What's the problem with that? Honest ques…

Yeah I don't remember anyone liking Windows 8 at the time. I'm honestly a little bit surprised to hear that there is nostalgia for it at all.

In most legal jurisdictions that I know of, kids aren't legally allowed to be able to access to pornography either. How is that working out? The only way to even attempt to enforce…

You're not wrong, but that doesn't mean they weren't still in "growth" phase. Their pricing, and their doubling down on account sharing policies over the last few years have shown …

> when I'd actually written most of the Wikipedia article on said subject. The irony... Wikipedia doesn't just use unpaid labour, it ends up undermining the people who wrote it. Su…

> How the heck is that even possible? :o Because what the cheater is trying to accomplish is to avoid having to think. It's an act motivated by either laziness, apathy or rebellion…

> But, please, don't call it a "trade-off" - that implies that you're getting some positive benefits on both sides, which is inaccurate and misleading - you should be framing mutat…

We shouldn't forget that there are trade-offs, however. And it depends on the language's runtime in question. As we all know, TypeScript is a super-set of JavaScript so at the end …

I ran a highly trafficked adult website for 18 years. In the early days, CDNs were unattainable for me and I managed my own rudimentary network by hosting bare metal servers in dat…

My wife and I own a small theatre. We can process orders in-store just fine. Our customers can even avoid online processing fees if they purchase in-store. And if our POS system we…

I can understand that sentiment. Just don't lose sight of the impact it can have on every day people. My wife and I own a small theatre and we sell tickets through Eventbrite. It's…

> But it ultimately doesn't matter either way. A major selling point/part of the "contract" the web platform has with web developers is backwards compatibility. The fact that you p…

ML has been around for ages. Email spam filters are one of the oldest examples. These days when the term "AI" is thrown around the person is usually talking about large language mo…

> This works very well for the local wealth crowd It works well for everyone. The problem with government that is for and by the people, is that wealthy people are people too. You'…

> But the design clearly is not fit for where our society is or the direction it is moving, people have much more affiliation with the national entity than with the state entity Fo…

I switched to Mint (Mate) around 2012 or so because of radical UI changes made by Canonical. At the time, the "mobile revolution" was the big industry trend. Windows 8 had come out…

Sure but I hope you get my point. Fighting takes effort, cooperation takes effort. Most people have other things to worry about and don't care about whatever it is you're fighting …

> In my experience when humans are given the choice to cooperate or fight, most choose to cooperate. Personally, my opinion of human nature falls somewhere in the middle of those t…

More colloquially, people would say that Wikipedia could not be trusted because "anyone can edit the pages or write whatever they want." Of course that's demonstrative of the genes…

I'm not worried that I'm going to lose access to V2. I'm worried that they are moving in the same rent-seeking direction that Adobe did that caused me to migrate to Affinity in the…

If it's a one-time license validation, no. That's fine. If it's "login every time to be able to use the app" then that is something that, while is not necessarily a deal breaker in…

Thyat's a fair question and the honest answer is I don't know and I'd have to sift through the feature comparison chart to see if there's anything I actively use today with my paid…

A lot of this type of stuff boils down to what you're used to. My wife is not particularly tech savvy. She is a Linux user, however. When we started a new business, we needed certa…

I switched to Affinity as part an ongoing effort to "de-Adobe-ize." I had no idea that they were owned by Canva. This could be good news, but as someone who paid for a perpetual li…

I share your bias, but something to consider is the prevalence of smart phone usage these days, and the fact that reading text on a smart phone can be as awful as trying to watch a…