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Ads force you to pay for some thing Actually no, it's worse. Ad companies take everything they can from you using any method they can including monitoring everything you browse or …

Nonsense. Adobe had a flash to ios system ready to go to allow all flash apps to run, and Jobs deliberately blocked it from working, leading to the eventual death of flash. Jobs wa…

It's not a safety check bypass. Boeing wants to make pilots responsible for turning off the deicer within 5 min of ice disappearing to prevent the flawed engines breaking apart in …

Why would anyone buy a used Tesla when 1st buyers already have issues getting dying batteries replaced?

It is wouldn't, but the ITC ruling is quicker to get than going to court for patent issues. Which is exactly why Apple uses import bans to screw with competitors importing headphon…

There is a grey area though when a company becomes the defacto monopoly over a service. Google and Microsoft email both have history of blocking email from other providers and have…

I can send the same mms from Android to Android and Apple recipients and they receive the same media. Yet sending from Apple to both the Apple users get good quality and Android Ap…

Because Apple deliberately screws with messages to non Apple users. Every video my family sends to me is low res heavily pixelated trash, to the point that you can't even recognise…

An individual has families to feed and mortgages to pay

How is this not an abuse of market power where the Google controlled app store allows other browsers to be banned for reasons that their own browser would never be automatically ba…

So, the magic mouse is fine to use if you don't use it as a mouse...? I can't decide which is more appropriate, "Think different" or "you're holding it wrong"

this already happens with Excel and access. Entire companies rely on a spreadsheet some wizard invented years ago and now no one knows how to change it, and it goes weird if multip…

Paying for YouTube is supporting a company that protects doxxers who are making them money

Incognito literally means to have your real identity hidden. It seems deceptive for a company to name/market a product as 'incognito' when it is literally funnneling data to them t…

I was most surprised by Australia Post, after reporting a weird login issue during the start of Covid when everything was going to shit. It was took a couple of weeks before they g…

Excel isn't the only MS product with US date insanity. Outlook set up for AU region only supports date filtering in searches using US date formats, which is the icing on the turd s…

How many times can a government employee drive by your property for the single aim to conduct surveillance including taking detailed photographs?

Doubtless the censorship also extends to publishing apps that are critical of topics Apple relies on for profit. A walled garden of Apple approved thought

This is the dumbest argument.

Better idea would be mass cloning badges and flood checking in at multiple sites (it's amazing what unhappy engineers can build, especially if they are experience in aerials of rem…

Most accounts with passwords have the fail-safe method of 'prove my identity to company, they reset'. I.e if you can't remember your bank password, there are paths for the bank to …

I'll pay Google when they start weeding out the utter garbage that is uploaded targeting kids. Things like frozen characters getting tired up and thrown in water, or their clay sto…

Are there stats on performance differences? Anecdotally, I find that blocking ads and associated garbage massively improves page loading, and FF performs fine even with hundreds of…

Compared to say 10 years ago, now days devel environments are made up of stacks of modules that you have to hand configure. 10 years ago a LAMP server involved hopping on a Ubuntu …

If you use labels extensively then you should look at removing before migrating. When using IMAP each label acts as a folder, and if an email has 5 labels then IMAP has 5 copies of…