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My go to example (that unfortunately wasn’t mentioned in the article) is the removal of a game called Oxenfree from everyone who bought a permanent license for it on Itch.io. This …

The original price should have been in $700-800 range, pre-RAM and storage pricing escalation, which would have changed the equation drastically. I even considered getting it as a …

Apple dropping 32-bit support resulted in me losing access to 3/4 of my Mac Steam library. Not every piece of software is built with an endless update treadmill in mind, no matter …

I gifted my mom a Xiaomi phone a few years ago. Even after removing all the unnecessary apps and permissions, disabling all the privacy invasive settings and replacing the launcher…

>Try to set the lights to turn on 10 minutes before your alarm goes off I had a very similar use case: turn on my espresso machine (via smart plug) 20 minutes before I wake up. It …

The quality of Apple maps is highly dependent on where you live. Every time I check their release notes, I see “we’ve added a custom 3d model for this one landmark in a random US c…

>Apple made SMB its primary file-sharing protocol in OS X 10.9 Mavericks, over 12 years ago… …and yet SMB support in macOS remains slow and buggy to this day. I tried all combinati…

Not sure why would I preorder a laptop of all things. It looks interesting, but I’d rather wait until the reviews are out.

Interesting how different both the tone and the structure of the articles are compared to the modern texts. Take the article about Copenhagen as an example: https://britannica11.or…

One of the worst cases happens immediately after logging into a fresh Mac, or after upgrading one. You’re instantly hit with a barrage of requests from all the installed apps and t…

Sorry, the “recommended” was a bad wording on my part. The recommendation comes from the 404 Media article who did the expose on this incident, not Signal itself. I’ve checked the …

iOS stores the previously displayed notifications in an internal database, which was used to access the data. It’s outside of Signal’s control, they recommend disabling showing not…

Partition Magic was among the first utilities recommended to me by my more experienced water I got my first PC. It served me well for many years since!

Connecting new AirPods to an iPhone for the first time now shows Apple Music subscription ad right on the pairing screen

With the widespread move to OLED across the TV and monitor manufacturers, this might not be the case for much longer. They look and perform great, but are ultimately a consumable p…

This is a topic that frequently comes up in our multicultural Danish company. In many countries people have adversarial relationship with their government, which is completely unli…

I have experienced the same privacy culture shock in Denmark. Generally, I think the people’s trust in their government is the greatest social asset of the danish society, as well …

Another example from Denmark: https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/28/europe/us-embassy-copenha...

Was it Apple, or community driven projects?

I used Miranda. Beautiful app with lots of plugins, and lot of settings and themes to customize it for yourself.

FWIW Organic Maps are aware of this issue. In the poll on their mastodon account, lack of public transit information was voted as number one missing feature. As far as I’m aware, t…

I still had Slashdot in my RSS feed, purely out of inertia. I don’t even interact with it much other than occasionally marking it as read. This was the push I needed to unsubscribe…

Already being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009949

That’s an interesting interpretation, but I’m not so sure how much of it was international, and how much it was a result of the developers calibrating the narrative flow for people…

Eric Berger space coverage still remains Ars’ strong suit.