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"Modern Standby"... And yes, it never works properly

TPM is part of the system that means I can't my phone for wireless payment or use all sorts of other apps if I also want to do something outlandish like record phone calls, change …

It's the uncertainty of train delays (in the UK) and your powerlessness as a passenger that's really painful. You get at least one of: - delay announced increasing by 1 minute with…

With every release the "desktop experience" gets marked more and more as an optional extra you probably don't need, I find that amusingly optimistic but maybe I'm the odd one.

It is a deliberate plan by wealthy elites... to outsource raising children to places that can do it for less & ensure competition for low-paid jobs stays high... what difference do…

Still have to get through that stage though with some good results to show for it, even if we suspect healthy bodies would handle it much better (although I wouldn't personally los…

They introduced this idea that you're paying for a certain amount of concurrent streams, it's not that surprising that people see password sharing as a fair way of getting your mon…

It all depends on laws/incentives, landfill locally would surely be cheaper than shipping around the world for recycling/"recycling". So we would need to invent the process and pas…

The comment you replied to said North Korea not Putin though

(UK) At some point it started to feel like stirring division for its own sake, since everyone will be exposed to the virus regardless of whether we get another 0.1% vaccinated. Luc…

Even if you're happy with a certain provider, they're pretty likely to disappear or change stuff drastically anyway. When you own it you keep something even if the worst happens, a…

There was more of a time penalty for clicking to different pages, now it doesn't matter if you "waste" page loads

It's especially bad because of the profit motive and needlessly doing it so young before consent can be given IMO. I can't accuse people in this position of not being sufficiently …

If you agree about the unfurling, what you do want them to do?

There are definitely people it matters to, I sometimes get tired of the usual remarks and end up awkwardly using "they" or phrasing tricks to try to avoid them