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"Let Windows track app launches to improve Start and search results". Defaults to on.
Its not clear whether that tracking is happening locally or being sent to MS, but given the utter lack of detailed information on what exactly this setting entails, I have to assume the worst.
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Even so, I install Ubuntu on a wide range of machines, laptops included, and I can't recall having any hardware related issues since, oh, 2005 or so? Parent must be very unlucky, or in fact not realise it is their tweaking and tuning that causes issues.
Could also be selective memory. "I can't recall having any hardware related issues since, oh, 2005 or so" --> oh, that issue? Yes, of course I had that, everybody has that, that's par for the course...
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Android handles this reasonably well. I can use F-Droid reproducible builds where possible and fall back to Play Store (or Amazon App Store) apps for apps I don't care that Google (or Amazon) knows I'm running. I get to choose where I want to make the trade-off between privacy and convenience. If I want convenience, it lets me go further than any Apple product, and if I want privacy, it also lets me go further than a…
I’ve considered making the switch back to Androids to play with F-Droid, do you have a device recommendation?
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> Seat belt wearing is rarely enforced anywhere Maybe where you live. Everybody wears one here. > Knives are a safe way of cutting things. Billions of people use them everyday without issue. You probably missed the part where I said we would only outlaw knives if we had a safer way of cutting things (reliably).
> Maybe where you live. Everybody wears one here. Enforcement and compliance are two different things. I was saying that it cannot be enforced. Not that people won't comply. > You probably missed the part where I said we would only outlaw knives if we had a safer way of cutting things (reliably) You seemed to misunderstand. The way we have is perfectly safe as it is. Billions of people use them everyday without issue…
That's a good list of items less deadly than a knife.
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Right clicking didn't work. The main menu also didn't offer the option. You need to open a burger menu in the top right corner. And then the new folder button is purely an icon and it doesn't show a folder.
What the heck are you using? :D
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Right clicking didn't work. The main menu also didn't offer the option. You need to open a burger menu in the top right corner. And then the new folder button is purely an icon and it doesn't show a folder.
Literally the first item in the context menu is "New Folder Shift+Ctrl+N"
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I quite agree... The moment I find a simple note-taking app that synchronizes well between Win7 and Android, that moment will be the last moment I use Evernote. (well, I use excellent DokiWiki engine as my primary knowledge base, but to make it available on the mobile phone requires setting up and securing a web-hosted machine which is too much bother for me right now)
Workflowy is free and synchronizes perfectly between the browser and the mobile apps.
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> I was quite clearly talking about the ability to run an alternative OS on the platform. I got it, and explained how it will hurt monetization of their product. Android is a different story with different (I dare say way more scummy) strategies of monetization. The point is you can't have a convenient platform which doesn't produce revenue allowing to make it convenient and rewarding the investment.
It was quite clear that you were conflating many things. As to whether it would hurt monitisation. I don't think it will and even if it did I don't care they have more money than most countries do. If they must be required to by legal means so be it. Also they already kinda allow some of this when you enable developer mode via a Mac with the appropriate iOS developer account. So there is no reason why they cannot do…
> So there is no reason why they cannot do this tomorrow without the paywall
Sure you don't when you are dismissing economics of software development so vigorously. Try to look at things from the perspective of economic incentives, not pure technical standpoint. You'll understand why free platforms are way less convenient, and closed platforms are as they are.
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What the heck are you using? :D
Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
One thing with Nautilus is that if there is no empty space to right click on, you can't get to the context menu, because you always end up in the context menu of one of the icons. There is no dead space between them to click on. In this case you can click the breadcrumb to get the context menu or use the icon in the overflow.
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> Maybe where you live. Everybody wears one here. Enforcement and compliance are two different things. I was saying that it cannot be enforced. Not that people won't comply. > You probably missed the part where I said we would only outlaw knives if we had a safer way of cutting things (reliably) You seemed to misunderstand. The way we have is perfectly safe as it is. Billions of people use them everyday without issue…
> Baseball bats, Umbrellas, Pieces of wood, Bricks, lumps of metal. That's a good list of items less deadly than a knife.
It is obvious that you are either idiotic or disingenuous. Judging by the user name, I would guess the second. Have a nice day.