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Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10

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Post by shados »

rleigh wrote: post #277
megous wrote: post #267

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Combine github data with linkedin data to get connection of developers to companies, and use that? Not that I'm suggesting them to do it... :)

The main challenge would be the information asymmetry between both sides (as is already the case). It's one thing for the recruiter to be able to scan all your contributions. Would you as a potential recruit be able to do the same, and see what skills and techniques were /actually/ in use by the company. A tool which could generate an anonymised summary for both parties and compare them for mutual compatibility might…

I can picture this...

Anonymous description of a company/profile for the recruiter Anonymous profile of candidates looking for a job...

Swipe left...or swipe right...if both swipe connect them...

F. Why did I post this. Its such a good idea I could make money out of it.

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Post by ovao »

autoexec wrote: post #297
mav3rick wrote: post #65

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The money you would likely pay would be less than what they can make by selling you ads (as a whole). If you were willing to pay > $1000 for software and services there was no reason for companies to maintain an Ad business.

> . If you were willing to pay > $1000 for software and services there was no reason for companies to maintain an Ad business. Let's be honest though, if a company can make money doing something they most likely will do it. It wouldn't matter if you paid $100,000 a month to use windows, if they could make an extra $1000 selling your personal information and pushing ads at you they will.

If that were truly the case, wouldn’t Apple and Canonical be doing exactly that?

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Post by justinclift »

milesvp wrote: post #268
Karunamon wrote: post #223

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I keep hoping I'll run into someone that's played around with that. If you're at the point where you can use their software and expect a random game to work more often than not, that's a massive leap forward for Linux on the desktop!

I've been playing doom 2016 using steam's wine offering, proton I think it's called. There currently aren't a lot of games the steam client beta supports, but it at least was painless to install and run. Hopefully they'll continue to support wine going forward, and start working with publishers to get more big budget games working. Blizzard has officially stated they won't boot you (permanently, apparently there are…

Skyrim is working well too. Crysis (first in the series) doesn't load though. :(

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Post by ovao »

kemitche wrote: post #104
ryanianian wrote: post #67

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This is infuriating. I'm paying for the service--that's supposedly what's sustaining it--why are there ads? If you (Amazon) decide you want more money, let me decide to pay more to eliminate ads. Similar things abound with Hulu. Even the more expensive "ad free" version has some ads for certain shows/movies due to "licensing agreements" (read: Hulu wanting more money).

Wow, glad to hear about that Hulu situation. I used Hulu for a while, then dropped it when they added ads to my paid account. When I heard they had an ad-free version again I thought I might come back - but if the ad-free version is not ad-free then I'll just keep my money.

The option I subscribe to is ad-free, at least for the shows I’ve been watching.

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Post by vt240 »

tjalfi wrote: post #259
beamatronic wrote: post #247

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Is it any better if you get the Enterprise version?

My employer uses Windows Enterprise and it also had Candy Crush and other crapware preinstalled. IIRC one of my coworkers wrote a script to remove the bundled applications.

Employer was supposed to be using Windows deployment tools to create custom enterprise images... But I'm stuck in the same boat. The maintenance overhead is too much for a small business. I am very upset that the default enterprise image is full of crap-ware, and the only alternative was LTSB with no support for Edge or Windows Store.

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Post by ovao »

ams6110 wrote: post #287
bluescrn wrote: post #203

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Amazon can get away with it so long as Prime remains worth it for the free next-day delivery alone, and the video service is an added bonus on top. If Netflix introduces any mid-show ads, I suspect there'll be a sharp rise in illegal downloads...

It's free 2-day delivery for me, and I don't always get that. Funny how when you order it will say "guaranteed delivery by " but if they don't make that all you get is a "sorry" email. Not much of a guarantee.

For me it was free two-day shipping on Prime-eligible items until Amazon at some point decided to make only some Prime-eligible items eligible for Prime shipping. In effect they’ve silently and somewhat arbitrarily changed the definition of “Prime”.

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Post by jacobwg »

ams6110 wrote: post #287
bluescrn wrote: post #203

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Amazon can get away with it so long as Prime remains worth it for the free next-day delivery alone, and the video service is an added bonus on top. If Netflix introduces any mid-show ads, I suspect there'll be a sharp rise in illegal downloads...

It's free 2-day delivery for me, and I don't always get that. Funny how when you order it will say "guaranteed delivery by " but if they don't make that all you get is a "sorry" email. Not much of a guarantee.

If you contact support, they will give you a free month of Prime in exchange for missing the delivery guarantee.

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Post by joshstrange »

ohithereyou wrote: post #279
dopamean wrote: post #163

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It's odd to me that so many people seem to dislike this comment. My experience with MacOS has gotten more and more negative with each update. I upgraded to Mojave a few weeks ago (because the OS would not stop nagging me to) and I've had nothing but problems since.

I've not seen a single nag to upgrade to Mojave. I'm still on Sierra (and will likely move to High Sierra this weekend - I like to stay a major version behind for Mac software for stability's sake on my Mac Mini).

I have gotten it 2-3 times in High Sierra, I normally operate on a 3-6mo delay on upgrades so that everyone else can deal with what breaks first.

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Post by craftyguy »

wbond wrote: post #307
craftyguy wrote: post #206

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Ah, yes. nvidia is a thorn. In other news, the AMD and Intel drivers are as good as, if not better, than their windows counterparts!

This, unfortunately is not as true as I wish it was. I bought an RX 560 and tried to install Ubuntu 18.04. It could not propery drive my 4k display that uses DP 1.2 MST. That display has been working fine with a few different cards on Mac and Windows since 2014 when I bought it. I even tried the AMD pro drivers. Granted, the open source nvidia drivers couldn’t do it with a 1030 on 18.04 either, but the proprietary on…

I have no problems running my RX 580 with the amdgpu driver and recent versions of Mesa.. If I had to guess, Ubuntu 18.04 has some archaic versions of both the kernel and userspace drivers.

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Post by Crontab »

jammygit wrote: post #44

All I want is to be able to give companies my money in exchange for not being spied on, manipulated, or locked into some walled garden. I can't for my OS - I have to use free gnu/Linux because everyone else treats me like crap. Is my money not good enough for them? This is getting absurd

I used to think that being open-source was enough to avoid being spied on but it is not. Ubuntu showed this with the Amazon search issue [1] and is apparently collecting telemetry with 18.04 LTS [2]. My understanding is that Brew also gatherings telemetry by default.

Enabling telemetry collection as the default setting needs to end - even if it is well intentioned.

[1] https://www.networkworld.com/article/2226648/opensource-subn...

[2] https://www.techradar.com/news/the-controversial-ubuntu-1804...

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