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My whole life with computers the fanbois du jour told me we had reached excellent usability. We’re talking GEOS, FVWM, the shit Sun and Digital Equipment Corp threw at us, up until Windows 10 and KDE or what have you: there will always come a point when you need or want to have a look under the hood. And there things can be alien, overly complex and very inconsistent and undocumented. That is the path every real user will walk one day, and it’s not pretty. Best of luck on your journeys!

I don’t think it’s the kissing per se, the womp womp womp vibe from the kitchen table may be just that bit more adding to the ewwwww perception.

The Muppets’ remake is gold too, Julie Andrews did a great job there.

i cri everytiem

Happens regularly to me, posts not loading, votes not working, comments failing to get submitted… I’m located in the EU, maybe that’s a part of the problem?

Bort…as? Orville vibes, sorry.

One example is podcasts. I would miss the single interface for both podcasts and music, although Spotify is enshittifying rapidly; the turning point may be closer than I thought.

Hey now, this sounds like a good idea for a movie. Maybe something artsy?

If you configure your browser to do so. Average Joe and Jane won’t. That aside, preventing fingerprinting is really hard; ask the Tor Browser team how much effort they have to put into this.

Which will not work, or so-so at best thanks to fingerprinting. I get the need for such services , and they are doing absolutely amazing work on encryption of traffic, but even if they are well-meaning, it is a massive surveillance and traffic control point, in easy reach of an extremist government. And this news worries me a lot.

Goddamnit man, I nearly wet my pants laughing, this was WAY too familiar

Google: “Am I a joke to you??”

No, I think I misunderstood.
What I was trying to say: I think there are good reasons for having professionals clean your AC.

Don’t. It’s a good way to get mold, and the AC blowing the unhealthy spores around the house.
Any decent AC maintenance company uses special gear and likely those cleaning foams that minimises this risk.

Aside from regular users: Bad news for businesses that rely on such features, even if only for their compliance tickboxes. Or are those exempt?

Edit: so many more questions:

• why only Apple? Why not, say, Proton?
• how does this work for tourists, expats, business travelers, … ? Is Apple relying on IP address, account details?

It makes you one of our brave heroes in the front lines. Come battle with me, and be lavishly permabanned for mentioning freedom social media!

Netbooks, haven’t seen them in a decade. They were sluggish at best even running linux. The screens were awful. Seriously, I can’t recommend. A refurbished 10” tablet with a bluetooth keyboard would work 10 times better.

Encoded would be the proper term then.

No. RMS can stay the fuck away. At best, he’d eat things from under our feet.

A bit like Vermin Supreme?