viking
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- Comment on Things are going so well.... 1 week ago:
It’s a raffle for gift cards of their member organisations. Also called an advertising deal. If said member is a food chain, what else are they going to advertise with? Kittens?
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 1 week ago:
Huh? Downloading an apk and clicking open with -> package installer is nothing but straightforward.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 1 week ago:
Some Xiaomi TVs have root exploits, so you can manually disinfect the OS, but it’s cumbersome to get done since you need to enter adb commands over the remote control to get there in the first place.
Easier to just use an external device and the TV as a screen only. Personally I’m using the Nvidia Shield for 5+ years now and regret nothing.
- Comment on Under-16s to be banned from buying high-caffeine energy drinks including Monster 1 week ago:
…explain please?
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 weeks ago:
Can you install generic apks on UBports, or only precompiled .deb packages and other native Linux applications?
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 weeks ago:
You can get Android phones with reasonable specs around $200. No need for the so called “flagships”.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 weeks ago:
I’m wearing my smartwatch as a wristwatch. All notifications are off, but I see the temperature, UV index, step and calorie counters, which is nice. And if I ever want to review my sleep data, pulse, sPO2 saturation and location history, I got it available just in case. And for the very rare case that my phone is charging and I want to access messages from another room, I can do that manually.
- Comment on Imagine if the only thing limiting your dreams was a livable income 2 weeks ago:
Fully agree, and I do reward people based on performance, but as you rightfully mention, attendance alone means nothing.
- Comment on Imagine if the only thing limiting your dreams was a livable income 2 weeks ago:
I rather block lefties coming out of the woodworks, cleans my frontpage up nicely.
- Comment on Imagine if the only thing limiting your dreams was a livable income 2 weeks ago:
Yes. Doesn’t mean the ones who don’t are special in any way.
- Comment on Imagine if the only thing limiting your dreams was a livable income 2 weeks ago:
Curiosity? I clearly said “controversial”. Learn how to read before insulting people.
- Comment on Imagine if the only thing limiting your dreams was a livable income 2 weeks ago:
I’m running my own business and make more than my dad, but thanks.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad idea. Too many people are still not backing up their data, and the article says “…automatically save to OneDrive or your preferred cloud destination”.
As long as they really give users full freedom to choose any cloud service, I consider that a win.
- Comment on Imagine if the only thing limiting your dreams was a livable income 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, so? I took days off when I was sick, as per my contract.
He either didn’t get sick (and fulfilled the contract as intended) or went to work sick (in violation of health and safety requirements).
I still don’t see how that demands praise.
- Comment on Imagine if the only thing limiting your dreams was a livable income 2 weeks ago:
Controversial take, but why would someone deserve recognition for carrying out work duties as per contractual agreement?
He did what he was paid for, no more, no less. Being sick or not is by and large outside of someone’s immediate control and should receive neither reward nor punishment.
- Comment on Bro wake up it's 1997. 3 weeks ago:
Especially the Hollywood map to could access with a code from the menu. That rocked so hard.
- Comment on [Video] Cops not sure whether to arrest man with "Plasticine Action" shirt for supporting terrorism 4 weeks ago:
That’s a British police uniform, standard issue.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Now we’re talking! 😁
I also quite like the Andechser Monk brew.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I’ll take Erdinger Dunkel over Augustiner every day, but else I fully agree.
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 4 weeks ago:
My thoughts exactly, what a heap of crap. Tom’s Guide used to be one of the good ones out there, real shame.
What I was wondering though is if they detect browser plugins through some public ID - how difficult is it to change those? In Firefox it’s absolutely trivial, you can simply download the extension, open it as a zip file, and then edit the files inside with a text editor and change the ID.
Haven’t used chrome for years, but extensions used to be javascript files just as well, so I doubt they are that hard to edit. Unless they found a way to block installations from local files and enforce their shop, no idea if that’s a thing.
- Comment on AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day 5 weeks ago:
Oh wow, dial-up in Germany died 20+ years ago. I’m surprised that’s still a thing. Well, was. But until now is really staggering. I wonder what you could even still do over such a connection, considering that even messenger services and email now use 3-5MB just completing the server handshake.
- Comment on European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge. 5 weeks ago:
It’s still active as in, they maintain the hotspots. But I just had a look at the map, and it looks like there’s spotty service mostly clustered around tiny villages, rather than providing coverage to areas that actual get significant tourism or other visitors.
- Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics 5 weeks ago:
I read those news in a way that she’s now in a low risk facility with plenty of other people around who might casually remove a witness, rather than stuck in isolation in a max security prison where every ‘suicide’ would be met with public outrage.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 1 month ago:
You’d have to prove that the salesman said exactly that, and without a record it’s at best a he said / she said situation.
I’d be happy to see Musk jailed though, he’s definitely taunted self driving as fully functional.
- Comment on EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google 1 month ago:
So VPN on the router permanently set to Singapore it is.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 1 month ago:
Yeah right, rather than stand your ground, lie in your partners face.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows 1 month ago:
First time I hear about this store…
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I quite like it.
- Comment on I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good 1 month ago:
Apparently the feature was added 5 years ago.
- Comment on YouTube's Latest Update Shows That Online Monoculture Is Dead 2 months ago:
SmartTube Next, installed directly on the TV. But when I’m in places where I can’t just install random apps on a TV, BubbleUPnP works nicely, as long as you use a chromium based browser. I keep Cromite around just for that, a degoogled chrome variant.