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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  IP banning in this day and age is crazy. Years ago I opened my app on hospital WiFi and instantly both of my accounts in there were banned for “ban evasion”. Clearly someone used that IP address to get banned and now everyone using the public WiFi there is just getting banned.

  It also made it clear that a big part of shutting down third party clients was so they could track us better. Made evident the minute my personal and work reddit accounts were banned together even though I never switched to the other login at all. With that move they could tie everyone’s throwaways back to their real accounts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot more than America becomes fucked when tiktok becomes owned by these guys. It’ll become their global platform to radicalize youth Nazis from one corner of the globe to another. Time to hope the youth outside America are smart enough to see thorough this, but if our recent Canadian election was any indication then they are not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex got hacked.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything of this nature announced over the next little while has like a 70% chance of being related to the huge Salesloft/Drift hack. The wording here makes me wonder if it’s also the cause for plex.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haven’t had a need to open one the entire time I’ve been on the OS! Other than for my own development needs, but that’s my own use case and nothing to do with operating the OS as a user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Having switched many relatives to Linux recently too, Mint will be your best jumping off point for a familiar feel and pain free experience as someone new to Linux. If you love that and find yourself wanting more, then the world is your oyster! I started on Mint and ultimately settled on Fedora Plasma after trying out a half dozen different options.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Kids will be out there studying for their ham radio licenses to setup wireless long range packet networks and bbs’s just to exchange porn lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Gonna end up with a country-wide rogue WiFi mesh network setup that’s fed from neighboring countries haha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that’s a good point in a sense. Mechanically I think they’re a lot less repairable (or at least a lot less at home repairable), but from the angle of needing repairs, they also need less repairs because most of what tends to fail on ICE vehicles is all the mechanical stuff attached to the engine. Even on my hybrid I repair a ton less and my mechanic said that because all the accessories are electronic since they can’t be belt/chain driven because the engine is off half the time that they’re ultimately more reliable in the end - it’s the mechanical aspects of them that fail on ICE vehicles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨French City of Lyon Kicks Out Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The diversification that world markets are going through right now is wonderful tbh. Even at such a small level, we’re getting so much great stuff at the grocery store to replace all the American brands my country has all but rejected now. Love seeing it at the enterprise level too, we might see a lot of other countries start having growing tech industries in their regions now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve converted a ton of my older family to Linux, it does everything they need as far as web browsing and some basic office applications, and it offers a polished enough UI these days that most barely tell it apart from windows, some even prefer the UI more. Even 2/3 of our home systems have gone full Linux now too (no more dual booting) and handle all my own gaming, audio and programming needs. I really hope this message keeps getting out there and we can cut back on ewaste and forced obselence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have so many questions about this too… Commenting to come back later for the answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The surveillance tech waiting for workers as they return to the office⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, what sort of sweatshop industry is this so I can avoid it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This toilet attachment uses AI and a team of physicians to photograph, analyse, and report the full scoop on your poop⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pay by the weight to flush

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2 in 3 People Often Encounter Hate Speech Online.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like the only people left on X are the people who don’t think their hate speech is hate speech…