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emeril··on CIA to Sunset the World Factbook
Trump will soon be issuing the "World Alternative Factbook" as a natural replacement
emeril··on Amazon's Spending on 'Melania' Is a Barely Concealed Bribe
that's optimistic
emeril··on 430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found
maybe the trump administration can learn something from these tools to offset the 10k STEM PhDs that have resigned and moved onto to greener pastures...
emeril··on Bugs Apple loves
I'm still waiting for apple to fix ringtones on siri generated alarms
emeril··on We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon
yeah really - ramp.com is a credit card/expense platform that surely loses money right now...

pretty heavy/slow javascript but pretty functional nonetheless...

emeril··on PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch
-omg, I always disable windows update -more harm than good unless you're in some more sensitive position
emeril··on Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11
or just buy a cd key from a wholesaler for $20 :)

probably won't be disconnected... been using such a cd key for months w/o issue and my win11 experience isn't that painful

emeril··on Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11
web is, frighteningly, much faster and more responsive than local desktop apps are now (e.g., gmail is infinitely more responsive than desktop modern outlook generally speaking - even web spreadsheets are superior to modern Excel (though not, say, Excel 2003...))
emeril··on New information extracted from Snowden PDFs through metadata version analysis
I suppose I'd just save the pdf to tiff/png then remake back into a pdf from there to avoid printing and scanning?

if really paranoid, I suppose one could run a filter on the image files to make them a bit fuzzy/noisy

emeril··on Start your meetings at 5 minutes past
yeah, 90% of meetings are wastes in most companies
emeril··on ChatGPT Health
well, to the credit of Bayes, dementia is likely a safe choice (depending on age/etc.) but dementia is largely a diagnosis of exclusion and most doctors, besides being unfamiliar with Bayes, are also just plain lazy and/or dumb and shouldn't immediately jump to the most likely explanation when it's one with the worst prognosis and fewest treatments...
emeril··on My Snapdragon Dev Kit was healthy and working fine until a Windows update failed
having windows update running is already a compromise in some respects

I haven't run windows update in like 20 years

emeril··on [dead]
are we any better than banana republics at this point though?
emeril··on I'm returning my Framework 16
can't he just replace the keyboard? I'd imagine that won't be too hard?
emeril··on Ireland’s Diarmuid Early wins world Microsoft Excel title
def 2 decades - 2023 was the best version and it has been downhill ever since

I'll admit, on occasion having more than 65k rows is helpful but generally that's the domain of a database, not excel and it wasn't a good tradeoff IMO

emeril··on What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?
prob time to get a snowblower
emeril··on Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help
2003 was the best/final iteration of it - I still miss old excel

new excel is just garbage instead in virtually every way

emeril··on Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode
the most incongruous part of the story to me is the fact that someone like Carol in this post would have such an expensive fridge in the first place - aren't those relatively expensive?
emeril··on Google 'Looking into' Gmail Hack Locking Users Out with No Recovery
as someone who did that a long time ago - I largely regret it

granted, it gives me an out if my provider revokes my access (in this case, google) but the custom domain requires some headache to manage well - I wish I had just used a google account...

emeril··on Netflix kills casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs
omg - just use ultra.cc + kodi with https connection on a fire stick - so simple
emeril··on Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11
thank you for making modern windows usable - it has made the transition from xp/7 to 10/11 more tolerable
emeril··on Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper
it's not so terrible but yes, def not a true native app
emeril··on Samsung Family Hub for 2025 Update Elevates the Smart Home Ecosystem
omg - why let your router update? :)

most updates are downgrades in my experience unless it addresses something very specific

emeril··on Vodafone Germany is changing the open internet, one peering connection at a time
shhhh.... don't say any.... the US is the bestest country in the world...

we're also really good at feeding our poor and disabled too

emeril··on Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k
-Democracy in name only

-Currently a dictatorship

-Historically more of plutocracy

-Our history has effectively yielded the current healthcare situation especially since those who would be most vocal tend to have better coverage and thus are less invested especially since the high costs are largely obfuscated

emeril··on Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive
Yeah - Twake is a terrible name though, tbf, I wonder what the use case is for open source cloud drive outside of pretty niche situations esp when the cost, in many cases, is for the infrastructure in part
emeril··on What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?
fwiw - I always just run prior year's iOS on mobile until Sept each year at which I update the one with a year of fixes - so I'm always running the most stable iOS but it indeed has fewer features but stability is more important than new features to me...
emeril··on Windows 11 25H2 October Update Bug Renders Recovery Environment Unusable
check out directory opus - pretty much unmatched
emeril··on Tinnitus Neuromodulator
maybe see "Won-Taek Choe" - he's a legit smart hearing specialist ENT on UES

that said, prob nothing to do other than wait and hope for the best really

when i had tinnitus following an ear infection years ago, it lasted several months and gradually went away but I always had at least white noise around me and some people say "notch" therapy can be helpful...

emeril··on Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files
pdf-xchange is worlds better for just about anything in my experience

can't believe I waited so long to try it out

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