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A terrible thought indeed, one which you can never escape after seeing it.

However, unless you want to live in misery, the delusions are all you have to enjoy the ride, what little time there is. But the thought always returns.

> reason nb 1 is video games.

I'm hoping this comes to an end soon with Valve backing Proton due to the Steam Deck. I don't think I'll be upgrading to Windows 11 at any rate, I'll keep Win 10 as long as possible then migrate to Linux and live with the consequences if a minority of my games won't run on it.

uTorrent jumped the shark many many years ago. qBitTorrent is what you want probably since it's an open source uTorrent clone without the ads (alternatively Transmission if you want something really basic that just works).

You're completely right. People thought paying money would stop ads from permeating cable TV originally [1], and look what happened there.

History is repeating itself and yet you still have people in this very thread carting out the tired old bromide: "the market will take care of it, vote with your wallet". Well, it clearly won't in this case.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/26/arts/will-cable-tv-be-inv...

Hey, I never had that significant of an experience but I spent some weeks in the hospital myself in my 20s-early 30s and I can relate at least somewhat. It does get depressing. For me it was being next to someone in chronic pain crying out for hours every day and that's all you're around the entire time, in addition to the lack of sleep. The food thing doesn't sound silly at all to me. Hospitals are a depressing place after a while.

Anyway thanks for sharing and I hope you're recovered.

I'm not sure what some of the spikes in years past were about, but again it's a scale of 'how popular the terms were' from 0-100 not a raw count. You can see it spiking hard recently compared to the average. Without seeing the raw numbers it's hard to tell exactly how significant it is though.

Why would they be searching in English? Also those numbers are "relative popularity" on a scale of 0-100. I'm seeing what the article claims here, more or less. But it's a little unclear exactly what search terms they were all checking.

The autoplay videos are often videos of their affiliated streamers on Twitch as well, which artificially increases the "viewers" count of said Twitch streams (thousands of viewers just browsing their wikis). You'll notice fextralife streamers near the top of Twitch by a significant margin on some of the latest trendy games (New World and more recently Lost Ark).

I wound up blocking all those with uBlock Origin personally.

Honest question: who actually wants these features? Why are MS-specific subscription integrations at the OS level desirable to me as a home user? It really doesn't seem hard to visit a website the rare times I want to modify a subscription, or to get email notifications about expirations.

The more I read about Win 11 the more I wonder who they're designing the OS for. None of the features I've read about so far are really anything I care about.

No, he isn't calling in the army. See:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-premiers-cabinet-1.... https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/justin-trudeau-invokes-em...

etc.

They learned from the best: the Microsoft community forums.

These useless responses are pretty much all you'll ever get out of Google if you have any sort of problem that isn't trivial to fix. I've seen tons of these threads.

I once asked "hey, I know you can ignore single email addresses but is there any general way to prevent people from sharing porn to my Google drive or having bots message me in the gmail chat widget, because the default is anyone can do this to me regardless of privacy settings."

It seemed ridiculous to me anyone could message me out of the blue or share porn with my drive that shows up (thumbnails and all) in "recent". Individually ignoring the thousands of spammers isn't a solution.

The response was something like: "You can ignore individual users by right clicking their username and hitting ignore!" Thread closed. I can only imagine the responder didn't even read my question or just didn't care and was trying to make some quota or something. It's pretty clear they really don't care about supporting their products at all, and you'd probably be better served talking to a wall.

I didn't notice a huge difference, but your comment reminded me of something my grandma said in her later years (she died around 2018 and was well into her 90s, so she grew up in the 30s). "All the young people these days are so gosh darned good looking" as if it blew her away, lol. So maybe there's something to that, I don't know.

I can't replicate at all, in fact I get zero results labeled as ads for the same search (on desktop, logged in, using FF). I have my search history paused, perhaps that could be affecting it?

Edit: I now see 3 ad results after disabling uBlock origin, but still far from the entire thing being ads. I didn't think it removed ads from the search results themselves (since I see 'sponsored ads' occasionally in my search and things). My bad.

Thanks for explaining that. The article just jumps right into using "de novo" all over the place with minimal explanation, but the link they highlight it with is broken.

Literally nobody was arguing this, though. The OP's outburst about the "vitriol" on this topic also seems pretty overly dramatic, tbh, and has done wonders to derail things because it hurls personal insults.

It's not weird to me or a lot of people I know. I don't want to be online 24/7 (don't bring my phone with me most places, etc.) and I avoid smart devices for the most part in my house.

I think people in general prefer simple and reliable, but sometimes it doesn't seem like it since people who buy smart devices talk about them a lot (not a criticism aimed at those people specifically, people like to talk up their purchases in general).

Those series of events could potentially happen, but I just don't think it's the case with so many disparate countries at play. I don't really want to get into an extended debate about this, but I appreciate your detailed response and civility here nonetheless.

Yeah it's super convenient, I do it too. But like you I'm growing wary of putting all my eggs in one basket especially with how dysfunctional these large tech companies are getting and all the horror stories of account lockouts.

The one thing I'd miss about shifting to a local note taking program is just how easy it is to share / collaborate Google Docs with people. Click one button and there's a URL for it anyone can view or potentially edit, served instantly through their fast servers.

There should be stigma for people who spread misinformation during a deadly pandemic, in my opinion.

And yes, what you're implying heavily in your posts would require some sort of conspiracy to be plausible. You're going against dozens of countries' thousands of experts and numerous studies, then choosing to believe quacks on panels on youtube whose wikipedia articles have giant "covid-19 misinformation" sections in them with ample citations.

> I know it sounds like dangerous conspiracy talk, but sometimes we need to think outside of our official sources.

... to Dr. McCullough, this guy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_A._McCullough#COVID-19

Literally one of the main guys on the panel you cited yourself a post or two ago. Sounds like the definition of a conspiracy theorist / quack to me.

This might be a generational thing.

But yes, you can go into banks and deposit money (even frequently, and in reasonably large amounts).

The flagging and suspending stuff is more what I'd be wary of using paypal or something similar, not an actual bank.

No offense intended but if that's the worst that happened to you during the pandemic so far, I'd count myself incredibly lucky and be happy about it. People slipping through bureaucratic cracks is unfortunate but happens with literally everything, emergency or not.

This person was helping Facebook make money while the news was filled with stories about them manipulating democracy, enabling genocide and ruining people's mental health. That's cool they were working on tools that weren't directly related on a small team, but the money all funnels to the top and enables this stuff. They knew full well from all the news unless they were completely burying their head in the sand.

So no ethical responsibility? I strongly disagree. They could've quit at any time and found dozens of jobs elsewhere with a resume like that. Judging by the post they did after nearly a decade, and only because purely selfish reasons. I was maybe a bit harsh, but come on..

It's definitely early in general.

Most millennials or younger won't be retiring until they're 70+ if ever on average the way the world is going. I certainly hope I'm as lucky as you and glad to hear you're enjoying it and keeping your mind engaged.

It's actually why the blog post bothered me, despite everyone heaping praise on it here.

"Then there’s the Prestige. Facebook gets a lot of blame in media lately, but in everyday life it’s still very prestigious place to be working at. Getting a mortgage or a car loan is easy, saying you work for Facebook gets you on the fast line."

That's the money quote, this person is only thinking about themself and really doesn't consider how their work impacts society or what company they're helping as a priority issue at all. I don't know why people like this are the way they are, it seems to border on sociopathy or greed or something to me ("screw you guys, I got mine.") At times they must have just buried their head in the sand over all the Facebook scandals including helping a freaking genocide. It's crazy, and reminds me a little of "American Psycho" to be honest.

Exactly my experience as well

I'm not sure why you aren't getting interviews, but I've had multiple coding jobs in the past where the interviews had little to no technical quizzing at all. Don't get too discouraged, there's probably a match out there for you, maybe just not at a FAANG or one of those super competitive companies (which, quite honestly, I wouldn't want to work for anyway--but it's personal preference).

You can always move onto a more competitive company later once your resume has some solid experience on it, if that's your cup of tea.

Did you read the entire paper? It doesn't sound like it.

I just had the same question and looked into it. The answer is no you can't, they removed the ability to disable Proton as of version 91.

I also strongly dislike the new tabs as they're totally disconnected from the actual pages they're a tab for with whitespace, less contrast as you mention as well which an issue if you don't have great eyesight. I guess they're willing to lose even more market share over this, which seems pretty silly considering what their trajectory has been...