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> They’re as much an advertising company as Google or Facebook

They are? By what metric? This sounds made up to support the assertion that a company which doesn’t do broad data sharing with third parties, but keeps it to themselves, is somehow less (or no less) private than those who do.

I think they’ve found them to be unnecessary.

Laws are immutable now?

Thank you for your helpful comment. I’m compiling it right now :)

Why the tone policing? This isn’t helpful. Whereas parent comment was to the point and linked to a helpful resource. Give people the benefit of the doubt and assume good intent.

That’s a reflection on the bank’s poor design choices and not on FPS. See Starling and Monzo for examples of doing this right.

At no point did I say “just”. You’re making a strawman.

People earning 90k aren’t “the rich” that are doing the most egregious tax avoidance. They’re still working class. They still have to work or face destitution.

The very top sliver who own the majority of the land and assets and who never need to work a day in their life are who must be looked at; that hereditary wealth needs to begin to find itself flowing into public services more and more.

It is, and people seem to ascribe some implicit goodness to these companies because they’re seen as providing an alternative to an implicitly evil industry and degenerate dietary choice. Truth is, they’re running the same game, just with a less wholesome food product.

Then you haven’t lived with a Mac

Your AI is hallucinating

I dunno, I kinda like the new icons.

I’d rather eat an actual egg than some hyper processed, plant based “alternative”.

I’ll be keeping an eye on this, but I’ve gotta say, first glance it just seems like it does way too much, and all by a solo dev in private? Impressive but also perturbing.

All marketing? None of it is real? Citation?

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Yep. This is the way I’ve ended up handling it. I believe it has been established now that these interruptions in flow (context switching) have a cost in terms of time taken to refocus on a task. Minutes vs the few seconds it took to have that focus broken and clicking away into a single word DM.

You’re not helping people by neglecting to point out errant use of messaging platforms. It harms productivity and is something that a manager should be treating. You don’t need to be “hard” about it, but not guiding people is arguably more harmful than maybe a couple of hurt feelings. Make things better.

I just drop malformed packets that only contain “hello”

Surely it’s more efficient (for both parties) to type and be able to read the whole thing and then respond meaningfully?

E.g. If you’ve just say “hi”, two hours later I get to my DMs and say “hey what’s up?” and you end up not following up with the “actual” message straight away, let’s say another hour later, this all took way longer than necessary.

The no-hello approach just makes sense when dealing with asynchronous messaging platforms such as Slack. IMO, not following the no-hello approach is bad etiquette and there’s a ton of people out there who still don’t really get that.

Don’t these Dreamliners also have back batteries?

Atomic distros (fedora’s specifically) are what got me to stick to desktop Linux. That was after seeing how well the Steam Deck worked, and therefore Proton. I haven’t reinstalled in almost 2 years. Not even got the distro itch once.

Both can be true

Tailscale is more than just a VPN. It has a number of features and capabilities which make it more like a private overlay network that just seems to work wherever and whenever. Some of those features; WireGuard (the VPN bit), NAT punching, automatic key distribution, ACLs, split or full tunnel routing to internet resources, SSO. Just to name a few.

Well, that’s just like your opinion, man.

Well, better keep a hold of those older Win11 ISOs then.

The only beneficiaries of this are corps who want to ensure that new devices must check-in for AutoPilot enrolment on first boot out-of-box.

In fact, Macs with Apple silicon will require an internet connection on setup, but only after that machine has been online at least once before and has seen that it’s registered to business (handled by a firmware flag).

Which is ultimately another way of saying they don’t care about customers and only care about their bottom line (?)

> I do like light roasts, except i "feel" they're a bit too caffiene-y.

As I understand it, the darker the roast the more caffeine has been “burnt” off, so this would explain what you’re describing.

I think it could be for both reasons

I’m reminded of this line from Stewart Lee, when talking about the disillusioned British working class voting for radical political parties/causes:

“A protest vote for UKIP is like shitting your hotel bed as a protest against bad service, then realising you now have to sleep in a shitted bed.”