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Mostly just to 'poke fun' at Amazon, but I'm sure all their employees watercooler conversations are well indexed and searchable.

I had the 'benefit' of a poorer school district with basically no IT. The extent of blocks on our computer labs was an application running at startup. Being Windows 98, I just booted into DOS and renamed the executable.

Teacher didn't care if we bypassed it, as long as we put it back before class was over.

I like that you can do this and appreciate the knowledge, but it seems slower than just typing in your password, and kind of breaks my flow by removing my hand from the home row.

I need to be around other people to feel energized. I've considered WFH jobs, but have stuck with lower paying positions that allow me to socialize at work.

I know I can be a bit annoying. Maybe I'm an energy vampire.

I dislike Microsoft, but with Tutanota's history of greatly sensationalized editorials on their website, I'm skeptical. Is this a situation where Tutanota is specifically blocked or is a Microsoft email (Outlook, Live, Hotmail, etc) required? Or is it Microsoft email plus Gmail, since they're the two most popular services?

If a privacy-centric service is being blocked because it's privacy-centric, that's an issue. If it's not on a very small list of approved services, because 99% of people have never heard of Tuta Nota, it's an annoyance.

I bought my 12 Mini at launch and it's at 84% capacity. If I'm remembering correctly, it was at around 86% at the start of this year.

There were some battery drain issues in different versions of iOS 14 and I believe there was some unnecessary wear in there, as well as a couple 'recalibrations' of battery health in iOS. Maybe the phone was falsely reporting 100% at release and was corrected to a lower percentage.

I'd be curious to see if anyone with a fall 2020 still has over 90% battery health.

My experience has been that Linux is bad at scaling HiDPI. Maybe KDE is better. In Linux-specific forums and chats, I've seen many people comment that they go out of their way to buy a 1080p display to avoid the scaling issues.

I prefer a little challenge, but it's clear there's a demographic for this with the 'journalist mode' in many new games.

My understanding is that the support is less about the device OEM and more about the SoC supplier (ie Qualcomm). Once Qualcomm decides they're not supporting the SoC anymore, there's not much the OEM can do in terms of security patching. This is the understanding I've picked up from similar discussions over the years, but I very well may be wrong.

I have spent well over $1000 on mechanical keyboards over the last decade, which isn't much compared to some real hobbyists, but I feel I've got enough experience to have an opinion on things.

Earlier this year I realized I like low profile, scissor switch keyboards better than expensive mechanical keyboards. I type faster on them and find them much more comfortable. I don't know what's wrong with me. I do know that I can't find a good low profile keyboard anywhere, because everyone is just making mechanical now.

I agree with you on this and think his savior complex is likely compounded by things like the potential Twitter buyout. There are a lot of people who view Twitter as a extremist echo chamber and want to see it change, so they're treating Musk like Twitter's savior now. Anecdotally, I've seen as much support for Musk's actions accidentally destroying Twitter as 'fixing' it.

When I see how small of a subset of the population actively use Twitter, or have even posted once, compared to the political power it has, it's hard for me to argue we're better with it around.

There was another article posted a month or so back with the other founders perspective. As an outsider, Cassidy seems to be the more reasonable of the two, but I can't know that for sure when viewing the whole situation through a peephole. https://lunduke.substack.com/p/elementary-os-is-imploding?s=...

People are surprised when I tell them I don't use most Google products. Unfortunately, I still use YouTube, as that's where I consume most of my media / entertainment. The fallacy that other search engines don't work as well or that Gmail is the best email really inhibits 'normies' from escaping Google. I'll admit, Google Maps is a great service, but you can still get from A to B without it. I just print out all my navigation on MapQuest (/s).

If this year is anything like last year, I'll have to mow twice a week in the spring and then once a month in the summer. I mow at the second highest deck height though.

I use ProtonMail because of their good support for custom domains. Their higher focus on privacy and security is nice, but it has little to do with why I chose them vs competitors. The only downside is you have to use the ProtonMail app or website on mobile, because of the way they do mailbox encryption.

Looking through the deleted episodes, most of them aren't even the scientists and pundits in opposition to globalist narratives. They're comedians, actors, and musicians. I am clearly out of the loop. Why would Spotify remove episodes with Kevin Smith and Brian Posehn? I love both of these comedians/writers, but they're largely in-line with Spotify's neoliberal viewpoints, are they not?