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"Modern Standby"... And yes, it never works properly

TPM is part of the system that means I can't my phone for wireless payment or use all sorts of other apps if I also want to do something outlandish like record phone calls, change the theme or delete Facebook... and everything it achieves can be done by other means anyway, making the device's owner a 2nd class citizen is a lazy solution.

It's the uncertainty of train delays (in the UK) and your powerlessness as a passenger that's really painful. You get at least one of:

- delay announced increasing by 1 minute with every minute that passes

- no time given, just "delayed"

- trains that were delayed cancelled after 20 minutes wait

- except when you find another way, then they turn up

- additional stops, not announced until you're onboard (so useful to nobody)

- skipping stops/terminating early, again not announced

- announcements that the train will terminate early, only for the driver to announce he's heard nothing of the sort and carry on

etc...

With every release the "desktop experience" gets marked more and more as an optional extra you probably don't need, I find that amusingly optimistic but maybe I'm the odd one.

It is a deliberate plan by wealthy elites...

to outsource raising children to places that can do it for less & ensure competition for low-paid jobs stays high...

what difference does it make

Still have to get through that stage though with some good results to show for it, even if we suspect healthy bodies would handle it much better (although I wouldn't personally lose faith based on one instance)

They introduced this idea that you're paying for a certain amount of concurrent streams, it's not that surprising that people see password sharing as a fair way of getting your money's worth rather than taking advantage.

The initial premise seems slightly manipulative to me I guess, if you paid by the hour or something, no password sharing problem but less profits

It all depends on laws/incentives, landfill locally would surely be cheaper than shipping around the world for recycling/"recycling". So we would need to invent the process and pass a law that encourages or forces its use.

The comment you replied to said North Korea not Putin though

(UK) At some point it started to feel like stirring division for its own sake, since everyone will be exposed to the virus regardless of whether we get another 0.1% vaccinated. Luckily it seems to be calming down now.

Even if you're happy with a certain provider, they're pretty likely to disappear or change stuff drastically anyway.

When you own it you keep something even if the worst happens, and so there are still people loyal to Saab, VB6, the Sega Dreamcast, or whatever. But being loyal to Google Stadia is more risky.

There was more of a time penalty for clicking to different pages, now it doesn't matter if you "waste" page loads

It's especially bad because of the profit motive and needlessly doing it so young before consent can be given IMO. I can't accuse people in this position of not being sufficiently trusting.

If you agree about the unfurling, what you do want them to do?

There are definitely people it matters to, I sometimes get tired of the usual remarks and end up awkwardly using "they" or phrasing tricks to try to avoid them