Windows 11 takes your money, gives you ads, sells your information and ignores your bug reports and feature requests

KDE is free, ad-free and open to contribution

I think we have a clear winner here

uBlock Origin makes this easy:

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2. Select the element picker in uBlock Origin
3. Select the Shorts section
4. Click "Create"
5. Enjoy

Non-AMP link: https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/31/linus_torvalds_ftpm/

Yet you still give them money by using their app

causing users to suggest that Reddit admins are interfering with their art (there is no evidence so far that would prove this)

If you watch the time lapse, you'll see that the guillotine was wiped away in an instant, which would either require mass coordination or admin privileges. There's also the fact that it was removed in chunks, not pixel-by-pixel. Also, it was proven last year that one of the mods didn't have a cooldown.

Reddit has been thrown into chaos because the company began charging for access to its API

No, it's because they began charging an amount that isn't affordable to third-party app developers and with very little notice. They also lied about being willing to work with developers and they made false allegations against Apollo's developer.

https://xkcd.com/1386/

And report the email as spam on Gmail

If new hires are getting paid more than you, it's time to become one of them

There is just a general assumption that they’re smart enough not to waste their time with it and they have better things to do, like actual hobbies and friends/family to see.

Did you actually ask other people what they think, or are you projecting? Because this doesn’t represent me at all

The smile in frame 3 is really subtle

I chose Xamarin in the early days of Bitwarden because it was a technology that I was proficient at (.NET and C#) and it afforded me the time to maintain a mobile app along with all the other apps I was building for Bitwarden. Xamarin is a real time saver, for sure and it has served us well over the past 8 years, but it comes with some downsides as well: ...

This is less ADHD and more autism, right?

I don't approve of the decisions made by Google, but that doesn't affect how much I use their services.

However, I am unhappy about the fact that the Google Play Services app is required by their apps, since it constantly runs in the background eating battery, consuming RAM, causing lag spikes and wasting mobile data. For this reason, I use MicroG when possible.

I don't like the fact that some Google apps (e.g. Chrome) on my phone are not uninstallable, but that's the OEM's fault (Samsung in my case). Luckily it's possible to remove these using ADB (without root).

I don't like how they want to make it harder to root your own device.

Fira Code, but I haven't used anything else with ligatures

I think this article misrepresents things. They left out the worst stuff.

I love how you copied their misspelling of chemistry

The $2 price increase is unjustified. It's the same amount of nipples either way.

It's a request, not a demand

I'd ask the author of the commit:

Signed-off-by: John Allen 

Here's one: Iron doesn't have a smell. It acts as a catalyst in the reaction of bodily fluids or skin oils, which is why you can't smell coins after washing them

// Greetings, intrepid explorer, to the magnum opus of verbosity – the exhaustive elucidation
// of the venerable "Hello, World!" program in the illustrious realm of C++.

// Our inaugural act involves the summoning of external powers through the sacred rite of inclusion.
// The venerable  library is invoked, opening the gateway to input and output sorcery.
#include 

// Brace yourself, noble adventurer, for the initiation of our journey transpires within the sanctum
// of the 'main' function – the veritable heart and soul of our C++ odyssey.
int main() {
    // Let us forge a pact with the realm of 'std', alleviating the syntactic tribulations
    // through the divine power of the 'using' declaration. Behold the namespace, a sanctuary
    // where the gods of C++ convene, rendering our code free from the shackles of verbosity.
    using namespace std;

    // As we stand on the precipice of expression, the 'cout' oracle emerges.
    // This venerable entity, an emissary of the standard output stream, awaits our command.
    // With the '<<' conjuration, we channel the essence of our proclamation, "Hello, World!",
    // and cast it into the void of the console, where it shall resonate for eternity.
    cout << "Hello, World!" << endl;

    // The denouement approaches, where our protagonist, the 'main' function,
    // bestows upon the cosmic arbiter – the operating system – a token of acknowledgment.
    // The triumphant 'return 0' is a symphony of numerical reverence, echoing
    // the harmony of a flawless performance in the grand opera of computational artistry.
    return 0;
}

You could've used an actual switch but you chose a USB hub instead

If it's a video, you can probably still watch it

1 Nm/s = 1 watt. It's a measure of power, not force

There is no best. It depends on the application

OP did not take this picture. Their story is made up. Here's the original: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/3/110

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Before installing Arch on a USB flash drive, I disabled ext4 journaling in order to reduce disk reads and writes, being fully aware of the implications (file corruption after unexpected power loss). I was confident that I would never have to pull the plug or the drive without issuing a normal shutdown first. Unfortunately, there was one possibility I hadn't considered: sometimes, there's that one service preventing your PC from turning off, and at that stage there's no way to kill it (besides waiting for systemd to time out, but I was impatient).

So I pulled the plug. The system booted fine, but was missing some binaries. Unfortunately, I couldn't use pacman to restore them because some of the files it relied on were also destroyed.

This was not the last time I went through this. Luckily I've learned my lesson by now

Does anyone else have an issue where the browser back button causes Lemmy to go back twice?

In other words, if you click "next" at the bottom of your feed, open a post and press the back button, does it return to the original page?

Or, if you choose a sort, open a post and press the back button, does the sort get reverted?

It started happening to me in 0.18.3, but I don't want to file a report if I'm the only one experiencing this

This explanation makes me feel stupid

TIL "students" and "for" are Chinese words

Please stop using time zone abbreviations. Everyone can read an offset (UTC +02:00 in this case). But almost everyone has to look up the abbreviation

Yeah, that's half a litre of salty water soaking into your socks and shoes. I find that hard to believe

the group says it's gotten into the government web portal for the South African OR Tambo district

As a South African, that's not much of an accomplishment

https://xkcd.com/859

The slur filter needs to be configurable per profile. I am okay with seeing the word "removed". I don't want the instance admins to make that decision for me.

Selling as in advertising, I might add. Neon is free

It means getting access to parts of an operating system that you usually don't have access to. This allows you to improve the performance of your phone, increase its battery life, browse protected files, change the boot animation, customize the UI, change certain behaviors, set a battery charging limit, use v4a (an amazing equalizer app), uninstall system apps, and much more

The process of rooting is a little convoluted and depends on the phone, but you should be able to find a guide for your phone if you look for one. Things can go wrong if you don't follow the steps perfectly, but there's always a way out

Your phone will be wiped, so you need to back up your data

Your warranty will get voided in the process, but can often un-void it by unrooting

Your phone will be no less secure, as long as you use a good superuser app (everyone recommends Magisk) and only give root access to apps you trust. Think of it as "run as administrator"

I hope you're donating to the respective libreddit instance hoster, because unlike Reddit, they're not a multibillion corporation with a steady ad income to pay for their traffic

If you're not, then I suggest you use old.reddit.com with uBlock Origin