Blackmist

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Next smartphone I buy, which one do you recommend?

Things that make me angry about my current smartphone Samsung Galaxy S21Ultra on a Verizon plan is the mandatory software updates in which they install WITHOUT MY PERMISSION stupid apps like Netflix and addictive gambling games and stacking block games and Candy crush. God knows what else they install without my permission. I...

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How are you killing your battery after two years?

Even my cheapshit Honor 9 lasted six before it started getting random shutoffs.

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That moment where you finally convince your boss it’s not worth fixing, and then you instantly think of a way to easily solve it.

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Moved to Firefox a while ago, specifically because of Manifest V3.

The only issue I’ve found so far is that you can’t log in to PSN on it. Just locks the browser completely and you need to kill it in task manager. Apparently it’s to do with password saving.

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Good luck with that. All browsing on iOS is Safari, so likely all the FF extensions would need to be remade from scratch.

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Apparently it’s to do with cloud password saving.

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I guess it also helps when you already own all the land to put them on.

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Since when has KDE been an OS?

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Always jarring when you open a folder dialog, and an unresizeable chunk of Windows 3.1 suddenly appears.

I know it’s still in the ODBC settings, probably other places too.

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Drivers are definitely out. Some games are really iffy. Especially from the Win 9x era, where they’d do stupid things like look for a 9 in the version string of Windows, or get the amount of RAM as a 32 bit signed int, so refuses to install if you have 4GB RAM or more.

We had a lot of dodgy old DOS programs that were fine under Win98, but XP broke them.

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Or they leave a link to the solution.

The link is dead.

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“Oh man, I’d love to use Linux because then I wouldn’t have to have Edge installed!” - Nobody. Ever.

People use Windows because it comes with the PC and it runs all their shit (maybe except some yellowing-beige and blue scanner from 1997) with no fucking about needed. They were never incentivised to use Linux. They don’t know what an OS is, and more importantly, they don’t care.

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I think the mangled English there is suggesting that some people don’t care enough, and other people have enough money (to buy Windows).

Not that it matters because who the fuck pays for Windows anyway? OEMs do, but not normal people. Everything since like Windows 7 has been a free upgrade, and normies get a new PC more often than that so get a copy with it.

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Good old Windows ME.

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Does FLauncher have any downsides?

Finally got everything set up and playing full quality audio from everything, and don’t want to break it all now.

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Gained a puffer jacket to disguise the noodly arms.

But lost socks meaning less winter survival. Might be balanced out by beards to hide wobbly chins.

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I don’t understand why they sell GPUs for up to $2000, and they still come with the same crappy fans we had on $150 cards.

Want watercooling? Have fun invalidating your warranty.

Louis Rossman/FUTO's YouTube app, GrayJay, now supports Sponsorblock... and shames you if you use it

Seriously this was very surprising. I’ve been experimenting with GrayJay since it was announced and I largely think it’s a pretty sweet app. I know there are concerns over how it isn’t “true open source” but it’s a hell of a lot more open than ReVanced. Plus, I like the general design and philosophy of the app....

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How dare you besmirch Shadow Raid Legends VPN like that!

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The Wadsworth Constant was a thing even from the earliest days of Youtube.

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I can only assume they’re some sort of front for a cartel because I’ve never met anyone that actually plays it.

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    Blackmist,

    You mean you’re not using Mailarr to download your own stamps?

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    The intent is to provide workers with a sense of pride and accomplishment for paying different bills.

    As for cost, we selected initial values based upon data from the Open Beta and other adjustments made to milestone rewards before launch. Among other things, we’re looking at average per-worker dollar earn rates on a daily basis, and we’ll be making constant adjustments to ensure that workers have challenges that are compelling, rewarding, and of course attainable via hard work.

    We appreciate the candid feedback, and the passion the community has put forth around the current topics here on Lemmy, our forums and across numerous social media outlets.

    Our team will continue to make changes and monitor community feedback and update everyone as soon and as often as we can.

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    How quickly we forget Laserdisc and Video CDs.

    Oh and UMD, but I don’t think “I want to watch a movie in poor quality on a tiny screen on a device that’ll probably run out of battery before the movie finishes” was a market anybody was really interested in.

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    I remember ripping a CD to one with an optical cable. It split by tracks and everything.

    I felt like Johnny Mnemonic.

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    If you hum The Final Countdown while it’s loading, it’ll let you play original Vice City instead!

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    I like Colm Meany, but every picture I’ve ever seen of him looks like somebody has Photoshopped his face to be slightly smaller, like the old Woll Smoth memes.

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