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Arsenic Lupin posted:Yup! BTW, a couple of years back, thousands of bottles of wine, including winemakers' "libraries" (bottles from all their vintages, for comparison) were lost when a customer set fire to another company's warehouse in order to hide his wine forgery. At least they must have been insured?
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starkebn posted:I've been using Edge almost since it was released and it's pretty flawless. I tried to switch to Firefox a month ago but it was missing some functionality I preferred in Edge, so now I'm back to all Edge. I think the legacy of Internet Explorer stink is stopping a lot of people from trying it, but I don't know what's wrong with it other than Microsoft being one of the big bads.
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May 11, 2023 01:05
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maybe they were insured by a techbro that reinvented insurance but better.
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TACD posted:I used Edge on my work laptop for a while and it was fine until like that other poster I got hit with the obnoxious Bing chat button that was impossible to remove. I said to myself "ah Microsoft, back on your bullshit I see" and installed Vivaldi, which seems much more user-friendly once you get everything set up just how you like it. I used the bing chat button only once, and that was to ask it how to disable the bing chat button. It kind of felt like asking the AI to draft its own obituary.
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There Bias Two posted:I used the bing chat button only once, and that was to ask it how to disable the bing chat button. It kind of felt like asking the AI to draft its own obituary.
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May 11, 2023 03:39
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Installing Chrome on my new laptop had Edge literally pathetically begging me to not install a new browser.
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May 11, 2023 05:11
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The intersection of wine collector and techbro must be an absolutely exhausting person to deal with, the sort of person who might make you wonder if jumping off a tall building or cliff might be a viable alternative to engaging in a conversation.
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May 11, 2023 05:28
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Shrecknet posted:this is every user searching "chrome installation" on edge the first time they power on their PC going to ninite.com is a way better use of edge on a new installation
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May 11, 2023 09:22
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Aware posted:going to ninite.com is a way better use of edge on a new installation Oh god ninite makes getting a new computer feeling usable so much easier. First thing I do after getting the internet connected.
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Mr. Nemo posted:Been noticing adds for Chrome lately. Microsoft have started going hard for chrome users. You even get a pop up in edge now when you visit the chrome download page. It's war!
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May 11, 2023 11:56
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CEO Speedrun. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/11/elon-musk-says-hes-stepping-down-as-twitter-ceo-will-oversee-product.html 
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withoutclass posted:CEO Speedrun. "I will abide by the results of this poll." 
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withoutclass posted:CEO Speedrun. Twitter gets hit with a legal torpedo within a month of her taking the job and this is just to get a fall guy.
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Crain posted:Twitter gets hit with a legal torpedo within a month of her taking the job and this is just to get a fall guy. Elon's tangled with regulators often enough he can see the writing on the wall. Hiring a fall guy is exactly the sort of thing he would do but it's not going to help him or Twitter in the long run.
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May 12, 2023 08:57
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Genuingly curious who is insane enough to take this job
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Mega Comrade posted:Genuingly curious who is insane enough to take this job Marissa Mayer?
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May 12, 2023 09:40
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Mega Comrade posted:Genuingly curious who is insane enough to take this job
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May 12, 2023 09:48
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Fall guy / toe cutter is pretty much a role description.
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May 12, 2023 10:36
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Mega Comrade posted:Genuingly curious who is insane enough to take this job Any manic chud wanting a bit of clout and status? It's not like there's ever consequences for them, other than maybe getting some flack from their own base for not being based enough, until you say or do something to piss off the libs, at which point you turn into a living deity.
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Kwyndig posted:Elon's tangled with regulators often enough he can see the writing on the wall. Hiring a fall guy is exactly the sort of thing he would do but it's not going to help him or Twitter in the long run. Oh for certain. But he's dumb enough to think he can just "It's all her" and walk away. Granted he probably will unless he pissed the Saudis off enough.
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Mega Comrade posted:Genuingly curious who is insane enough to take this job A Trumpist, supposedly. https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1656801175855931393 
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May 12, 2023 14:52
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Crain posted:Oh for certain. But he's dumb enough to think he can just "It's all her" and walk away.
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May 12, 2023 14:52
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I'm not in love with Firefox, but it allows plugins to block advertiser trackers, which Google is planning to forbid in Chrome. What was the point? You can't open a bottle whenever you want since it isn't physically there, and you can't be a fancy man that impresses friends with their wine cellar.
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May 12, 2023 16:58
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Amphigory posted:At least they must have been insured?
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May 12, 2023 17:06
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Aware posted:going to ninite.com is a way better use of edge on a new installation *chocolatey. run the install script and then: choco install googlechrome firefox vlc -y (and anything else) followed by choco update all -y whenever.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Installing Chrome on my new laptop had Edge literally pathetically begging me to not install a new browser. This is basically why I refuse to use Edge. If Microsoft can't respect my decision not to use Edge, then rest assured I'm never going to give Edge a shot.
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May 13, 2023 03:27
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Arsenic Lupin posted:That doesn't actually matter for a wine library. The point of a library (apart from showing off rare bottles to special customers) is so that you can crack open a bottle and say "Okay, the 2015 was really tannic when we bottled it, but it's awesome now, so we shouldn't worry about that in the next high-tannin year." (Making this up because I know nothing of winemaking.) When a vineyard loses its library, it's losing half its winemaking records. Well I've learned something today, thank you 
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notwithoutmyanus posted:*chocolatey. Why can’t I just download it from their websites and then install it and let it auto update
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notwithoutmyanus posted:*chocolatey. To run a packet manager To run an executable To later update By hand Touching computers it's my job, I only run prompts if someone is paying me
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starkebn posted:you can just turn it off, the options page shouldn't scare you Oh hey, Ninite has RealVNC. We use that at work, the Viewer app is extremely high performance compared to the open source VNC clients I've used, they did a bang-up job with the code..
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Boris Galerkin posted:Why can’t I just download it from their websites and then install it and let it auto update No. It's the children who are wrong.
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Agents are GO! posted:This is basically why I refuse to use Edge. If Microsoft can't respect my decision not to use Edge, then rest assured I'm never going to give Edge a shot. It certainly didn't discourage me. Last think I need is a whiny web browser of all things.
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I'm also skeptical of the amount of tracking garbage potentially in Edge. MS is usually giving away copies of Windows for free these days and collecting poo poo-tons of "Telementry" (user data), which takes a considerable time to disable if it's even possible to disable it all. Every new auto-update they attempt to make it harder to disable as well. Ever try modifying a Windows file by running Powershell as TrustedInstaller (the highest permission level) and still getting "Permission denied"? Cause that's been happening for a while now. You also have to sacrifice security to disable this poo poo unless you're taking hours out of your day to figure out how to disable it all again, because you can be sure they're re-enabling all of it with every update or even update check. Mercury_Storm fucked around with this message at 06:58 on May 14, 2023 |
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Unless you're using Firefox or such that's just trading one devil for another. Google's entire business model is sucking up user data, after all, and Chromium underlies every other major browser out there. (Including Edge itself)
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Yeah I'm using a variant of Chromium that strips out all the Google stuff, (the ungoogled variant at https://chromium.woolyss.com/#windows). It could also still have tracking stuff left in there too though I suppose. I'll have to give Firefox a try though cause I hear it's a lot better now. Originally switched to Chromium because it would load pages like this forum way faster.
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I wish Firefox mobile was a bit less clunky. It's perfect on Desktop for me but I wish I could love it on mobile the same way I do Chrome.
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I've been watching Better Call Saul recently and it made me think about how loving hard it must be now to make calls from prison. I assume they still use the shared pay phone and inmates have to call collect but in a world where nobody answers their phone and 95% of everything is a text message it must be a real bitch to reach your lawyer and family members. At least initially until you're able to establish the prison phone number make your contacts. Related, it's interesting to watch a lot of older movies now and realize how many of them just entirely fall apart if they're in a world that has cell phone communication, surveillance cameras and that sort of thing. Must make it harder to write certain suspenseful plots nowadays and more than half the time the solution is just "dead battery, no coverage, phone gets wet/damaged"
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Inmates get the one free call and then yeah its collect from there. Usually its a good idea to call someone who knows ur in prison so they wont ignore it. Lawyers have their numbers tied to land lines usually. That ways it obvious if the call is for a case.
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