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Further Reading posted:Windows is obsessed with One Drive. It keeps trying to activate it, reminding me it's there, giving me error pop ups about it being disabled, telling me how useful cloud storage is. I have that tendency, not just with software either. Not always, but sometimes people gush about something so earnestly I instinctively go "you know what the funnier option is? if I make a VOW at this very instant NEVER to listen to 'nujabes'/watch Godfather I even though I'm a film major/etc." I did see the Godfather eventually (at age 30, years after pissed off film nerds stopped recommending it). Was fine. But I'll expose my ears to nujabes only in some kind of Abu Ghraib situation
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StrangersInTheNight posted:you've already heard nujabes if you've heard any lo-fi hip hop. people rec him bc of his work on Samurai Champloo which led to popularizing the entire musical genre. now i have a valid reason to avoid it! thanks!
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Jul 23, 2023 13:10
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Apparently you can't install WhatsApp on Windows anymore unless you do it through the Microsoft store. Since I'm using Windows 10 LTSC, that means I'm SOL and can't use Whatsapp on desktop anymore. Oh well
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Jul 23, 2023 14:33
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PhazonLink posted:would a real gps device be better? like phones do psudeo gps with celltowers and some other smart things. I used to pay the $300 bucks or whatever for the stupid SD card that unlocks the vehicle GPS because it’s so much more reliable and doesn’t need a cell signal to function. I also travel for work occasionally to rural areas that don’t always have great cell coverage and if I know I’m gonna be out in East Bumfuck I’ll spring for the stand-alone GPS unit for the rental car.
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Jul 23, 2023 14:43
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Yard sales (garage sales, tag sales, or whatever you prefer) seem to have all but disappeared for good in my area. I think the Covid lockdown had a huge part in their demise, and now people probably don’t want to set up shop outside their home where strangers can walk about freely on their property and touch stuff. I also think scumbag resellers had a part in it like they’ve ruined thrift stores by buying up all the decent stuff to make a profit while leaving behind the literal junk no one wants, and what homeowner wants to go through disposing of unsellable garbage? I bought so much great stuff at yard sales over the decades, and it’s sad to see no more cardboard boxes with neon poster board addresses scrawled badly on them 
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Jul 23, 2023 15:13
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I think part of it too is that stuff is largely disposable now and is used that way, so folks are likely donating/throwing away things rather than trying to get the last dollar out of them.
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Jul 23, 2023 16:42
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armpit_enjoyer posted:Apparently you can't install WhatsApp on Windows anymore unless you do it through the Microsoft store. Since I'm using Windows 10 LTSC, that means I'm SOL and can't use Whatsapp on desktop anymore. Oh well Can you not just use Whatsapp Web through your browser?
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Jul 23, 2023 16:52
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I've spent the last few weeks trying to determine an efficient way of hooking up: 10 year old monitor 1 year old monitor 2 year old PC 1 year old laptop 2 year old balanced speakers 1 year old audio interface I hate technology so much.
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Jul 23, 2023 17:01
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ProperCoochie posted:I've spent the last few weeks trying to determine an efficient way of hooking up: It's almost always best to just do it over the network with software now, especially if the laptop is still meant to be portable. Hook up everything to the PC and just use any of the network KVM software that is out.
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Googlers are proposing / testing web client DRM to seemingly stop ad blockers for good (under the guise of user privacy): https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md
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TVGM posted:Googlers are proposing / testing web client DRM to seemingly stop ad blockers for good (under the guise of user privacy): https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md ...And the internet continues to just get worse. Can we get a do over on this whole Internet thing? It has kinda sucked the last 10 years or so.
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You Are A Elf posted:Yard sales (garage sales, tag sales, or whatever you prefer) seem to have all but disappeared for good in my area. I think the Covid lockdown had a huge part in their demise, and now people probably don’t want to set up shop outside their home where strangers can walk about freely on their property and touch stuff. I also think scumbag resellers had a part in it like they’ve ruined thrift stores by buying up all the decent stuff to make a profit while leaving behind the literal junk no one wants, and what homeowner wants to go through disposing of unsellable garbage? Yard sales and rummage sales have basically been on a decline since Craigslist and Facebook marketplace took off. Any of the really good stuff gets sold off piecemeal pre-sale, or it gives people unrealistic expectations about what their stuff is worth so they want to try and sell you a lovely pot planter for $10
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Jul 24, 2023 01:18
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TVGM posted:Googlers are proposing / testing web client DRM to seemingly stop ad blockers for good (under the guise of user privacy): https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md As a person responsible for things becoming shittier, I want you to know they originally planned to launch this almost 4 years ago and Ive heard no serious updates on their side so for now, I think, you're safe to consume the lovely rear end internet as it is.
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You Are A Elf posted:Yard sales (garage sales, tag sales, or whatever you prefer) seem to have all but disappeared for good in my area. I think the Covid lockdown had a huge part in their demise, and now people probably don’t want to set up shop outside their home where strangers can walk about freely on their property and touch stuff. I also think scumbag resellers had a part in it like they’ve ruined thrift stores by buying up all the decent stuff to make a profit while leaving behind the literal junk no one wants, and what homeowner wants to go through disposing of unsellable garbage? We had two yard sale this year and made almost 2000 between them. My MIL happened to have a hoard of happy meal toys and strawberry shortcake merch and people bought out our whole stock right there.
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Jul 24, 2023 01:23
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Barudak posted:As a person responsible for things becoming shittier, I want you to know they originally planned to launch this almost 4 years ago and Ive heard no serious updates on their side so for now, I think, you're safe to consume the lovely rear end internet as it is. You're right, the last commit of the explainer doc was 3 months ago, but they updated the code of conduct 3 days ago. Maybe they're trying to finally enact manifest V3 before pushing this further?
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Jul 24, 2023 01:49
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We have alot of garage sales in my hood but the folks here overvalue their junk. Sorry but 200 bux for a 15+ year old day bed "original mattress included"? Get outta here.
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Jul 24, 2023 01:53
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bespoke mattress included the bespoke is piss
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Jul 24, 2023 02:01
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Further Reading posted:Windows is obsessed with One Drive. It keeps trying to activate it, reminding me it's there, giving me error pop ups about it being disabled, telling me how useful cloud storage is. just reading about one drive makes me seethe
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huh, i’m on windows 11 and haven’t seen a onedrive nag in many months, not since i installed the os last year i think. i don’t have word/excel/etc so maybe that’s why? i also have the icloud storage software installed. the only nags i get are after some windows updates, they make me click through what is basically a powerpoint slide declining offers for office 365 and other microsoft junk before the desktop loads. could do without that.
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Jul 24, 2023 07:47
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Buce posted:just reading about one drive makes me seethe Wild that we got a whole antitrust crusade because of loving Internet Explorer yet everyone’s asleep at the wheel re vertical integration cloud storage , MS store front, etc.
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Jul 24, 2023 08:12
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Internet browsers were an understandable, tangible thing that made your life worse in concrete ways. Meanwhile nobody understands or wants to understand the barely functional web of services and applications that is every modern MS product.
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Brother Tadger posted:Wild that we got a whole antitrust crusade because of loving Internet Explorer yet everyone’s asleep at the wheel re vertical integration cloud storage , MS store front, etc. Not that wild. There has been a very deliberate dismantling & defanging of the FTC going on since the 80s but accelerating in the last two decades. Have an interesting read on the matter, if you want. Or, if you don't want, here's an excerpt: quote:Since the 1990s, 31 out of 41 top FTC officials – both GOP appointed and appointees backed by corporate Dems – "worked directly for a company that has business before the agency":
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Serious_Cyclone posted:Powerpoint loves to take up 25% of the screen to suggest different layouts when you paste in an image, and at best will give you the option after the second time to choose "stop suggesting layouts until next time you open Powerpoint". Yes, thank you, I love having to go through this every time I open the program because Powerpoint is convinced I am teetering on the edge of changing my mind about this. Oh my god, I ran into the same thing and you're completely correct. This is such a baffling anti-feature. I'm even working on a proper corporate deck with Master Sheets defined and it persists in nagging me with "suggested designs"!!! Every time it does it fucks up the zoom level, too.
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Jul 24, 2023 08:35
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Regulatory capture affects most facets of the us executive unfortunately
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My water company just decided to drop quarterly billing out of nowhere. My bill was usually around $50 so now I'm stuck paying tedious footling little amounts each month. Can't even set up a direct debit because it's forwarded from the property managers.
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Jul 24, 2023 09:18
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My water bill hit $100 for the first time for last month. I gotta get out of this loving desert
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I'm just jealous of your water amount. I'm out in the middle of nowhere, where cost of living is low, and it's 150-200/quarter. Of course, about 30-40 of it is water usage, the rest is fixed fees.
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Jaguars! posted:My water company just decided to drop quarterly billing out of nowhere. My bill was usually around $50 so now I'm stuck paying tedious footling little amounts each month. Can't even set up a direct debit because it's forwarded from the property managers. Can you toss $100 their way to have a credit on the account and then just keep the credit topped off each quarter? I get it's an example of enshittification, I just always try to fix things
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Aftermarket car stereos. I kind of get 'why', because mostly the OEM one has all sorts of things built into it and normal radios aren't going to be easy replacements.
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JediTalentAgent posted:Aftermarket car stereos. I have a 1999 model hobby car that needed a new stereo, and of all the hundreds of available aftermarket head units on the market, there was exactly ONE that didn't have a display that looked like Mardi Gras in a whorehouse and didn't cost closer to a grand. If it's any consolation, usually there are adapters for both the cable and the dashboard fitment for whatever car and radio you want to do.
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TVGM posted:Googlers are proposing / testing web client DRM to seemingly stop ad blockers for good (under the guise of user privacy): https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md I suspect this is more about preventing click-fraud than adblocking. Clickfraud is the real problem as it literally drains money from advertisers and perpetuates the already common perception that google ads are a waste of money. It’s still dumb as it’s going to run into the same issues every other form of DRM does, it eventually gets bypassed and/or keys get leaked and it’s all over. I’ve worked on websites with a million+ users and I would love nothing more than a switch to flip that makes bots a thing of the past but this won’t be it.
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kronix posted:I suspect this is more about preventing click-fraud than adblocking. Clickfraud is the real problem as it literally drains money from advertisers and perpetuates the already common perception that google ads are a waste of money. Giving them the benefit of the doubt (which they don't deserve for a second), this is creating a massive pile of problems for the user so Google's crappy ad business doesn't have to solve the problem on their end. Coming back to reality: There is absolutely no way the intention isn't to kill ad blockers (while also preventing Clickfraud...for a couple months until someone figures out how to bypass that thing).
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What is clickfraud? Just like a bot clicking on an ad to inflate metrics on how effective it was or something?
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kronix posted:I suspect this is more about preventing click-fraud than adblocking. Clickfraud is the real problem as it literally drains money from advertisers and perpetuates the already common perception that google ads are a waste of money. ^ e: I'm too slow Genuinely curious how widespread click-fraud is. Can I bankrupt NordVPN by clicking on a billion ads? Or is it more a generalized complaint from advertisers / investors because of a perceived lack of ROI? It's probably more complex than this, but with Google increasing the number of ad tap / click targets in Gmail, search, etc. wouldn't users misclick ad-space more and not follow through on a sale? At what point does it start to resemble a shady download site where there are 5 download buttons and the smallest, least obvious one is the real one?
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"Free rider" 
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Jaguars! posted:My water company just decided to drop quarterly billing out of nowhere. My bill was usually around $50 so now I'm stuck paying tedious footling little amounts each month. Can't even set up a direct debit because it's forwarded from the property managers. 50 dollars a quarter????? water is so loving expensive in portland
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So, remember the onedrive talk? Check out a column on the vegas strip that I just saw
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Has any human being ever used Onenote?  Oh you thought you deleted those printers three times already? Theeeeeey're back!
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I have a report that I give out at most three times a year and because it’s so infrequent I don’t always remember all the information I need to provide so I made a template in OneNote that I can just swap info out of in 15 minutes and then just read it out on the call. Hard to explain but the OneNote format worked the best for it because the report I give out is basically a verbal consolidation of data that already exists elsewhere. That’s the only time I use OneNote.
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