You’re not surprised. I’m not surprised. People who end up with this feature enabled without having fully understood it or intending to turn it on are surprised.
I’m not sure how much of this is people not thinking things through and how much is Meta being scumbags. There’s probably a little of both.
There was a time Facebook chat would share precise locations with every message by default. None of the people who sent me their location along with a message knew they were doing that when I told them.
Not to diminish the harms of alcohol, but the USA tried that once and it went pretty badly. Prohibition of other drugs has also led to considerable harm. The cure may be worse than the disease here.
a lot of them are falling for the privately educated ex city trader Farages nonsense that he’s a “man of the people”
This parallels Trump, but I think it’s mostly not that people are really fooled into believing these wealthy politicians are just like them. I think the attraction is more that the current system isn’t working for a lot of people and hasn’t been for a long time. Someone who offers to tear it down can attract a large following even if they don’t have a good proposal for what to replace it with.
It took a while for me to see that because I find the racist and nationalist beliefs of the likes of Trump, Farage, and the AFD so appalling it’s hard to see anything else.
It’s looking like that might not have been a great investment for him either.
My Rockchip 3399 powered former Chromebook (now running proper Linux) from 2017 runs Gnome smoothly with Wayland, not with Xorg.
That’s reasonable to directly compare with phones from 2017; it’s slower than a Pixel 2. Mine actually benchmarks a little slower than the reference board linked here.
It isn’t working as it should be if it doesn’t run smoothly on more powerful hardware, but it’s not necessarily a matter of the end user “doing something wrong”. Sometimes it takes effort to get a particular combination of hardware and software to run smoothly even though it should work.
That sounded too weird to be true yet it’s true. The problem seems to be that it generates some HTML to wrap the attached audio file, does voice to text, and doesn’t escape an ampersand, which trips a firewall.
It’s bad UX that it fails silently there too; at least the recipient should get some sort of explanation.
They also didn’t win sideloading on the IPhone, which would have benefitted users and open source projects. The outside payments they did win will benefit commercial developers (with some price drops for users).
Sending a message should never fail silently, so that’s an improvement, but fuck whoever decided this.
That would be hilarious.
It’s not unusual to feel tired when sick. It’s a particularly common symptom of COVID-19.
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Your attempt to reintroduce the letter thorn to modern English initially had me thinking you were discussing the cost of photographing avians. That’s an area where body features matter more than average.
I like cooking with fire. Temperature changes (especially reduction of heat) are much faster than resistive electric, and when cooking on an unfamiliar stove, it’s easy to tell what’s going on; I don’t have to guess what “6” means on a dial because I can look at the fire and see.
Both the awareness that gas stoves are a significant source of pollution (mostly nitrogen oxides) and availability of induction are fairly recent and not universally distributed. I’d accept the pollution for a better cooking experience than resistive electric, but induction is pretty compelling all things considered.
I’ve used Linux as my primary OS for many years, but I keep a copy of Windows on my current laptop for gaming. I know the gaming story on Linux is pretty good now, but having to hibernate and reboot is enough of a barrier to launching a game that it helps me stay more productive.
At home, my laptop sits on a stand with great airflow, but when trying to play The Witcher 3 on a desk while traveling, it overheated and throttled to the point it wasn’t playable. On Linux, the thinkpad_acpi driver allows setting the fan level to “disengaged”, which sounds like “off” but actually means unregulated and results in a considerably higher speed and cooling performance than the usual maximum. Some research led to the conclusion that while manual fan control is possible with certain apps on Windows, there is no way to exceed the maximum automatic speed.
It only took a couple minutes to set up Lutris and Proton to run the game, and as expected the mild abuse of my laptop’s fan does make it playable. What I didn’t expect is considerably faster load times, but I got those too.
If it was all of Europe, I’d agree. That explanation seems improbable for just two countries.
SMS works perfectly well for sending https://signal.org/install
Kind of weird it wasn’t included for awhile.
A long while starting with the Fenix rewrite in 2020. What’s bizarre is they took a very tightly controlled approach to rolling out extensions instead of developing in the open and giving users the option to choose for themselves whether to use less stable features or untested extensions.
It was kind of bizarre; the attitude is more what I’d expect from Apple than an open source project. There was very little communication to the public about their reasoning, and what they did offer was pretty unsatisfying.
This list seems to be based entirely on aesthetics, not necessarily recommendations for apps with good features or functionality.
Every screenshot there is eye-searing with nearly the entire screen filled with 100% white.
It created a massive black market which greatly increased the profitability of organized crime. That lead to a substantial increase in policing, often conducted with little regard for civil rights.