those “morons” represent the vast majority of internet users.

bad actors use shorteners to mask the actual url of their pages so their potential victims don’t know where they’re going until it is, perhaps, ‘too late’

Opening the shortened URL in your browser will instantly redirect you to the correct long URL. (So no stupid redirection pages.)

an interstitial or redirect page would be a security feature, especially for a shortener open to the public.

there’s a backdoor built right into bitlocker in the form of ‘recovery keys’–and for most users, microsoft knows what they are.

presumably due to cost of memory being very high right now making it difficult to create a card oriented at consumers.

wrong thinking, imo. price below nvidia and amd, give reasonable performance per watt, continue to support open source linux drivers. they would sell at least as well as alchemist and battlemage have.

the closed-source version of the internet.

even the crappy old bobcat-based (slow af amd apu) laptops i have here run with lid closed (they run piholes and what-not).

that’s the true ‘average’ person. they don’t know. they don’t understand. they don’t even want to know. they just use this magic thing that shows stuff from the internet. they don’t even know what a bookmark is, they just ‘google’ for everything. even google, ffs.

in my ‘rural’ part of the u.s., sub-1mbit dsl is common outside of town, and expensive–if you even have that option at all. cellular service sucks and there are no fixed wireless services, so satellite is the only other game available…if you don’t have bluffs, hills, or trees obstructing your view.

They’re doing it so other people can stream their media

and they went to a subscription model, in part, so they could get their ‘cut’ from plex shares.

in the uk, the ingredients list for mcd french fries is literally potatoes, oils (rapeseed, sunflower), dextrose (when needed–i.e. early crops that are low in naturally-occurring sugars). salt added after cooking. source

very much different than what they use in the u.s., which introduces multiple allergens. source

keep the server–so much possibility there. swap the fans out for quiet ones.

once upon a time that’s how headlines and news were written–so you could get the gist of the news by skimming headlines (of your printed newspaper) and perhaps the first short paragraph of an article.

and they’ve used magicband wristband trackers and rfid ticket cards for over a decade.

the qr itself is just a link to a recaptcha web page with a unique identifier in the url.

the magic is all hidden in the required app that’s linked to your google account and device, and the interactions that take place between it and google’s servers once it sees that code or link.

if these age checks ask female users to pan the camera down towards their chests, that’s gonna be a problem. a big giant huge problem.

adguard home is foss (gpl3)

firefox did that bit right. the burger menu might be the default–but that menu bar is right there waiting to be called to action or given center stage.

appeal to people sharing a computer with grandparents or children

it’s near perfect for them. fewer options, less things to mess up, and the big fat buttons for the few things they might want to run (and everything else tucked out of the way).

in their search for the ‘perfect’ desktop, i think the gnome design team went just a weeeee bit too far in dumbing-down the interface and elimination of ‘clutter’, and so many ‘gnome’ applications and utilities have like zero options and no menus, and literally no personality. they’re basically unusable on anything that’s supposed to be more than just a browser-launching chromebook replacement.