ahtaarra

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by ahtaarra 10mo ago
Well, yes. But then again the 'Take Back Control' campaign had those UKIP buses saying "We send the EU £350 million a week, let's fund our NHS instead". An average person is a bit too removed from the GDP/inves
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by ahtaarra 1y ago
This is such a shame. As a Pixel 6a user, I was always bothered by the battery situation of the phone but happily ran GrapheneOS on the device since buying. Recently the model had a battery combustion incident and now this. And there I was
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by ahtaarra 2y ago
>TikTok also lied under oath about where US data is stored [1]. So I’m not sure why anyone should trust anything about them even if they are sold Whether you trust a company that has been caught lying under oath is not the same as whethe
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by ahtaarra 2y ago
Not the US govt. but independent audits of TikTok US from e.g. Oracle which never fully went through. I find the Tiktok ban more of a geopolitics thing, less of a national security reponse. You cannot just make assertions about something, a
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by ahtaarra 2y ago
By the same logic with the Israel-Palestine issue, the US is currently the only state visibly blocking calls for immediate ceasefires and establishing a Palestinian state (which is essential for a two-state solution) at the UN and it can th
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by ahtaarra 3y ago
I think the biggest deal-breaker for me is that they chose to go with /e/OS which is not something I enjoyed after trying it briefly since the skin over AOSP to me seemed ugly and bloated and change for the sake of it. I would lik
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by ahtaarra 4y ago
This article was written as a response: https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2022/07/19/warner-bro...
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by ahtaarra 4y ago
>As with any college course, there are some required materials. Prospective students will need to have access to Age of Empires IV on Steam, the Microsoft Store, or with subscriptions to Xbox Game Pass for PC or Ultimate. But also: >A
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by ahtaarra 5y ago
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by ahtaarra 5y ago
Now I am not sure what exactly the issue is but this seems to be applicable to all results, at least on my particular setup. On LibreWolf browser, On mouse hover, the correct result urls show but then I right-click one, it shows something
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by ahtaarra 5y ago
I recently made the swtich from DDG from Searx simply bevause right-clicking on a search result to copy the url resulted in a referrer link to be copied rather than the link of the result destination.
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by ahtaarra 5y ago
I think the danger of such a shift is that people will no longer have the same level of incentive to make 'good' videos but rather clickbait-y ones that go viral
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by ahtaarra 5y ago
Their patches can be found here: https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/browser/common/-/tree...
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by ahtaarra 5y ago
As a user concerned with the influence Google has over the web, forcing WebKit is something I can accept on iOS even though popular browsers on iOS, in my view, don't seem to be as feature-rich as their Android counterparts. A worse of
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by ahtaarra 5y ago
I think a part of it could be explained by the way things have been in recent times. As of July 2021 (according to the linked metrics), ~25% of the displays used are 1366x768px while ~40% of them are 1080p. Yet when the "Proton" r
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by ahtaarra 5y ago
Scroll probably would have worked well with Pocket because the former could have increased user engagement (and, in turn, help better/newer stories end up in the top posts/popular category) while in the latter support for some pay
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by ahtaarra 6y ago
There is a Firefox addon called 'Google container' on AMO.
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by ahtaarra 6y ago
I would get rid of Stocks, TV and Home apps but for that you apparently need to disable System Integrity Protection from Recovery. Also, I'd rather enable applications from all sources permitted to be run because you already get prompt
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by ahtaarra 6y ago
>Mozilla doesn't owe you anything. You think you can do better? Go build a better browser that's free yourself. So criticising an entity that claims to be creating a freer internet somehow requires us to do better than it has h
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by ahtaarra 6y ago
but you have to close that login dialog every single time you use that App store to download apps which, for me, is infuriating
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by ahtaarra 6y ago
A guy I know bought the base iPhone 11 Pro model for $1400 in my country because he needed it for the 'ecosystem' and because the cheaper iPhone 11 wasn't 'good enough' for him while not even having an iPhone-specif
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by ahtaarra 6y ago
My Windows 10 Home Single Language license cost the OEM $50 AFAIK and despite that MS decided to put placeholder tiles on the start menu which are replaced with apps (e.g. Candy Crush) once you connect to the internet after setting up the O
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by ahtaarra 6y ago
Using Windows only for gaming means there is not a lot to gain from having work things opened while having the game running. If you are going to use Windows for work alongside gaming, wouldn't game launching being so convenient affect