I see, interesting. Do you know if there’s a way to completely prohibit an app from running in the background other than just using the “restricted” battery mode for it, which doesn’t stop it completely?

I only have 1 app active in the background and it’s a custom DNS. I’m very good about keeping all my apps closed when I’m not using them and notifications are disabled for most apps.

Phone batteries still do that

So it’s sort of like Minecraft structured like Roblox? (Minus the corporate greed)

You can bet your ass they paid a lot of money to get their malware on your computer. It should be illegal to load consumer hardware with 3rd party bloatware that can’t be removed.

I got a laptop with an HDD a while back because I’m an idiot “more storage space hurr durr!”

It took 10-15 minutes to boot and another 5-10 just to open a web browser when it was running Windows 10. Even once stuff was open, everything was so laggy that it wasn’t really usable. I’d miss a solid chunk of whatever we were supposed to be doing on our laptops in class when I was using it for that.

Linux changed EVERYTHING. It boots in just a couple of minutes and only needs a minute or two to settle itself before things start running smoothly. I even managed to play Hollow Knight on it with no lag!

People don’t realize how bloated Windows is until they try Linux. If your computer is slow and was made in the last 10 years, no it isn’t, your OS is.

Those are both solutions that only work sometimes and for the former, you have no way of knowing if it worked unless you actually listen to the result. Having to download the podcast twice is also rather undesirable.

Detecting the ads directly would be hard. The real way to do this would be to mark segments of *non-*advertisement and then send the information necessary to identify them to the client so that it can scan through the downloaded audio file and remove anything that shouldn’t be there. The algorithm would still be pretty complicated, but feasible.

Arrrr!

I don’t understand (from a technical standpoint) why they can’t just ship a dual boot that only partitions any real space for an OS once you actually use it. Linux is what, 2-3GB on its own with a DE? You could use less than 1% of a modern computer’s storage to give users the option to activate and allocate space to an already-working Linux install whenever they feel like it, and if they really need those few gigs and don’t want Linux, they could just delete it.

Our fire alarm is very loud I can still hear it for hours after it stops going off if it’s quiet now and went off for long enough. The first time may have been real.

I feel like either this can’t be real or you embellished how sure you are of what you heard. If this really happened, the only reasonable response would be to put a knife under your pillow, install a night-vision security camera, and then spend the next few nights pretending to sleep because there’s no way you’re getting any real sleep. You’d also involve other people if you knew anyone.

Burying your head in the sand and waiting for the guy living in your attic to kill you is definitely a BS response to what you described.

On the card view, ad boxes are inserted between posts.

Doesn’t it still say ‘sponsored content’ in those little widgets, though?

I suspect that’s what happened to me.

I can’t even get the fuckin’ thing to open half the time. There’s no way in hell I’m using that buggy piece of shit to install important software.

What do you do connecting to the servers that’s actually more convenient to do on your phone instead of waiting to be on a computer? I installed Termux because like, “Cool! A Linux terminal on my phone!” but I haven’t figured out what to actually use it for.

Ah yeah, I didn’t realize you specifically meant those two things.

As someone that’s disabled and suffers from severe chronic pain, that’s complete horseshit. I want my reroll!

Lol what? It’s a health facility, not a fucking Walmart. You don’t have to be a bigot to not want your feelings invalidated by a misandrist counselor.

I mean, that’s essentially what OC said his coworkers were doing. Not those exact words, sure, but summarization =/= strawman.

“I am depressed.”

“Have you considered that women have it worse?”

Is the type of mental health care you are okay with?

Pushing any sort of socio-political agenda on people who desperately need help should be grounds for losing your license to operate. If someone was having a mental health crisis and the people who were supposed to help them instead tried to convince them that women have it worse, I could see it pushing that person over the edge into committing suicide. That sounds so incredibly invalidating and possibly malicious.

They say that to the patients? That sounds incredibly unprofessional.

That’s not a sex ed thing, that’s just blatant misandry. So what if boys don’t get periods, they still have to pee!

The stock market is a huge part of why society sucks so much. Publicly owned corporations are beholden to shareholder profits above all else, including morality.

Not working for me on Boost.

Did you used to press / and then backspace to chat, or did you just send commands more often than messages?

Why is it so much easier to read about a movie for like 15 minutes than to spend that 15 minutes watching the intro?

cI used to start messages with ‘c’ because I learned to type by playing Minecraft and had rebound the chat button to C.

Doesn’t matter. What is calming to one may not be to another and people shouldn’t impose that on each other.

Does it happen with normal stick deodorant, or just stuff that you spray?

Unfathomably based.

Well I didn’t see the option when I looked just now.

Edit: nvm found it

That makes sense to me. Maybe it should measure up to 48 hours, up to 8 weeks, and up to 24 months.

That’s pretty neat. I’m using Boost, though.

I’ve seen this in my Downloads folder. So weird haha.

Yeah, I can see that this comment was made 15 hours ago. I don’t want to be given the date and time and have to do the math.

You actually can’t block instances. Blocking individual communities and bots when there are so many is terrible UX.

There’s a tech news bot that regularly gets a lot of community engagement, so blocking all bot accounts would also block part of the good stuff.