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The only reason I ever even tried "Outlook (new)" was because the old Microsoft "Mail" app was trash (the piece of shit wouldn't even let me send plain text email). I immediately lost interest as soon as I realized there was a bunch of 365 shit bundled into it that I couldn't disable.

If Microsoft wants more RAM just to do AI shit on my computer, I'd rather have even less just to make sure they cant.

I've gotten back into Minecraft lately, after not playing it at all for at least a year. I finally reached a couple major milestones, like defeating the Enderdragon and obtaining netherite scraps (still don't have any netherite equipment yet--obtaining smithing templates is a real pain). Playing on a couple SMP servers has also motivated me to put actual effort into beautifying my bases, rather than just living in a tiny wooden shack I made on day one or two.

Wouldn't go so far as to say it "ruins" the album, but "Shakermaker" is quite a letdown compared to the rest of "Definitely Maybe".

I once decided to make myself an elaborate vegetable omelette for breakfast, and didn't realize until the very final step that I had forgotten the cheese.

Honestly, I get many of my best recommendations by word of mouth. I don't think any website can beat talking to your friends about what they're watching.

The Mozilla Foundation did a tech podcast called IRL. It hasn't updated in nearly a year, and I don't know if it's ever coming back, but some of their back episodes are worth listening to.

Instead of "just leaving this here", how about you actually clarify what you're implying? It sounds like you're accusing Jill Stein of being a Russian asset, and I think it's really irresponsible to make this kind of accusation in a vague way that gives you plausible deniability.

If I can't watch YouTube without ads, I won't watch it at all.

I own an Android, and I was not aware of this feature. I checked my settings, and it appears that the countdown was turned off by default. Does that mean the SOS feature was disabled, or that it would activate instantly with no countdown? Because the latter would definitely increase the risk of false alarms.

I think somewhere in the ballpark of 10-20 years is probably enough to reward creators. Anything significantly longer than that, and it just incentivizes them to milk their creations forever, and punishes other creators who might otherwise make novel derivative works.

I am also of the belief that intellectual property in general (copyrights and patents) should be subject to eminent domain in the same way that physical private property is, i.e. it should be possible to force the creator to sell it to the public (with fair compensation) in cases where it would be an invaluable public good.