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The poorly designed feature itself isn't about showing ads, it's just showing the top item of the news feed. The news feed can have ads, depending on what the developer publishes to it, which is why I never scroll down to that section.

This was a survey. They weren't gathering data without consent.

It's hard to imagine police officers not backing their boy.

Luckily builders would set aside space in buildings just in case someone had an idea for how to move between floors without a ladder. Made retrofitting stairs a breeze. You can't even tell that they were added later most of the time.

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By drop-off, they mean the top two countries have over a billion people and the third country only has 330 million.

There are benefits to them being enchantments. They are permanents, so can bounce it back to hand and replay. They can also be flickered and there are creatures that can relock/reunlock the rooms. Being an enchantment instead of something new allows you to interact with them with spells like disenchant and you can splash them into enchantment decks instead of them being stuck to one Room deck forever.

I have a weird issue where my USB headset doesn't show up in my list of devices whenever I turn my computer on (including waking from sleep) and I have to unplug and replug it. It's a small thing, but it's a little maddening when you think about how you wouldn't have to deal with it if you had just booted into Windows.

I need to try changing ports. I was considering trying it, but I was being stubborn. That fixing your problem gives me hope.

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The spec saying border routers must have an option to allow internet access is a weird thing to call Enshittification.

One, it has nothing to do with the actual concept of Enshittification. This isn't an online service that lured you in with cool free features and has slowly degraded the experience to increase profitability. It's a spec for a type of product that is adding more standardized features.

Two, it makes things easier for the consumer so you don't have to do a ton amount research about which features the different Thread 1.4 certified routers you are looking at have.

And three, if you were using the lack of an internet option as a feature for picking a router, you can do the exact same amount of research on border routers to see if the internet access toggle works.

You could also just not give the border router internet access.

There is a Mac app called Rewind that came out a couple of years ago that does the same thing. There was also an open source thing for Windows. Everyone is desperate to show that they are hip and can do AI. It looks like someone at Microsoft saw a demo of one of those apps and thought that putting it into Windows would let them brag about how much AI Windows can do. They clearly tried to rush it out in time for their Copilot PC marketing push.

The idea is that you can use local LLM models and image scanning to talk to your computer. You could ask it to summarize your day, ask what you were working on last week, or find those articles you vaguely remember reading last year and can't find anymore. I can almost see the merit, but the security risk is so high.

I wonder if people will eventually stop caring about the security risk of features like this. Those AI girlfriends some people dream about will have access to so much private information. Give this thing a voice and you can market it as a companion who learns the things you like and can talk with you about the things you are reading. Hackers might be able to see literally everything you've done on the computer for the last few years, but you'll get to feel like Iron Man with your own personal Jarvis.