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  • "If you aren't paying for the product then you are the product" doesn't apply anymore.

    Nowadays, even if you do pay for the product, you are still the product, as companies see more money on the table and will go for it.

  • This.

    I'll never forgive Google for killing Inbox. Of all the projects they killed, that one hurt the worst. I went from being able to actually manage my email to it turning right back into an unmanageable mess overnight, and in spite of their promises, not a single one of Inbox's features that enabled this were ever implemented in main Gmail.

    That was a big turning point for me in being able to trust them for anything

  • "Stable" doesn't mean "doesn't crash", it means "low frequency of changes". Debian only makes changing updates every few years, and you can wait a few more years before even taking those changes without losing security support while Arch makes changing updates pretty much every time a package you have installed does.

    In no way is Arch more stable than Debian (other than maybe Debian Unstable/Sid, but even then it's likely a bit of a wash)

  • I disagree for 3 things: UAC, PowerShell, and general driver abuse loopholes being closed and making security not a joke

    I will also say from my personal experience there are a fair number of QOL improvements in the UI, but they kind of threw most of them away with 11, but hey, at least we get tabbed explorer... Which I still can't figure out any real use for, especially the way it's implemented...

  • And have pretty much always been that way, at least in semi recent memory, and the GOP have used this fact constantly by taking credit for their Dem predecessors' economic policies and by the time the negative impact of their policies start to be seen, the Dems are back in power and the GOP blames them for the hardship

    The average voter does not and apparently will never understand that economic policy takes years to fully see and feel the impact

  • Just throwing this out there: it's not so easy for everyone, red states in particular love to add roadblocks to it including closing so many polling places that voters at the remaining places will likely face many hours of standing in line, particularly in areas more likely to vote blue, and have even passed laws making it illegal to shuttle people to the polls or pass out water to people waiting to vote.

  • Starfield, which I don't get the sheer magnitude of rancor it gets... It's not perfect, but it's still a good game, and none of its issues are "unfixable", no matter how much its haters want to believe they are

    Genuinely had a lot of fun with it and looking forward to content updates, as well as yes bug fixes and gameplay improvements (I did say it's not perfect, but none of Bethesda's games were really better at launch and most of them got slammed initially too)

  • That one wasn't the customer feeding it exactly what to say, though, it was the customer asking how to get a discounted price honored, what steps they would need to take, and they followed the chat bot's instruction... A customer using a company's bot in good faith to understand how a process works (one of the things it was supposedly meant for) is not the same as one blatantly abusing the bot's design to get money for nothing.

  • Your first psychologist was awful. Holy hell, nobody should have to deal with that from the person who's supposed to help when already struggling with depression.

    For me, exercise always feels good afterward, but I always dread it anyway... So I've not done it in forever. Maybe I should try just walking...

    I'm glad you found something and someone that could help you

  • For a supposedly anonymous site that's going to be a target from both hackers and companies looking to reveal that data, I'd say it's not really any better, just delayed. All it takes is someone finding a SQL injection vulnerability on the site to scrape the user database, or a court to rule that they have to turn that data over to a company looking to go after an employee, or even just someone with the right access at the company clicking the wrong link

    If you want to be anonymous, the first step is to not give people your name or other PII

  • Honestly, if I printed enough to warrant it, I'd go for that Epson... But I stick with my color laser because it's over ten years old and I print so little it still has the starter cartridges in it, ink would have dried out so many times during that period