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Ads. Specifically, a popup served by the OS about chrome and switching to bing or edge or something like that. I didn't even use chrome, just having it installed was enough for them. Any ads baked into the OS is unacceptable, but that's just so far over the line that I find it insane anyone still uses Windows at all.

I contacted support to complain and their "solution" was to reinstall the OS, so I installed a better one instead.

No, it's the website's fault. You only need explicit consent if you're tracking users beyond what your service obviously requires to function, the problem is these sites are stalking you.

And if it's even slightly harder to decline than to accept they're likely not in compliance anyway so it's definitely not the EU's fault.

Social security numbers being involved in a breach does not mean that the breach only affects Americans. Some records might not have an equivalent ID number associated with them at all, and some records could have similar ID numbers from other countries. They also list current address as part of the data leaked but the fact many people don't have a current address didn't seem to cause you any confusion. The original source lists "information about relatives", if that was in this title would you have assumed only people with living relatives were included?

"I didn't read the article" is a poor excuse when you're commenting on the believability of the article. What happened here is you saw an article, immediately assumed it was about the US, realised that doesn't make any sense, then dismissed the article without even bothering to check because the title doesn't fit the US exclusively. It's crazy to me that you wouldn't even consider the fact it's not an exclusively US-based leak.

I'm not really sure what you're asking since your post is a but unfocused, but if your problem is that you have too many addresses with different providers you could simply redirect mail from alternate addresses to whichever one you actually check. When I switched to proton I didn't delete my old gmail account, I simply imported my old emails and set up email forwarding (see here for Proton's migration instructions from Gmail). If you want to completely de-Google you don't need to do it all at once, just migrate accounts to your new addresses as needed.

If you want a separate account for your PC then this does of course require a separate account. There isn't really a solution there since your problem is also your requirement. You could set up separate folders or aliases for your PC and phone but that might not have the same level of separation you want.

I'd recommend switching away from Chrome-based browsers entirely anyway due to Google forcing through questionable standards by throwing their near-monopoly around, but using one Google service doesn't mean it's pointless to switch away from others. You don't need to do everything at once.

Okay, but I'm not sure how revelant that is. The article doesn't say only Americans were affected, it says the exact opposite.

[...] this data likely comes from both the U.S. and other countries around the world.

It's possible to factually accurate with heavy bias, but since that would require selective reporting to enforce a single worldview I wouldn't consider that "highly trustworthy".

Consider the following hypothetical headlines:
"Teen Killed by Islamic Group During Shooting"
"Terrorist Shooting at Mosque, 20 Dead"

Both are technically factually accurate ways to describe a hypothetical scenario where a teen shoots up a place of worship before being stopped by one of the victims, but they both paint very different pictures. Would you consider both sources "highly trustworthy"?

I'm on Mint with a nvidia card, I haven't really had to do any tweaks since I stopped trying to install games on an NTFS-formatted drive and nearly every game works perfectly out of the box. There's a lot of very loud voices complaining about nvidia/tinkering but it's definitely not universal; you won't necessarily need to put in a lot of effort to get games to work on Linux.

Sounds like snake oil. Their website says you need to sip water through their straw for 3 seconds two/three times, then repeat those 3 sips up to 2 more times so that puts the effectiveness at somewhere around that of pretty much any other free home remedy. The way those instructions are written seems like it's meant to intentionally obfuscate that fact too, it's incredibly unnatural to say "do this thing two to three times, up to three times".

This is the poster child for whataboutisn. You literally just argued that it's okay for cryptocurrencies to pollute and waste energy because it takes energy to make glass too.

That's exactly what they just said; people don't post because there are no posts. Post on a community you want to keep alive and that'll encourage other people to post. Don't post and nobody else will either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLNyF1Zw5tg

That's an understatement, PayPal will pretty much always side with the buyer no matter how ridiculous and outlandish their claim. I even had one "dispute" where the scammer changed the dispute reason which caused PayPal to ignore what I'd already submitted and close it in their favour by default as "no response". PayPal is very much pro-scammer, avoid if possible.

It's been a few years since I've had to deal with clients directly, I don't think I'll ever miss it.

Because that would be the same quality. This is the internet, if an image is still recognisable after being shared five times you're doing something wrong.

Bit of a misleading title, I've not watched the video but based on the video description and article they cite (also written by them, I think?) it should read "95% of Deaths from Extremism [in the past decade] in the U.S. are [Committed by] Far-Right". The title as it is now suggests 95% of people killed were far-right, not that 95% of people killed were killed by far right.

Personally I'd swap "are" for "were" too. Present tense is a bit of an odd choice since it's data from the past, for obvious reasons.

I made a fair bit of commission upgrading people to much much better hardware and speed for not much more money.

See that's your entire problem right there, you're in sales. Your incentive is to drain every penny you can out of customers through useless up-sells and selling hardware to get the service they're already paying for.

You literally just argued that if your 600mbps router only supplies an 80mbps connection then your 600mbps connection is 80mbps. And speed isn't divided equally by the number of devices connected either, that's just ridiculous. The impact of a connected but idle device is minimal. Also, why would you need 600mbps for only 4 devices? You could stream 4k video on all four devices 24/7 and you're still not using even a quarter of that bandwidth; you're looking at a recommendation of only 15mbps to 25mbps per user for a 4k-viable internet connection.

Here's a ping to my stock ISP-supplied router on another floor and three rooms away via wifi:

    
--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
611 packets transmitted, 611 received, 0% packet loss, time 623436ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.647/0.779/2.105/0.110 ms


  

It's obviously impossible to improve a 0% packet loss, switching to a wired connection would be a considerable cost for minimal benefit (though admittedly that ping is unusually good, I'd normally expect slightly over 1ms average). I'm also getting over my advertised speeds according to fast.com and speedtest.net despite being on wifi and running through Mullvad so I suppose the problem might just be that I'm not using whichever scummy ISP you work for.

I have a home office and have work from home (or hybrid) for pretty much my entire career, even before WFH was normalised. I can assure you a wired connection is not a necessity to work from home.

So the ISP isn't to blame when the cheap ISP-provided hardware fails, and the solution isn't for the ISP to replace insufficient ISP-owned hardware but for you to buy your own instead?

The "wire everything" approach is a little excessive for most home networks too, outside of exceptional circumstances modern WiFi on modern hardware is more than enough for home users. It's only worth the time and money to wire everything if you've identified specific issues with signal loss or noise, don't just do it by default.

This means that the decimal representation of pi ends with the digit 9, followed by an infinite sequence of other digits.

I guess? There is a 9 followed by infinitely many other digits. Not sure I'd call that the end of pi, though.

UK is under BST (UTC+1) for half the year but people are usually just taught that the UK is GMT (UTC+0) which is based in the time in Greenwich, withought mentioning DST. I suppose it's also possible everyone is taught BST and just forgets about it because daylight savings sucks, but either way most people seem to think GMT and UK time are the same thing.

This means you'll get people asking for GMT times when they want BST or UK local time.

Utter nonsense. Your argument is that because you can imagine a god and spread the idea they are real. The logical conclusion there is that anything you can imagine is equally real. Bigfoot really is wandering around a forest, spaghetti absolutely does grow in trees, and the moon landing was definitely on a sound stage (but they also really landed on the moon because I can picture that too).

I feel like someone not releasing anything but squatting IP rights for 13 years is a poor argument for longer copyright terms.