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  1. Re:Pirate Bay is free. on YouTube TV Costs $50 Per Month After Another Price Hike (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    YouTube TV is cable channels with commercials you nincompoop. It's fucking bundled television, aka cable. Goddamn you AC's are dense motherfuckers

  2. Re:Pirate Bay is free. on YouTube TV Costs $50 Per Month After Another Price Hike (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    And if you want to use an app to stream it, you can get whatever quality they offer. You don't have to use your cable box for anything that supports TV Everywhere(which is pretty much every network that matters). Basic cable generally provides more content(channels) than streaming services like this and Sling at the same price. Generally. Exceptions apply, of course.

  3. Re:Pirate Bay is free. on YouTube TV Costs $50 Per Month After Another Price Hike (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Why is it better than basic cable? And you know that the channels on basic cable have apps that you can watch everything on all your devices, right?

  4. Brave is Chromium based, but is called out in article as not changing its behavior.

  5. Re:Chrome was good for a while ... on Chrome, Safari and Opera Criticised For Removing Privacy Setting (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    Never left.

  6. Re:Isn't Opera Chinese? on Opera Adds Crypto Wallet To Its Desktop Browser, Launches Anti-Chrome Campaign in Europe (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    They are. The board is controlled by the Chinese and the Chinese investment firms that owned it prior to the IPO maintained something like 60% of the company through the IPO

  7. Re:sorta missing the point there... on Several Major Browsers to Prevent Disabling of Click-Tracking 'Hyperlink Auditing' (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, the old fashioned "I'm just asking questions, here" guy. Why? Because they made a choice. Who gives a shit why? Reality is reality. Live with it, or don't. No one cares about AC opinions

  8. Re:Ha, just like Javascript, Mozilla will... on Several Major Browsers to Prevent Disabling of Click-Tracking 'Hyperlink Auditing' (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    You can still accomplish that with NoScript and uBO in Firefox. Or you can use Brave, which has it all built in.

  9. Re: For an immediate cheering up on Linux Mint 19.2 'Tina' is On the Way, But the Developers Seem Defeated and Depressed (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Low effort Godwinning is the worst kind of Godwin

  10. Re: For an immediate cheering up on Linux Mint 19.2 'Tina' is On the Way, But the Developers Seem Defeated and Depressed (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    It's been a decade. Get over it

  11. Re: Recycling is a dead end on As Costs Skyrocket, More US Cities Stop Recycling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Paper can be composted and it breaks down fairly easily. Cellulose is not a bad thing. And glass has no environmental impact in a landfill, and it's reusable until it breaks, unlike plastic which breaks down and leeches into your food and drinks. And if glass is discarded as litter, it's harmful to your feet, but not the environment in general, unlike plastic, which has dramatic ecological impact(microplastics, chemical makeup and breakdown into the environment, etc)

  12. Re: Recycling is a dead end on As Costs Skyrocket, More US Cities Stop Recycling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Glass is typically thicker, and thus takes up more landfill space, than plastic.

    Yes, but glass has no environmental impact in a landfill, and it's reusable until it breaks, unlike plastic which breaks down and leeches into your food and drinks. And if glass is discarded as litter, it's harmful to your feet, but not the environment in general, unlike plastic, which has dramatic ecological impact(microplastics, chemical makeup and breakdown into the environment, etc)

  13. Re: Recycling is a dead end on As Costs Skyrocket, More US Cities Stop Recycling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Glass is not an environmental risk and it is not a limited resource. That's the benefit of glass. Plastic, on the other hand, is petroleum based and is hazardous to the environment

  14. Re:Wouldn't it be the people doing the discriminat on Housing Department Slaps Facebook With Discrimination Charge (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The question is do other mediums vet advertising for this by courtesy or by law/regulation? Newspapers, mailers, television, etc. Facilitating this activity may be covered by the law or at least covered by industry best practices, and we all know that Facebook has no concept of best practices, so the only way to enforce them is to force them via the legal system.

  15. The question is do other mediums vet advertising for this by courtesy or by law/regulation? Newspapers, mailers, television, etc. Facilitating this activity may be covered by the law or at least covered by industry best practices, and we all know that Facebook has no concept of best practices, so the only way to enforce them is to force them via the legal system.

  16. Any OS feature that isn't used by a LARGE majority of the users should be REMOVED from the OS

    Good one. How about, instead, people who don't have use cases that require a very flexible OS should stick to iOS?

  17. Re: Recycling is a dead end on As Costs Skyrocket, More US Cities Stop Recycling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or just force companies to stop using plastic as a disposable product. Glass and paper are not a problem

  18. Re: Recycling is a dead end on As Costs Skyrocket, More US Cities Stop Recycling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    Or use recycling deposits to encourage recycling. Cans, bottles, televisions, tires, and some other miscellaneous items have recycling deposits here and people will go through trashcans to find anything that they can turn in. Add that to single use plastics

  19. Re: Recycling is a dead end on As Costs Skyrocket, More US Cities Stop Recycling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Paper breaks down fairly easily, though. I'm not very concerned about paper in landfills. It's just cellulose

  20. Re: Recycling is a dead end on As Costs Skyrocket, More US Cities Stop Recycling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Most household steel is in the form of pressurized containers. Not supposed to recycle those. And actually very difficult to find places that do. I've got a pile of camp stove propane tanks in my garage waiting for a recycling event that takes them to come through. Can't throw them in the garbage, can't put them in the bin.

  21. Re:It's illegal on Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Being an AC

  22. No one uses C anymore either

  23. Re: Force quit on Android Q May Change the Back Button To a Gesture (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    The things I force quit in Android are things that run in the background that I want to stop running. iOS is much more restrictive about what runs in the background, so I don't have the problem of having to force quit those applications on iOS, but that also means I'm installing those applications on Android because they work better. So, yea, I quit less on iOS, but I also do less because of it's limitations(disclosure: I carry two phones, one iOS based and one Android based).

    That said, Android has started to shift in the iOS direction with Pie in regards to restricting background processes, and will seemingly double down on that route with Q, and it's put a lot of useful applications that run in the background in a bad spot as they've become more unreliable without excluding them from Pie's aggressive battery optimizations and background services restrictions(through banner requirements, which don't really alleviate the issue in my experience).

  24. Is yours Al Cowlings?

  25. Optional? on Location Finds Bluetooth, Ultra-Wideband (eetimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Is this another optional part of the spec? A number of nice BT5.0 features are optional and not highly adopted. Basically useless.