Idiots use my email address all the time as if it were their own for SERIOUS stuff like medical portals (which themselves are almost always terrible) and club/charity/friend/relative things that are obviously real. I send corrections when I feel sorry for somebody, but most of it I just delete.
Motorola is pretty good about not forcing a lot of crap on you, but what I want to remove is the google stuff that I don't want to use -- calendar, unneeded language support, play music/movies/tv, other things I can't remember. When I had only 8GB of internal memory it was a serious problem. 64GB now on new phone, so not so much. Still, it's MY phone...
We buy them at yardsales whenever we see them. I spilled coffee into the 1988 model (a special year for me) while it was running and ruined it, a real tragedy. I'm using a 1992 now (no difference that I can tell), but I'm being really careful about spills. Given the way the key undertops are fastened to the rest of the mechanism I had thought that it was proof against anything but a serious flood, but I was wrong. So I have spare keys now, anyway.
Hubby is using three, and we have a few spares. I hope. I don't want to find out that I'm wrong. It really gripes me that you can't get cheap USB adapters like the little green ones that go the other way.
With a lot of personalization. It just works. No reason to change. I'd like to be able to import my pine mail files from the early 90s into TB, but not enough to actually attempt to do it.
Blue Mail on Android; I only want to 'sync' when I'm away from my real computer for more than a day (rarely), and I couldn't get K-9 to do that reliably when I tried it several years ago.
I used Mosaic for a few days in 1994 or early 1995, just before Netscape.9 came out. At the time I was active on the CalStateLA/K-12 usenet feed (free to 'students'), which was moderated by a total idiot who eventually went to the L.A. Freenet and ruined that too. Said idiot spent most of his budget trying to develop a child-friendly browser based on cello. Apparently it never worked and he was much ridiculed for his goal as well as his attempts. As he moderated a newsgroup out of existence everybody moved to a different unused newsgroup for self-help subjects as well as general bitching.
It was perfect. It was just what we wanted. It didn't show pictures, though -- we had to actually READ stuff and CLICK ON stuff if we wanted to see pictures or videos or hear sounds.
Facebook is a poor substitute, and I'm ashamed that we let usenet just drift away.
I've been using fvwm95 for 20 years. Why should I change? Borderwidth=4, handlewidth=10, left click on the border moves the window, right click resizes it. And my borders are a pretty purple. If you can't change basic things like these to your liking, choose another window manager.
Chrome won't resize under any circumstances, which is one more reason that I rarely use it.
I'm a woman. I agree with him. He was right and he shouldn't have been fired. Making women "special" just causes resentment by the men and difficulty for the women.
No women's cargo shorts at Land's End, even with stupid patch pockets. The "cargo pants" have stupid patch pockets. I want to be able to carry my phone, my camera, some ID, my keys, a knife, a Chapstick and maybe a sandwich. If I'm wearing contacts I want to carry wetting drops. They had boys' cargo shorts with reasonable pockets, but not women's.
We want women's sizes so they fit smaller waists and shorter legs. Where is it written that we HAVE to carry a handbag?
FWIW, I buy everything possible at yard sales, but I might be persuaded to buy something new if I couldn't get it any other way.
I like Tree Style Tab. Solves all your problems. There are a few other vertical-tab extensions, try them all. I don't see how people can live with 30 tabs across the top:-(
Also no plano. They clearly offer just the easiest prescriptions in the most common physical size (many contact brands come in ONLY one size). If you guess at your prescription based on your glasses prescription and you're happy with the results, I don't see a problem.
Discrimination is certainly possible, but absent that the point is to weed a few hundred applicants down to the 20 or so that you can actually think about. BTDT as part of the selection process. Evaluation fatigue is a real thing.
At the risk of promoting a commercial item, I will nonetheless recommend the Sentry 2 device for VOIP phones. It rejects (without ringing through) ALL robocalls and calls from its own list of spammers. Your friends press 0 to go through and be whitelisted ONCE. If a telemarketer lies and presses 0 you can do what you want and then press REJECT so he's added to the blacklist. We used to get half a dozen telemarketer/robocalls per day. Now it's down to one or two lying bastards a month. Best $50 I ever spent.
But economic interests keep the monopoly thriving. A competing cable company would have to run new cable, which is why we have to pay Charter $65/month for a 30KBs internet connection (no TV, no phone). I'll open a vein in a warm bath before I pay AT&T a dime.
You get that ability by buying the phone from someone OTHER than a cellular carrier. Either directly from Google for their direct branded phones, or from an independent electronics retailer that is not associated with a cellular service.
For instance: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c... lists a variety of LG, Motorola, and Samsung phones. Unlocked, no carrier bloatware.
(I have no association with B&H)
Google provides its own bloatware -- I don't want google music/news/games etc. but they're undeleteable from my unlocked Motorola Moto G2, which is really good about NOT adding crap. I'm willing to leave the playstore, gmail and their browser there just in case I actually NEED them, but the other apps are just useless garbage.
Women ARE different, but I've come to believe that the non-physical differences are caused by the cultural/psychological adaptations we've had to make because we're smaller and weaker than men. It would be nice if we didn't have to adapt any more, but I don't see that happening Real Soon Now. Still, more stuff is open to women now than when I was young, and that's a good thing. Onward and upward.
I'm ashamed that whining is apparently one of those adaptations.
The Google guy didn't say that we're unsuitable or inferior, just that we tend to have different interests etc. I don't disagree with anything he said.
FF52/linux 32-bit. Many crashes and memory grabs. I finally opened a new virgin profile and started adding back my beloved extensions a few at a time. No more grabs and crashes. Moved it to a 64-bit system. No appreciable speed difference or problems. I'm sorry for badmouthing FF:-(
Some jerk signs me up for one or two things each day. Most recent: he contacted perhaps every Toyota dealer in New Orleans asking about a specific car. The guy's name is Bryan and he's done stuff like this for several years now. Worst was buying ammo mail order from Georgia. I contact the businesses asking them to delete the fraudulent account completely. If it's people, I tell them they made a mistake and need to find out their friend's REAL email address.
It still works in California, for certain cars. They paid me $1K to crush my 1988 Caddy -- the one that tried to kill me several times and needed at least $3K of functional repair, although it drove just fine more or less. The most I could get from a wrecker (I didn't want to sell it to a private party -- I wasn't kidding about the attempted murders)(I would have liked to know that parts of her were living on in other cars) was $250. I really hated doing it, but money talks.
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Idiots use my email address all the time as if it were their own for SERIOUS stuff like medical portals (which themselves are almost always terrible) and club/charity/friend/relative things that are obviously real. I send corrections when I feel sorry for somebody, but most of it I just delete.
Motorola is pretty good about not forcing a lot of crap on you, but what I want to remove is the google stuff that I don't want to use -- calendar, unneeded language support, play music/movies/tv, other things I can't remember. When I had only 8GB of internal memory it was a serious problem. 64GB now on new phone, so not so much. Still, it's MY phone...
We buy them at yardsales whenever we see them. I spilled coffee into the 1988 model (a special year for me) while it was running and ruined it, a real tragedy. I'm using a 1992 now (no difference that I can tell), but I'm being really careful about spills. Given the way the key undertops are fastened to the rest of the mechanism I had thought that it was proof against anything but a serious flood, but I was wrong. So I have spare keys now, anyway.
Hubby is using three, and we have a few spares. I hope. I don't want to find out that I'm wrong. It really gripes me that you can't get cheap USB adapters like the little green ones that go the other way.
These people also want climate-change deniers to be jailed.
With a lot of personalization. It just works. No reason to change. I'd like to be able to import my pine mail files from the early 90s into TB, but not enough to actually attempt to do it.
Blue Mail on Android; I only want to 'sync' when I'm away from my real computer for more than a day (rarely), and I couldn't get K-9 to do that reliably when I tried it several years ago.
I used Mosaic for a few days in 1994 or early 1995, just before Netscape .9 came out. At the time I was active on the CalStateLA/K-12 usenet feed (free to 'students'), which was moderated by a total idiot who eventually went to the L.A. Freenet and ruined that too. Said idiot spent most of his budget trying to develop a child-friendly browser based on cello. Apparently it never worked and he was much ridiculed for his goal as well as his attempts. As he moderated a newsgroup out of existence everybody moved to a different unused newsgroup for self-help subjects as well as general bitching.
Good times...
It was perfect. It was just what we wanted. It didn't show pictures, though -- we had to actually READ stuff and CLICK ON stuff if we wanted to see pictures or videos or hear sounds.
Facebook is a poor substitute, and I'm ashamed that we let usenet just drift away.
I've been using fvwm95 for 20 years. Why should I change? Borderwidth=4, handlewidth=10, left click on the border moves the window, right click resizes it. And my borders are a pretty purple. If you can't change basic things like these to your liking, choose another window manager.
Chrome won't resize under any circumstances, which is one more reason that I rarely use it.
I'm a woman. I agree with him. He was right and he shouldn't have been fired. Making women "special" just causes resentment by the men and difficulty for the women.
No women's cargo shorts at Land's End, even with stupid patch pockets. The "cargo pants" have stupid patch pockets. I want to be able to carry my phone, my camera, some ID, my keys, a knife, a Chapstick and maybe a sandwich. If I'm wearing contacts I want to carry wetting drops. They had boys' cargo shorts with reasonable pockets, but not women's.
We want women's sizes so they fit smaller waists and shorter legs. Where is it written that we HAVE to carry a handbag?
FWIW, I buy everything possible at yard sales, but I might be persuaded to buy something new if I couldn't get it any other way.
I like Tree Style Tab. Solves all your problems. There are a few other vertical-tab extensions, try them all. I don't see how people can live with 30 tabs across the top :-(
+1,000,000...
Also no plano. They clearly offer just the easiest prescriptions in the most common physical size (many contact brands come in ONLY one size). If you guess at your prescription based on your glasses prescription and you're happy with the results, I don't see a problem.
Discrimination is certainly possible, but absent that the point is to weed a few hundred applicants down to the 20 or so that you can actually think about. BTDT as part of the selection process. Evaluation fatigue is a real thing.
At the risk of promoting a commercial item, I will nonetheless recommend the Sentry 2 device for VOIP phones. It rejects (without ringing through) ALL robocalls and calls from its own list of spammers. Your friends press 0 to go through and be whitelisted ONCE. If a telemarketer lies and presses 0 you can do what you want and then press REJECT so he's added to the blacklist. We used to get half a dozen telemarketer/robocalls per day. Now it's down to one or two lying bastards a month. Best $50 I ever spent.
The closer facebook approaches usenet, the better it is. Unfortunately it's nowhere near close enough.
But economic interests keep the monopoly thriving. A competing cable company would have to run new cable, which is why we have to pay Charter $65/month for a 30KBs internet connection (no TV, no phone). I'll open a vein in a warm bath before I pay AT&T a dime.
Got you beat by ten years, kid, and I run slackware!
I'm sticking at 52ESR. With every update I've lost something I really missed. No more.
You get that ability by buying the phone from someone OTHER than a cellular carrier. Either directly from Google for their direct branded phones, or from an independent electronics retailer that is not associated with a cellular service.
For instance: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c...
lists a variety of LG, Motorola, and Samsung phones. Unlocked, no carrier bloatware.
(I have no association with B&H)
Google provides its own bloatware -- I don't want google music/news/games etc. but they're undeleteable from my unlocked Motorola Moto G2, which is really good about NOT adding crap. I'm willing to leave the playstore, gmail and their browser there just in case I actually NEED them, but the other apps are just useless garbage.
Women ARE different, but I've come to believe that the non-physical differences are caused by the cultural/psychological adaptations we've had to make because we're smaller and weaker than men. It would be nice if we didn't have to adapt any more, but I don't see that happening Real Soon Now. Still, more stuff is open to women now than when I was young, and that's a good thing. Onward and upward.
I'm ashamed that whining is apparently one of those adaptations.
The Google guy didn't say that we're unsuitable or inferior, just that we tend to have different interests etc. I don't disagree with anything he said.
is calling it an "anti diversity" memo... .thats not what it was in the slightest.
Thanks for mansplaining this.
It was NOT an anti-diversity memo, it was an anti-stupidity memo. Calling that 'mansplaining' was just a cheap shot that missed the mark completely.
FF52/linux 32-bit. Many crashes and memory grabs. I finally opened a new virgin profile and started adding back my beloved extensions a few at a time. No more grabs and crashes. Moved it to a 64-bit system. No appreciable speed difference or problems. I'm sorry for badmouthing FF :-(
Some jerk signs me up for one or two things each day. Most recent: he contacted perhaps every Toyota dealer in New Orleans asking about a specific car. The guy's name is Bryan and he's done stuff like this for several years now. Worst was buying ammo mail order from Georgia. I contact the businesses asking them to delete the fraudulent account completely. If it's people, I tell them they made a mistake and need to find out their friend's REAL email address.
It still works in California, for certain cars. They paid me $1K to crush my 1988 Caddy -- the one that tried to kill me several times and needed at least $3K of functional repair, although it drove just fine more or less. The most I could get from a wrecker (I didn't want to sell it to a private party -- I wasn't kidding about the attempted murders)(I would have liked to know that parts of her were living on in other cars) was $250. I really hated doing it, but money talks.
I hate California.