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  1. Not anymore on Cord-Cutting Still Doesn't Beat the Cable Bundle (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Now everything's splitting off into factions and you need multiple subscriptions and apps to get something comparable. Each with their own UI :( bad experience

    I guess I'll stick with trawling bargain bins for what I want. Picked up a few 10 season shows for about $20 each. Not bad!

  2. Re:Good use for Somebody's Watching Me on How Hackers Can Use Pop Songs To 'Watch' You (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Man I really messed up that link, here's the original video, my apologies

  3. Good use for Somebody's Watching Me on How Hackers Can Use Pop Songs To 'Watch' You (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1
  4. Sounds like lots of towing on Waymo Patent Shows Plans To Replace Steering Wheel, Pedals With Push Button (driverless.id) · · Score: 1

    No manual option means if the car does anything wrong, you can't take over at any point, you can only turn it off or pray you make it and then get it towed

  5. Again MS is only looking at the US on Bing is 'Bigger Than You Think', Says Microsoft (onmsft.com) · · Score: 1

    If they aren't prepared to handle the global market they will remain strong. They keep launching products with US centric features and relevance and are extremely slow to grow support in other countries and cultures.

  6. Mindfulness on Feeling Bad About Feeling Bad Can Make You Feel Worse (berkeley.edu) · · Score: 1

    If you study mindfulness, you learn that resisting negative feelings is like forcing your will against them, but they do exist so you can not just will them away. It's tempting because you don't like the situation, and want to eliminate it, or let it never happen again to us. But adding negativity to negativity is throwing fuel on the fire, resisting reality doesn't make the reality go away.

    Accepting it allows you to move on. Bad things do happen unfortunately. If we can learn to make the best of it, or at least stop feeling worse, then overall we will feel better. It doesn't feel like the thing we want to so at the time, but it will make the next step in our life easier to not make things worse right now.

  7. Ugh what a hassle this will be on Apple Is Bringing a Billion Dollar Checkbook To Hollywood and Wants To Buy 10 TV Shows (recode.net) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    TV is about to get a lot more annoying with different distribution methods, storefronts, DRM, apps with different interfaces and different feature sets, perhaps tiered functionality/ads, and who knows if each service is coming to your preferred device(s). Oh and different subscriptions with different rates.

    Not sure how my grandparents or even parents will understand this, not sure I'm ready for this BS. Seems like a sure call for piracy to make another round. I might just stick to buying seasons of shows on discount, don't care if they're low res on DVD at this point if it's easier than the imminent tangled mess.

    Or you know just quit watching TV and read books.

  8. Apparently yes, and this gedit situation shows why such options are good.

  9. Use XeD. It is part of the Mint team XAPPS initiative whose purpose is to maintain a set of basic end user desktop apps, such as text editor, image viewer, photo organizer, etc.

    I believe it's all part of maintaining a consistent user experience on Mint so that nothing you're used to about your preferred desktop experience/workflow gets changed/compromised, something that I really appreciate personally!

  10. Wish LG and Samsung would follow on Lenovo Switches To Stock Android For All Future Smartphones (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    Samsung's is slightly better at least but all the options are rearranged, renamed, or even missing altogether. LG phones even have annoying default apps that wake your phone screen to notify you, no way to disable, draining the battery all day and causing inadvertent button presses when in your bag or pocket.

    I switch to Lineage on my devices but others are afraid it will screw up their carrier access or are worried of voiding warranty, I feel bad about what they have to put up with. Guess I'll be pointing them to Lenovo phones now.

  11. Telecommunication on Apple Discontinues iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Not exactly, but teleVision and telePhone both have the 'tele' prefix due to the method of transmission called Telecommunication.

    "Telecommunication is the transmission of signs, signals, messages, words, writings, images and sounds or intelligence of any nature by wire, radio, optical or other electromagnetic systems."

  12. Re:Background info on Apple Discontinues iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, now I have to buy an expensive phone with way less room and use it instead. Sucks honestly. I don't need the phone bits. But at least it has a good camera. The one thing I was disappointed with in the iPod Touch was the neutered camera. Hard to find tablets with a good camera too. Not sure why they think only phones need them.

  13. Post pics of yourself browsing Facebook on It Looks Like Facebook Is Also Building a Smart Speaker With Touch Screen (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty soon that will be the only activity some people participate in, besides recycling memes.

  14. Re:Just turn that stuff off. on Push Notifications From Popular Apps Are Becoming Increasingly Useless And Annoying (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I do emails because I get my voice message alerts through there for some reason. And I have kids, so just in case there is an emergency. Only my family has the email I get alerts on.

  15. I automatically disable them on Push Notifications From Popular Apps Are Becoming Increasingly Useless And Annoying (wired.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The only ones I need are messaging and email. Everything else is on pull.

  16. Organized by Ja Rule? on Disastrous 'Pokemon Go' Event Leads To Mass Refunds (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously though, this many people in one location, can the cell towers handle that, as well as any kind of cross interference?

  17. Requires WINE? on Debian, Gnome Patched 'Bad Taste' VBScript-Injection Vulnerabilities (neowin.net) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How exactly does the VBScript execute on a default Linux distro? Can anything other than VBScript get injected?

  18. Use a mock location app set to your preferred loca on Public Service Announcement: You Should Not Force Quit Apps on iOS (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    Use a mock location app set to your preferred location, this is what I do on Android, works fine for me and no battery hassles.

  19. Yes we know on Many Firms Are 'AI Washing' Claims of Intelligent Products (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    It's making it quite obvious what products/companies are full of shit and best to avoid. So thanks for that I guess!

  20. Have they not heard of fads? on Russia Is Investigating Fidget Spinners After Reports Claim They 'Zombify' Youth (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    We all know extremes are bad but the fad is already dying down and people will probably lose interest as individuals at least in the current capacity

    Why is this seen as a crisis?

  21. Keyboard navigation, hiding mnemonics on Ask Slashdot: What Software (Or Hardware) Glitch Makes You Angry? · · Score: 1

    Keyboard navigation is becoming more difficult as time goes on, but I find it much easier and faster to do what I want with the keyboard.

    Even on Linux Mint, keyboard ALT+* combos are being hidden on button labels, sometimes CTRL+Q can quit an application, sometimes it can't, sometimes CTRL+W works to close a window, but sometimes it doesn't and you have to do ALT+F4.

    In the Nemo/Gnome Files application, when you type a few letters it jumps to the file that starts with those letters, then you can press ESC to get out of the typing box and use arrow keys to highlight files or move the cursor. Sometimes it will jump back to the top of the file list if you attempt to move the cursor, or sometimes it will work as expected and use the filename you started typing out as the point of origin. But in Linux Mint the cursor sans highlight is invisible (i.e. if you are holding CTRL to select files and moving the cursor, you are supposed to see a dotted outline).

    Random behavior like that drives me nuts.

  22. Re:Bad decision after bad decision on Reddit Is Testing Country-Specific Home Pages That Highlight 'Geo Popular' Content (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah I didn't understand why reddit was interesting until I started diving deep. This is sure to make it more difficult for people to be talking about the same thing. Which is the entire fucking point of reddit!

  23. People who go to reddit want to see what's popular on reddit.

  24. If there's no place for terrorists to hide on Australia To Compel Technology Firms To Provide Access To Encrypted Missives (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If there's no place for terrorists to hide then there's no place for *anyone* to hide, and that is unacceptable considering how valuable it is to hide from oppression or the abusers of the system used to ensure there are no hiding spots, those who operate the system are disproportionately advantaged and with access comes the capability of concealing themselves, censoring, framing content and concealing context, etc.

    This idea is ridiculous and imbalanced off the bat.

  25. Re:Use mycroft.ai on Amazon May Give Developers Your Private Alexa Transcripts (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's why you can use a local server to host the speech processing parts.