newsletters can have trackers and shit built right in, and this is especially true when using a service to do the mailing. this is, of course, on top of the contact info and anything else requested at 'signup'. none of which needs to be 'required' when reading a web site or an author-submitted post somewhere. there's basically two reasons to lock content behind a 'newsletter': a paid sub is coming, or selling readers' data.
the war between milk and cereal is a series of small skirmishes, not a big epic battle. a little cereal, a little milk. a little more cereal to finish off the milk. a little more milk because you put in too much cereal. and repeat until either the box or the jug is empty.
President Joe Biden — perhaps the nation’s biggest Amtrak fan — is set to promote new federal investments for trains on the heavily trafficked Northeast Corridor....
the u.s. spends up to twice as much on health care, and doesn't cover 'as much' or 'as many', as those other nations that have nationalized or 'socialized' health care programs.
i finally said fk it and dumped cable earlier this year, even though i can't pick-up locals off an antenna where i am--was pretty much the only reason i had it.
haven't subbed to an online service in over a year. the free services have been enough. currently in month two of a free trial month at prime and have pretty much run out of things to watch there. as work quiets down here til feb, i'll probably sub to a service for a single monthly cycle over the holiday to have something 'extra' to pick from.
i also have my hdds of mp4, plus discs and even tapes to fall-back on, too, but i won't ever go back to cable unless they change their entire model, and i don't see myself ever subbing to a service full-time (it would have to be a sweetheart annual deal) or having multiple subs at once. i really liked having that extra cash in my pocket from dumping cable--too bad my greedy landlord wanted, too.
"i would like to write a quick letter in wordpad."
sorry. that application is not available. launching word instead and starting a subscription to microsoft 365. locating credit card information... found. you will be charged $99.99 per year.
between pinned items in start menu and on the taskbar, putting quicklaunch back and populating it, and a few desktop shortcuts... i maybe 'search' for an application like that once a year, at most.
tbf, customers have a near-infinite number of different issues and problems. those 'flow charts' and scripts are designed to start at a baseline and work up from there and they start with the most common ones. you'd be paying more for whatever it is you're calling in about if they hired only fully-qualified persons that can 'think on their feet' without the flow charts and scripts wrt whatever issue it is you have, troubleshooting it, and coming up with the specific solution for you... a hell of a lot more. and yes, the first thing you should usually try with tech items is a power cycle. ::insert itcrowd-turnitoffandonagain.jpg::
that's the whole reasoning behind having LMDE. seems a little redundant today; but within a release or two mint may very well be only based on debian itself, with the way canonical is steering ubuntu.
That’s because Cinnamon is actually a fork of an ancient Gnome release
mate is what originally spawned from gnome 2. while cinnamon was built from gnome 3, it has been completely separated from it for a decade.
both are under active development, run current applications, and offer what would be described as a more 'traditional' desktop environment (compared to gnome shell or ubuntu's unity). they're both lighter-weight then gnome, with mate being a bit leaner than cinnamon.
mint would be my suggestion for op, and any of the default mint desktops, including their other option--xfce, would be suitable for op's use case.
"guess we'll have to insert a totally-irrelevant ad every now and then to throw 'em off. good thing we get all this user data to know what that will be."
-zuck, in the not-so-distant future
my mom and gramma never pumped their own gas. grampa would never allow it (he had previously owned a gas station back when they were all full service 'service stations'). i've never heard of tipping at a gas station. granted, this was well before the tipping-everywhere bullshit we have now.
there was different trick-or-treat "events" on saturday and sunday here, so as few as 360 if the same schedule holds for those things next year (weekend before a halloween that falls on a 'school night').
Lately I started including what happens to my data in case I die unexpectedly in my threat model. As of now I’d like for everything to stay private. All my accounts have a strong password that I store on a keepass datbase that I store only on encrypted devices which themselves are protected only by PIN or Password with no...
thirty years from now, old friends and family gathered for something. one suddenly interjects, 'remember that weird video jah348 had on his phone' yeah.. :;quiet chuckles:: awkward pause. conversation continues where it left off.
i run with scripts disabled unless explicitly whitelisted. this one is annoying af,. so many sites use client scripts to display static content and navigation elements that absolutely didn't need to--at all. right underneath these idiots is the morons that load the entirety of jquery in a bazillion different external files.. and for what? a fucking hover effect over their menus or links or something equally ridiculous.
Hi everyone, I am currently looking for a new hard drive to add to my media server and want to buy a 20TB drive. Now the question is what manufacturers would you recommend or avoid?...
co-mingled inventory is a thing, yes, but i think you get better support from amazon for items they sell, even if from that inventory, if there's a problem.
an hour for updates? took about 15 minutes, including downloading (on dsl) on a brand new $230 11th gen i3 laptop yesterday.. wu and store (where there was several dozen more 'updates')
Windows as a software package would have never been affordable to individuals or local-level orgs in countries like India and Bangladesh (especially in the 2000’s) that are now powerhouses of IT. Same for many SE Asian, Eastern European, African and LatinoAmerican countries as well....
the major OEMs basically get paid to put windows on the systems they sell. they get the licenses at a deep discount, then top that off with the money coming in for the preinstalled garbage.
I would love the child of a Surfacebook with a Framework laptop; or A bare keyboard attached to a screen, that I could plug my phone (possibly running Phosh) and use it as a hardware for a laptop experience
i've got a couple old emachines mintowers here, one was redone with a new (at the time) athlon ii.
solid cases for reuse, just a little tight on space inside and zero airflow intake from the front (across where the hdd bracket is). neither really matter if you're not trying to put in a big video card and use ssd instead of hdd. so i just hang on to them in case i come across something new-ish to put in them.
it's not really a 'promotion'. it's a new feature. allowing you unlimited online storage space meant for backing-up (a qualified device) before repairs or when migrating its data to a new device. a new feature that mimics something apple already offers.
if it were a 'promotion', there'd be a way to buy or sub to that 'unlimited' space after a period of time to keep it going indefinitely.
you could mix the two concepts... ad-free subscription service and residuals/licensing based on viewership.
it's not like the subscription services don't have the metrics to take a piece of the subscription money coming in, and divvy it up based on total views each title gets each month.
The proposed accord, which UAW’s leadership must still approve, provides a 25% wage hike over the 4-1/2-year contract, starting with an initial increase of 11%....
I have two Dell T320 servers, which work great. But I’d like to have some more CPU power, so think about upgrading to the T420. It is almost the same, except that on the T420 main board, which seems to be otherwise the identical PCB, the second CPU socket is actually installed. (In the T320 it’s just empty soldering points.)...
I've unfortunately made this mistake at Costco of all places. (startrek.website)
The problem solver [workchronicles] (startrek.website)
Soggy cereal is better than hard cereal
Maybe I have sensitive gums or something like that, but eating the cereal right after I add the milk makes my mouth hurt.
Spells, Charms, and Incantations (startrek.website)
It's just the most 100 recently saved songs. The fuck. (startrek.website)
Case closed (startrek.website)
'Amtrak Joe' Biden is off to Delaware to give out $16 billion for passenger rail projects (apnews.com)
President Joe Biden — perhaps the nation’s biggest Amtrak fan — is set to promote new federal investments for trains on the heavily trafficked Northeast Corridor....
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Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising prices (finance.yahoo.com)
After years of inflation, Americans are used to sticker shock. But nothing compares to the surging price of streaming video....
Just wash it right off (lemmy.world)
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Inspired by reading everyday news (lemmy.ml)
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Microsoft may replace the Start button with the Copilot AI in Windows 12 (www.notebookcheck.net)
Loving this AI revolution so far (sh.itjust.works)
That's optimistic rule (mander.xyz)
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Maybe this isn't proper shopping but $18.50 for four veggie burgers, buns, and danish seems like a lot (lemmy.world)
I ordered salted (startrek.website)
Fedora or Mint for noob?
A friend might let me install Linux on his secondary laptop he uses for university. He’s not a tinkerer and wants something that just works....
The more you know. (sh.itjust.works)
EU to ban Meta from using personal data to target ads (www.thejournal.ie)
Don't forget to tip your gas station (startrek.website)
Dave has arrived say hello (lemmy.ml)
We must prepare! (lemmy.world)
What's you plan for your digital legacy?
Lately I started including what happens to my data in case I die unexpectedly in my threat model. As of now I’d like for everything to stay private. All my accounts have a strong password that I store on a keepass datbase that I store only on encrypted devices which themselves are protected only by PIN or Password with no...
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All you ever need (startrek.website)
Any recommendations for a 20TB hard drive?
Hi everyone, I am currently looking for a new hard drive to add to my media server and want to buy a 20TB drive. Now the question is what manufacturers would you recommend or avoid?...
It's very similar to hijacking the ship's comms, I suppose. (startrek.website)
Ancient Egypt (startrek.website)
Masterpieces (media.infosec.exchange)
Everything I've learned building the fastest Arm desktop - Jeff Geerling (www.jeffgeerling.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ndlug.org/post/330591...
FIrefox can and should but refuses to implement browser level encryption to protect every browsing data generated by the browser.
Chrome does not do it either but are we supposed to be the ones that start a new trend or the ones that follow the trend?...
Random thought: Windows is largely successful because of Piracy
Windows as a software package would have never been affordable to individuals or local-level orgs in countries like India and Bangladesh (especially in the 2000’s) that are now powerhouses of IT. Same for many SE Asian, Eastern European, African and LatinoAmerican countries as well....
What is the device you want, but that does not exist?
I would love the child of a Surfacebook with a Framework laptop; or A bare keyboard attached to a screen, that I could plug my phone (possibly running Phosh) and use it as a hardware for a laptop experience
For some reason, I'm doubtful. (lemmy.world)
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Samsung brings unlimited cloud backups to Galaxy flagships, but there's a catch (www.androidauthority.com)
Yes, you get unlimited storage, but only for 30 days.
Brace yourself. Streaming platforms are going to remove a lot more shows (www.latimes.com)
The Writers Guild of America's new contract tilts streamers toward shelving content, but there's a solution emerging.
Google Testing Ads Mixed Within Organic Search Results (www.seroundtable.com)
Hi, do you have a minute? I would like to talk about kagi.com as the solution to all your problems....
Ford, UAW reach tentative deal to end strike including record pay raise (www.reuters.com)
The proposed accord, which UAW’s leadership must still approve, provides a 25% wage hike over the 4-1/2-year contract, starting with an initial increase of 11%....
Which distro do you believe deserves more recognition?
For me it’s PeppermintOS....
Dell T420 mainboard in T320? Differences? Heatsink? Air Baffle?
I have two Dell T320 servers, which work great. But I’d like to have some more CPU power, so think about upgrading to the T420. It is almost the same, except that on the T420 main board, which seems to be otherwise the identical PCB, the second CPU socket is actually installed. (In the T320 it’s just empty soldering points.)...