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Also a great practice if you do any amount of browsing on mobile as it’s practically impossible to read any mobile website through all the stupid ads. Just today I was trying to read an article on my phone in a browser without ubo and was basically blocked from doing so by a full screen video ad that kept popping up on its own even after dismissing it

I am. And don't call me Shirly

They limited the Always Free usage on a completely free account with no card attached. If you switch your account to PAYG, the Always Free instance still maxes at 4vCPUs/24GB of RAM.

I would also add don't use an LTS variant (or anything based on an LTS variant) of those desktop distros

I just finished (as in literally like 10 minutes before posting this comment) L.E Modesitt’s Solar Express. It’s a hard sci-fi book about humanity’s first encounter with alien artifacts and the race to be the first to whatever discoveries might be contained within. I REALLY enjoyed it.

So it turns I've been using this new UI for a while and didn't even notice it was different nor did I even know they were doing this update until I saw this very thread full of people complaining about it.

And its this obsession with shipping things as fast as possible quality be dammed that got us basic weather apps that eat a gigabyte+ of RAM.

I think (based completely on anecdotal evidence) both the Windows desktop and lock screen pull their backgrounds from a different source than the Bing home page. I would often see a very different collection of image on my Windows machine (when I still had one) vs what I would get from the Bing Wallpaper GNOME extension I use on my Linux machines.

Sounds like they were getting overly upset by things that don't effect them and also...checks notes a website following the law of the country they're based in.

Really weird things to be getting upset over if you ask me.

Regardless of the stupidity of the law (which don't get me wrong, the Online "Safety" Act in the UK is incredibly dumb) you still have to follow it until its struck down or replaced.

>>hacking and spyware that plagued Windows users a couple decades ago

And that still plagues every computing platform now. Including Apple platforms. So the lockdown clearly didn’t completely solve that problem like a lot of people seem to claim

It’s a one time delay that occurs when you first enable the ability to install downloaded apks and you never see it again for any device attached to your Google account. That’s why I called it a wildly overblown non-issue

is like much of the discourse around the changes, overly sensationalized and borderline false.

The only change made that's relevant to sideloading-a-downloaded-APK as far I understand, is a 24hour delay in enabling the ability to do so, which is a wildly overblown non-issue.

I mean if you're gonna stop people from owning their device and doing what they want with it just because of the possibility of crime occurring then their are quite a few more things that probably should also no longer exist because of their potential use in crime.

That's a pretty ridiculous argument if you ask me.

The Play Store is not required for APK distribution. Not now, nor has it ever been.

I also had one of this 11th Gen Intel FW13s, and the RTC battery on mine worked for a short time because they for some reason used some garbage rechargeable one with a 2 yr lifespan instead of the more common not-rechargeable battery that every other PC vendor uses with seemingly 10x the lifespan