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Comment · 4 years ago
Didn't some unattended kid choke on one and their parents sued?
Comment · 4 years ago
Seems like it would be but in my (limited) experience watching NFL games the announcers just call them iPads anyway. Then they or their co commentator corrects themselves with the sponsor friendly Brand Name.
Comment · 4 years ago
I just blacklist the device driver for my integrated mic & webcam in Windows with group policies. Good luck monitoring me with a mic that the OS doesn't even recognize.

I ever want to record anything I have an actual mic and audio interface that I use that I can unplug when not in use.

Comment · 4 years ago
I'd do a password manager and a VPN provider. Then spend a ton of money on ads on podcasts and youtube videos (which is odd since neither VPN hosting nor password managers make enough money to pay for that many ads).

They'd probably all have a similar catchy name. Maybe one that implies that it's from a foreign country known for having more consumer protections but is actually based 10 minutes outside of Langley Virginia.

Oh wait...

Comment · 4 years ago
AdGuard allows 'approved ads', which for some of us is a dealbreaker.
Comment · 4 years ago
Modern tractors are more technologically advanced than a Tesla.

If you can run a modern planter or sprayer with autodrive/gps then copy/pasting a string of text into a terminal is not going to be a problem.

Comment · 4 years ago
Firefox the browser is great. The developers are great. Pretty much everyone else at mozilla (the execs, marketing, and the graphic designers that feel the need to reinvent some minor part of the wheel every 3-5 years to justify their existence) can all pound sand.

Someone needs to do to Firefox what Firefox did to Netscape, except this time instead of ditching a legacy codebase they need to ditch their woeful corporate leadership.

Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Doesn't AdGuard allow 'approved ads'?
Comment · 4 years ago
They have to be decrypted to be played back. The analog hole cannot be closed.
Comment · 4 years ago
Apple made over $4 billion selling ads last year.
Comment · 4 years ago
Is this why my 2021 iMac sounds like a jet engine spinning up when I watch a youtube video in Firefox?

I just assumed this was yet another attempt by google to sabotage the competition.

Comment · 4 years ago
I eventually settled on CursorSense to fix this because nothing else I tried actually fixed it. Sucks to have to pay $10 to fix something that is a basic OS setting on literally every other modern desktop OS.
Comment · 4 years ago
Assuming you can trust them. All 3 of the major baseball card grading companies are being investigated by the feds for widespread fraud right now. Same companies also grade Pokemon & Magic the Gathering cards and there have been some high profile fakes of those (that were graded as authentic) highlighted recently as well.
Comment · 4 years ago
I think it also requires a M1 processor.

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