You would have to change a few settings, making the resolution default to full screen and I’m torn on weather to leave “delete cookies on close”. It’ll force them to remember their passwords or they’ll have a million post-its, which would be fine until cousin Eddy needs a drug refill or Aunt Karen decides to take over the credit card account.

Getting someone to use a password manager is not so easy, and I really don’t trust any of the cloud solutions to not screw it up - even a simple UI update bacomes a problem.

There’s also some old asshole who will say something like “You get that liberal furry shit off my computer”

On most phones you can also press one of the volume buttons to take the picture.

Pretty much. Apps I have unrestricted are gplay services, alarm, netgaurd, phone and messages. There are a few things in the optimized section (allow background activity) such as email, android auto, and my music player. Everything else is restricted.

My last full charge was Monday morning, some point on Wednesday I charged it from around 40% to 70%, and now on Friday afternoon its at 25%. This week has also been below average usage for me, due to vacation, with total screen time 4.5 hours.

There has definitely been a drop in battery life with Android 16, but we finally got small quick actions back, so I am happy.

Mine has definitely been draining faster since the first round of android16 updates. Similar settings as you, and it will last about 3 days.

Nice list.

For audio, I’m going to add in Reaper, if you need more capabilities than Audacity. They follow the “winrar” approach to the demo version, and even so the paid version is very affordable compared to others. https://www.reaper.fm/

Well…

The data they compiled is really cool.

If reading the chart right, the genera with the most artists is opera.

Even if they didn’t have the music files, the analysis on the metadata is insane.

Publicly admitting they are the origin of the torrents is definitely a risky an insane move. I don’t think they want Sony going after them, but also fuck Sony for locking art behind shitty contracts that forces these kind of projects to exist.

I saw/heard an interesting take from a YouTube the other day.

They argued that forks are killing Firefox. Everyone using a fork doesn’t get counted in firefox’s numbers, they don’t see all the Linux user or people turning off AI features because we turned telemetry off. They only see the telemetry of the windows users that use the AI features everyday.

On one hand fuck Firefox’s current direction and the forks are great. On the other hand, maybe we should all use Firefox for some casual stuff just to keep the numbers up??? Keep shopping and banking stuff to the privacy respecting browsers, but the random Wikipedia rabbit holes can happen in Firefox.

And most debian user disable telemetry. Their numbers probably show its all windows folk heavily using AI because its the default.

Corn

An “expert” could be anyone who convinces someone else to pay them. The “expert” is probably the one that ran it through the chatbot.

No, that’s reddit. Here we’re all just depressed as we watch all the good things fall apart.

The worst is the heavily compressed photo “scans” of the paper menu.

Some people have to budget how much gas they can fill at once. Maybe the budget allows for $30 a week, so they stop at $30, or in OP’s case something random like $28.73.

Alternatively, if you prepay at the counter, instead of handing them an even $30, you could hand them $29.39

And the fix is a firmware update not a total recall? So its either buggy overcomplicated software or the update tweaked things to reduce the power draw so you got less machine power than what you were advertised.

Which honestly for a washer machine is pretty cool they can fix that sort of issue without the hassle of replacing the big machine, but if only these kinds of major safety issues could be figured out in pre-production.

The first edit was undoing a vandalism that persisted for 5 years. Someone changed the number of floors a building had from 67, to 70.

A friendly reminder to only use Wikipedia as a summary/reference aggregate for serious research.

This is a cool tool for checking these sorts of things, run everything through the LLM to flag errors and go after them like a wack-a-mole game instead of a hidden object game.

I follow a few general checks, the more “checks”, the less likely it is to be a sham.

• does the brand have their own website/exist outside of the store (Amazon, Walmart, etc).
• • Also does it exist on more than one store.
• • Avoid alphabet soup brands. However, sometimes an alphabet soup brand is real, it’s just unfamiliar yo you. Generrly if you can’t attempt to pronounce it, don’t bother.
• Price - consider what it is and what a “cheaper” version would be.
• • What is the average price of the item on amazon? Say the brand-name expensive options are around $40. The knockoffs under $25 are probably junk. But the stuff in the $25+ range might be legimate budget options.
• Reviews - looking for a healthy mix of 4-2 stars.
• • Read the 1 star reviews and see if the reviewers applied any critical thinking. If they ordered a 50 button mouse that says it only works on windows and they complain it doesn’t work on their Mac you know its a user problem. Othertimes they complain about shipping problems outside the sellers control like the box got wet and disintegrated.
• • Every manufactured product has a few duds, the question is will it be returned with out issue and the frequencies of the duds.
• • Do the reviews line up with the product or talk about something random (keep in mind some products have variants that are actually different products). If the speaker reviews start talking about how great the socks are… run.
• YouTube/video reviews
• • Look for multiple independent reviews, if all of them seem to follow the same “talking points”, its a sign they’re paid reviews…or they’re just reading the description page.
• • Also the more independent reviews either means the company cares about marketing which is good and/or the reviews actually liked or hated the thing enough to dedicate time to a review.
• • what else is on the channel, is a bunch of mass-produced “slide show” reviews or do they actually seem to use and test a variety of product for a period of time. Or is this one thing the only review they’ve ever done?
• reddit
• • It’s still one of the best places to get reviews. You’ll see the types of problems people are having, if there’s solutions and sometimes get an idea of what ths customer support is like.

Except only the rich get to leave, the rest of end up as trash cubes

Neither of those are 1 word. At least hyphen them to pretend they’re one word.