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Stop using generative AI as a search engine
  • You should see what searching was like on AltaVista. You'd have to scroll past dozens of posts of random numbers and letters to find anything legible. Click through and your computer would emit a cacophony of bell sounds and pour out screens of random nonsense and then freeze permanently. You had to rely on links and web-rings to navigate with any degree of success.

    And that in itself was a massive improvement on what was available before.

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    Why are tariffs bad?
  • There's nothing particularly bad about tariffs but Trump isn't using them to protect jobs, just to punish countries.

    For instance, imposing a 25% tariff on Canada is meaningless when he is proposing 100% tariffs on the EU, Japan and South Korea. He seems to think its a form of punishment and that the countries have to pay the tariff.

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    So… Australia Just Banned Kids From the Internet
  • They haven't been banned yet.

    The law doesn't come into effect until the end of next year after the govt determines how the ban will be enforced.

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    Windows 11 market share falls despite Microsoft ad blitz | Windows 10, on the other hand, managed to grow its share of that market
  • You talk as if this is some sort of special trick.

    You're able to work around those things precisely because they have been designed to be turned off.

    Running a business system with the TPM turned off is madness,, whcih will pretty much guarantee a ransomware attack,.

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    Windows 11 market share falls despite Microsoft ad blitz | Windows 10, on the other hand, managed to grow its share of that market
  • None of the changes including TPM requirements required a new iteration.

    This is completely wrong.

    The TPM is a hardware feature, so you need to update the whole system. The software patch is too slow to be useful.

    The uptake level is expected given falling PC sales and the fact that upgrading is limited.

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    Mom wasn't always right
  • The 400 if you acidentally stepped on it it'd flip back and bark your shin, you'd fall over and put your foot through it. that's why there's so few today.

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    How much do you pay for your phone plan, what do you get in return and in which country?
  • Australia.

    Amaysim, $10 a year.

    calls 10c a min. text 5c. 1 GB of internet.

    I just have it for calls coming in.

    Otherwise you pay $10 a month but you get unlimited calls and text and I think a few GB of internet.

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