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  • There's actually a really good reason for that. The body doesn't have a good way to get rid of excess iron except by bleeding, so it's fairly easy for someone without a period to get iron poisoning from vitamins with iron in them. Women's vitamins assume the person taking them loses a significant quantity of blood every month. Not only should men not take them, women whose birth control eliminates their period completely shouldn't take them either.

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    So I installed Arch Linux... Is this it?
  • This amuses me, since I literally went from Gentoo to Arch because it felt like the same bleeding edge distro without having to wait for the compile time for half of the packages.

    That said, I generally don't recommend Arch (or Gentoo) to newbies. It's great when it works, but the number of times I've had to troubleshoot some random dependency issue because I took more than a week to update my system would scare any newbie away. It's a bit like the parable of the cobbler's kids having the worst shoes, or the mechanic always driving a project car - when you have the skills to fix something, you're willing to put up with a lot of bullshit that a normal person wouldn't.

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    Street-Complete, like Pokemon Go but for good.
  • Because it tracks real time location and uses the internet. Unless it's an app like this where you explicitly want that functionality, that's usually a sign of some sort of tracking mechanism for advertising or nefarious purposes.

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    Artificial price increase so that you can post “discounts” on Prime Day
  • Some companies will make special versions for Black Friday that do indeed have cheaper parts or missing features, but for many it's the exact same product as the normal SKU. They do the special SKU at the request of the retailer, to guarantee that no one can use a "price match guarantee" to make them sell more than the planned quantity of door busters.

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    Is there any closed source android app that you wish had a good open source alternative?
  • The ability to automatically detect commercials (via sound level / machine learning) and skip them would be amazing as well. There's an app for iOS that does this, but nothing for Android.

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    Google Fit dev APIs shutdown set, fate of Android & Wear OS apps go unannounced
  • I bought a second PTS back in the day, and kept my original as a backup. I just recently had to switch back to it because the daily driver couldn't hold a charge anymore.

    I tried looking for a replacement smart watch that could do the things I need it to do, and there's still not one on the market at any price point that can do

    • Always-on color display
    • 7+ days between charging
    • Notifications with full messages on the watch
    • Ability to respond to messages from the watch via both canned responses and voice dictation
    • Smart alarms (activate up to 30m before alarm time, if watch detects you're no longer in deep sleep)
    • Customizable watch faces
    • Ability to develop custom watch apps
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    Bell curve with no bell curve
  • I have a small script to toggle the visibility of a window when I press a hotkey. Press once, it launches the app if it's not running, or unhides and raises the window if it is. Press again, it hides the window.

    My distro recently switched KDE to Plasma 6 on Wayland, and of course the script stopped working. Researched how to make a Wayland equivalent. You can't. It's literally impossible to hide (or even minimize) windows from the command line.

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    Why can't I just buy it without being charged for preinstalled spyware?
  • They only offer that option for some models. For everything else, you have to select the Windows version with no added cost, and just eat the loss of the baked-in Windows tax.

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    You should be able to ask "I want a CIS mate" in a dating app without being shamed.
  • Shorthand for cisgender. It's an ancient word that's come back into common use in the last decade.

    Trans is a Latin root for "on the opposite side of", so transgender means "opposite of [birth] gender".

    Cis is the antonym root that means "on the same side as", so cisgender means "the same as [birth] gender".

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    Select all SoCs which can boot mainline linux.
  • I remember this captcha. I gave up after about the fourth round. The prize just wasn't worth it, and I wasn't on a machine where I could try scripting out a solution.

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