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  • Serious question, is it possible that if Biden wins, he could step down and his VP could take over? The guy is REALLY old, so is Trump, there should surely be some sort of age limit.

  • Finally my old saves are backed up!
  • Some real digital history record keeping there! This stuff is so cool and is something we never considered with all those random memory cards we gave away and sold.

    I'm so jealous.

  • What do you think of this prediction?
  • I mean, its possible.

    But then again, people have now known the beauty of steam. If this does happen as you say it could, it does open up the possibility for someone to make a Steam_v2.

    I have faith that there are enough people who are passionate about Linux that it's possible for Windows to lose some of its dominance in the future. Maybe the enshittification of steam is needed to make that a possibility.

  • Happens all the time
  • I'm trying to learn rust and so far this has definitely made it so much more accessible.

    Not to mention their super useful "rustlings" training which has these nice little challenges to get you used to language and syntax

  • Why does it feel like too much effort just to go from sitting around looking at garbage online to simply watching a film or playing a video game?
  • It could be a number of things that people have mentioned in here.

    Just allow yourself to do what you actually want to do. If you feel like you actually want to watch movies or TV shows then you need to consciously stop picking up your phone.

    At the same time, if you only want to watch a movie or TV show because its what you "think" is expected of a "normal" person, stop. Just let yourself lay on the couch/bed and scroll.

    We place too many expectations on ourselves these days to be doing certain things, instead of just doing the things we actually want.

  • Using ad blockers is theft
  • If you've ever managed or monitored a corporate firewall, you're honestly doing yourself a disservice by not using an adblocker these days. The amount of malicious advertising that corporate firewalls block these days from employees on the internet is astounding.

    Legitimate as traffic accounts are constantly hijacked by threat actors as its such an easy way to spread malware and compromise machines.

  • Can I refuse MS Authenticator?
  • I'm also not a fan of MS spyware.

    But in defence of the MS authenticator, the 2FA prompts it sends are very convenient, how they pop up and ask for the number displayed on screen, its definitely more secure than just the one time code.

    Plus it also shows what phone the user is using when they install and configure the authenticator app, this is also very useful if you suddenly see the user accessing their mail or one drive from another mobile device.

  • Chinese scientists develop cure for diabetes, insulin patient becomes medicine-free in just 3 months
  • I mean it is... They could literally have a cure that they can sell to millions of people around the world, as well as millions more who will contract diabetes in the future.

    I don't understand this conspiracy and companies don't want cures. I can understand scepticism around pharmaceutical companies for all the awful shit they've done, but it doesn't mean that scientists and researchers will never be able to produce cures.

  • Publishers are a cancer. Knowledge is meant to be shared, freely.
  • Given the times I've seen news articles and screenshots of poorly vetted published journals. Surely a free open source publisher managed by the academic community can't be much worse? I also don't know shit about the requirements to actually publish so this is probably a naive take

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    Does deleting an app after clearing data guarantee complete deletion on android ?
  • Deleting an app from any device regardless of OS should generally remove all related files, except in cases where the app asks you if you'd like to keep certain files, such as personal data or saved game files. However that's not to say that they always remove related files, things such as updates can leave files in particular temporary directories, some of these are not always removed as part of the update process and so they are not something which would be recognised during the removal of the application either.

    These kind of temporary files and folders being left behind are why there has always been reasons behind creating apps to "boost" you device performance by removing some of these left over junk files but are also the reason that sometimes its better to just totally reset the device, clear everything out and start again.

    I know there was a time I would pretty much do this on a yearly basis for my own computer to try and keep it at a close to peak performance level.

  • Today I learned an oil company prevented the rescue of contracted divers working on their pipe to save money.
  • How are acts such as this not treated the same as though one person had decided to do this to 5 people? What's the point of a CEO or Director if not to step in at times like this and do the right thing? And if they don't, they face the consequences.

    I understand its all legal BS that negates the responsibility, but it just doesn't seem logical regardless of how its framed.

  • ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say
  • You wanna talk Chinese spyware, why are they not outright banning Temu? That's a much better documented case of actually being spyware.

    In terms of Tiktok being spyware, they are tracking users in much the same ways that every other big social media company is. Should other nations be worried about Facebook sharing that data with the US govt to produce psyops campaigns against foreign nations?

    I'm against any country blocking access to things in the name of "national security" and providing little to no evidence on it. Its been done too many times to trojan horse in other malicious activities that governments want to do.

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