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That Windows store never worked for me. I tried to buy something out of perceived convenience once, and tried to install some freeware once or twice (7zip and something else), and it never worked. On a genuine, activated Windows, that is. Never bothered to try again.

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Stick your credit card under the phone cover and you have tap to pay.

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Above 25 or 30 USD (don’t remember exactly) my bank requires me to enter the pin, that’s just as good.

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Was iTunes popular outside of the US? Everyone I know hated they intrusive software and DRM that prevented you from playing the songs elsewhere. Don’t think I know a single person who actually purchased music there.

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Did they switch off old.reddit.com in the end? That was the only useful front-end on desktop.

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Ok at least something. Not going back, but that was always the last potential nail in the coffin.

Obscure screw added so appliance cannot be disassembled (lemmy.world)

Basic blender went bad (motor ran but spindle wasn’t rotating). I wanted to disassemble to see if it could be repaired. Three of the four screws were Phillips head. I had to cut the casing open in order to discover why I couldn’t unscrew the fourth. It was a slotted spanner.

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So you use the dremel to cut a groove into your screwdriver instead.

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I’ve always hoped somebody would create basically a clone of Reddit, but without the politics and without being overly-policed. Where people aren’t pushed away for respectfully voicing their opinion. Is Lemmy the answer?

If you block sufficient leftist/marxist instances and communities, you might not notice that this is essentially a socialist fanboy wannabe utopia.

I’d suggest to browse Lemmy by new, block a lot, refresh a couple times, and then eventually arrive at a curated, sanitized feed.

But Lemmy is far from unpolitical, merely a different color.

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I don’t see a need for that in your field.

Posting scripts that work for your personal setup is actually something I would consider a security risk as it’s giving details about your concrete infrastructure and configurations away.

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How am I supposed to read those savings targets?

Generally I like metrics to see how I compare, but those US-only ones are pretty useless.

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Ah ok, gotcha. I’ve set my own milestones based on a relative savings rate in such a way that x% monthly savings equate to y years of earlier retirement. Never thought of doing it in terms of multiples of annual income since those include my savings rates, and my actual cost of living are significantly below my income.

Why does Sync not display some comments?

I’ve posted something today and somehow Sync gives me notifications in my inbox for replies to that post, but when I open the post, it can’t find any. I can interact with them just fine in the inbox and in the browser. But in Sync on the post, the number of replies is shown to be 4, while the comment section states that no...

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Comments are cached until you reload, to reduce the traffic. Open the comments view of the post and pull down to refresh, then you should be able to see them all.

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Sounds like mail.yandex.com should work for you. It’s the Russian copycat of gmail, basically. But they allow anonymous signup with a “don’t have” option for phone numbers, and they have next to no trackers on the website. That ones they have are easily blocked.

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All of those are for the yandex browser, which is a dedicated app.

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Trudi Canavan - Thief’s Magic.

I really enjoy young adult fantasy to take my mind off of work.

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I gave up on the way of kings twice, 400+ pages in and nothing happens. I get that it’s a massive saga that requires a ton of world building etc., but all of his other books are much easier to lean into.

At this point I’m not sure I’ll try again.

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Yeah they are shit, but aren’t forced down your throat by the OS.

I hate teams with a passion. As long as you have to work with more than one organization, nothing works whatsoever. You are constantly logged out, have to go through their stupid authenticator app, can’t save a second login (only a private one, not an organization), links open in the wrong org (even if you are logged in), etc. etc.

I’ve reached the point where I use teams exclusively in Edge, alongside with Outlook, because both of their desktop apps are utter crap.

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And the bloody “new” tag in the task bar icon is driving me nuts.

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Someone should face jail time for this piece of crap that I can’t opt out of.

And OneDrive as well. That piece of shit installed itself as the default save as location, and after removing it from my system, the save as dialogue now hangs for 20 seconds. And the policy to remove OD as a save location doesn’t work whatsoever.

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Is kbin confirmed dead? I’ve blocked a ton of communities there since they can’t seem to control the spam bots and was wondering about that.

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Right, that does make it a bit more tricky. Is there any serial number or manufacturer?

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Hm, crap. That really sucks to hear, those were my favorites :-/

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That really was a long time ago in Chinese tech terms. I happen to live there, and it’s astonishing how fast stuff evolves.

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