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manderley··on Only VIPs will be allowed to drink alcohol inside Paris 2024 Olympics venues
Super weird comment.
manderley··on Amazon duped millions of consumers into enrolling in Prime, US FTC says
The accounts aren't completely separate, it's the same login on all sites and content is shared. But Prime subscriptions are separate.
manderley··on Microsoft Edge removes ability to delete Sync Data from Cloud
It's not true, Chrome works that way, but not Edge.
manderley··on Microsoft Edge removes ability to delete Sync Data from Cloud
You can't delete your browsing data on the privacy dashboard at all.
manderley··on Microsoft Edge removes ability to delete Sync Data from Cloud
That way no longer works, the documentation is out of date.
manderley··on Capabilities of GPT-4 on Medical Challenge Problems
Seems privacy is less of a concern in countries with privatized healthcare, I don't understand that last sentence. Is it some kind of political shibboleth?
manderley··on The dark defaults of Microsoft Edge
"Turn site into desktop app" is a Chrome feature, and has been for many years. Chrome calls it "Create shortcut - Open as window".

Website translations and the profiles UI is very similar to Chrome as well.

manderley··on New Xbox Power-Saving Options Have Triggered a Lot of Political Outrage
Wow, I'm outraged now. Arrgh! They shouldn't offer this option for Xbox, then, because of another unrelated thing you're angry about!
manderley··on Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
"The spam issue" demonstrably didn't get better, what are you talking about.
manderley··on Microsoft to lay off 10k workers
If only these academics would listen to random HN posters!
manderley··on Promotion of alternative social platforms policy
We have to "commend" him for saying that he wanted to buy Twitter and then (after some legal troubles) following through? Why?
manderley··on Globalstar SEC filing, Apple to use 85% of its satellite network capacity
"every X time" meaning as often as you're willing to point your phone at a satellite and wait a few minutes for your location to transmit?
manderley··on Shazam turns 20
GSM, not CDMA.
manderley··on Microsoft finally admits Xbox One sales were less than half of the PS4
There were plenty of really cheap streaming boxes and sticks even at the time, an HDMI input for cable TV not being the future was very obvious in 2013.
manderley··on Uber's Still Not Profitable
If that were the end-goal, what's the point of operating their current business at all? Seems like a waste and entirely pointless.

And why wouldn't some other company without all the current baggage needed for operating a taxi service with human drivers be able to steal Uber's business?

manderley··on Protecting Against Browser-Language Fingerprinting
Plenty of sites do, at least in Europe.
manderley··on Bugs are evolving to eat plastic, study finds
Is this supposed to be some kind of new discovery?
manderley··on Bugs are evolving to eat plastic, study finds
What?
manderley··on Please stop disabling zoom
You can force-enable zoom in pretty much all browsers, it's part of the accessibility settings. You don't need an Iphone.
manderley··on Piracy release group EVO ‘blames’ movie industry for its popularity
Netflix is limited to 720p if you use anything but Edge or the Store App on Windows for arbitrary DRM reasons (PlayReady DRM).
manderley··on M1 Pro and M1 Max MBP owners complain of crashes playing HDR YouTube videos
Meanwhile, tons of reports and reviews have indicated that blooming very much is an issue. And how could it ever not be, with this type of display.

https://www.reddit.com/r/macbookpro/comments/qgkhku/noticeab...

manderley··on FlixMobility Acquires Greyhound to Expand U.S. Intercity Bus Services
They're all operated by partners. Flixbus only owns a single bus they use for PR purposes.
manderley··on MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
Your example is from Windows 8, released in 2012?
manderley··on Eight million Britons unable to buy essential food items in last fortnight
Wait, running a huge deficit spending program in a booming economy boosts that economy even more?

Is that really considered "impressively effective" these days? I don't think so. It's bad governance.

manderley··on Brave and Firefox to intercept links that force-open in Microsoft Edge
What quality? A buggy version of Chrome (the start page has been broken multiple times, for example) with tons of half-baked extra features?
manderley··on Brave and Firefox to intercept links that force-open in Microsoft Edge
And then Edge will pop up the "suggestion" to change the search engine back to Bing with regularity.
manderley··on Brave and Firefox to intercept links that force-open in Microsoft Edge
They're not all for internal links to OS-related information hosted on the web, though. The start menu search will always open a Bing search in Edge, for example - doesn't matter what your default search is set to.

Why are you writing with certainty about things you apparently have no firsthand experience with?

manderley··on PFAS Contamination in the U.S
Oh, that city? Or was it the other one, in that one state?
manderley··on Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did (2012)
Plenty of Windows laptops with good quality IPS screens were available 10 years ago, even 13" models.

And I primarily remember pre-Retina Apple for only offering laptops with very low screen resolutions.

manderley··on Apple Disables FaceID if you change the screen yourself [video]
Wow, sounds like we should cryptographically sign all replacement parts for anything, they could come from a stolen product after all!

That aftermarket car bumper? Sorry, can't use it, might come from a stolen vehicle.

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