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Forcing OneDrive :/

And every update makes it more difficult to disable web search on the start menu and using local only accounts.

And Calc! It takes about 5 seconds to load. And search is so unreliable mixing web and local results.

It could be a plot line in a Black Mirror episode

Reminds me of a cashless hotel laundromat that I had to use that didnt accept coins, tokens or had a credit card reader. So to wash my clothes I had to find a charger to charge my phone, download an app, being able to receive SMS 2FA while roaming which is a hit or miss depending on roaming agreements, having working internet connection, enabling Bluetooth and Bluetooth Nearby Devices, and then top it up with a foreign credit card. It took about 30 minutes to set it up.

I guess this would be easier in a beighbourhood laundromat with local clients, but in a hotel with many foreigners it becomes a pain with so many dependencies needed to use the washer and dryer.

I'll look into that. Is there one you would recommend for forwarding SMSs to computer?

> Imagine you're on vacation and have lost your phone.

A few years ago when SMS tokens and Authenticator apps where less common, I was able to do work without having my phone on the same room as my computer. Now I need to have it on my desk most of the time for logging in.

I came looking for this,

Is the Chinese instagram’s name, Little Red Book (小红书), related to Facebook’s Little Red Book, or just a coincidence?

> nice dialog where I could put some pattern and folder or list of folder and have it run through it for me

Everything from Voidtools is a dialog window, accepts patterns and is really fast.

https://www.voidtools.com/

I have seen something similar with Korean and Dutch

Korean: Ne = yes

Dutch: Nee = no

In some varieties of Spanish Mr Kuma Moto would be Mr. Machete Motorcycle”

Spanish too, as Japanese snd Spanish share many syllables and vowel sounds

https://www.mundodeportivo.com/uncomo/ocio/articulo/chistes-...

And Japanese names that sound similar to Spanish phrases:

Yamamoto - Llama Moto - Fire Motorcycle

Niigata - Ni gata - Not even a cat

Kazamaura - Casa/Caza Maura - Marries or Hunts Maura

Nomiya - … No mía - Not mine / Doesn’t pee

And then there is:

Kaga - … Kagasawa - …

What I don’t know is if there are Spanish puns in Japanese?

Did domains from parts of Yugoslavia have to migrate to Montenegro? :P

Sheng Wang about buying clothes in Costco:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3xGkJDqUfw

I've had to do this before too. Having to create a fresh Google account when visiting another country using a domestic IP address. This because changing billing country in certain platforms means losing purchases or personaliation.

> things that were simple, became full of friction, all to collect our data.

I always wonder who comes up with these full of friction "tech innovations".

Last time it took me about five minutes to order a soda from one of those machines in a hotel. It even required a phone number to complete the order.

Another day that machine failed mid transaction but charged my card so I had to email the hotel's accounting department to get a refund about a week later.

I'll add another one, that is an issue when traveling:

- Having an app store account of the country you are visiting.

Some of this apps are geo restricted and can't be downloaded with foreign app store accounts. Sometimes they can't process foreign cards or foreign phone numbers.

> sometimes it makes a soft c sound where a hard one is expected (e.g. facade).

Just adding, in the case of Facade, is very similar to the french façade.

So I guess the ç cedille was lost in translation. French uses the ç to make the ça and ço syllables change from /k/ to /s/.

I once had the delivery list of the subscribers in my city, because the postman accidentally handed the list to me, and it was the wealthiest families of the city, a university and the embassies.

The four part video produced in 2022 by Mexican youtuber Alanxelmundo after taking Oceangate's Titanic submersible tour.

The children belong to the Huitoto indigenous group, who inhabit Colombia's Amazon región.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witoto

It’s possible to skip this by not connecting to the internet until the installation is over

> I find a version of this even with fresh out of college programmers.

I've noticed something with boot camp programmers too.

Something that may have changed is that newer graduates may have studied programming because "it pays well", and not because they were computer hobbyists before deciding what to study.

I've been on meetings with some programmers that didn't know how to use a gui ftp client or how to manually upload a file to a server. Because most of that stuff is abstracted now.

Same here. Chromium based Edge used to be nice at the beginning, it was a breath of fresh air after Chrome forcing Google services all the time.

But Edge seems to get worse after each update.

Recent updates have give me a new sidebar and video backgrounds on tabs. And a cloud based Microsoft Editor or something that I guess it sends everything I type to the cloud.

Something I recognize, when I talk to those born after the mid 90s, is that some of them get a large amount of anxiety from social media. Blurring the separation between online/real life/personas.

> I'm not sure, after a certain threshold, more money = more happiness.

One thing I've definitely noticed is the more you earn the more you seem to get for free.

- The ones who work for the bigger companies / multinational get complimentary private healthcare, additional to the state owned one. So they have shorter wait times and usually pay about 80% for healthcare than those without the benefit. I know some that work for international organizations that even have 0% copay insurance coverage valid worldwide.

- Those who have good credit record or higher credit limits. If they happen to run out for money before the end of the month. They can pay interest free with their credit cards as long as they pay back within the next month. And even if they pay back later, their interest rates are 1/4th of those with lower credit records or lower credit limits.

- Those with middle salaries, and stable jobs, can get a short term loan from their bank directly easiliy. There's interest payment but it's not that bad. But those with unstable incomes don't have any other option but to use the most expensive lenders.

- Higher paid jobs usually get complimentary phones and generous data plans from their employers, so they don't need to worry about buying or paying for their phones. If it gets lost or stolen then it gets replaced by their employer. On the other hand others have get second hand phones and pay them with their own money.

- Those with lower incomes can go on vacation to a nearby city or a nearby country. While those with higher income tend to travel at a vary discounted rate using frequent flyer miles.

> It's a modern (a 'temporary measure' enacted in WW1) invention to enact a passport-controlled system of travel and residency across the entire world.

I wonder if the same will happen to online travel pre-entry-authorizations.

During Covid many countries implemented pre-entry-authorizations, similar to US ESTA or Canadian ETA.

Even if the Covid emergency state has been over, some countries that didn't have this forms before, still require them for travel.

> Wow. I have problems with Instragram

I remember that for a few months before my partner broke up with me, their IG feed was full of reels, posts, 'comedy', 'psychology tips', about people complaining about their partners. And also lots of Insta influencers posts giving relationship tips or encouraging people to break up for diverse reasons.

While I'm aware my relationship wasn't perfect, the standards promoted by those aesthetic Insta influencers were really impossible to obtain in real life. Unless of course your life consisted only of perfectly curated Insta moments.

> Possibly post-Musk Twitter.

I don't have an active twitter account, so one of the things I like from post-Musk Twitter is that it no longer requires me to login for reading tweets or for searching.