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I would not have thought the improvements would have been that significant (I'm old and ignorant). HeSP is dependent on the cpu? (article noting intel gen 11 and amd ryzen 3 are needed) and ASLR still being implemented on Win7 with http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2639308

We still have to keep a couple winxp and nt boxes alive at work for diagnostic gear (none are online). Thankfully not my job as I am obviously a risk :)

Genuinely interested, why would Win7 be worse than Win10 if you had the same network setup, same browser (same extensions) and behaved the same as you do with Win10?

I ask as even at home, my different devices all use the same browser/extensions, VPN and browsing habits. I use established FOSS where possible and the only problems I have had since Windows 98 are from data breaches (nothing I could have prevented with different OS/software).

Or are we talking about business/corp usage?

so true, I ended up going a "dumb phone" for my day to day and have just started to tell people I only check email from work. I think it confused more than pissed anyone off. I tried to have back my work phone but still need to take calls when not physically in the office on a work day.

While I love the idea of the librem5, I don't love it $1200 more than my dumb phone.

this feels like it should be opt-in and not opt-out

we have communal low bandwidth wifi in my area following openwireless.org ideals. That requires trust from both parties. This is trust I couldn't have in Amazon/FB/Google to not fuck me over with a "free" service they provide

Sarcaivety™

I will make an extension that handles this vetting for you contact me on my official email account notascam@gmaiil.co

"You are might curious to know if it is allowed? And I must say that this is completely allowed!"

I feel like this would make a great corporate logo for a discount legal firm on It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia that Charlie would start when high on Elmer's glue.

I like this as an option. When i did engage initially with Twitter, I found tweetdelete useful in culling tweets that were over 14 days old and nukereddit was useful in cleaning up the same.

Having nuked/deleted/closed all my accounts has had the same outcome with less work.

I dont have controversial opinions or political posts. Still on both platforms would get people shitposting/linking to a 4 month old tweet/comment because it was a hot topic again for 48 hours.

this is beautiful, thank you for your response.

thank you, these might be next steps for me.

TLDR: a tale of over consumption and greed and eventually theft. I grew up poor. I am comfortable now. We never lived in famine/feast mode (which writer clearly refers to and embodies). We all fought against wastage or excess. The writer clearly has not in this story. And made the choice to exploit her employers trust by walking out of the business with a $350 pair of headphones, feeling justified by having been poor once. Awful example.

"What if marketers can build an infinite shithole of ads inside the virtual world instead of the physical? Wait, hold on a second..."

this makes me glad for add blockers, VPNs, TOR, Canvas manipulators, piholes, and such. Sitting in front of a friends TV for a coffee and the amount of advertising from the moment she turns her TV on (the damn thing has adverts on its menu bar...) and then the sprawling chaos of attention grabbers from free to air tv and finally youtube itself. Thankfully I saw the recently uploaded and monetised video her sister put on line including its 5 seconds of advertising at the start and 15 seconds of unskippable advertising 25 seconds before the video finished.

I have no regrets for my ignorance

advertising/marketing is manipulative/evil

charities can appeal for help vs compete against other charities for the available $$$.

thank you, im looking at my old netbook which i still use from time to time and wondering how i can maybe lessen it's usefulness while making it more aesthetically interesting.

I was thinking e-ink and mechanical keys with a lightweight battery and retractable antennas

now I have some shopping to do

I have no use for this but want one.

is that it's purpose?

the idea of a plain old html internet makes me weak at the knees in the right kind of way. I love the thought of scrolling and the overall speed of a site that is as close to plain text as possible. We might be in the minority now, but the days of a lightweight internet can surely come back. I have resorted to (not disparagingly) using terminal based browsers for most of my recreational time online.

I feel this too, almost daily. the "need" for web browsers to provide more than just the data I want to find/read frustrates me. I have no issues with reasonably placed adverts for content that is relevant. the performance of my pc is not so much an issue for me, as much as the continued stream of advertising/trackng/bloat/images/etc that are attached to the most basic of sites. while HN is as much of a social network I am willing to join, I do miss the days when email/newsgroups/irc/rss were capable of almost every task I needed online. email more and more feels like an invasion of privacy, a distraction from what I actually want when online. newsgroups were great as it was just a shitty text stream and I could read it without bells and whistles. irc was the same. rss I miss the most as the glory days of everything having an rss feed and it being text heavy, advertising light and focused are gone. who wants to be penpals in 2021 with me?

We have a kerbside collection 2 times a year for "large rubbish" removal by the local council. You could mistake it for a street festival at times as you see people walking down the road with what they find of use/value and people in utes or towing trailers picking up an old couch they can use.

then a few days later, they council picks up whats left and disposes of it.

we have a local e-waste facility that also 2 times a year hold a free drop off weekend so households can drop off old batteries/car batteries/lights and such that either are not part of the council pickup or could result in broken glass etc in public spaces.

we initially trialed a giveaway/barter event which had limited success (terrible timing) and the council took what was left for disposal and were happier about it being in a carpark than the usual cleanup of a swapmeet on a grassed field.

This again appears a system issue, not workshop issue. In a lot of the statements I have seen against the programs on offer here in Aus, were from people incorrectly assessed as being appropriate for sheltered workplaces. Appropriate medical assessment/intervention/care could result in a few instances of people being assessed job capable outside of the ADE but this in itself is a fault in a system that has one option of being ADE employment.

The discussion around it seems incredibly emotional to purposefully distort the opinion of people that ADE/SW are sweatshops or some Dickensian nightmare. I guess profit driven societies have taken advantage of it, like they have with the jail systems, education, law enforcement, military, healthcare...

edited - outcome>option

I'm not sure if the real issue there was the foster and medical system in America 30 years or so ago or the sheltered workshop. Each sheltered workshop (Australian Disability Enterprises) I have volunteered with or worked with has been funded privately and/or run at a loss. They are not able to shunt a child with a disability into a position where they are sorting nuts and bolts etc. The other choice for a lot of these employees is to stay home or attend care centers. There are more benefits to including people in a work environment than excluding, even if it means creating one for them specifically.

this is exactly it. sheltered workplaces exist purely to provide a sense of community and actual value to people with disabilities lives. While some of us begrudge working the 9-5, there are a lot of people excluded from the societal norm of the day to day. With the costs of running Sheltered Workplaces far outweighing the income produced (and no expectation for it ever to) these are considered positive expenses for most communities.

would it make more sense to have goodwill depot at a recycling centre/landfill facility instead?

finally I can become the Bond villain I always dreamed of

if you mean make claims with no evidence to back them up, yes I can engage more with you.

"I'm not going to share my advertising accounts with you; I'm just going to ask you to trust that when I get my laptop out and show my results to my 'marketing skeptical' friends, they stop being skeptical."

spoken like a true used car salesman

30 S pieces and 1 | piece.

maybe "obviously irritating tetris" would be more appropriate name?

I am also against a throwaway society but there comes a point where you need to accept old computers/vehicles/toys/instruments/tools are beyond your ability to maintain/use them. If you want to fork over some money semi-regularly or learn how to do it yourself, it becomes an ornament. Somehow expecting 20 year old computing hardware to be supported now, free of charge, in Linux is a valid criticism. 20 years ago, setting that computer up was a nightmare for non tech-savvy folk but current distributions need to support your horse and cart.

edit "but many over pay for the best of everything simply because they are unwilling to understand what they really need or learn how to make do with less" - old man yelling at clouds

Epic "it used to be a game site"

Apple "oh a store?"

Epic "more like TMZ, but less factual"

"entertainment space"

it looks like the play store with more usage tracking.

as a tech savvy 93/98/109/138 year old man/woman/undisclosed in this security focused world we live in, I have yet to be quizzed by any provider of online services to verify my A/S/L other than that one time your mother was in IRC