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Just got 'Android Developer Verifier' Silently Installed on my Phone (Aug 25, 2026)
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Thanks, I just checked and it was installed so I've uninstalled it
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Just got 'Android Developer Verifier' Silently Installed on my Phone (Aug 25, 2026)
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Thanks, I just checked and it was installed so I've uninstalled it
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Long story for giving out crayons.
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I mean $250, isn't nothing. lf you just happen to buy a single box of crayons when doing your shopping you wouldn't notice it, doesn't take any real thought. And then after a couple years you probably think "yeah this is enough to be worth donating".
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Do you think UBI will be the future of the world?
Yes, but only because your question implies there is a future for humanity, and I believe UBI is realistically one of the few ways humanity even gets a future
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Do you ever reminisce about an old phone you had in the past?
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I loved my v20, upgraded to a v30, and then the v40. The dacs were great! Best phones I'll ever have
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A question for GNOME/KDE users
Gnome always felt too basic and minimalist. KDE feels powerful and like I can do anything I want. On KDE I don't ask myself "can i do this?", I ask myself "how do I do this?"
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Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools
Obviously the existence of these pedo glasses is problematic to say the least, but aren't they also super expensive? How the hell are kids able to afford these?
In Australian dollarydoos they start from $469. What teenager is spending $469 on anything?
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Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools
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I expect parents not to facilitate harrassment by purchasing pedo glasses for their child. Am I expecting too much? Maybe. But I literally cannot lower the bar any further.
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Earbuds
All these people saying they like wireless earphones are completely missing the point. Devices with headphones jacks can do both. Taking away the headphone jack means you have to rely on wireless earphones, which have all the issues the post describes.
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Just Kidding... Unless?
There's still a lot of payphones in my country. They're free now and no longer accept money and they also provide free wifi. Recently I've been seeing signs on them that kids can call Santa
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Tron Arules (It Won't)
I keep forgetting he's the lead in this and every time I'm reminded I get disappointed all over again.
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Style vs efficiency rule
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This was Jamie Hyneman, and Adam Savage's robot (of MythBusters fame). It was given the championship 2 seperate years in exchange for not competing anymore, as you said, because it was too dangerous and flinging robot parts over the arena walls.
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The original video about this is from Benn Jordan, and like all his videos, it's incredible.
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What is a big internal debate within a fandom or hobby you are a part of that outsiders probably wouldn't care about?
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That's the beauty of tabs, it can be whatever you want.
But the correct answer is 4
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Facts
I started my Linux journey about 5 years ago on mint with the cinnamon DE. It's not the fanciest but it got the job done, no real complaints.
Recently I made the change to debian without too much thought on the DE and I was presented with gnome. Took me about 5 minutes before I was looking up alternatives.
Now on KDE plasma, and out of the 3 I've tried it's definitely my favourite.
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xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers
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I'm confused as to where you fit in the Millennial demographic for you to have not known this already
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0% of Democrats happy with state of the US right now
While 76 percent of Republicans say they are satisfied with the direction of the country
What the absolute fuck?? These fucking people would be happy with the direction of north Korea. Decades of relentless propaganda have really done a number on these people and destroyed their critical thinking
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Family trulee
Most of the world uses the country they were born in. I've noticed Americans will claim they're "from"a country they have ancestry in, even if they've literally never even been there.
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Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC'
So glad the idiotic decisions Microsoft makes doesn't effect my computer. And I'm excited for the rest of the population to make the shift to Linux, at least on their personal computers.
It doesn't have to be like this, you too can be immune
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What's something you no longer buy due to intrusive, insidious technology being added into it?
Anything smart or iot, or that requires a subscription to use.
A windows license.
Games consoles. (I would consider a stream deck to be immune from this as it's just a handheld PC)
Android phones, Apple phones.
Wireless earphones.
A modern car.
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Google just broke *all* third-party YT clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required.
Google doing everything they can to anger everyone.