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Boycott Starbucks
This is going to be somewhat ineffective from me, I haven't been to one in about half a decade or so I think?
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Boycott Starbucks
This is going to be somewhat ineffective from me, I haven't been to one in about half a decade or so I think?
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"It's optional," Microsoft on Windows 11 tool forcing Bing in Chrome, Firefox, and Brave.
Fortunately, Windows is also optional.
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Zuckersteuer soll schon 2027 kommen – und auch Zero-Getränke betreffen
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So ein Quatsch. Erstens ist auch "Suchtmittel" ein Spektrum: Zucker, Nikotin, Alkohol und Crack haben nicht den gleichen Effekt diesbezüglich.
Zweitens spielt "Preis" bei Limo im speziellen sehr wohl eine Rolle. Warum bin ich mir da so sicher? Weil es der Grund war warum ich aufgehört habe, Limo zu trinken (zumindest in nennenswerten Mengen). Es gab schon mal einen (zumindest für mich subjektiv) erheblichen Anstieg in Preis vor 10-15 Jahren. Bis dahin hatte ich viel MezzoMix getrunken. Ich würde sagen als Hauptgetränk im Alltag. Danach halt nicht mehr. Entweder Wasser/Sprudel oder (sehr dünne) Apfelschorle, selbst angemischt. Das war auch keine schwere Entscheidung oder etwas wo ich Schwierigkeiten mit hatte. Ich hab halt den neuen Preis gesehen und dachte nur "nee". Fertig.
Zucker bzw. Limo gleichzustellen mit Tabak ist einfach nur ignorant. Ich habe übrigens den (subjektiven) Eindruck dass fast niemand mehr raucht. Früher waren es die meisten Bekannte/Freunde, heute kenn ich noch genau einen Raucher. Bei denen, wo ich die Gründe kenne, war es meistens eine Mischung aus "zu teuer" und natürlich auch "ungesund".
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Zuckersteuer soll schon 2027 kommen – und auch Zero-Getränke betreffen
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Sowohl Universum A und B hat durchaus die Option "ist mir zu teuer" (bei A nur Zucker, bei B beide) und man gewöhnt es sich ab.
Beides hat auch die Option "Hersteller macht neue Cola mit weniger Zucker bzw. Süßstoff, welche weniger kostet". Machen schmeckt das vermutlich nicht, aber vermutlich wird es anderen "gut genug" schmecken.
Weiterer Optionen/Entwicklungen, and die jetzt keiner hier gedacht hat, sind natürlich ebenfalls möglich.
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Germany’s affordable answer to the Fairphone with a "super battery" at a bargain price: Gigaset GX6 Pro review
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Since it isn't plastered all over marketing materials, almost certainly not. It causes a significant (but justified) rise in cost you also have to justify to customers.
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Windows 11 is breaking Legacy Media Player features to push you to a modern app that uses 3x more RAM
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Can't fork closed source. But it's trying to reimplement it and have the same feel.
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Looking Beyond Tmux and Screen: 8 Terminal Multiplexers Worth Trying
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How would the terminal multiplexer even affect this? Don't you just sudo or su to switch user?
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Discord sued by users claiming Nitro subscription is too difficult to cancel
This is only a problem if you subscribe to nitro in the first place. Rookie mistake!
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For those that really don't know: Star Trek TNG, episode "the inner light", S5E25.
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Mindustry: an extremely high quality (and difficulty) FOSS tower defense game
It's great and all (it really is), but the target audience was just presented factorio 2.0 (and space age), so we're busy for a few months.
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Pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI will officially begin on June 25
Anyone who pre-orders a digital product that can't actually run out of stock is a true mystery to me. Just wait and see. If you're I've of those eager to pay this, you've already waited literally years. Add a few days, see if it's actually playable and not a buggy mess.
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Most in Germany want Australia-style social media ban: poll
This sounds good on paper until you realize that what is considered "social media" is up to whoever happens to hold that position. Even ignoring the fact that it's unenforceable anyway, unless you require a real ID, wish is just straight up worse for all sorts of reasons.
The idea is nice, but actually putting it into law without opening the door to censorship and other side effects is just not plausible.
Edit: also, Everytime you read about a poll like this, ask yourself: what was the question they asked? Did it provide any context? Did it require any understanding of the actual underlying issues and laws? Or was it some variation of "think of the children"?
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What is it with websites restricting passwords to 8 - 16 characters? Is there some technical limitation to their system??
It's a massive red flag. It implies that they are actually storing the password instead of a (preferably salted) hash and that they have no idea what good security practices are. Storing a hash leads to same size strings, no matter the length on the password.
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Google just broke *all* third-party YT clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required.
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Revanced actually is the official YouTube client, just modified on the users device before installation.
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Got 'em
It's level, not flat. Measuring flat-ness is a whole different complexity and ball game.
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Hard drives that aren't used will get data errors over time. Usually for data storage this is counteracted with what's called a "scrub" every so often (like few months). This just means the whole drive content is read, and the drive itself will figure out if any areas have a "weak signal", and just rewrite that part.
Having only 1 drive without any mirror and without any way to detect potential errors (let alone a way to correct them) is a recipe for disaster.
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[Game] Fallout 4 Loses Graphical Options on Steam Deck From "Next-Gen" Update
The core lesson should be "stop adding useless launchers" and even more so "stop making launchers the only way to change graphics settings". I'm glad the steam deck has rules in place that prevent games with a forced launcher to receive a "verified".
That's what I'm taking away from this anyway.
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A $150 Buttonless, Open Hardware Answer to Kindle is being crowdfunded by Open Book Touch
That screen is absolutely tiny.
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Google to shut down Keen, its experimental Pinterest-like social media platform
Literally never heard of it, which is probably the reason and kinda makes it a good call?
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Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be.
They can't sell this at a loss, or at least it would be incredibly risky. This is (intentionally) "just a PC". It ships with SteamOS but you can of course install whatever you want, including windows. If it is (much) cheaper than a roughly equivalent normal PC, companies might just start buying them in bulk but obviously not generating the supporting sales needed.