Israel government & military officials need to be taken out.

I’m on Win11 and don’t have that. Think you need to turn off “Spotlight Backgrounds” somewhere in settings. While it gives you new backgrounds, it uses it as advertising.

Can confirm.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/programming-socks

When C++ changes your gender.

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Depends on what you’re doing. I look up Linux admin stuff. DDG points to the Arch Linux wiki which is solid, even for non-Arch Linux stuff. Google points to random sponsored blog tutorials that are sometimes outdated or the author doesn’t have a full understanding of what their copy-paste terminal commands do.

Recently I used google to look up a Kotlin coding thing. It pointed to every source except the official Kotlin documentation.

Google’s search results are absolute garbage lately. It pushes the most advert-heavy spam sites first.

DuckDuckGo has more reliably been giving me the technical documentation I was looking for in the past year.

Unless there’s a birth certificate, I’m going to assume you’re an evil hamster.

I am the real Spartacus.

https://system76.com/laptops

Or just install Linux on any laptop made in the past 10 years.

Godot and Blender. /thread

Works great. You can even make it pretend to be Docker so you can use the Docker commands.

The apocalypse.

Douchebags.

I think it starts pinging google servers every few minutes in the background. Aside from that, no issues I can think of.

My hot take: Silicon Valley’s kids need to give themselves the illusion of progress with ever changing “best practices” and trends. 30% of my work was probably keeping up with deprecations that rarely truly improve anything.

On iPhone, you can turn off “Personalized Adverts”. You still get adverts but they’re not based on a profile of you.

Check the Google Store page of the app and read the Permissions/Privacy section. An app can’t do much without requesting relevant permissions first.

Apps by default have access to almost nothing. I’m an Android developer and know almost nothing about my users, because my app didn’t ask for those permissions.

Think the wiki needs to be updated. It said Telegram is used by the Kremlin.

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Telegram is owned by Russians and the server is proprietary closed-source. I prefer Signal.