First thing I do when I open Firefox or Chrome for the first time is go into settings and disable the ability for websites to request notifications permissions

Sumatra is fantastic for reading PDFs, but it can’t edit them. In that case I recommend PDF Gear.

I don’t touch Adobe software. Not only due to the abusive subscription, but even the pirated versions will install Creative Cloud and a thousand supporting applications that permanently modify your Windows shell, explorer, scheduled tasks and many more system features.

Anything from 30 seconds to 10 minutes, depending on your specific combination of RAM, CPU and chipset.

You’d be surprised at what the custom ROM communities manage to achieve. The Galaxy S3 (not 23, I really mean S3) can run Android 11 or 12.

Today I’ll update my Chrome version in my 2013 media box desktop running Debian in honour of your terribly written comment!

Many modern motherboards will also do memory training the first time you boot with new RAM sticks, and sometimes this is very slow. Your PC will boot to a black screen and behave exactly like it would with a dead CPU or RAM… there’s no visual feedback.

This once caught me off guard and I spent a good hour panicking trying to diagnose a non-existing issue. Sometimes, you just literally have to wait in a black screen for a while.

Probably a lot of different reasons, but it doesn’t help that pretty much everything is translated by volunteers. I moderated 3 big brazilian subreddits, Brazil is one of the largest non-English speaking groups using Reddit, yet we only got a portuguese speaking community manager a couple of years ago. So if you are a local ad agency and you want to collaborate with Reddit, good luck, they make zero efforts to adapt into your region. Do you want to collect data from brazilian users? You need LGPD compliance, which means paying a local lawyer… Not happening, and so on.

I recommend using this: https://github.com/TheLastGimbus/GooglePhotosTakeoutHelper

A couple years ago, Google decided that instead of exporting the photos with EXIF data exactly as you’ve uploaded them, which was the original behavior and how platforms such as OneDrive do it, they are going to completely delete all EXIF from the image and instead also create a .json containing the original data, in a non-standard format. This script is an open and free version of a paid tool that goes through each image, finds the corresponding .json, and puts the EXIF data back on.

If you don’t do that, when you reupload these photos into a new service, the date will be reverted to the day you’ve downloaded them and location data will be missing entirely.

single celled organisms cooperating

No, not really. There are pretty fundamental differences between colonies of single celled organisms cooperating versus the cells of a multicellular organism.

You’ve read the title but not the entire article. The goal isn’t preventing the whole “lots of tiny pieces moving around could collide with you” issue.

It mentions that aluminium fragments from space debris, upon reentry, end up damaging the ozone layer. The wooden ones do not.

Here in Brazil the hardware and software are technically two different products, in such a way that you can’t deny a hardware warranty repair due to software modifications. That’s the good part.

The bad part is that manufacturers do that anyway because they know you won’t pay the legal fees to challenge this in court. This strategy mostly pays off. If you’re particularly annoying, or somebody from our customer protection watchdog happens to take interest in your claim, the company will fold and repair the modified device for you eventually.

YouTube didn’t “kill the competition”. They never had to.

All YouTube competitors very quickly faced the issues relating to ingesting, storing and moderating video. The scalability is a nightmare.

The fact that they find this concerning actually is indicative of a society where weapons aren’t normalized or frequent.

Yes, being scared by carrot toys is ridiculous. But I’d rather live in that community than the Walmart pistol vending machine one.

Not only is the article being upvoted, but the implication behind your comment contradicts the actual harm caused to the workers - which is no harm at all, treated water is safe, they’re safe. How exactly would a crowd that defends nuclear power be mad at this information?

where do I put my name to be on the list for this party?

Do you do the sex? What’s the saddest song ever? What’s the sexiest sex ever? Sad song? Sex?

There’s zero way I’m paying full price for a modern GPU that doesn’t support hardware acceleration of AI models. Nvidia and Intel are clear winners here, it’s bizarre in more than 3 years AMD still can’t get close.

Nothing about my comment talks about it being complicated

Oh no hate at all, I actually encourage you to try your hand at exploring your own solutions.

But if they’re giving you more trouble than the problem they were supposed to fix to begin with, it’s good to be reminded that there’s nothing wrong with using something built by someone else and that commercially relies on not having issues. This community will downvote and reply as if anything not self hosted is the devil reincarnated, but you know what, it’s safe and works.