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Comment Re:You mean rooting will stop the phone bothering (Score 1) 105

I love LineageOS and F-Droid, I wish the open source movement were larger on Android. Most app developers seem to drool at the 0.00001% chance that their app goes viral so of course they want to enable ads, while in reality making basically nothing anyway.

However, the loss of convenience that you mention can be somewhat gradual. You can still use for example gmail and normal apps from google play store with LineageOS, which may be more or less "necessary" when you need to run an application from some clueless car park operator, banking app, or similar. The good thing is that you have the option to avoid it.

Comment To find the info you searched for (Score 4, Insightful) 32

Whenever I used it it was to find the actual information I was searching for. Quite often you search for some keyword (in quotes to force an exact match) and when you click through to the website, the information is nowhere to be found.

Often this is because it was hidden to normal users who they wanted to jump through hoops to look at their precious data, but they want to use google as a free marketing tool.

The cached version showed the same thing they show google, so they can't hide it.

Comment Not much different from the Oscars (Score 3, Interesting) 93

How is this different from what they do with the Oscars? https://www.oscars.org/awards/... Granted, the political requirements for the Oscars are spelled out in detail, so at least they are honest about it. I really see little difference in principle though, both exclude works based on a political agenda, the only difference if you happen to agree or not.

Submission + - Russia's Wikipeida Replacement "Ruwiki" Is Now Live (nypost.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Ruwiki, the Russian government approved replacement for Wikipedia, has reportedly gone live. Ruwiki was originally approved in May 2022 and has been in beta testing since mid 2023. The contents of Ruwiki reflects Russian government positions and reportedly incorporate more Russia specific content than Wikipedia. The Russian government is reported to have put substantial resources into the Ruwiki project. Wikipedia itslef has been repeatedly fined by Russian courts for hosting online content contrary to Russian law, much of it regarding the 2022 invasion of Ukraine which is referred to by the Russian government as a "Special Military Operation.". If Wikipedia is blocked it will further isolate Russians and cut off one of the last major independent sources of information still available to them.

Comment Never an option. (Score 1) 259

Streaming was never an option for me because they can decide at any time to prevent me from watching my favorite movie or show.

It's like having all your personal data in the cloud without a physical backup under your own control.

The only way to make sure I can enjoy the childhood memories of shows that I watched, movies I watched, is to download them. This is no longer possible with most computer games, due to their dependency on locked-down proprietary servers. Heck, I wouldn't even trust a physical player these days, which could easily be designed with a decryption key that expires unless updated every now and then from the internet.

Comment Re:bizarre (Score 1) 170

It has nothing to do with peripheral vision.

I used to have a three-monitor setup for coding, which I replaced with a single 38" 32:9 to remove the borders. I bet that if you have three monitors on a desk, you will not have them arranged flat, but each monitor will be pointed to face you (evidence: google image search on multi-monitor setups). The curved ultra-wide does exactly the same thing but seamless. A flat monitor would distort the windows.

My monitor came with a full color calibration report for the whole panel, so of course it's not the "lowest tier". I don't even think they make this format in a flat version because no one would use it!

Of course if you buy a cheap gimmick "gaming" monitor that has a ridiculous curvature for its size, you get what you pay for.

Comment Re:Bugs in a jam jar (Score 1) 74

John Calhoun's work suggests that overpopulation is not a thing. If the population density becomes too high, individuals stop reproducing, ultimately leading to population collapse.

Since this has never happened once in any other species, I think John Calhoun is pretty much talking out of his behind.

At least it allows us to keep going with our funny "exponential growth in a closed system" pyramid scheme.

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