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Comment Re:Seems like 35% of orders need a human (Score 1) 133

... Drive through orders ordered on phone....

Think this through; what you not supposed to do when you're using your phone?

Judging from the average city driver, I know most people don't know one of the answers is "drive", but it really is.

Besides, that's what I really want, yet another snoopy single use app on my phone.

What a garbage solution from a garbage "just use your phone" mindset created by a device saturated market.

Comment Re:It helps that they made it harder (Score 1) 126

Yeah, Windows 10 makes it as absolutely difficult and annoying as possible to "switch" from edge to... well, almost anything, but particularly Firefox.

A recent VM install, I put FF on as always, but you can't set FF as the default browser via the normal "default apps" control panel, it's simply not listed.

You have to open a web link via explorer; THEN windows will ask about the default browser AND include FF in the list.

Anti-competition, as always.

Comment Don't do it... (Score 1) 142

Don't do it Mint devs...

Don't you DARE.

I don't use Ubuntu because of update shenanigans... Apple's unkillable update reminders baloney is annoying as hell... Windows... Well, there hasn't been any saving that OS since 8.

Feel free to enable auto-updates, but if I know enough of my ass from a hole in the ground to turn them off, don't you f-ing DARE force them on me.

Comment Re:Please (Score 4, Insightful) 224

This comment is almost literally the entire problem encompassing the Linux platform.

"Just recomplie" (Natch)

Sure. No problem for me, or you.

Tell the average user that who just wants their laptop to recognize their wireless card which requires a niche patch to the kernel to fix, or worse yet someone foolish enough at the end user side to be convinced to run Linux and needs software that they rely on that DOESN'T require a BS in CIS to install when their computer inevitably shits itself.

Want to know why "the year of the Linux desktop" hasn't happened and won't in the foreseeable future? Read. Your. Comment. AGAIN.

Submission + - Google will eliminate accidental mobile ad clicks (betanews.com)

Mark Wilson writes: ds are part and parcel of being online, but they can be particularly annoying for mobile users. When playing games on a phone or tablet, it's all too easy to accidentally tap an ad you have absolutely no interest in, pulling you out of the game you were playing or the site you were reading. If you've cursed when this happened to you, Google hears you.

The company is taking steps to make the "user experience" of ads a little better. It recognizes that advertisements that get clicked accidentally don't benefit anybody. They end up irritating the clicker, and are unlikely to be of value to the company that placed the ad. With around half of ad clicks being made by mistake, Google is now taking steps to stop this from happening — great news for users advertisers alike.

In all, Google is making three key changes to ads that appear on smartphones and tablets, starting off by adding an unclickable border to the outer edges of advertisements.

Submission + - Proof Comcast Throttles Netflix (mattvukas.com) 8

An anonymous reader writes: Matt Vukas has done some (not so thorough) testing to prove that Comcast is definitely throttling Netflix after the FCC gave the green-light. On comcast network, Netflix is slow. Still using the same network, but with an added VPN layer, which should be slower, Netflix is suddenly back to normal speed.

Comment Re:You need 15? (Score 1) 226

Heh, actually I have a variety of platforms including a few embedded devices, SO the additional tools I use, including the shell, compilers and utilities varies from server to server depending on their job or task. The only thing that immediately springs to mind as really being universal across all of my devices is the kernel itself!

Though there may be one or two other utilities or programs that might be common to all of them.... I'm not about to put forth the exertion to check ;)

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