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Comment Can we just get the old notepad back please? (Score 1) 56

I just need a good text editor with 4 functions:
Open (text-only files), save, search and replace.
No markdown support, no AI copilot, no formatting, no lists, no URL support, no tables, no autocorrect.

Ya know, kinda just like the old notepad, except with the ability to show line numbers (the only thing I thought notepad needed). I saw the new one still can't either, despite all its other kitchen-sink bloat.

Comment Screen space (Score 1) 95

How is it that Microsoft have never understood the relative priority of YOUR actual work area (especially vertical space), compared to the need for imemdiate access to a ton of secondary crap features that no-one ever really uses?

Any of the Office apps and also their programming IDEs immediately come to mind as great examples.

Comment Re:They did it again. (Score 1) 96

I don't think "they" (the world's scientists) are singling out USA for panic all.
The reality is that only about 2 or 3% of the world's climate scientists believe anthropogenic climate change is false (and of those that do, many have clear ties to the fossil fuel industry).
There are very real (and very measurable) consequences currently happening as a direct result of climate change. For example around 1 million plant and animal species are currently threatened with extinction, with climate change being the major driver of these declines.
If you don't care about the anything other than humans, then let's consider the peoples of low-lying island nations such as Tuvalu, Kiribati, the Maldives, and Marshall Islands.The entire nation of Tuvalu expects to be mostly below the waves by 2050 due to rising sea levels.
Yet for whatever reason, many if not most Americans (including your president) still choose to live in complete denial, apparently preferring to label well-researched facts about climate change as just fear mongering by some nutjob scientists that have it out for them personally.
Given you appear to be one such person, would you please explain why?

Comment Re:I'm still waiting... (Score 1) 51

Apparently a Linux phone is doable these days and quite affordably if you're prepared to hunt down the right phone and run an installer.

I've just ordered a factory-unlocked Oneplus N10 5G from ebay (new still sealed in box) for $180, with the intention of installing Ubuntu touch and Waydroid on it (my goal is controlling my privacy more than android+google services allows).

I'm looking forward to the phone arriving this week, and to finding out how actually usable this will be as a daily driver.
Maybe the reality is that it will still turn out to suck in one or more ways, but my hopes are up after having done quite a bit of online reading and also getting mostly great results from multiple experiments running waydroid and touch on a laptop first (before ordering the phone).

Comment Re: AI spread now price gauging Apple products. (Score 1) 47

Your talking to someone still rocking a stock 2017 Android phone bought off ebay and I see no reason to not just replace the battery when it inevitably fails as all phone batteries do.

That compared to the ridiculous compulsion of apparently many Apple fanbois/girls that judge their own self-worth entirely on branding and having this year's latest and greatest.

If you believe Apple actually cares about privacy any more than any of the other big data companies, you are seriously just deluding yourself.

Submission + - Why some people get bad colds and others don't (sciencedaily.com)

alternative_right writes: Scientists found that nasal cells act as a first line of defense against the common cold, working together to block rhinovirus soon after infection. A fast antiviral response can stop the virus before symptoms appear. If that response is weakened or delayed, the virus spreads and causes inflammation and breathing problems. The study highlights why the body’s reaction matters more than the virus alone.

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