Complete bullshit. Even for fullscreen video, the website doesn't need to know my screen size. It should tell the browser "here are the resolutions I can offer you" and the browser picks one of those. All the website needs to know is if I prefer 1080p or 4K. And I might pick 1080p even if my screen is 4K because, say, the hotel wifi is slow.

Complete bullshit. None of these things break if I don't tell you my OS. I've got extensions in this browser that can fake my agent string and nothing breaks. Fonts? Are you kidding me? Be more specific, what exactly do you mean by that?

And there's no reason it needs to. What legit use case requires a website to know whether my GPU is an NVidia, AMD, Intel or whatever chip? A shitload of the capabilities are only needed for 3D scenes (like max texture size), which is 0.1% of the websites I visit - they can ask and I can whitelist just them. Why does it need my refresh rate?

Again: All of these things have a legit use case, sure. Often exactly one. That is rarely if ever used. There's absolutely no reason that EVERY WEBSITE can query information that only one website in a thousand actually needs.

You don't tell the baker, florist and car dealer your shoe size just because the shoe shop needs it to serve you, right?

Because I want to be irrelevant to the fucking ad industry. I don't want them to track me, profile me and try every trick in the book to manipulate me into buying shit I don't need.

Sure, the same way that putting a finger into another man's ass has a legit use case (prostate examination) - but that doesn't mean I want every man to do that to me all the time.

The point is that tech companies are exploiting the legit use cases by abusing them when you're not in that use case. Basically, they think they can finger up your ass whenever they want, because once a few years ago you consented to a doctor to give you an exam and maybe you will do that again in the future.

I don't mind it being capable of. I mind it doing all kinds of shit without telling me and without giving me a choice. For example, I absolutely do not want websites to access my microphone. Or even know that I have one. For the once-a-year case where I might actually use that, I can enable it.

The problem is the same problem that the cybersecurity field has been fighting for 40 years: Permit All being the default.

Time for new glasses, gramps.

I finally gave in and got glasses, and now I really appreciate subpixel font rendering again... at 4k. This is a 42.5" diagonal TV at arm's length plus 4" or so, though.

It's pretty nice hardware. If it would run Linux well, and you didn't need x86 compatibility, it would be reasonable. I've used both, I far prefer Linux. KDE delivers much better on the promise of NeXTStep than does OSX.

I can do it, but it's irritating. The most they have ever had me verify I'm human was three times in one day. They used to use a lot of irritating minigame type captchas like slide the puzzle piece, but now they are using mostly just a slider — at least visibly. I have firefox set to ask before allowing a site audio, and it asked me if AliExpress could have it and I told it no. They seem to have finally given up on hassling me for notifications, so right now I am relatively pleased with them except for their garbage search.

They have also recently inserted AI descriptions, which are predictably shitty. However, they are in small text so they are easy to scroll past. Where they actually should use AI is in metadata. Even if it was wrong a lot of the time, it would still be more helpful than what they have now, which is nothing. I think every Chinese seller would simply game the metadata constantly. But if it's all AI generated from the listings, photos, uploads, etc then it might actually be useful let's say 80% of the time, where I find search to be good about 20% of the time now, and only useful maybe 40% of the time.

Don't let the people who just don't bother to register off the hook. Part of my job is asking people if they want to register. Lots of them that could don't bother. Many of those still want to complain... Yawn. Not interested. At least vote, THEN complain.

Also the USA has been the eight billion pound gorilla since the forties, we should have been leading by example and using our global influence to fix the problem, not to pave the earth.

"The Victim Generation, earned their moniker with a participation trophy. Sponsored by Boomer money, who paid for the team jerseys and hats too. They're unaccountable to reality in truly embarrassing ways"

Yes, just another thing boomers ruined

I've known two people who got CGMs when they were told they were at risk for diabetes, and used them to better learn what they were reacting to. They are pretty nerdy types who wanted data...

Speaking as someone who lost 80 lb and kept it off using Atkins for the reduction... This would be great for that, no guessing.

The underpowered MiniPC I bought for $300 before Donnie Dipshit fucked with Iran and before tech bros decided to replace everyone especially them is now worth $600

Exactly. Everything conservatives do is just trump lite. Then they want to pretend to distance themselves from him. The motherfuckers ARE him, just slightly less so.

Yes, of course it can. Every time there is a war, everything changes rapidly. It is therefore obvious to anyone with so much as half a brain that you're full of shit...ty excuses

Yes, this site is buggy AF. But more importantly every interface but classic is broken by design. They all hide things from you and create this kind of confusion. The mobile interface is far and away worst.

Whose fault is that? They didn't raise themselves. Parents keep fucking up and then blaming the product of their fuckups.