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Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 71

Variety is good.

IPA is a macro classification that covers a range of beers that have a flavour profile anything from fruity, to champagne, to a hoppier variety of pilsner, with a colour profile ranging from slightly lighter than a stout, to a bright golden in both hazy and clear varieties.

Saying you lacked variety because everything was an IPA is like saying you lacked variety because the beer shop only sold beer. There are more than 16 different IPA styles out there that all taste and have a mouthfeel wildly different from each other.

It's like saying all Trappist ales taste the same despite this very article being about the large variance between them leading to the discovery of how to robust foam is developed.

Comment Re:Interesting option... (Score 1) 53

But at the same time, it is a complex chemical process. What's wrong with just turning plastic into fuel at 100% efficiency, by incinerating it for power?

Chlorine, that's to stop you. Incineration of PVC is highly toxic and a major environmental concern at plastic waste incineration facilities. If you can extract the chlorine first then it is likely a net benefit to the environment.

Comment No. (Score 1) 53

Recycling remains the last option. Especially this form of recycling is a single use. The output of this effort is set on fire and creates carbon emissions. Better options are always Reduce, and Reuse. Recycling is not only last, but recycling plastic into plastic is more "circular".

Calling this "circular economy" is gaslighting. This is only one step removed from simply yeeting plastic into an incinerator.

Comment Re:Excellent (Score 1) 23

Enough for potential emergencies and allowing to coordinate pickup better

Emergencies are handled by school administration. I've never had a problem with my parents contacting me and I didn't have a phone at school. The school even has *gasp* their phone number published on the internet, I know I'm shocked too.

As for co-ordinating pick-up, there's no surprises about when schools start or stop. You know this before you drop your kids off. If you can't figure this out, maybe you should have your kids taken away from you for being so incapable.

Comment Re:One more reason to leave Windows for Linux (Score 1) 114

If this is a "reason" to leave then it shows you have no idea what is happening or what this does. Hint: There is no change to the user in the slightest, not in snooping or prying, not in taking copies and storing on their servers, etc.

We don't need to put up with this, people! Escape while you are still able to do so.

Why? No seriously why. Picture me as a user who doesn't care or understand about privacy and tell me the impact to me. The personal impact. Assume I am a normal user who doesn't give a shit about privacy in general. How will Microsoft directly make *my* life worse?

This is the problem with privacy. It's a word thrown around with a nebulous meaning that ultimately boils down to some contrived scenarios that aren't being played out in a way that affects users. You won't ever convince a user to do something without demonstrating direct harm to that user, unless that user is a conspiracy theorist.

The same argument is about privacy and tracking for targeted ads. Okay so I'm currently getting ads for Nike shoes because I was shopping for Nike shoes the other day. Whoop de do. What about a time before tracking? Oh well back then I still got ads, they were mostly for hot singles in my area or spanking the monkey, or gambling or what-not. I've had this discussion the other day with a non-tech person and that person ultimately came to the conclusion personal tracking has actually *improved* their experience. At that point the topic of not being tracked was moot.

Comment Re:Explain something to me. Like I'm an idiot. (Score 1) 114

I can come up with all sorts of risks that ignore technical reality as well, but unfortunately they too wouldn't be valid. Especially none of your last three apply in any case here. Just because you save a file to OneDrive by default doesn't mean it isn't synced to your local computer, quite the opposite in fact. A cloud outage, network issue, or authentication issue has no effect on your data other than you loose the ability to access it remotely.

The default location for saving an Office file now is the same it's always been: It will show on your computer in your documents folder. The only difference is that it's a online save with local sync rather than a local save with online sync. The former is already the situation if you use teams, Sharepoint, share a file, have two people edit a file at the same time, or save a file then open it up again while connected to the network.

The only change is in that last scenario it will now enable autosave feature by default in Word rather than relying on you to re-open the file since Word doesn't need to check OneDrive for the sync status.

Comment Re:Can't use this due to confidentiality issues (Score 1) 114

Now picture an average non-technical user - who simply needs to not have all his or her shit pwned by Microsoft

I'm picturing non-technical users and all I'm getting is a bunch of people who don't care. This scenario seems to nearly always be made up by some technical person who is imaging a fictional user that largely doesn't exist.

The funny part about technical people is they come up with insanely technical solutions while missing the obvious: Anyone who cares will simply disable OneDrive with a few simple clicks and move on with their life.

Comment Re:Put it on a shirt (Score 1) 85

Not at all the Supreme Court ruled no such thing. It never made it there in any case. Ultimately lawsuits were dropped, those which proceeded lacked standing largely because the DeCSS had nothing to do with the USA and American laws and two publishers were anonymous.

Had it been produced by an American in America that American would likely have spent the next 20 years being sodomised by the American "justice" system.

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