They do?

Think we need some examples

Yea, if a business let’s users install shit, it’s on them.

Though I get SMB’s have a challenging dance to do as they require more flexibility.

How mobile apps manipulate users via notifications.

Off is my default for notifications from all apps.

Fuck, Dominoes (the solo game) wants to send me notifications. WTF for?

Guess what dominoes, I run rooted so your dumb ass can’t even run in the background (or get network), and you get automatically get killed a few minutes after I stop playing.

Syncthing or Resilio Sync for photo/file backup from phone. Both work amazingly well.

I don’t see anything like this in search, even DuckDuck.

What do you have on that you see this? (Or what have I turned off?)

I do use Ublock and Noscript, but they don’t list anything to block on search engines, really.

Dude, they’ve been tracking since the first cell phone (even the analog ones).

Since the first PCS phones in 1995 it just got easier with smaller cells.

Then with smart phones, all of them use AGPS, and the tracking data is largely available in a few ways - cell towers and signal strength, which/when AGPS data is pulled, etc (coupled with tower and signal data).

Then 5G cells are so small the accuracy is crazy with just cell and signal strength.

I’m not excusing what they’re doing, just giving background - there’s a lot more tracking going on than is obvious at first. And AGPS is always on already. It’s not a tracking function in itself, just is one piece if data that can be used.

Almost any messaging app is better, the question is what do your friends use, and can you get them to switch.

I’m a fan of XMPP because it’s an established protocol you can host yourself (if you wanted) - this removes untrustworthy providers.

It really comes down to what’s your goal?

They’re largely all her choice, or at least misrepresented.

I do laundry once a week, and that’s 90% done by a machine - what I have to do is fold. Oh dear, that’s so much work.

Walk 10000 steps? Where doe this nonsense come from? Hey, if that’s what you want to do, remember you chose to measure yourself like this. If it’s causing you stress, maybe change?

Give this list to a boomer who worked in a factory lifting heavy shit (and lived though a major recession as even those jobs disappeared thanks to Nixon) and watch them laugh you out the door.

You need to sleep as much as you need, walk as much as you need.

Stop listening to other people, listen to your own body.

Never.

And yet… Research has repeatedly shown it’s women who instigate relationship violence.

Ah yes, the inevitable downvoters.

It’s been well established. You don’t like it? Shame that.

No I’m not providing a source. Your anger should motivate you to look.

Here’s a place to start: which relationships experience the most violence: Male/Female, Male/Male, Female/Female?

Interestingly, the male/male is the least violent, and female/female the most violent.

'Nuff said.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30186202/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6113571/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30465625/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7034778/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23271429/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4046894/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21731790/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8766270/ https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/sexual-orientation-disparities-ipv/ https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/ipv-sex-abuse-lgbt-people/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32064141/

So take your biases and fucking read.

Further, if men are the primary cause of violence in relationships then:

F/F relationships should show orders of magnitude less violence.

M/M should have the highest levels of violence and be orders of magnitude greater then F/M.

And yet none of this is true in any study.

I’m not seeing where that was said?

I’ve had better luck using MKV for my Samsung TV.

But yea, Mp4 is generally more compatible.

It’s shocking how little resolution plays into quality. I’ve re-encoded some videos down to 480 and played them on a 65" TV and they look fine.

I can also make videos look terrible by just trying to save space by reducing the quality level of the conversion while retaining high resolution (1080).

And according to the Bureau of Labor (and some other sources) the median hourly wage in the US for non-supervisory (eg non-exempt) workers is around $34/hr.

The average (mean) is $36.67.

Of course these are heavily influenced by high COL areas, but if you lookup distributions, most people fall in the $24-$35 area of the curve, with only the 10th percentile making under $15. That suggests there aren’t many jobs paying that kind of money (or the distribution would look different), and that 90% of jobs pay above $15, with 80% paying above $20.

Ok, bye.

The problem is they are almost never good, as everyone can read the same info 4x faster than someone can present it (best case), and 10x faster isn’t unusual.

Source: Former technical trainer - I’ve read a lot about instructional methodologies. Video is the lowest common denominator that’s all. It can be useful for things that have a visual component, and self hosting has very little of that.

Seems there are 2 kinds - video links with almost no text, just farming visits, and video links with a wall of text.

Both suck. Videos, in general, suck.

So much of what goes on here needs text, lots of it. Video is slow and cumbersome.

I just loaded it, goes to the website linuxupskillchallenge.org

Hahaha, wtf?