Amazon blocked my account while trying to purchase a gift card and are now demanding proof of ownership of the gift card they just refused to sell to me???

i mean you can just buy a Dell laptop with a copy of Ubuntu preloaded instead, they sell those as an option with most models

i mean it’s annoying but how is it disgusting?
it just shows recently opened files/software mixed in with stuff you open frequently, it’s not an ad section or anything.
but yeah i have disabled it on all my machines, because I’m not using it + disabling it adds two extra rows of pinned apps…

you can unsubscribe from “recommendations” separately tbf (or decline subscription in the firsr place)

telegram has an “advantage” of not having e2e encryption by default, which makes stuff like sync much easier as chats are fully stored on the server (encrypted with your user password).

and if you enable encryption (aka start a secret chat), the chat will only exist on the device you started it on and stop getting synced

it’s as easy to get into as lemmy/masto/fedi

windows 10 lacks bt aac codec so fuck it

this is how i feel when a website presents me with a gender prompt with only two options

chill it’s a meme

vanced did not “rebrand” into revanced.
revanced is a whole new thing build from the ground up

smart watch?

try Poweramp, it’s paid but it costs like 10 cents and comes with a 3 day trial (no subscriptions or other bs)
definitely the most feature packed player with no competition

there are simd accelerated json decoders

it’s for the official Office keyboard.
it comes wirh shortcuts to ms office stuff and was supposed to work without installing any software, so they bound them to an extremely long key combinations no one will trigger by accident and shipped the changes to all windows users.

also another fun fact: Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Win corresponds to the “Office” key, and hitting that combination will make Windows silently and automatically download and install the Microsoft/Office 365 App and launch it, even if it was previously removed

oh,youre right, i kinda forgot us plugs are rectangular

technology connections made a video on it, none of the sockets actually use the holes, and ones that do, do it unintentionally

idk I’m not from the us but i think these are pretty common?
hole is just there for making production easier

yeah but why did the comment sync but not the delete, if they’re just a couple of seconds apart (I realized that I can’t read pretty quickly this time)

yep it does