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Re:Does Showing Seconds in the System Tray Use More Power? by IgorPartola on Sunday July 13, 2025 @02:36PM (#44552445)
Whoa how is this not all over the news at all times?
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Re:Does Showing Seconds in the System Tray Use More Power? by NewJazz on Sunday July 13, 2025 @02:43PM (#44552490)
People are tired of hearing about it. They don't feel like they can do anything about it.
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Re:Does Showing Seconds in the System Tray Use More Power? by saparaloot on Sunday July 13, 2025 @02:44PM (#44552498)
The caring cohort has mortages and kids
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Re:Does Showing Seconds in the System Tray Use More Power? by jbaber on Sunday July 13, 2025 @02:58PM (#44552593)
And Linux for desktop is finally easy enough for those of us with both.

Microsoft ordered me to buy a new computer for Win 11, so I took said kids to Microcenter, asked for a machine whose specs could play a particular steam game on Linux, returned to my mortgage, installed Ubuntu and haven't given Windows a second thought in months.

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Re:Does Showing Seconds in the System Tray Use More Power? by fkrkrkgkgk on Sunday July 13, 2025 @08:39PM (#44555225)
Anyone remember when Ubuntu sent every keystroke to amazon?
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Re:Does Showing Seconds in the System Tray Use More Power? by aspenmayer on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @06:39AM (#44569781)
Richard Stallman probably. Hopefully EFF.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/01/ubuntu-online-search-fea...

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Re:Does Showing Seconds in the System Tray Use More Power? by pas on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @08:12AM (#44581333)
yes, and it was a correct outrage, and the solution was also nice and easy (remove this modular thing instead of switch to FreeBSD)

and importantly it seems that Canonical/Ubuntu is not doing something like that right now, whereas MSFT is all in on online only mode.

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Re:Does Showing Seconds in the System Tray Use More Power? by vachina on Sunday July 13, 2025 @08:51PM (#44555294)
We moved on and used alternatives. And stayed on alternatives.
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