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Re:Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic? on Friday January 16, 2026 @02:55AM (#46644140)
It would be quite the opposite, the magic man favours families, children, and population growth. The rejection of these beliefs seems to be what is detrimental to society. The other stuff I'll leave for you to decide.
Illegitimate, you're hilarious
The old edge engine was much better, but a struggle to get people to build webpages for.
ChromeOS is absolutely flaming garbage, and its years from being suitable. Also no company in their right mind would trust google for privacy
Now, but maybe not in 30 years after inflation
Re:Bing Search API Pricing Update: Massive Price Increase on Friday February 17, 2023 @01:06AM (#34831382)
So this how they are paying off that open AI investment
Found one of these a few years back, made some great friends, and we end up 'doing life' rather than just attending weekly etc. which is great.
It's a PR stunt. Get shareholders and the public talking about 'oh poor CEO he lost a few of the many many millions he earns a year'
Oh you know, just around
I see what you did there
Oh and lastpass because they upped their fees, moved to Bitwarden a few years ago, and have not missed it.
How do you find backblaze, I used it for a few months, but ended up going back to OneDrive
I dumped iCloud when I got a 365 subscription and that came with OneDrive which I find to be far better, and far faster when I need to download a whole bunch of files en masse (as I use On-demand for all my files now).
Same, and apart from the recommendations being a bit more fast and loose on Youtube Music , they have way more out there recommendations that I like, but would never have normally listened to.
I've just quit Amazon Prime, and Paramount+. I realized I'm not getting anywhere near the value I am paying for as the free accounts now almost always have free shipping anyway, so the expedited shipping doesn't really hold any value for me.

Paramount+ was just because I had it on my prime account, and haven't used it in months.

It seemed very suss, like why are you telling me that, were they not where I left them at some point and you've fixed it.. or...
Re:I don't read web articles anymore, but I read books on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @03:37AM (#34322058)
What are books? I haven't read them since I was a child - now I only read blog posts and articles.
Re:I was unwittingly signed up for Amazon Music Unlimited on Sunday January 08, 2023 @08:45PM (#34305704)
You can link plex, well at least I was able to a year oir so ago, havn't actually sued the integration
You can walk, you can't verbally authenticate
I'm just waiting for the antitrust to start.
Re:PayPal’s updated acceptable use policy [pdf] on Monday October 03, 2022 @12:51AM (#33063600)
Earlier this year.
Re:PayPal’s updated acceptable use policy [pdf] on Monday October 03, 2022 @12:49AM (#33063583)
Except Tim Berners-Lee
Re:PayPal’s updated acceptable use policy [pdf] on Monday October 03, 2022 @12:44AM (#33063559)
Same as Australia
Re:PayPal’s updated acceptable use policy [pdf] on Monday October 03, 2022 @12:41AM (#33063543)
What synths do you sell for? Link to presets?
Re:Musico: AI Generated Music on Friday September 30, 2022 @03:00AM (#33031855)
Ah, human music
Re:Musico: AI Generated Music on Friday September 30, 2022 @02:59AM (#33031847)
Ah, Human Music
Re:Hosting this website on a farm – or anywhere on Thursday February 10, 2022 @08:40PM (#30295695)
You slighted Elon and lived? Very impressive. Those Fanboys are crazy.
Re:Google Maps now requires WiFi scanning to use navigation on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @01:45AM (#30174565)
I've been using Here maps since it was Nokia Maps, and apart from recommendations on local businesses I haven't missed anything.
jokes on them, mine already is..
Disgusting

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