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Re:Ask HN: Will I be able to talk to a human if I move from Google to ... on Friday August 30, 2019 @01:24PM (#20840576)

> premium Google customer paying for a service

And what is the best way to become part of such group while at the same time paying as little as possible?

Also, if for some reason Google decides to simply block/ban my account as a whole (so I can't login), how will I be able to contact them in order to even say "hey, I am that premium customer"?

(serious questions, I rely on Gmail and have always been afraid of simply losing it)

Ask HN: Do you even trust your phone?

Posted by ialwaysforgetm on Thursday July 11, 2019 @12:49PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I have this Android device with a few apps installed (mostly the essential Google services, Whatsapp, Firefox and a few games), and I try to avoid unknown apps as much as I can. And even then, I don't trust my own phone to be secure. I have this huge worry because it's not receiving any updates from Samsung anymore (it's a GS6), so I kinda treat it as a semi-untrusted device: I will never...

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Re:Ranting about Gnome Shell Extension Writing on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @05:26PM (#20348981)

I really love(d) gnome since the days of Gnome 2. After gnome 3 got forced on me, I installed a bunch of extensions and made it Just Right for me. After the first apt-get update, half of my extensions were broken. Then I switched to another DE, six months later came back and got the same result. Some time later I tried again and got the same result. To me, it feels that extensions are a second class citizen: extensions are the devs excuse to "hey, if you don't like our interface you can modify it with extensions", but all the burden of keeping your extension working is on maintainers, not Gnome: in practice there's no guarantee an extension will keep working over time.

In the end I feld like I was a person who keeps giving second chances to an abusive relationship. I finally had the courage to cut the relationship with Gnome forever after many reconciliation attempts.

Gnome is the desktop environment that has the most money being injected into (through Red Hat), and this was supposed to mean it's one of the best DEs. But I really can't get past its UI paradigm and concluded extensions are not a viable thing.

I am now a happy Cinnamon user.

Re:VESA Publishes DisplayPort 2.0 Video Standard on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @12:37PM (#20286620)

That is a software decision. The nice thing about DisplayPort is that now we can find out if the monitor is on or off and connected or not. It is software's decision to move everything away when the monitor is off but still plugged. I agree this is a bad decision.

Re:VESA Publishes DisplayPort 2.0 Video Standard on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @12:36PM (#20286601)

The computer's ability to reorganize windows is independent of whether the monitor is on or off. For outputs like HDMI we don't even know if it's on or of, we only know whether the cable is connected.

What you're complaining about is entirely a software problem. No improvements to display standards will move the situation forward.

By the way, if you're using Linux, consider switching your desktop environment.