My goto for distrust of MS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
There's not a single reference on that page that's less than 20 years old. Yes, Microsoft did some anticompetitive stuff back when Bill Gates was CEO, but it's absurd to suggest that that still "informs what their future actions are likely to be". A lot has changed since the 1990s.
Or, they've found a viable way to disguise donated long-range missiles so they can be used to strike back at Russia without implicating the country that provided them.
This is an appalling take. No, you should not allow an employer to treat you with disrespect. Normalising an abusive, exploitative model of employment where you have no choice but to "put up with shit" makes conditions worse for everyone.
528 threads? Sounds perfect for my Chrome tabs.
You never wonder “why am I seeing this and how do I make it go away?”
I actually find myself wondering this a lot. Mastodon doesn't allow people to add comments to things they're reposting, so you're left guessing as to why they elected to insert something from an unfamiliar account into your timeline.
Mastodon is also short on tools for discovering interesting new posts and accounts that aren't already on your radar. In this regard I agree that it's behind the times. Threads handles this much better, giving you a classic chronological feed of people you're following plus an algorithmic feed that shows you things that are popular with people like you.
I'm a professional reviewer of VPNs (among other things). I'm afraid it's impossible to name one "best performing service" as that depends on factors such as which ISP you're using, where you're located, where the server is that you want to use, and what load it's under at that time.
However, I can tell you that in my tests Express VPN, Hotspot Shield and IPVanish all had very decent performance and successfully unblocked all the streaming services I tried, namely BBC iPlayer, ITVX, Channel 4, Now TV, Netflix US, Disney+ US and Hulu.
So much pointless bureaucracy and red tape and wasted time and money on this fiction that EU standards aren't good enough for us Brits.
Repast means meal.
Do you both build creatures?
i think the stick makes YOU a better driver.
It doesn't make me a better driver, it's a continual distraction. I recently switched from a manual to an automatic car and I now have far more available headspace to pay attention to the world around me.
You've obviously never seen me fumbling through my changes and stalling on every corner.
It's not just preferring FOSS, though – it's as if people have to publicly perform their hatred of Microsoft.