Word pad had too many features, people could use that instead of word.

Wasn’t me, but I’m guessing because you said they only last a few hours? I took that ridiculous exaggeration and assumed you meant writing notes on your thumb.

Is this supposed to be a joke about storing data on your thumb? Also thumbs are not cheap, probably…I hope.

I’m sure there would be a million options, yours sounds quite fancy, and it will work great until Disney decides to sell giant mouse shaped drives ruining the whole thing.

I like to think that if streaming didn’t take over, the industry would have shifted to selling USB sticks with the media/game. Even if they did something goofy to “lock” it, at least being on a thumb drive would be more durable, compact, and have faster read time.

Imagine a nicely organized self of DvDs turned into nighmare pile of flash drives of different shapes and sizes as each movie tries to make theirs stand out to make up the lack of a cover.

Hey now, don’t get your hopes up.

Yeah, you’re right. I guess a better way to put it would have been “don’t load 3rd party shit that I didn’t tell you to load”.

Adblockers aren’t total security, nothing is, but it’s no doubt they are a massive improvement.

There may be genuine use cases to run a script, or whatever the attacker used. The problem is the browsers will auto-run stuff, the user isn’t aware and there’s no way to stop it. All ublock (and others) do is provide the missing security layer called “don’t auto run shit from the web”.

Another example why Unlock Origin should be considered essential security software, not just an “ad-block”.

Did he quit? I don’t see any concrete references online, just vague form conversations about it.

Microbloat is deprecating something? That’s new. Do AI next.

Yes, let’s blame the victim and not the data hording mega corps that advertise their crap to collect more data, make big promises, hide the better options, and actively undermine open source in every way they can.

I’m pretty sure the average person hears “open source” and think “oh that’s insecure software made by hackers, I need to only use software from trusted sources”. Using only trusted software is still a good idea, but unfortunately the trusted sources of 2002 have betrayed us.

When adblox inevitably fixes this, you can block comments, and a bunch of other crap, on purpose with Unhooked

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-recommended-videos/

That ain’t metric

https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/anythingbutmetric

Pretty sure MS made this a “standard keyboard” button, which could mean it needs to be included for the OEM to be able to put windows on the machine.

Next month they’ll quietly add these “features” as background services under a generic name.

Rename the shortcut to notepad++2?

“Let’s see, here is a fine of 7 million dollars, please pay to this account that tax payers will never see a dime from.”

You need run your hand across the felt so it points the other way, revealing the text underneath.

this device is designed to be your secondary smartphone

In this economy?