- What kind of dog do you have?

- A laboratory.

You get slapped across the face if you litter.

The only argument I see in favour of office time is if your home situation doesn’t allow you to focus - family, kids and so on, or if you deliberately want a physical separation and you don’t have a dedicated office space at home.

Nope, not quite, or at least I can’t remember.

I reckon not everyone carried over their username from the other place; I personally didn’t.

I don’t see how that’s not IT.

Fair point (ba-dum-tss), I had forgotten about that ruling, but I’m afraid that manufacturers will still find a way to weasel out of this. Let’s see.

Honestly I’d be happy even with just user-replaceable battery so that I can swap it every year or two, and go maybe 4-5 years this way. That’s the most I’ve needed since I’ve been using a mobile phone. Beyond that a phone is bound to feel morally obsolete, unless you also replace the mainboard/chipset, which I reckon isn’t easily doable.

Friends? You guys have friends?

Honey and white cheese on a pancake. Honey by itself might be too sweet - the cheese (especially if it’s a bit more salty) balances that out nicely.

As a long time user of Opera (from before they went with Chromium), I’ve been using Vivaldi as my primary browser since they first released a public preview. It has its downsides (i.e. the UI is slightly slower than that of Chrome), but at the same time it’s the thing that feels most “at home” for me after migrating away from the joke Opera has become. The developers seem to hold a strong anti-manifest-v3 stance, but unfortunately at one point they might have to comply. I just tried the built-in blocker instead of uBlock Origin I normally use and it seems to do a pretty good job.

I get the whole “switch to Firefox” thing; for me the major blocker is that it doesn’t have global mouse gestures and this messes up with my muscle memory. If they add that, I might give Firefox another chance.

Host your own stuff. With this little load you can do it on your own hardware with very little resources.

I haven’t seen the TED talk in particular, but I’ve seen other videos with the dude, and he seems to be living the meme life to the fullest.

Hopefully this pushes people into critical thinking, although I agree that being suicidal and getting such a suggestion is not the right time for that.

“Yay! 1st of April has passed, now everything on the Internet is right again!”

You might be right (I hope you are), but it’s yet another gamble I’m not willing to take. Moreover, even if you don’t have to resort to warranty, you have limitations after you trip Knox if you change your mind or if you want to resell the device.

How’s that? As far as I know, once you trip Knox (which unlocking the bootloader does), you can’t restore the phone to factory state. Will they honour the warranty then?

At least from software point of view Google doesn’t make a fuss with the warranty if you unlock the bootloader of the phone, which can’t be said about Samsung (and good luck with Apple about that). It might not matter to the majority of users, but it matters to me.

I have to admit, Samsung have some great things in terms of hardware, but this is not one of them - and their anti-consumer practices will continue to keep me away from the brand.

“Catching mice is a stupid question.”

Yep, I see it the same way. Fake sensationalism to keep people engaged.

I’m sure actual leaks also do happen from time to time, but way less often than they make us think.

Also be mindful that a lot of online reviews might be sponsored, thus biased. I personally do look for reviews (ideally at least 2-3 different ones), but also for opinions of users on forums and other social media.