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It’d be cool if Mozilla could just stick with one thing for more than a couple months. Even if that thing is terrible. Right now it’s like some physical embodiment of ADHD is running the company.

Not to defend the mega corporation, but companies file patents for ridiculous things all the time that never end up actually being made or used.

The 2K Launcher in the Steam edition was entirely useless and not even technically required to get the game to run. It just added an extra step of waiting for an interstitial launcher to load so you could press Play a second time, and you could tell Steam to just run the game executable directly to bypass it entirely.

A lot of these scam operations are effectively staffed by slaves.

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/10/1218401565/online-scamming-human-trafficking-interpol

The last time I looked into HarmonyOS, it was an intentionally vague umbrella name for a family of operating systems and kernels. On phones and tablets, HarmonyOS was a fork of Android 10 (this was when 13 was new). On embedded devices, it was a Linux kernel fork. There were supposedly some unifying features and APIs between them, but the documentation felt very much like Huawei didn’t actually want you to know what HarmonyOS is.

Depending on your email provider, you should be able to set up a filter that automatically marks matching emails as read or archives/deletes them.

Threads is owned by Facebook, a company notorious for interacting with the web in bad faith.

The EU giveth and the EU taketh away

The bird.makeup instance is a one-way Twitter mirror, but it’s not always very reliable since Twitter keeps making it harder to use Twitter

Yeah, just clone AOSP, edit the source, spend hours fixing build errors, wait hours for the GSI to build, unlock your bootloader and lose all your data, flash the GSI, spend days creating shims to make vendor-specific features work properly, and finally profit. Easy.

I’m saying this having looked at the source code. You can’t hide the build number without turning off Developer Options.

The build number text is set to show if Developer Options is enabled. It doesn’t check anything else.

I don’t think Microsoft can reasonably block opening the command prompt and bypassing the OOBE without breaking a lot of other things, but them removing the simpler workarounds is a pretty obvious attempt to get more people to sign in with a Microsoft account.

Microsoft does sync activation keys to your account but the license is also embedded in the firmware in recent prebuilt laptops and desktops, so you don’t need a Microsoft account to activate.

The article is talking about the initial setup experience, where you could put in a fake email to bypass the requirement to sign in with a Microsoft account.

Ad blockers aren’t going to help with this.

The good old “make a tech startup with a gimmicky product idea, get millions in VC for some reason, create an underwhelming product that was never meant to be any good, then get bought up by a big company that will sit on the IP and never do anything with it” strategy of making money.