Yes, of course.

must pass a basic background check.

I would say Medium is partially public. A few articles I’ve tried to access in the past have been behind a paywall.

Gotem.

I agree about the tone of most responses on Lemmy being rude.

I want to be nice. 🙏

Thanks for the link, but I still do not see where it says “Microsoft blocked apps because of Russian dev.”

The dev says that it’s related to depreciated features, not the country of origin:

Well, this has to do with myriad feature flags around copilot and working area hacks MS is doing. But generally classic taskbar is dead code and 24H2 is going bring only degradations and pain.

I don’t think that’s how Tesla owners feel. 🤔 I think most are pretty happy. (Me included)

boil and bleach the duck placenta off of the egg

What on earth.

Is this a non-US thing? I’ve never heard of this practice and I worked for a farmer that raised chickens and sold eggs.

Hmm. Russia or Russian programmers were not in the article. The only reason was performance:

It is possible that Microsoft blocked those apps due to a higher number of crashes on build 26100, which is allegedly version 24H2 RTM build.