What a great image. Thanks, I’ve a new phone wallpaper now.

I’m not an apple user, but looks like there’s already an alternative app store available. https://www.theverge.com/24100979/altstore-europe-app-marketplace-price-games

I’m not condoning this, but one argument I’ve heard is that it’s easier to pick a different corporation (i.e. don’t buy from them) than it is to change your government (every 4 years ish) and it’s only the political party, not the civil service / employees (or whatever it’s called in the USA) that change.

Of course monopolies, huge barriers to entry for new companies, etc, weaken this argument.

As a final note; I think the combination of unions, govt., and private enterprise is the best we can hope for under the existing system.

I think that’s a good idea, my solution is to mute group chats and check them when I’m free, but it’s not ideal for the reasons you’ve mentioned.

In whatsapp there’s only the option to mute the chat.

In discord there’s granular level of control that allows me to mute everything but direct notifications (@d00ery).

But if you implemented such a feature, how would you limit it?

i.e. one notification for the first message and then mute all replies for 5 mins? What happens when that one person who always replies an hour later messages?

Could we use AI to check if the conversation is still related to the original message?

From a dev perspective there’s all sorts of solutions but I wonder how would one find the sweet spot.

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the NPU will handle all of this processing locally, allowing user data to stay “private, local, and secure on just the device.” On a Copilot+ PC with the minimum 256GB SSD, Microsoft says Recall will take up about 25GB of disk space and store around three months’ worth of events.

I haven’t upgraded to win11 and I’ll leave it to the last moment. However I have also had a go at running LLMs locally and I think the concept of Recall is pretty cool.

I agree with you. A sheep and some sheep are the same to me 😂

Let me go count all my Lego.

As a fan of both authors I’d just like to point out the quote is from Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

I’ve never really thought about it and I don’t have the vocabulary to describe it, but they have similar humour in the way they look at humans and social interaction.

That’s a generic name for a Jubilee clip - https://www.jubileeclips.co.uk/products/original/

So a good idea, but OP is hoping to upgrade from this.

I know you’ve asked for uBlock Origin instructions but I couldn’t find the RegEx option for uBlock. However the concept should be the same: https://help.adblockplus.org/hc/en-us/articles/360062733293-How-to-write-filters#regexps

Where’s the clouds of insects?

Keep on kicking that can down the road … 14 years of conservative govt.

Could you ‘purchase’ a free game to meet the rule?

It’s a bit sneaky that you can’t sell the items you’ve won.

Hmm. I love zoomed-in skin texture

When cats square up to each other they arch their backs and their hair stands on end, to me, that’s an effort to make themselves look bigger. Therefore they know bigger == more dangerous.

Cat tax: