"Have you tried formatting your PC and completely reinstalling Windows? That often fixes icon misalignment on the desktop. Please upvote if this helps you!" - every "volunteer Microsoft Support Forum" representative ever.

Bought the app, still get the ads...

That.... sounds like something that you should reach out to @rmayayo@lemmy.world and talk about.

Especially after all the spam on Facebook like:

"RANDOM_FRIEND wants to get in touch with you on Threads™!"

"RANDOM_FRIEND just posted something on Threads™! Check it out!"

Etc etc

And then the interleaving of Threads™ teaser posts amongst Facebook posts with half a sentence and then "..." and any interaction with it prompts you to join threads so you can read the rest of that sentence that hooked you in...

Or the "easy and fun™" way that every Instagram account has a Threads™ account just waiting to be activated by you.

I wonder how much of a user base they would have without all the jamming it down user's throats.

Eh.....Windows 3.1, 95, 98SE, XP, and 7 were all pretty great.

From a user interface perspective, they were okay, perhaps because by the time people got to XP they'd had a decade of a consistent interface and were just used to its quirks.

From a security context they were not ok. Not ok at all.

Read the first couple of lines in that file, they provide a vital clue as to where you should be looking and what you should be doing.

I'm always a bit paranoid about my google compute account. Opened it many years ago, ran a few instances for a few dollars for a few months, had enough, oh look there's no easy "delete just my google compute account" button.

Unhooked all the payment methods, shut everything off, turned out the lights, but it seems I can't leave the building.

I highly doubt that consumer internet in Japan is terminating fiber directly into peoples' computers.

You run fiber to the home and gigabit ethernet or whatever internally in the premises. All your other complaints re: cost and etc aren't really an issue for last mile consumer grade fiber.

I have seen installers run a fiber drop cable across from a power pole, bring it down an outside wall , then staple it to joists under a house, cleave off the end and stick a mechanical splice on it, bang it in the power meter, all good, plug it in the fiber modem, good to go in less than 20 minutes. All this stuff uses standard components and technology that's been available for 10+ years now.

Also no one uses cat3 for data and it can't be run for 'hundreds of feet'. And LC fiber IS used in the US - that's a kind of connector not the kind of fiber

It's probably the standard "last mile" half assed solution where they decide to use existing phone lines and VDSL from a box down the street instead of biting the bullet and running fiber.

The World Copyright Office then?

Oh wait, three seconds of googling suggests my posts are most likely covered when I post via my home instance in Australia.

"You don't need to register for copyright in Australia. The moment an idea or creative concept is documented on paper or electronically it is automatically protected by copyright in Australia. Copyright protection is free and automatic under the Copyright Act 1968."

What do you mean, you don't have a $1400 wooden volume knob to help suppress harmonics? Coupled with a True DC source with microvolt ripple for your final stages It's like lifting a veil from the sound stage!

Edit: No, seriously, there are people like that. This company used to sell a $400 wooden knob some 15 years ago. They still sell a lot of stuff like that for the True Audiophile.

http://www.audio-consulting.ch/?Products

(Don't know how many veils a soundstage can actually have, but apparently, it's a lot).

I kind of feel that trawling social media looking for the words of potential mass shooters isn't going to be the thing that solves - or even slows down - the mass shooting problem that the USA has.

Booked a place in Queenstown (New Zealand) on a long weekend via booking dot com. Tourist town, you know what it's going to be like on a long weekend, and I had trouble finding a place a week out, it was a short notice trip.

Same, "no need to confirm!"

Arrive 5pm..... nope, no room, fully booked due to the long weekend, nothing from booking dot com as far as the hotel is concerned.

Slog through booking dot com's horrible script driven online chat, 90 minutes later, "oh noes we can't find a place in Queenstown, here's your money back plus a 5 percent off your next booking voucher for your trouble".

6.30 pm in Queenstown on a long weekend.

After ringing through every accommodation provider I could find on Google I eventually found a place that had a four bed room for $450 for the night, vs the $150 I had originally planned.

And as a final irritation, the money that they naturally zapped out of my card in an instant at the time of booking took three weeks to be returned to my card.

Booking dot com, booking dot never again you fucks.

My main issue with all of this is that I'm not interested in maintaining a charge for yet another wireless device.

I'm a frequent flier for work. My wired noise cancelling headphones run on a single AAA battery for 14+ hours straight. I can buy a small pack of AAA batteries at the airport in 30 seconds and get 60 hours of listening time. I don't have to worry about putting them back in their carrying/charger case. I don't have to worry about charging that case. If they go flat and I don't have a spare AAA battery (the case actually has a convenient hole for a spare AAA), they still work, albeit with a noisier background. And they plug into in flight entertainment system headphone sockets. Haven't seen a Bluetooth option on IFE systems yet.

Would I want to go jogging with my wired headphones? No. I do have a pair of bose wireless earbuds, and they're nice. But every time I think about using them, they are flat in their charging case. I don't want to have to keep the charging case on charge soooooo for 90 percent of my usage , the wired ones it is.