“loyalty cards” are common. stores (and each of their 369354764 data sharing “partners”) get to track everything you buy and when. in exchange, you get token “discounts” on a small selection of products. some stores have done away with the actual physical cards, and use mobile phone apps or just the mobile phone number to track you.
you can see a big box fan mostly out-of-frame on the left.
got a ways to go yet. ddg (search assist) says the total size of all content on the (public) internet is 120 zettabytes (as of 2023). that’s 1.2x10^23 bytes; you’re “only” at 1.718x10^19 bytes.
afaik the only things is the desktop watermark and being locked-out of the personalization in ‘settings’, so stuck with default theme, wallpaper, and so on.
registry edits or using a pre-configured custom installer can get around some (or all?) of these items.
updates will still be offered and installed.
when the $ numbers start getting big and scary, just extend the length some more to make it look ‘cheaper’… like 8 year car loans and 50 year mortgages.
that’s a lot of chocolate.
usmobile.com does a cellular-based ‘home phone’ (base station you connect a traditional POTS phone to) for about the same ($9.99/mo, $99/yr), plus hardware at about $100. walmart does the same (via ‘straight talk’) at $15/mo and about $50 for the hardware. no internet needed for the service as they use cellular.
1998 power rangers in space.
the gnome foundation, however, is a u.s. organization, based in california.
semiconductor fab profits are also ‘abnormally high’.
it’s not FOSS (it is ‘free to use’ at home) or a ‘server’ application (it’s a windows application), but i just use mailstore home to create and update a local archive of a gmail account. its dot.net requirement is minimal (v4.8 or higher) but i have not yet tried to run it with wine, as i have a separate box that runs windows stuff.
https://www.mailstore.com/de/produkte/mailstore-home/
https://www.mailstore.com/en/products/mailstore-home/
federal duties will still apply, and that stuff has changed a lot in the last year. most of what used to come in ‘free’, is not any longer.
many states will expect a buyer bringing-in items to use in-state that were bought elsewhere, with lower or no sales tax at point-of-sale, to pay the equivalent of the sales tax, commonly called a ‘use tax’, if the items would be subject to sales tax if purchased locally. such use taxes are difficult to enforce, and are rarely reported or paid voluntarily by individuals.
also note that the cheaper switch2 version sold in japan is region locked to that market and language
that whole family is off-the-rails, but with her reach, she could do a lot of good… but instead, this.
vital parts of jitsi are not multi-threaded, so a beefy machine with fast single-thread performance will be needed. but the network and bandwidth requirements will probably be an even bigger obstacle. going off their recommendations, it’d be at least 7.5gbps for 720p to 3000 participants.
it can be really dumb, but it can also be extremely useful for some things. i think that’s pretty much linus’ stance–and if you do use it, you are the one wholly responsible for what comes out of it.
his smile and glasses look ‘edited’
it’s intentionally completely vague so users don’t know what they’re getting when they buy it.
‘s mode’ limits all application installs to store apps, which microsoft gets their standard fees for… plus all the sweet user data and tracking that comes along for the ride.
turning ‘s mode’ off (i.e. reverting to a standard install of windows) by ‘normal’ means requires installing a tool from the ‘store’ that requires a microsoft account to get, which then gets linked to your install and your pc… so they get your info one way or the other.
where i am, this type of work would require planning and submission to the state dept of natural resources (DNR) for approval.
they would not have given it.
to get a true ‘microsoft experience’ he should have use a new laptop, one with windows 11 ‘s mode’ on it and only 8gb ram–since microsoft now claims that’s enough.
perhaps two, even.