I used them on Windows to manage a handful of websites. I’d have a Websites folder with sub folders for each site, and a few portable apps in each one. I’d have Thunderbird and Firefox at least, and they’d keep everything separate.

For me at least, it made things a lot easier than trying to remember to log in to profiles etc individually :)

At least they’re summarising it, which implies that they’ve done some work. Lots of UK online ‘newspapers’ now have a brief story with a load of quoted tweets at the end. They’re absolute shit.

I’ve just tried it now, and the whole app looks slightly different. Let’s see if it works… Edit: It worked! 😁

Nice!

Just remember to check the price. I’ve seen Cex selling things for above retail if they’re popular

I have got a mental picture of a Linux super nerd trying to browse through a text only browser on their oven’s display now though 😁

What? Nobody’s using their browser on an appliance (except for a handful of masochists with Samsung fridges). I said to most people their browser is on an appliance, as in they treat computers, phones, and laptops like appliances, in that they’re mysterious boxes that do a particular job.

Hardly anyone is trying to hack their appliances, and the majority of people just lump their computing devices into the same category - it does what it was designed for and nothing else

Don’t forget that most people don’t know that blocking ads is possible. To most people, their browser is on an appliance, like a washing machine or fridge. They know how to do the basics, but that’s about it.

Depending on the project, absolutely yes. I’ve got a load of maintenance projects that need doing on my house that I’ve been putting off because there’s a huge time investment, or they need to be done in nice weather. I wouldn’t be learning anything that would be particularly useful to me in the future, so getting them done instantly would be a massive help.

As an example, my garden is very overgrown and needs a few days of dry weather to complete. It’s mostly going to be cutting everything back with strimmers and hedge trimmers and then clearing the cuttings away. I already know how to do it, but even if I didn’t, it wouldn’t be difficult to learn so that I can keep on top of it going forward.

Yep, same here

It depends on what you’re doing. I’ve got Mint on my laptop and main PC, and the experience is different on both. On the laptop I tend to play Minecraft and do some basic tasks like taking notes and browsing the web. There’s nothing in Mint that really affects that, so it doesn’t hold me back at all.

On the PC though, I’ve got all of my important software, and some of it has had to be installed manually because the Mint repos are outdated. It’s nothing that’s particularly difficult to fix, but I know my way around computers. For your average user, it would be too much.

The same GDPR that allows every website or app to share your data with their 816 partners, as long as they claim they have a ‘legitimate interest’?

Is it just me or is Tom’s Hardware getting really shit lately? This is the third article I’ve seen where one person has been ripped off and their story is ‘The state of the industry! Scams everywhere! 😱’

One of the others was someone who bought memory that had been swapped for metal weights, and Tom’s Hardware tried to claim that it was a new industry scam because of the price increases, and not a one off

I just used Swift Backup with Shizuku to move an app from my old phone to the new one. It had an apk, but had some other files with it too. I don’t know enough about it to know whether the app can be used without those files, or if they’re linked to me at all, but the app works on the new phone :)

I’ve had to post to Instagram for a music festival that I’m involved with, so I used Bluestacks on Windows to run the mobile app, or the Meta Business Suite in either a separate portable browser, or in a VM. I found that I rarely used the app, as I was posting information as opposed to proper photos, and just answering the occasional questions.

As much as it pains me to say it, Meta Business Suite is pretty good for this, and allows you to post to Instagram and Facebook at the same time, or schedule a post to one or both of them from the same interface. e.g. if it turns out that you get more views at 12 on Facebook and 1 on Instagram, you can schedule the same post to go to each service at separate times.

I mainly use it from the desktop, but it’s available on mobile too with at least the same basic features. I don’t tend to use anything more advanced than scheduling, so I don’t know what that’s like in the app.

Another reason I prefer the desktop over a separate phone is the data collection. I can set up ad blockers and VPNs more easily than on mobile, and there’s no location data other than where I keep my desktop, I’m not carrying my desktop with me when I’m out and about :)

Ah, that’s a shame. Thanks for letting me know :)

Maybe a daft question, but have you tried a factory reset? I’ve got a Xiaomi Mi 10t Lite 5g that’s having a lot of the same sort of problems, but a reboot tends to fix them temporarily. I’m hoping that once I get my new phone at Christmas, I can completely wipe this one, including the cache, and see if that helps.

Completely agree. OP is a troll. They pop up every so often claiming this nonsense. Chav is not, and never has been, a slur, towards working class people or otherwise.

Source - I’m a working class man from a working class area in the UK and in my mid 40s. I was in my teens when chav became a thing, and it only ever applied to a certain subset of people.

While it’s nothing like the same degree, as nobody was hurt, we already had black Friday in the UK too. It’s the last Friday before Christmas, when the factories would close for the holidays and the workers would typically hit the pubs to celebrate.

Now we’ve got black Friday, black Friday season, and even black week being advertised to us, all based on an American holiday in November 🤷🏻‍♂️

I had one of these marketing messages from Amazon this morning. I’ve never contacted them through WhatsApp, and as far as I can remember, have never contacted them outside of their apps. I definitely haven’t contacted them with my phone number.

They have my phone number, but it’s supposed to be for delivery issues, and I’ve withdrawn all advertising and marketing consent.

EDIT: I just checked, and I was automatically opted in to WhatsApp marketing, despite having turned off all other marketing 😤