One of our senators mentioned that the threshold was set so that it only affects Google and Meta. Microsoft can share news stories without paying because Bing isn't as popular.
That same senator also said that more people should start using Bing™, and that it's actually a really good search engine. Not even joking. The article read like a sponsored post.
Years ago my credit score tanked to the mid 600s because they were reporting the limit on my cellphone plan as $70, so even though I had auto payment set up had never missed a payment in the 5 years I'd had the account, it was reporting as $60/70 utilized.
I was getting docked for "high utilization", even though the credit card that was connected to that account had a $25000 limit and was fully paid off every month.
3 months ago my mortgage showed up on my credit report, after not showing up for a year, and it dropped my score by 40 points until last week when it magically went back.
I'm in favour of the idea of credit reporting, there are a lot of people that abuse the system, and I think the lenders have a right to know if the person taking out a loan has a history of defaulting/missed payments or is carrying 6 figures of credit card debt, but assigning it a number seems so arbitrary.
I like Gnome Shell. It's polished and extensible. Libadwaita and the header bars are nice as well. I generally prefer nautilus to dolphin, even if I hate having to ctrl-l to edit the path.
I use KDE however because Mutter is still dogshit slow, especially in wayland. My work PC has a R5 3600, RX 570, and 48GB ram and it struggles to maintain 60fps across 3 1080p monitors. KWin runs significantly better, so I use KDE and just configure it like I would Gnome.
I have to wonder how much of Reddit's traffic is bots and lurkers though.
Post quality is a bigger indicator, and that does seem to be dropping. This is why Reddit banning 3rd party apps was such a big deal. It doesn't matter if 99% of your users use the official app if 99% of the content posted to the side is posted by the 1% that don't.
As someone who was around for the digg migration, it didn't drop off overnight (hell digg.com is still around), but they gradually bled content until everyone was on Reddit. Lemmy right now is very reminiscent of early Reddit.
Even better get a NVMe enclosure and an internal NVMe drive.
Enclosures are $20 and you can get a 500gb Samsung 970 Evo for $35.
Smaller, lighter, cheaper and faster than any off the shelf portable drive you could get. I have one and it fully saturates the USB C 10Gbit port on my motherboard.
That's existing customers. Millions of devices suddenly with no way to send even SMS messages, since those also pass through Apple iMessage servers.
There won't be many alternatives either. Signal and WhatsApp have said they are leaving as well.
Google will probably be forced to shut down RCS functionality for it's UK based android users as well.
My aunt's 2017 Mazda didn't have my house in the GPS. It was built in 2011.
That's the goal here too. If Google and Meta have to pay to link to Canadian news content they are only going to do it for a few mainstream media sources like Post Media because handling the payments for all of the smaller independent sources would be an accounting nightmare.
There is also a Microsoft subplot here. One of our senators was just on social media stating that Microsoft won't have to pay because they fall short of the threshold. He encourages more people to switch to bing so that they will be forced to pay. The whole thing reads like a sponsored post.
The GPU is also upgradable. Given Framework's track record the likelihood that you will be able to upgrade it to an 8000 or 9000 series AMD GPU or even an Nvidia or ARC GPU down the line is damn near 100%.
I wouldn't even be surprised if they released an adapter that lets you plug your old GPU into a standard PCIe slot afterwards.
Aspartame was classified as a Group 2B carcinogen, which basically means that in high doses in animal studies there is some evidence that it causes cancer.
Its one of the most studied chemicals in human history, so its easy to find studies that say one thing or another. But we've been studying its effects for nearly 60 years and the conclusion from both the US and EU is that it does not affect metabolism and does not cause cancer under normal circumstances. Based on the current guidelines the safe average daily intake for an adult is between 15-20 12 oz cans of diet soda per day.
Things more cancerous(Group 1/2A) than Aspartame include:
Those 24/7 Top Gear streams on justin.tv before they shut down and rebranded as Twitch turned me into a lifelong fan.
I have a prime subscription in part because is gives me access to both Top Gear and TGT.
Nearly every food item on the shelf has plastic. Aluminum cans are lined with plastic on the inside, glass bottles have a plastic freshness seal/cap. Even pasta boxes, one of the few cardboard packaged goods that don't have an inner plastic liner often have a little plastic window so you can see what the pasta looks like.
And yet we're being told that plastic bags are the problem. Literally the only plastic thing you get from the grocery store that isn't single use. Instead we have paper bags which are bulkier and have a higher carbon footprint, and we still end up with a bunch of actually single use plastic bags because we no longer have anything to use as small garbage bags.