DanWritesCode

I've been contemplating switching back to Firefox from Chrome due to the upcoming changes to ad blockers - Is Brave a good choice for this, or should I go back to FF?

Get a dog, far better.

I closed my PayPal account years ago as they were constantly withholding my money, charging exorbitant fees, and they attempted to hold a lot of money from my father's business for 6mo whilst they 'investigated' until the threat of legal action suddenly made the problems go away.

Everyone should delete their PayPal accounts, and encourage friends/family to do the same. Shocking business practices, and they only continue to do business because they've often been the status quo, but since dropping them I've never once wished I still used it.

My friend uses Node-RED to automate and run a lot of devices/things in his van (which he lives in). I'm not sure if it's better to not have a programming background, because it's one of the more difficult environments I've helped someone with and the debugging when something wasn't working was really poor, it all felt very un-intuitive.

One of the things I really didn't expect to be Googling in 2021 is 'Best dumb phone 2021'.

After advocating to all my friends that Apple is a beacon of how privacy should be done, I just can't understand how they've made such a hash of this.

How far does sound travel in the ocean?

many kilometres

Not exactly the answer I was reading for.

This is one of the most whiny and misguided articles I've seen near the top of HN in some time.

I really fail to understand how people can see something like the $PATH variable and not understand it 'for years' - does everyone else not just Google/DDG things they don't understand?

It's not really worth critiquing more of the article, as the entire premise of not being able to 'write code inside the browser' is just another fallacy that's based on the authors complete lack of knowledge, or willingness to acquire any more knowledge.

But Apple is picking for me, that’s for sure.

No, they're giving you the option.

Now, with the option to opt-out of tracking at the point-of-use, consumers won’t have to sift through their phone’s settings to protect their privacy.