I use Startpage but haven’t found a replacement for Google Maps that functions nearly as well. Once Google decides my residential IP is in another country the Maps interface language changes. Google also sells IP geolocation info some companies use and those website often behave the same way.

I’ll make sure to give your opinion all the consideration it deserves, professor.

My comment clearly (but apparently not clearly enough) referenced the fact that American producers are dealing with the add on effect that the Canadian boycott is having. I read the article, you failed to read my comment.

You may not think it’s related, but math and the bottom lines of American producers would disagree.

I’m sure the fact the Canadians have stopped buying American products costing producers $500+ million per year hasn’t been so good for them either.

Not a full reinstall solution, but aptik is one of the only utilities I’ve found useful enough to pay for. Last time I reinstalled it saved me many hours of configuring.

A while back Amazon started requiring logins to view or search product reviews. (They show a very limited number without login.)

Anyone who’s ever looked through Amazon reviews knows a huge number of them (and sometime the majority) are bullshit, but apparently that’s just fine with Amazon. They were able to completely shut down sites like fakespot.com with that one move so buyers are now on their own.

hacking

a cough - harsh, dry, and spasmodic

Was in a Trader Joe’s and this woman was practically shouting into her phone. Even worse, she had it on speaker and the woman on the other end was shouting back. Bad enough in the same isle, but then she walked up right next to me and they continued shouting into my ear. Well, if you’re going to be that rude…

I looked at her and began hacking as loud as could which is really loud. When I paused the shouting resumed so I started hacking again. The look on her face when she shouted, “Ewwww!” and backed away was priceless.

Perhaps not one of my finest moments, but one I will always treasure anyway.

You left out DDNS. It’s free, easy to set up with lots of detailed guides online, and works as well as a static IP.

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It’s a feature, not a bug. Healthcare and insurance companies exist for and only care about profits.

If people are struggling to afford healthcare it means their prices are right where they want them.

The anti li-ion crowd here is really strange. I wonder if they’re also anti-vaccine?

Dell bios settings often include battery charge limit settings. I have mine set to a 70% limit which provides hours of backup with the display off.

Modern laptop batteries when kept cool and undamaged are extremely safe despite what you might read in these comments, especially when you limit the charge. Parking your car in your garage is hundreds of times more hazardous.

¡Gracias, primo! Espero verte en el malecón.

It is always odd to find someone who has no clue that other people have different needs and priorities.

Others report the same issue including someone commenting in this posting. From what I can tell Google is targeting private VPN servers on residential IPs.

I’ve used a different private VPN running on a commercial cloud server when traveling internationally. Google has never fucked with the location of that IP.

They were serving you pages in Spanish? That is really fucked up even for Google.

Do you believe a multinational company’s business polices are targeting you specifically each time you have a problem?

I believe Google specifically does this to discourage VPN use. It screws up their primary reason for existing: advertising revenue.