Gboard was never really good at picking up strokes. Honestly, nothing ever managed to come close to the accuracy of Swype & Dragon, which is why I’m still using it even 5 years after being discontinued. You can get the apk easily, but unfortunately it won’t survive much longer when google enforces a new API version on Android.

Though I’ve heard of modded versions that should still work… Here’s to hoping. That app has been with me for 14 years.

Fight whom? And why?

Caffeine in which context? Coffee, tea, energy drinks…?

They can, do, and will keep doing so. Damaging projects and efforts in the process.

Use a VPN and change your browser.

If you look good, they all work.

If you don’t, they don’t.

Seriously, the free tier in every app allows for enough opportunities to match with someone. Whether that happens is really a matter of your looks (or well, the photos you’re using).

It’s a shallow world out there.

Just buy some Frontline Plus, apply it to your cat’s neck in a spot she can’t lick, and done.

It’s a topical poison, harmless to animals, but it kills of parasites very effectively. I’ve used it initially to treat an acute infection (found 2 fleas), and now use it as a preventive measure.

Per instructions you should use it monthly, but every 3-4 months seems to work just fine for me.

Google is Mozilla’s biggest source of income, and google developers have actively contributed code to the Firefox engine.

So you decide for yourself what level of independence you assign to it.

Are you connected to some VPN? I had this when I connected to some mainstream servers, and was able to log in just fine when I switched to something less common, without changing any security/privacy features.

Without the buyout, the company would have failed even earlier. Doesn’t help the employees either.

Both Mr. Beast and Mark Rober. They got too loud and shrill over time.

Edit: Oh and Guga Food / Sousvide Everything. They just do the same thing all over, with weirder ingredients every day, and then make shocked pickachu faces when stuff tastes shit. Ribeye dry aged for 180 days in engine oil? No shit it’s bad.

My employer. Who owns the laptop. And forbids me to fuck around with it…

I haven’t heard of either, let me check if I can run those with my user profile and not break anything I need to log on to our corporate network in the process.

Not that I’m aware of, but I’ll double check.

I tried and it doesn’t update, even after a clean reboot with no browser open whatsoever. However I did find another entry in the Firewall that comes up right on boot, which is a service called MS.Edge.Webview2, which seems to be triggered through the Teams App. I’ve now completely uninstalled Teams, and after a fresh boot the ad (or “media control”) seems to be gone now. Guess I’ll be using Teams from my phone or via browser in the future.

Thought of that as well, but all ads are blocked and I get this popup even with the browser closed and after a full reboot (not just suspend and reactivate), so it must happen on system level, I assume. Checked my run on startup applications and services, and they appear to be clean as well.

Nah, they’ve been forcing kids to sing the anthem every morning almost as long as the US, where they got the idea from.

Contacting the hospital is way more effective than asking random strangers online for a best guess based on vague details. Just sayin’

My cats never cared about toilet paper, so over all the way.

Sure, though quite a few of those things are not explicitly written down, and court transcripts are only published in high profile cases, so you won’t find any official reference to the group size. So it’s mostly from second hand experience and hearsay. You pick up one or the other thing if you live in China for nearly a decade.

But here’s some official reading - I hope the sites are accessible from outside China, that’s something I can’t validate right now.

You should be good to go with google translate; though specifically for Chinese legalese, I suggest yandex translate (assuming you don’t speak Chinese):

https://m.66law.cn/laws/1470356.aspx

https://www.spp.gov.cn/spp/llyj/202111/t20211130_537133.shtml

http://legal.people.com.cn/n1/2021/0416/c205462-32079979.html

https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_20925867