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Fun fact: If you use your bank to threaten adobe, they will waive the cancellation fee
  • I vaguely remember (but can't find it right now) that the PDF format became open source at some point and free alternatives came out for PDF editing. And that was already back in the 2000s when people still printed documents (which is what PDF was originally meant for).

    In modern times, every browser/OS can read PDF, every text editor can export to PDF, nobody prints physical documents and there are free alternatives โ€“ so why do they still exist and who is paying?

  • Fun fact: If you use your bank to threaten adobe, they will waive the cancellation fee
  • Wow, I had no idea Acrobat Reader still exists. They charge โ‚ฌ15,72 per month now apparently.

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    What's the keyboard app for android with the most accurate swipe to type?
  • Yes, I use it, but I feel like I have to be slower and more precise than before. Still it works better than e.g. Google's keyboard.

  • Think of the children!
  • Sure, but isn't the principle more important to Americans that your tax money should not be used to help others? Paying a premium to privatized health care doesn't matter too much, they're already rich. Having immigrants, homeless, sick people etc be beneficiaries would be "unfair".

  • Is it generally safe to walk through a field of cows?
  • Where would you come across a bull though? I've never seen one in a field with cows.

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    What's the keyboard app for android with the most accurate swipe to type?
  • Yep. SwiftKey sometimes has strange predictions etc but (unfortunately) that one's the best out of the many different ones I tried.

  • South Park (TV Show)
  • I know a bunch of people who lost interest over time around the same time as me, it's when they had this season-long storyline. Not sure which season it was.

    The kids act too adult now, Chef disappeared, other common characters are rarely there anymore or changed completely (Garrison turned into Trump?), then the weed stuff / Tegrity, Warcraft โ€“ all not that great IMO.

  • South Park (TV Show)
  • The first seasons were great, good to re-watch. But it's like they kind of gave up since season 10 or so. The characters, topics and the humor are all different now.

  • Europeans of Lemmy, what places in Europe should foreigners avoid at all cost?
  • Usually, yes. But not where I stayed. It was all locked down. Maybe I just had bad luck. It was in Triest and Milan by the way.

  • Europeans of Lemmy, what places in Europe should foreigners avoid at all cost?
  • Several hostels I stayed at closed at 10 pm and wouldn't allow people to go in or out

  • Europeans of Lemmy, what places in Europe should foreigners avoid at all cost?
  • Avoid French cities: people constantly harass you for money and drugs and it looks shady and feels uncomfortable everywhere. Smaller towns can be nice.

    And Italy: it's expensive, people are rude and arrogant and nearly every place I stayed at gave me a curfew so you can't even go out at night (but there's nothing to see there anyway).

  • First Horizon Bank system detects when a call center worker was on the brink of "losing it" and plays an AI-made montage of family photos set to their favorite song to calm them down.
  • Having worked in a call centers, I feel like it's the dumbest, most self centered boomers with "customer is king" attitude that just want to shout at someone rather than fix their issues (that can usually be fixed with a Google search). It's like they need people to suffer. Just let them hang up when people are disrespectful instead of this shit.

  • Nobody dare Pluto Pterodactyl
  • The languages I'm most familiar with are quite closely related to English, so I don't think that's really the case.

    Actually, one thing I can think of is that English trends to aspirate initial stops, which probably makes those clusters harder to pronounce

  • What is an underrated/forgotten video game that you think deserved a second chance?
  • Streets of Rage, even if it's just for the music

    The original GTA, it somehow has the atmosphere of 80s/90s that only Vรญce City could kind of replicate (and multiplayer was fun)

  • Nobody dare Pluto Pterodactyl
  • What's strange is that many other languages don't allow words starting with pt- or ps- neither but have no trouble pronouncing Greek loan words that do.

  • Why do you choose to continue living?
  • I thought I'd just travel a bit and do nothing until I'm broke before I end it, but life was great then. Now I've sacrificed 10+ years trying to save some money for who knows what. Got to make it worth the sacrifice before I go

  • What does the world think of India?
  • Too many cultures/languages in a large space, they should split into smaller countries, it's like judging Europeans from knowing some Brits, but

    โ€“ People with money are very arrogant, selfish and wasteful โ€“ Many clingy/creepy people that keep talking to you when no longer appropriate โ€“ Headbobbing โ€“ Mostly friendly, sometimes too polite โ€“ Workaholics โ€“ Always complaining about their parent's high expectations โ€“ Lots of IT workers who know what they learned to do step by step but it's like they don't know why they do what they do โ€“ Pretty condescending to other Indians from other regions โ€“ The usual: good but spicey food, hot weather, corruption, expensive weddings, overcrowded but still mass producing babies

  • Titus' Linux Problems
  • I didn't downvote but probably people won't sit through a long video when the points he's making could be a short list. At least give a summary.

  • Timezone changes between 1923 and 2023
  • The Dutch timezone was actually UTC + 20 minutes until WW2.

  • Music Discovery?
  • I usually find songs I like and explore in / download from the folder it's in

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