For my child to participate in elementary school, and not be left out of comouter-based learning, I have to approve of her using a chromebook which is doing exactly what I’m sure we can all imagine with future marketable data sources: building profiles.

“…and when they were 7 they liked…” “Try the color red, they used to prefer than, might be a good nostalgic pitch…”

Oh UI improvement from Google? Yeah they’ll get right on that.

At this point it’s like the Onion article that they release after every school shooting about how nothing can be done to prevent it in the only country where it occurs regularly; the data raping and pillaging that goes on in the US despite other countries having passed basic common sense privacy and control laws…well too bad you can’t afford the lobbyists to pass it, Poor.

Relevant link from today: https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/08/24/nx-s1-5028551/insurance-therapy-therapist-mental-health-coverage

And remember for VOWiFi, some carriers require you to also enable it on their own website in your account–of course to eat up your data if you don’t jump through the hoop.

No it’s not owned by them. Yes Intuit are scummy.

They used to be competitive and I used them 10+ years ago then suddenly their rates were crazy and I’ve been using freetaxusa ever since. ~$15 for state and federal

Tax act used to be good. TLDR, tried to sell to HR Block, then appointed Intuit(TurboTax) Ex CEO as president. Scalping of value and enshittification continued:

"…In October 2010, H&R Block said it would pay $287.5 million in cash to acquire the parent firm of TaxAct.[3] In May 2011 the U.S. Department of Justice attempted to stop the acquisition in an antitrust lawsuit.[4][5] In November 2011, a federal judge sided with the Justice Department, and both companies mutually terminated the contract.[6][7]

In January 2012, 2nd Story Software was sold to Seattle-based Blucora (formerly Infospace, Inc.) for more than $287 million.[8][9][10] In 2013, the name was officially changed to TaxAct Holdings, Inc. Subsequently, in October of the same year, TaxAct acquired Balance Financial, the company that specializes in personal finance tools and services.[11]

In 2018, former Intuit executive Curtis Campbell was appointed as the President of the company.[12]

In November 2022, private equity firm Cinven agreed to acquire TaxAct for about $720 million. Cinven announced it would combine…"

Illegal in California under the false advertising law unless something was the prevailing market price for 3 months prior.

I changed the default search from DDG to Brave. The result is what I described above in Firefox.

Tale as old as time

Ulterior

Voice, Chat, and Talk?

“(that means talking down to people)”

Thanks for simplifying that big word condescension for us…🤔

Didn’t know that was a thing. Built in or need a. Extension? What kind of editing is enabled(fill, sign, full edit…?) and how would you compare it to other solutions and online editors?

I was gifted a Garmin 235 in 2015 and the battery lasted a week. At this point it still lasts 3-4 days. I’m great about always having my devices well-charged, can’t imagine what many folks go through with the atrocious battery life on some of these “smart” watches that can barely go overnight.

Right, the device admin junk.

Are orgs blocking mobile? Habent heard of that, not really sure how that works, is there really an admin setting that doesn’t allow mobile app usage?

Guess I’d take my laptop and a hotspot…

Yep, and you don’t even get a measly half-dozen, just the one and it’s 🐔-sized.

It was VRBO actually, have never booked with them so have no idea if that’s an error or some insane "this is normal business approach. Didn’t book. Most times I’m tempted to do a house rental after looking at the prices, fees and amenities it almost never pencils out unless it’s a huge group trip.