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.

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

Oh nice, thanks! Will give it a shot.

I have disabled and uninstalled it, but office 365 still enforces it as the default save as location, so now when I use the dialogue, the system hangs for 30 seconds. Even disabled it in the policy management, but no dice.

Just sign up for their API and use chatboxai.app (free software), use the GPT4 API code, and you’ll use the model through an alternative front-end for pennies on the dollar.

I’m using it extensively and rarely spend more than 1,20 - 1,50 a month.

Not FOSS but free - ReadEra, it’s working extremely well. No ads or anything, the only feature the paid version has is cloud sync of your library, and sync reading progress across devices.

Been using it for 8 years or so, bought it at some point just because it works without a hitch since basically forever.

You really don’t, humans are by and large social animals, so while you might be able to suppress that feeling, there’s little chance to get rid of it entirely.

I agree with the other comment though that you need to build general social circles first and foremost. That’s how most relationships start anyway, through mutual hobbies and interests.

Just don’t go waltzing into any hobby gardener meetup with the only thought in mind to find a partner, but rather get involved with something you care about and then see what happens. Be that a book club, board game session, arts & craft stuff, sports, or whatever, just make sure it’s an actual interest of yours.

And if it’s the no sex part that contributes to your insecurity, then seriously, find a paid companion. If that’s illegal where you’re at, find a place you could go without repercussions. I’ve seen people transform over such encounters, no matter how frowned upon it might seem in society.

Aren’t they regulated in some way or other? I had problems with them in Europe (travel a lot for work, including some African and Central Asian countries) and they blocked me when I tried to buy something while in Nigeria. Fair play, common scam hotspot.

But no matter what I did to prove my identity after returning, they wouldn’t unblock my account. So instead I sent a complaint to the CSSF (the FED of Luxembourg, where they got their European banking license) and within days I had the head of compliance from their HQ in Ireland on the phone telling me that my account was open again and practically begging me to drop the complaint.

They had their servers seized, but were later returned and the service came back as mega.nz, legit and all.

I can’t wait to see the site formerly known as Twitter to go out of business.

“Fuck you” is an insult, and email spam is illegal.

So if someone with a tiny ego and tinier penis really wants to sue over this, they just might have a case.

That cup is awesome (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞

Right, I get what you mean, and I agree. No matter how you put it, nothing is ever entirely selfless.

I think that deciding not to have kids is not a selfish act. Having kids just to have a fallback when old and frail on the other hand side is very much so.

I’m in my 40s now and never liked children, even when I was one myself. So to me the decision not to procreate came very natural and has never changed. I was so certain that I never wanted any kids that I got myself sterilized when I was 25 or 26, don’t remember exactly. Just to be certain I couldn’t be trapped by some oopsie. Didn’t regret that step for a second.

The one on feddit.uk is also great.