Normally I use Linux but since buying a Surface Pro 7, I've decided to stick around Windows for a bit more, especially after learning about a ton of super-useful keyboard shortcuts it now has. Here's a thread about some of them.
Push Windows key + Left or Right arrow and it will tile the active program to the left or right easily.

Windows + 1, 2, 3, 4... will automatically switch to whatever program is first, second, third, or fourth on your taskbar

Windows + P will easily switch your monitors
Windows + Tab lets you show all open programs and also add new virtual desktops

Windows + Control + Left/Right will switch to these other desktops

Windows + L will lock the screen

Windows + M will minimize all programs

Windows + E opens up file explorer
Windows + X opens up a utility menu w/options to quickly shut down, view devices, disks, network connections, get task manager

Windows + Up will maximize a window

Windows + Down will de-maximize, push again to minimize

Windows + C opens Cortana

Windows + I for Control Panel
On a Surface computer, pushing Fn + Delete will increase screen brightness. Fn+Backspace will decrease it.

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24 Apr
One of the most significant content differences between right versus left political media is that right media often feature explicitly Christian religious content.

This is a fairly common phenomenon that is almost totally unknown to people who don't regularly consume rw media. ImageImageImageImage
More explicitly religious content from right-wing media sites, this time from Daily Wire and Newsmax ImageImageImageImage
I should note here that the Christian radio station company Salem Media, named for the legendary Biblical city, is the owner of most major conservative blog sites. Image
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23 Apr
Apple seems to enjoy treating its customers like crap. First they make you shell out $300 for an iPad Pro keyboard (far more expensive than the Surface's).

Now, they've made it so that the new iPad Pro is incompatible with the old "Magic" keyboard. 😏 gizmodo.com/last-years-12-…
It's also absurd that for all the time & money Apple spent on the keyboard, they never bothered to give iOS a proper cursor. Instead of an arrow, you get a circular blob that doesn't show where the click goes.

Seriously? You paid $300 and you can't get an arrow mouse cursor?
In my opinion, the iPad is a total scam. You still can't multitask decently on it, the mouse sucks, the apps are dumbed-down, and it's way overpriced.

The only reason people buy them is bc Apple refuses to make MacOS touch-friendly, something they easily could do.
Read 5 tweets
13 Apr
Apple products and services are often drastically overpriced (especially the iPad) and designed to force-feed Apple services.

The pricing problem is rarely discussed in tech press.

It's nice to see some people beginning to discuss the latter part though pcmag.com/opinions/apple…
When you look at reviews of the Surface Pro, tech writers will usually grouse at Microsoft for not including a keyboard in the price but they never make the same complaint about the iPad Pro. Its not-included kbd is far more limited & much more expensive but you never hear that.
Any iPhone review should also deduct points from its numeric rating as well because of its non-standard Lightning connector, especially when Apple doesn't put them on laptops. Total lock-in trap.
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3 Apr
If you've never seen Christian nationalism personally, it can be hard to believe it's real.

This clip from Jenna Ellis's new web show is a great example of it.

She keeps labeling her religious opinions as "truth" & implying that govt should enforce them americasvoice.news/video/NgCdFYZm…
Ellis is more open about her theocratic agenda than most right wing elites but she is far from alone in having one.

Most are more savvy in hiding their true intentions and only discussing them privately.
Unfortunately, because of this concealment, most people who disagree with fundamentalist Christianity aren't aware that many top Republicans have "Christianist" views that are philosophically not different from Islamism.
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31 Mar
Check out the production on this clip. It's just as WTF as the manic words Peter Navarro is spewing. He literally looks like some sort of cross between WWE and Infowars.

The exaggerated hand jestures, the wide-angle standup shot with stars.
Peter Navarro in his stand up studio doing one of several over-the-top double-finger pointing gestures just exactly like a WWE monologue. This dude was one of Trump's top presidential advisers. Wow.
Yes exactly. The only thing Peter Navarro is missing is Mean Gene standing next to him holding the microphone
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26 Mar
So much for democracy: MO Republicans vote to throw out 53% referendum vote that expanded Medicaid eligibility.

One state rep. says she thinks it's ok because only suburban & urban Missourians approved it. “Rural Missouri said no,” Rep. Sara Walsh said. kansascity.com/news/politics-…
Republicans in Georgia and Alabama get all the headlines but Missouri Republicans are their own kind of terrible. They literally passed a bill in 2017 to *lower* the minimum wage snopes.com/fact-check/mis…
In addition to electing the openly Christian supremacist and insurrection-enabler Josh Hawley, they also have a guy running for Senate, Eric Greitens, who was accused of sexual violence and blackmailing a paramour and earlier had to resign for it.
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