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Comment on the TikTok ban from a technology perspective.

See the latest news here:  https://apnews.com/article/tiktok-ban-trump-executive-order-1e95d9836bf6f8c0c245ed1c3234d968  The AP article saying Biden will not take action in his term. Finally a bit of common sense. What good is a country that censors what citizens see? Doesn't one side claim to be a bastion of freedom? It goes both ways. Let's see how it plays out. Starting to feel like more of a "we can't lose big tech" or "we don't want to lose our political positions" than anything else. 🤷  If there were real security concerns, then our government should work with Alphabet (Google) and Apple to have their mobile operating systems prevent various forms of information from being gathered and transferred through *all* apps on their platforms.  I'll be talking about Android because I have pretty much no experience using Apple devices.  Ever have an Android app literally harass you asking to share your contacts? At least on Android phones, you lite...

Get the night light into the Windows 11 start menu.

In Windows 10 there is a notification side panel. Inside it you could easily toggle the night mode, which they call night light.  What's good about this feature? It's a lot more pleasant to look at screens when color accuracy isn't needed. Windows itself shifts to a golden color cast. It doesn't need to only be for use in the evening.  I looked around in Windows 11, but there appears to be no way to toggle the feature without digging into system settings or enabling a fixed daily timer.  My overall experience with Windows 11 tends to be one of frustration with the limited nature of its interface and intentional inconvenient multi-step design. We see that in the desktop context menu and the taskbar to name a few vital pieces of the operating system.  Do the interface designers actually use Windows day to day? Who knows, lol. Maybe most of Microsoft is using Apple devices or Linux these days, lol.  The Github page. Thankfully,  someone called aouronga on GitH...