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If you are in Europe i can recommend the Fritzbox. Generally works everything really well -> https://en.avm.de/products/

I might be wrong but i guess thats what Mozilla is about right now, is to have enough resources to continue to support Gecko. If things continue on the same way or turn worse its inevitable or they will just stop producing a browser.

I dont think there is a point to continue Firefox without Gecko. Of course im with you, if Gecko dies it will be a very sad day for the internet.

Well thats the thing... Firefox is not particularly good in anything and this is the point of the article. When Firefox becomes more unpopular than Mozilla fails its mission aside from Firefox, which is to set open web standards.

The situation for Firefox is that bad, that even enterprise users - ESR - are moving to MS Edge since its offering support together with MS Office.

I think Firefox needs something drastic to become relevant again, which is very unlikely taking into account the last years history.

Myself as a FF user i'm more and more tempted to switch to some other multiplatform-chrome-compatible browser.

obligatory comment: You should have stayed in Europe friends...

another "stories" wannabe... how creative. It seems for google it wasn't enough to have this copycat feature with Youtube now also Google itself.

I partially agree with you, the problem is not technical, although using the most famous and portable APIs definitely helps gaming companies porting and making their games available for MacOS or iOS.

But i guess the main 2 problems are:

1) Not enough Mac users which would be significant for a AAA gaming company to port their games on day 1 and get profit.

2) Apple has not taken yet gaming seriously, maybe because they have not seen a viable business model for gaming. I guess here this could change as Apple is slowly putting their feet on it with Apple Arcade (which is definitely not going to bring hardcode gamers), making iOS a good gaming platform (device stability, good GPUs and good support for 3rd party controllers) now its the first time most popular Macs are getting a good GPU. Perhaps also this is one of the reasons why they are blocking Cloud gaming.

Well thats the thing with Emacs, its an extremely good Tool: Editor, browser, file manager, git frontend, notes, calendar, etc.. etc... you call it! but its also extremely old and outdated tool.

I used Emacs for years and one day i realized i had a huge .emacs file and spend lots of time maintaining it, that's when i was conviced it was not the editor for me or I was using it wrong. I moved to sublime, vscode and now im giving vim/neovim a try.

As much as i liked Emacs i dont see myself using it again soon.

shhhshh don't tell anyone... let's keep it this way :)

As much as negative your comment sounds thats also my impression... in a bunch of /r/ that I follow i see the same accounts posting nothing else but pure propaganda the whole day and in more than on /r/ the same content. It generates an enormous hype just with a single "simple" post with an image and a "propaganda" title.

I have the new MBP and I can tell you its a remarkable machine. Of course you need to check which SW you need to run and if it works (I assume it will). I guess everything else, native versions, will come with time.

vim 8.2 included in MacOS is native, neovim is not yet ported :(

I don't get this blog, neither what's the point !?

The author lists several bugs, instead of posting the issue number with a link, he puts his Tweet with the bug numbers (without link). Im not sure what the author is trying to accomplish here. Also I guess these kind of bugs, although not nice, they are mostly because MacOS suffered the biggest change since its history and supporting 2 completely different architectures is not an easy job. Of course we are at the mercy of Apple to fix them but this is part of the deal when you buy such a machine at this point.

Then all other points are just showing all the known the same issues that some commercial SW was not yet ported to a new architecture.

for me the biggest problem of Reddit is the Toxic culture. More than a half of the subs I follow its flooded with useless comments, toxic and negativity towards a subjected and many direct answers to get upvotes.

But i guess this is not very different from other social networks.

Well i think GNOME and even GTK has very few contributors and mainly sponsored by RH and other companies. I suspect they are often getting paid to develop features for subcontracting and other times they want to "modernize" the toolkit and they just write a new API with additional features. We have seen this during DBus introduction, GSettings, Clutter etc... etc... Plus GTK+ is C plus lots of boil plate code to make it "object oriented" which turns to be even a bigger pain when pure GTK+ apps need to update their APIs to catch up with the latest.

But imo this is a general trend on Linux except for the Kernel where Linus and co do a great job to prevent API breakage. The others not so much.

this is problem #1 of Linux Desktop. Toolkits and Libraries constantly changing and reinventing the wheel. Actually a big part of developing an GTK App is actually catching up with the API changes. As a proof of this see the early how-tos of GTK 3.0 and 3.2 and see the recent ones and see how much it changed.

There were plenty of apps changing from GTK to Qt awhile ago i suspect GTK4 will be the next. As for Gimp and Inkscape it will probably take another decade to catch up.

the problem was that the "whole" open source community sponsored by RedHat, Intel etc... bashed the project to oblivion and left Canonical as the only contributor and put all the efforts on Wayland. This is just one of the reasons why Linux never reaches highs as a Desktop OS.

privacy issues/concerns aside i think Discord is great. Mobile and multi-platform Desktop apps works the same way, it has modern features and integrations.

In fact it seems to have killed IRC for many, which is kinda sad. Most of the IRC networks i use are mostly dead now. For me Discord has replaced TS and IRC.

> If you want to play just use the native platform the game was built for, Linux will never be like Windows until the games are natively supported.

sure, i guess the same can be said about WSL on Windows 10 but that does not mean people don't find it useful. The whole point is that Proton is a very welcome addition to Linux due to the lack of native games.

short story: I installed recently Linux (on Dual Boot) on my main Desktop at home after 8y of not using Linux as Desktop.

Yesterday i boot up my Majaro with i3, installed the latest Proton on Steam and decided to install Path of Exile. The results are, for me, very surprising how good was the experience:

- Started Steam. Set Proton version to 5.13-1.

- Install Path of Exile. Install went really fast compared to my Windows 10. Im using both on SSD, Windows NTFS and Linux Btrfs.

- Started Path of exile. Put settings on high/ultra and set graphics backend to Vulkan. I have a RTX 2080S with a 6700K im sure PoE can run on high/ultra.

- Restarted. Played for like 1h between 150-200 fps without any glitch or anything i could say its worse than Windows.

- During this time i had Discord on background, Firefox, Terminals and was able to switch workspaces without any issue with i3.

I'm really surprised how smooth the experience was. I have really to give kudos to the Team working on Proton and Steam for this nice "Desktop" experience. Plus it seems from my Steam library, apart from some MP games that have anti-cheat, it seems most of the games are playable and classified as gold or platinum. I really recommend to anyone not playing competitive MP games to give Linux a try with Steam. Well done!

https://www.protondb.com/

Audacious is still top notch imo.

I doubt the HomePod Mini at 99$ has any good sound quality compared to the Sonos One or original HomePod. Except if you want to use the Apple ecosystem features in different rooms i dont see the benefit of getting 2.

after today's presentation i'm pretty sure that HomePod Mini is the Apple answer to Amazon Echo and Google Home.

Maybe the HomePod (original) can compete with the Sonos One or Five at sound level but not in terms of features people are looking for listening music such as: virtually all music streaming services available, integration with all the remaining Sonos products for Home cinema or for Home sound system.

To me Homepod Mini is after the home assistant market. The HomePod (original) well it seemed like a shot in the dark now it will most likely get the Homepod mini features.

RIP Eddie

Huge talent and very innovative guitar player. Known for his guitar playing style, dive bombs, tapping, usage of Floyd Rose, custom guitars (Frankenstrat), brown sound, solos, instrumentals, heavy sound and huge music hits.

I cannot think of many influential Rock guitar players as Eddie.

iconic scene... this piece was never popular it seems it was used for another score at the time[1]. I guess for me was also my introduction to Eddie Van Halen excellent guitar playing and style.

1- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmc6f2kCyLU

the whole Unix shell is wonderful but apart from the "normal" tools i absolutely love:

- ack -> grep on steroids, really useful for coding. https://beyondgrep.com/

- irssi -> IRC client

- mplayer -> Video player console

- cmus -> Console Audio Player

- htop -> top but pretty

- powertop -> save power on your Linux laptop

OpenBSD is somehow easy to setup, mainly due to the KISS philosophy and excellent documentation. Besides that they aim to be a very secure OS.

But my experience to make it work as a Desktop OS is very poor. Some reasons: The overall performance is way worse than Linux, the ports are not always up-to-date, other OS simulation is also outdated which means running commercial apps will be a challenge, upgrade process from version X to Y can be quiet painful, the lack of support for certain HW and Battery usage on laptops. I could never find anything that i could not do better and more efficient on Linux.

On the positive side: CWM and their Artwork are really cool.

To answer your first question I think it’s more a matter of Windows provide a good Desktop environment, commercial applications and others features which are not common in Linux. With WSL and VSCode Microsoft is chasing developers who are still using Linux or moved to MacOS long time ago and tell them that Windows 10 is also very good for any kind of modern development.

As for your second question well you cannot development Windows specific features such as DirectX. Also the supporting for games, although getting better and better, is still somehow not very much common as the playerbase is small. Also for graphics, CAD and video editing Linux is lacking several commercial support.

Often when i see these productivity and private/working habits interviews i cannot stop thinking if people live in the same world as me. I saw a similar approach recently by Lex Fridman but i saw in the past similar tech people with very similar schedules. At the same time i cannot stop thinking how much real it is, lets see in a period of 1 month. Example if you have to go outside you cannot easily predict and keep your schedule since you depend on lots of external factors like: traffic, weather, etc... etc... Instead i want to think that these people try to follow some sort of schedule during their routines and they mention whatever they feel it should be the perfect schedule for them.

If, for one day, i would follow a similar schedule i would be actually very surprised. In my actual life, i work more hours (but not crazy non-sense 60h week like tech people often say), need to have lunch and dinner breaks, take a shower, breakfast, take care of kids and play with them, find time to go to grocery, help with the usual homework, find sometime for myself to watch netflix or play some game in my PC, go outside and then at the end of the day find sometime to sleep. On weekends plan something with family, take longer breaks for lunch/dinner, etc...

So yeah, i guess thats how life is.

Another disappointment from Mozilla. Some of the tools that were kinda of unique from a browser and company that values privacy. I actually thought one of the strategies from Mozilla was to actually build an ecosystem around the browser to bring new users and to have something unique to fight chrome. It seems they have lost completely all focus have no strategy after killing the Servo and Rust Team. What is next killing the Gecko Team and use Blink ?

i doubt... even if this service is a flop most likely it will still be profitable and again Apple is on the way to smash the competition in their own walled garden.

This goes into straight competition with 80% of the fitness apps has it provides yoga, HIIT, bike etc... etc... fully integrated into Apple devices plus if you buy the new Watch you get 3 months for free. Bingo.

How is Apple running out of ideas to get even more money on services ?