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For now, I'll support Ice because it's open source. I'll donate more than the $10 Vanilla Pro costs just to have an open source alternative. It's nice to have alternatives though.
The dev is also working on a second bar (like Bartender has) that should fix the problem for macs with notches: https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice/issues/1
I stopped using Bartender (because of the recent news) and noticed that Hidden Bar was last updated in Jan 2022 and Dozer in 2019. Neither have a way (or plan to have something) to handle the notch.
Ice still lacks some features, but the developer is working on it and eventually it will be able to work around the notch (if you have too many icons, they'll be hidden by the notch... not sure what Apple was thinking). That's why I picked Ice.
Ice ( https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice ) also works, although it's still missing a lot of stuff and also still doesn't have anything to work around the notch. It's being updated though.
If no app works, then it might be something to do with your setup? Maybe some app you use or some change you've made? Very annoying in any case.
You'd expect macOS to properly support the notch after 3 generations of laptops with them, but nope.
Edit: Nope, no change and the last update was 2 years ago.
Ice ( https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice ) doesn't currently handle this either, but it's "on the roadmap" ( https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice/issues/1#issuecomment-192... ) and it's being updated.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-costs-around-the-world
By the way, Google Maps supports offline maps. If the user can download the map (a few MB for a city), then at least the basic stuff will be fast.
Ariana Grande, Adele, Billie Eilish, etc. I believe someone called Kendrick Lamar has been popular recently?
Are they rock stars? No, people tastes are a bit different now, but they are stars and they are rich. You not knowing them is a different problem.
The problem with 3G as I understand it is that it uses more power and is less efficient than 4G/5G. They're starting to re-deploy the 3G bands as 4G/5G, so the other Gs will eventually benefit from this shutdown.
Here in the UK, some networks started shutting down 3G. Some have 2G as a low energy fall back, but we're supposed to use 4G/5G now. The problem is that 4G is not available everywhere yet, some areas until recently only had good 3G signal. So I've been dropping to 2G/EDGE more often than I'd like and a lot of stuff just stops working. A lot of apps are just not tested on slow, high latency, high package loss scenarios.
We only have one side of the story here, but it's not the first time I've seen posts/comments about these emails from Cloudflare and the messy communication that follows. As a business customer, I really hope I don't have to deal with any of this.
I didn't see a "strategy" to criticise Google. There was ONE reply to someone asking about the "caches" they were working with. That reply listed the "caches" and complained about Google being too slow. That's it. I think we are stretching things a bit if we look at that comment and context, and conclude that the CEO's strategy was to criticise Google.
The CEO replied to someone asking about the services they were working with and complained about Google taking longer than the others. Maybe we're reading his comment in a different way, but to me there's a big gap between what he did and having a "strategy" to blame Google.
Cloudflare's CTO (jgrahamc) was on that thread too and didn't spend his time criticising Google. He wasn't hiding or saying "look over there instead!".
So I don't see any strategy from the CEO, CTO or the company to criticise Google or to ignore the fact that CF had f'ed up. Pointing out that Google was slow to remove cached pages is, in my view, a valid criticism.
Now, if you said that they had a strategy to minimise the problem, then I'd agree with you.
And let's be honest, if a big provider wants to offer cached versions of pages, they probably should have a way to purge those files in case there's a problem (eg: malware).
In any case, if we don't trust the official client/app/build, then I'm not sure if a F-Droid release would help that much. If we think there's something funny with the official apk, then we can't trust any part of Signal.
You start using the service and don't pay a lot, so you make plans around a certain level of expenses. Then out of the blue you receive an "urgent" email from a sales representative and suddenly you have to go from $20 or $250 to $thousands right away.
Obviously it's not in CF's interest to keep a customer that doesn't pay enough, but dropping a "bomb" on the customer and make them feel like they're about to be kicked out from the service makes the customer lose trust on CF.
CF can probably match Fastly's price. If they had acted differently in this and other similar situations, they could keep the customer, be paid more, trust wouldn't be affected, and there would be no bad PR here.
Since the CF management that posts on HN usually say this is not supposed to happen, perhaps someone needs to sit down and look at the incentives sales reps have? Even if you don't care about the customers, this is affecting the CF brand a lot.
There's no way around this. Profile support on Firefox is bad and it's a shame because they've had them for years.
Containers do one thing very well and are very useful, but they don't let you have different bookmarks, add-ons, themes, settings, sync, etc.