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I’d say the non-technically inclined groups of people do not care. Instead of privacy being dead there will always be a corner of the population that does not care. That is okay, let them be the fuel for the corpo machine.

This is at the JavaScript level but I would love to see someone release a browser with a side-by-side JS VM and Lua VM, just as an experiment to what the web could be like with a better language.

They can identify you if you’ve ever used any other information with it. Why do you think they want you to have a Microsoft account?

It isn’t dramatic at all, it’s the blatant truth.

Define “traces”. If it hits Microsoft servers with your reg key, then you’re cooked.

Really at this point users should band together to steer Firefox back into better graces. Really all that’s needed is a bunch of servers running Firefox with something like Playwrightjs or Selenium and just juke the stats on features since the marketers and developers are ONLY going to make decisions based off that data.

It means voting with your wallet and helping push society away from corpo traps like this.

Apple pundits will never be able to do this unless the other pair of shoes were made by Apple.

It's not chic though so can you call it a success just because it's possible and works but you have to put a little effort in?

Yeah yeah, we know Linux isn't in the perfect state for Apple die hards. This article isn't about how nice it is to use Linux and how everyone should switch, it's about the advances the UI frameworks and hardware companies have successfully made to better cater to UI DE focused crowds.

It’s not forked from Gnome but KDE tends to stay out of your way pretty easily and supports just as much as Gnome (with some Wayland caveats) if not more. In fact KDE community is very responsive and if you participate you will likely experience and benefit from the momentum they have.

Also NY repealed a state law, 50-A, which is one of the major laws preventing scrutiny and review of police departments and officers. Still more to go on that front though as the newly elected cop mayor rides a minor crime spike as if it were major and attempts to bring back the very prejudice/racist stop and frisk.

I disagree, there are plenty of other ways. Mozilla has just chosen to position themselves under this one.

I’m a big proponent of a competitive open web. This is probably just more marketing companies coming up with more tracking attributes. I think Mozilla has great tech.

Having said all of that. I don’t understand two things:

1. Ads isn’t the only way to make money on the net. So I’ve never understood Mozilla’s inability to get away from them (probably because they never wanted to).

2. Why no one else besides Google seems to have the funds to build a competing browser engine. Or at least to fund a developer team to fork Firefox. While Firefox might not be as plugin-able as Chromium, do we need another browser like Chromium or just a better lead Firefox?

My concerns aren’t with Mozilla but rather maintaining an open competitive web through choice and competing engines. “UI Devs only test on one browser” commentary be damned.

Because it’s a point for general usability arguments for the mass public. It’s a feather in the cap of ChromeOS which is a variant of Gentoo, so why can’t it be that for other Linux OSes. Linux software already provides anything outside of a browser…does that need to be touted a long side of it also?

It already is thousands but the games just need to go through Valve hardware vetting. AppDB (WINE) and ProtonDB will give a better picture at what’s possible.

Plasma has given me everything I could need. For 80% of people that’s going to be a web browser. Outside of that I had no problems migrating my work flows to Linux native apps. There are plenty.

If you think Microsoft buying a bunch of studios will lock in gaming forever then you know nothing about the gaming or software industry.

First people complain that no one will use Linux because theirs no hardware. Then they complain they can’t use Linux because of the software support. We now have both and now people won’t use Linux because Microsoft acquired studio’s games will only run on Windows? That moving goal post doesn’t look good for the Switch or PlayStation platforms then.

> (maybe except versioned backup).

And encryption.

No, considering they don’t encrypt Iphone backups in Icloud.[0]

[0] https://venturebeat.com/2020/01/21/apples-icloud-backups-are...

Apple never deploys dark patterns?

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Wordle Desktop, a small modern handcrafted Wordle clone built on Electron that uses 3GB of RAM.

Turning off PS2 emulation in BIOS was huge for me on battery savings as well as the other steps linked in other comments.

Apple consumers don’t care about the environment, that’s why they buy products that need to be replaced yearly by choice or by design. So these arguments are lost on them.

You may be interested in the Senheisser Momentum 3’s which have excellent connectivity and a fallback audio cable.

This quote lead me down this rabbit hole:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/12/08/speed-reading/

I’m definitely their target market. However if Plasma mobile is their advertised software of choice and is unsupported by them directly I’d rather buy a Linux phone like a Librem 5 before a drop more money on another Pine64 phone. The Librem is actually getting focus and software improvements. The Pinephone is at the whim of time and energy of some good citizens when it comes to software. One of these citizens is the Librem efforts.

They can tote all day long about how focused their hardware efforts are and how that improves their release process. Adding in a developer dedicated to the software side wouldn’t change that balance. They’re not even in the same ballpark anyways.

Spoiler: I own a Librem 5 and a Pinephone.

Yeah but if my hardware I buy is effectively useless because the software is garbage then am I likely to buy Pine64 again?

I agree, Pine64 is essentially waiting on other entities to carry this work, like Purism for example. They should at least have someone supporting software even if it only increases the rate to a drip.