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  • To be honest I think it's better they don't sync these kind of things that are "hacky". Someone who breaks his Firefox and don't remember how should be able to make a fresh install to fix everything.

  • So next LTS might have to be resilient to the 2038 bug (32 bit signed timestamps overflow). I wonder how many softwares are vulnerable 🤔

  • Browsers compared themselves with this metric for a while, but they had to stop before they reached an integer overflow.

  • Ah thanks, I was so frustrated OP didn't make this meta 😅

  • I suppose the Steam Deck experience would be a bit worse if it wasn't running on Wayland 👍

  • But isn't that still on par with xorg where you can't have any fractional scaling?

  • And model 1 was even cheaper (but I guess these values should be indexed on inflation anyway)

  • Ah yes wtf is Teams doing!? Some arbitrary features are blocked on Firefox, like you can't direct call someone but you can be part of a group call 🤪

    But I don't think Microsoft's online suite is a reference, most of it feels buggy or bloated at best.

  • Except on a few neighborhoods (I'm pretty sure it's the wealthy ones) there is not so much poop anymore. 15 years ago it was actually very anoying, you couldn't walk without co stantly scanning the floor, which would be extremely anoying now that people what to use their phone while walking.

  • I think it was world of warcraft. As a kid I had a very bad computer, so windows (Vista I think ?) Gave me something like 15 fps while Linux+Wine gave me 20. It already felt like wizardry that I had better performance while needing a compatibility layer.

    I have also some memories of discovering a new land of freedom. When i plugged a CD from the library, Ubuntu's default music player had a popup "wanna install anti-DRM plugins & make a copy of those tracks?"

  • Yeah, every debate about reducing the number of cars always ends at something like "too many jobs are involved in the car industry, so we need to preserve these jobs, and also people need cars to go work in these factories". I feel like there will hardly be a deep environmental breakthrough if it doesn't come with a deep social change.

  • Well at this period of time one of the interns will have removed Firefox's user agent from the whitelist most Google services by mistake again.

    If so, I just hope antitrust lawsuits will be fast enough so that it doesn't build up a bad reputation for Firefox ...

  • To be honest, phishing emails are so bad that I don't see how any generational AI couldn't be better. Just making less than two typos per sentence would e enough.

    Someone explained me that it may be intentional that phishing emails are so bad as it acts as a pre-filter, then you only spend time and ressources dealing with presumably very gullible people.

  • To be fair anyone can already call me with my phone number. Although it's pretty anoying too.

  • As a very aware consumer I think it's fair, but a larger audience would be hard to convince :

    • Internet is basically perceived as free for most people, in particular search engine is considered as one of the most obvious features as it is the entry point
    • Google is still perceived as "the quality search engine" and others as the shitty ones that would trick you into using them during the 2000's via intrusive browser extensions. Recent popular alternatives always an argument other than the quality : privacy, charity, sovereignty, ...
    • Most people can't make the difference between "Search Engine" and "Web Browser". I would say it is because of Google because Google Chrome successfully marked itself as "Google". This last one is scary to me, even people very confortable with computers can't make the difference and are not aware that a search engine is just a website and that it is not tied to a browser.

    To convince someone to use Kagi, you must change their mind about these three points, and then convince them to spend 60$/year for it.

  • Trying to get back to Google after a few years on DDG then Qwant felt really off. Kagi was the real deal for me but it is still to expensive for the average consumer 😕

  • If you subscribe for a whole year it only costs 599$ !

  • Which sucks btw, it is sometimes as bad as libreoffice at being compatible with office (desktop) documents... 🙄

  • Well kinda, except for these articles that pop now and then in my timeline, I haven't heard of XformerlyTwitter for a while.

    It was fun for a few weeks, joking about what bulls**t idea Musk had during the weekend with colleagues, but after a while the joke was a bit repetitive.