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the fact that even a small political stand that someone dont agree with can turn them against a company or even a person is crazy to me

Why? I try not to buy from companies that employ child or slave labour (Nestlé) or drain the water supply in drought regions (also Nestlé) or companies that support fascists (Müller and apparently Proton) because voting with my wallet is the only choice I have for even a slim chance of making my opinion heard in this capitalist hellscape.

You mean missing documentation?

Yes. But Proton is just wine with extra patches. And many eventually find their way into upstream wine.

What I find even more amazing is that with some regularity the windows versions run better (faster, fewer issues) in wine than on native windows. Used to happen more frequently when DX12 was still fairly fresh, but still happens.

Does Fwy usually speak of themselves in third person?

Oh, don't get me wrong. Chrome and derivates are also terrible for spying on your every click. And unless it's a de-Googled chromium fork it absolutely still phones home to Google. Not quite as much as chrome, but still quite a bit.

Except it kinda does. It reinforces the dominant position Chrome has. A browser mono-culture, if you will. Google doesn't need to go through proper channels to establish a new standard if they can just set the de-facto-standard by supporting or, maybe more important, not supporting something in Chrome. And since Manifest v3 ad-blockers and other content filters are severely hampered, which only serves Google's ad-revenue but also hinders accessibility extensions. Mono-cultures just aren't healthy.

Also I think most people do change there default browser but they change it to Chrome ):

They don't need to change it to chrome, they're already using it. Every browser except for Firefox, with its derivatives, and Safari are Chrome. Plus a few more esoteric choices that are nowhere near daily-driver ready.

Yes, but I think we're talking about a very small percentage. The vast majority will just go "man, that sucks" and continue using it because they're too lazy to leave their comfort zone. Most users don't even change the default browser, which is arguably one of the easiest things to change.

"Open source" is still commonly used to mean FOSS. Source available software isn't common enough to have made its way into the broader vocabulary.

I just checked my KeePass and turns out I still have the entry in the recycle bin.
It was 5 digits. Admittedly, that was "back in 2012," but still. For shame, Bank Austria!

Right? Had a bank account once, where the login password could only have up to 8 characters. And only digits.

What do you mean? I usually find Wikipedia's explanations quite helpful. Maybe a little heady at times, but always factual.

The first 'E'.

You can so stupid shit in any language. I admit Python doesn't exactly make it difficult. A bit like JS, but different.

Exactly. Love it!

That's called dumb luck.

I have that with Rust quite frequently. At least a lot more often than with any other language. I love it!

Even better. It uses curses, so I expect to have expletives in all messages.

The background is most likely a color that is in the Mocha palette, just one that is intended for dark accents, not regular background.