MeshPotato @ MeshPotato @lemmy.world

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Hungary, have you finally over-stepped it?

The future really is to promote Mastodon and Lemmy. I didn't understand for a long time that you can interact with all instances from any server.

That's what's missing in the info that's commonly available. I seriously thought until recently that each instance is like a phpBB board where you can use a common software (Tapatalk) to interface with different servers, but you meed a separate account for every single instance.

There's just so much wrong with this article. The whole website seems to be geared towards people who celebrate tech without understanding any if it. I.e.: tech bros.

Which is why I'd expect to see this article quoted on satire groups like: "did silicon valley reinvent the bus again?".

I've been using Vivaldi for a while That's run by a team of ex Opera Browser engineers.

Maybe doubling down will help . . . Getting this platform to disappear 100%!

Yup. While I have a sceptical opinion of Ubuntu, it did find it sad that it didn't gain any traction. A possible contender is still Tizen OS. It's essentially an entire OS build around Chromium, while not owned by Google. Samsung use that a lot in their smart TVs.

Sure, it's not as performant as running native Android.

But boy have we seen some massive improvements in browser tech and performance increases on mobile devices. Developing web-applications is certainly a ton easier than native Android and IOS. Wrapper toolchains like React Native aren't helping much.

Unless you really need calls to some device APIs, there isn't too much left that a Browser can't do compared to what the native OS permits. I've been developing web-apps for robots and also developed equivalent native apps in Android. In the browser you now have access to some impressive 3d capabilities, which are extending further (BabylonJS). You've got the ability to interact with files via tool-chains that are not too dissimilar to what you see in native Android (Google has been clamping down file-system access to app devs quite heavily in recent releases). You can also gain decent API access to the devices battery and GPS status. Add some nifty UI libraries and you can provide a more pleasant experience, faster than with an actual native app. Even video streaming works remarkably well since you can interact with multiple cameras, microphones and even the screen (Google Meet does that).

It's now that we're seeing PWAs (progressive web app) to gain traction. I'm using Voyager for Lemmy, which works lovely in Windows and my phone.

In the browser you only miss on some native capabilities on some hardware component and a few legacy systems. Mainly serial communication and native UDP support. Although the last one will see some more improvements with HTTP3, which is gaining traction.

Activision is big enough. Microsoft is big enough.

We need less mega-corporations, not more. Competition fuels innovation.

Reading through the comments, almost everyone missed the elephant in the room. The big problem with long term support is not on the phone or chip manufacturers.

...::: It's GOOGLE! :::... Just compare the history of Android with Windows. Windows 10 is still supported for another 2 years, yet it was released in mid 2015. Every Windows 10 capable device is still receiving updates till then.

Contrast that with Android. Android 6.0 came out in October 2015. Yet very few devices from that era are supportable today. Why? A large part of that is based on Google's never ending -> breaking changes <- and random new requirements that make older devices incompatible.

This got me personally when I bought a Sony Z3 with the intention of having a "future proof" phone. It was openly advertised as being a dev device for Android 7, so much so that a preview release was downloadable for it.

Only for Google to drop a new requirement for the GPU to have minimum OpenGL ES 3.1, while the GPU only had the instructions for 3.0. WTF?! I might add, the specification for 3.1 was only released to the public 2 years prior.

I seriously hope that some alternative to Android will establish itself again. We had Windows phone, which Microsoft utterly butchered. IOS is not an alternative as that's tied to one manufacturer.

Yup. The latest app I've built has 3 modes.

• System (default)
• Light
• Dark

It gives that setting right on start-up and saves the users selection as the new default straight after. It's not too hard to implement. At least not in Angular. Native Android on the other hand is a pain in the neck. I found react native to also bee rather painful.

It's mostly been put as a rumour. They're mostly founded on the fact that Iran still produces 100mm shells that fit.

How to fire? I'm not a tanker, but I'd imagine similarly to mortar with a spotter drone in the air.

I was hoping the ratio was even higher. 1/4 would mean over 1000 artillery pieces and therefore personnel lost.

Still heavily chipping away at artillery. Are they also counting T55's that were converted to be makeshift artillery cannons?

METAs apps effin stink! They're buggy, have annoying habits and I can't do a lot of the stuff I want. The most annoying part of them is their instance on their handcrafted image selector which vaguely sorts content by date.

I've got 20 years of images on my phone. If I want to post an image to a comment that I took 10 years ago, I'll be sitting there scrolling like a numbnut to find it. On web-apps I can just use the file browser or even Android extension to find the image I want in a way that makes sense.

Looking at that sudden increase in OS X usage, I assume its related to the M1 chip? Although I still wouldn't touch apple with a 6foot pole. People love to shit on Microsoft, at least they tend to treat their staff well. Everyone seems to have forgotten that Apple fitted nets at their Foxconn factory.

I can als troubleshoot any OS except stuff made by the fruit business as everything is hidden behind secret button combinations and lock outs.

That shit sucks. When blue LEDs became a thing all sorts of electronics adopted them and they were effin everywehre.

This makes you appreciate professional equipment which is less likely to have those ridiculously bright ones. Lenovo usually have pretty discrete orange LEDs on their professional equipment. The large professional Dell monitor I use at work, while fitted with a white LED, has a very dim one.

That's a link to Louis's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4To-F6W1NT0

Sad really as I also like the idea behind it. I've been running Cyanogenmod on 2 old phones in the past and just installed LineageOS on an old Tab S2 to breathe some new life into that old but still good tablet.

Thanks for your efforts. I know that Lemmy was put in place rather quickly as a Reddit alternative. But I'm genuinely hopeful that this will be a good alternative.