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  • Firefox got their act together and now the Android version is great.

    It's fine, but I wouldn't go as far as to call it "great". There are still some bugs that simply don't exist on Chromium-based Android browsers. For example, there are many cases where if I seek a video it will reduce the framerate to something like 0.5-1fps for 10 seconds or so. Not to mention some video codecs being completely absent. Yes, I know there's licensing shenanigans going on, but at the end of the day Firefox can't play some videos that Chromium can.

    I will concede that Firefox (on Android) is in some ways superior to other Chromium based browsers because of add-ons. They're very nice, and I've had no problems with them.

  • doesn't seem legal

    I wouldn't agree here. Even if Windows does do this (which I doubt), there's no way to prove it isn't a bug. And there's no way anyone's going to sue Microsoft over a bug. Not only is that a gross overreaction, it's financial suicide.

    If you don't trust Windows, don't use it. Or if you have to, use it on a separate system/drive.

  • As many other people have said, I'd highly recommend avoiding the 40-series and instead going for a used 30-series or an AMD 60-series. The newer cards don't have good value proposition unless you get them WAY below retail.

  • I'm 90% sure all of System76's offerings are rebadged Clevo laptops.

  • Try using MS Teams, even on a modern machine its awful. Discord is a dream in comparison, despite also being Electron-based. I would still rather it be native, though.

  • I'm from England and I thought you were talking about the chocolate.

  • I would say upvotes are thanks enough. But if you have something extra to say, then I'd say thanks in a comment and then give your extra information there.

    For example, just "Thanks! That was useful/entertaining/enlightening/etc." as a comment is pretty pointless, as an upvote conveys that exact message. Nothing more and nothing less.
    If you have something more to say, then a comment would be appropriate. Perhaps something like: "Thanks! I did your X method with a bit of extra Y and now my car runs so much quieter!".
    This is especially true if your extra information would be useful to others who may also be reading the thread.

  • There's a browser extension that suggests (and optionally redirects to) better wikis when your search results include a Fandom/Fextralife link. I think it's called Indie Wiki Buddy.

  • Become the change you wish to see?

  • Microsoft famously used stank ranking when Steve Ballmer was CEO.

    A fun typo, but also oddly fitting. Man had pit stains for days.

  • Pick a movie. Any movie. You will always find reviews both praising it and disparaging it.

    Programming languages are similar. People will always have their opinions about things. It's your choice to try them and decide for yourself if you like them.

    Just don't choose PHP ;)

  • Unity says they have measures against this, but that then smells of spyware. How would they know how many times a game has been installed without that?

    Unity may say they have a solution to that too, but no matter the implementation, bad actors will find a way to exploit it.

  • Don't forget the $2000+ per maintainer mandatory Pro subscription fee when you reach over 1 mil clones.

  • No. The plugin will continue to work, but JB will no longer release new features and bug fixes for it.

  • Sports

    Assuming you mean clay pigeon shooting and the like, you're still destroying the clay pigeons.

    Hunting

    Do I really have to explain how this one destroys things?

    Personal defense

    The only two ways I can think of using a gun to defend yourself would be harming your attacker or threatening them with harm. "Destruction" doesn't wholly apply here, but it's still harmful or at least unpleasant.

    lol

  • I would have thought a 4K TV was enough to use 200% on, no?

  • I used to be in camp AVIF, but I've changed my tune to supporting JXL after running some of my own tests. The main things that caused me to change my mind were the better compression ratio, progressive loading, and lossless conversion from JPEG. Those last two in particular are very useful features which AVIF simply doesn't have an answer to.

    AVIF is a video format masquerading as an image format, and while that's not a bad thing, it's definitely not as good as a purpose-built image format.

  • I thought it was clear: they're implying JS is simpler/faster to write and deploy because transpilation is necessary when using TS (unless you use a modern runtime).

  • I guess the username checks out though..?