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did you click the thing saying that you understand analogies?

Are you really surprised I'm replying to you when you keep replying?

well yes, actually. i have time to sit down over breakfast, read a few articles, maybe reply to a few comments

you clearly live such a busy lifestyle you haven't time to read an article before making an asinine comment

And yes, you are merely confirming my point. There is no use for me personally. I would only have to use it and endure slower internet so that others benefit. Still doesn't change the fact that for me personally there is no advantage. You can argue all you want but that's what it comes down to for most people.

well that's a pretty fuckin stupid viewpoint in my opinion. "i'm not going to help protect the careers and possibly lives of people in authoritarian countries, because i'd have to install a programme and possibly even launch it a couple of times per month". running folding@home did me no advantage, i still did it.

And if you keep replying I'll keep replying. No need to be surprised about that.

don't worry, i won't be. i was being flippant because i thought you an idiot, but it turns out you're willfully ignorant.

i'm not making a moral comment on anything, including piracy. i'm saying "but it's part of my established workflow" is not an excuse for something morally wrong.

Thing is… if I have to do that for every time someone linkdrops an article, I’ll have no time left in my day.

if you spent less time writing comments about articles you haven't read, you might have more time. do you do this in other walks of life? wander into restaurants you've never eaten at and announce "i don't think there's really any reason to order the fish"?

And it seems I was right that I have no real reason to use tor.

okay, i'll sum the article up for you. the more people that use tor, the more it protects vulnerable people. journalists writing exposés about corrupt governments, refugees trying to flee, etc. the more normal people using tor, the more they get lost in the crowd. it's nothing to do with whether you have any reason to use tor, that's irrelevant. by using it, you're helping those in vulnerable positions. happy? now go write something inciteful

pirating photoshop is a well-understood part of many peoples' workflows. that doesn't make it legal or condoned by adobe

to be fair; at the point they name it fennec, it was a pretty sensible name. when mozilla then changed the codename they could either keep name recognition or match upstream, and they chose the former

it's a dumb name now, but i think they made the right choice at every juncture

okay. perhaps instead of wasting your time writing an entire paragraph, you should read the article and you'll find out that that entire paragraph was irrelevant

it's actually not an article about the pros and cons of tor. it could not be summed up in bullet points about the pros and cons of tor

i'll admit to being a little facetious before, but i implore you to read articles before commenting on them

fennec, confusingly, was too different things

fennec, the codename for firefox android before it was codenamed fenix, is no longer developed. you're right

fennec, the floss soft fork of firefox android, is still being developed. it's available on fdroid, and based on fenix (modern firefox android)

then try reading the article

lemm.ee was talking about using cloudflare (i can't remember whether he went through with it), which will almost certainly implement this. lemmy.world already does. there is no good outcome from this going through where this only blocks google sites from firefox.

even if there was, that still means you can't open any gdrive links you find on the internet, use a youtube tutorial to fix something, use the play store to buy any apps (because if they integrate this into chrome, they will integrate it into the play store), etc.

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hey guess what engywuck, lemm.ee uses cloudflare now:

good luck accessing lemm.ee from non-chromium if this goes through

in fact view you probably won't be able to view any embedded youtube videos at all. people would have to go back to hosting their own videos which would push hosting costs up, which would raise the barrier of entry to people making their own sites. which is something we want to encourage

@Zeus finder is single pane.

ah fair enough, i misremembered. i don't think i've ever used a mac system for more than 10 minutes whilst giving friends tech support

I just don’t get how they think that’s better. 😕

i know, it's crap. i guess at least on mac most of the users aren't even capable of pressing f3 to open split view (not only because macs no longer have an f3); but i don't see why nautilus has gone down that route. it seems like such an oversight. especially as it used to exist and they removed it

The three patents relate to “a system for presenting and controlling content on a display device.”

ah, so you mean all computing devices

icey. i literally only bought it for the £5 steam link, but it's actually a really good hack&slash platformer with a stanley parable-esque story. i'd recommend anyone who has it languishing in their library to give it a go

fair enough; i didn't know you were talking about lag^[(although to be honest, i find gnome the worst for this)]

i'm fairly sure that xfce does this (or it might just have been the way mint sets it up), but i couldn't tell you for certain

and the way I open apps - press super and start typing it's name and enter. So simple, so fast.

that.. is the way one opens apps on every mainstream de by default? be it a start menu (plasma, windows, cinnamon, etc.), list menu, (old plasma, many old de's), or some other launcher, i think that's pretty standard

oh i know, i'm very pro jxl. but i was more saying why i don't like webp even if it is open-licence

plasma is definitely my favourite. i'm a great kde fan, i think all of their suite is much better than the gnome offering. particularly dolphin

i'm not sure single-pane is industry standard though - all 3rd party file managers on windows support dual pane to my knowledge, and every one i can think of for linux apart from nautilus.^[possibly even finder? not sure though] nemo's pretty good though. i do quite like cinnamon all round, i think it beats gnome in every way (apart from wayland support)

i think that's irrelevant. sure, webp might be open licence, but so is chromium to some extent and that's doing severe damage to internet health

that said, apart from "it's an open format", i can't actually find any definitive answer on the webp licence

i don't hate webp. i think png is better, but i think webp is fine

but i really don't want google to have more control over how i browse the internet.^[especially given how they've recently shown that they will abuse their monopoly] let's maybe use an image format that isn't owned by them, perhaps

because it's already compatible with everything

i have a cheap pair of earphones in my pocket (which i'm prepared to lose). another by the door. a more expensive set of headphones upstairs. a speaker in the kitchen. and when i get in a friend's car or go to their house, i can just plug my phone in and it works without the aggravation of having to pair to their speaker

tell me, oh "you can just buy a dongle" people, what am i supposed to do? buy one and accept that i'll lose it all the time? buy 5 and keep one plugged into every 3.5mm i own and don't own?

plus, y'know - takes slightly more battery, hassle to pair, can't charge and use dongle, all the other obvious issues