jmp242 @ jmp242 @sopuli.xyz

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I still wouldn't take it on a subscription basis. My last home Laser lasted me ~15 years till the drivers just weren't there anymore and I was mostly using it as a stand to hold other crap on top of it.

Well, crafts is why I just bought my first 2 inkjets in probably 20 years. Epson Ecotanks - actually make inkjet reasonable. I use it to do prints for heat transfer and for dye sublimation.

Then there's the patterns for people who crochet or knit.

And occasionally forms - like passport renewal forms you have to mail in still for some reason, and you live a 30 minute drive from a printshop so having a B&W laser helps.

That said, I haven't recommended an HP since the 1990s. There's nothing I'm aware of they do better than brother in laser or epson in inkjet for home use (or Xerox in the business market).

You don’t have to. Thousand of people who know what they’re doing does. But why would I trust any of them? I'm pointing out you have to choose who you trust, and from the history with the makers of Vivaldi, I trust them. Same as I don't trust Google given their history.

Of course, I'm screwed anyway because there's not reasonable competition in the phone space, and I have to use Microsoft products for work, and... {insert a dozen more things here}. Given all that, I'd like the browser that works better for me.

I imagine it's because they have a Union, so collective action does get results, and that's why it's reported - because for some reason most of the US thinks it doesn't.

After I freaked out during the last couple elections, I basically stopped most news. It's pretty unclear what I could do with it anyway. The theoretical benefit was mostly around politics, but the vast masses just do it as a team sport, so my being "informed" by the news isn't helping hold politicians accountable or affecting elections. Outside of politics, except for the information about COVID during the pandemic, most specifically the vaccines, I have a hard time thinking of any useful information.

Even local news usually isn't too relevant. I guess the "avoid this intersection because of power out to lights, flooding, icing or whatever" could be helpful, but usually I don't get it till it's later on anyway.

The main problem there is you then don't get any nuance, and often have no idea what's really going on. Well, as much as you possibly could know what's really going on.

Although you could take into account what the makers are telling you. You have to trust someone, and at least to my knowledge, Google fails and it's all over the news, Vivaldi has not. It's not like I can validate the Firefox source either, I'm just trusting the website I download it from, or more likely my distro packaging. And people do look at call outs browsers make etc.

My problem is - last time I looked, which was a while ago to be fair - there weren't good tab management plugins that also supported tab title search, a list of tabs to easily close ones I didn't need anymore with ctrl+click or shift+click, no session management, problems with cross window tab viewing/searching, no tab stacks, and now workspaces are kind of awesome for me too.

I'm not saying there aren't extensions for each thing, I'm saying I could NOT get them all to work together, and have a fast performant browser without weird hangs, and the UI was kind of all over the place and hard to remember cause none of the extensions were designed to work together from what I could tell.

What I don't get is why Vivaldi didn't code on top of Firefox, but I think it's because there are sites that work in chromium and don't in Firefox, and fail silently - and just like in IE6 days, they're sites like my parents retirement site, they can't NOT use them.

I don't see any reason to think Vivaldi is trying to monetize it's users, it seems to have a lot of privacy features and the like. They strip out the chromium spying.

Mostly because the browsing experience IMO is much much worse with Firefox. I tried extensions to get functionality back, it made it worse - slower, buggy, extensions would stop being developed etc. I wish Firefox was better, I really do. But IME it's frozen functionality like it's 2010 or so. Like, they have tabs, who hoo. I really find save/restore, multi window control, tab stacks, sessions, workspaces, and easy UI config pretty important in day to day use. That said, I also think ads are a deal breaker, but I really wonder if this won't bring back some of the ad-blocking proxies you run locally or something.

Or, someone forks chromium to keep Manifest v2 or whatever.

Not so much chrome, but many browsers (like my favorite Vivaldi) are chromium based. I wish they'd just keep uBlock going in the chromium rebuilds, but IDK if that's possible. Seems like it should be to me though.

Also, we switched at work from Firefox because somehow they broke system level updates a few years ago, and nothing I could do was able to figure out why their installer stopped working without first having someone run the uninstall graphically to update to the new version. It would just say Firefox wasn't a valid windows exe till I manually removed it. And even the Mozilla Enterprise list seemed flummoxed. Honestly, I think they should have reverted the installer change, or even just use a standard installer that doesn't have this problem, but hey.

Well, what you could do is run a DNS server so you don't need to deal with IPs. You could likely adjust ports for whatever server to be 443 or 80 depending on if you're internal only or need SSL. Also, something like zerotier won't route your whole connection through your home internet if you set it up correctly, consider split tunneling. With something like zerotier it'll only route the zerotier network you create for your devices.

You seem to be using a different definition of capitalist than I am familiar with. Maybe to you capitalist == con artist, which is an interesting definition but not one I've heard before.

The dangerous thing about Hitler is at least in the beginning he was competent. Trump wasn't - and so far hasn't done anything to make me think he's changed. The thing that has saved us from Trump was his sheer incompetence.

We vote for Democrats because the alternative is getting Republicans. The voting system doesn't let third parties win. I wish it did. The lesser of two evils is still less evil inflicted on me at the end of the day.

What confuses me is that they seem to miss that historically fascists or authoritarians more generally don't actually pander to the wealthy once they have power, and many wealthy suddenly end up dead or missing. Look at Xi and Putin for instance. Or history.

I'm still sad about the day the real Opera with the presto rendering engine died. And while Vivaldi is getting many of the features and functionality, it's still a chromium rebuild. I guess it just takes too much money to build your own rendering engine anymore.

Diesel, premium, E85, etc.

I have to admit, it's been decades since I've driven a car that takes anything but 87 octane. I forgot there are other needs, and if that's the case you do need to plan I guess. But I have yet to get to a gas station that's working that doesn't have 87 octane.

Tesla’s superchargers

Yea, I'd ignored Tesla's network because I was never going to buy a Tesla, and till like a month ago, no one else could use those so they were out of mind for me. Honestly, the main thing I want to see is all charge points taking a credit card standard like gas pumps do. I don't want apps or sign ups or saving anything. I'm driving by one time in my life, or maybe twice - I don't want an account. I fear it's likely I'll lose this unless the government mandates taking normal payment options like cash (which honestly they should).

Yes they are.

Honestly, I looked at plugshare, and there's more than I expected, though I'd go by at least 2-3 gas stations in each direction before I'd get to one. The issue seems to be they're for some reason not on the road noticeable like gas stations, so you wouldn't know about them without driving into random apartment parking lots or car dealerships. TBH, I had no idea car dealerships would have charging stations. I'd still feel a little uncomfortable going into a hospital parking lot or apartment lot I don't live in or college campus I don't go to or town hall of a town I don't live in to use the charger, but maybe that's just a cultural shift we have to endure. I will say that's still not necessarily where I want to spend 45 minutes or more but fair enough. I also live in a rural area and often am going to rural areas, so the middle part is on a highway, but not necessarily significant start or end parts.

One thing people tend to ignore is that you start every day and every trip with a full tank. My vehicle starts every day with 250 miles of range and rarely dips below 200. When I drove an ICE, I’d sometimes leave for work with less than 30 miles in the tank. Statistically speaking, you’re more likely to have more range at any given moment in an EV than an ICE provided you can charge at home.

Yes, I've regularly said for a daily commute of any normal length even around here (100 miles or so being the longest I'm aware of), if you have faster than 110 charging you're golden for that use. I've never suggested in this thread that EVs haven't met that need for like 8 years or so now. It's just that few people have a "daily commute" car and "all other needs car", they buy one car or truck. On trips I wouldn't assume there's a charger available for me at the hotel or resort for instance.

If you didn't plan enough to have reasonable amounts of gas in your tank, I really fail to see how you're planning enough to take road trips in an EV. What if you forget to plug in your EV? These are kind of stupid arguments - People can run out of gas, just like they can run out of charge. No one is (actually if they think about it) concerned about that, which is why I have said in this thread it's a concern about finding refill locations, not a concern about range. And I think the problem is actually that no one (outside Tesla) is building "EV Charge stations" but that's what the masses are looking for. I'm finally starting to see some WaWa's put in charging stations, but we need to start seeing either better education of the masses (marketing changes) or people getting the local small gas stations to put in some charging stations too.

If you really drive long distance more than you drive locally and/or you can’t charge at home, I can see the trepidation, but the benefits of charging at home are tremendous and for some reason, vehicle manufacturers and consumers are ignoring it.

If I still drove somewhere not for a long trip regularly, I would be interested. I had been interested for a while. Now that I go to doctors appointments maybe 2 times a month and long trips otherwise, the gas isn't that inconvenient. I just make it part of my trip to town once a month or so. This change in my life made me realize that the real win was pandemic style WFH for anyone who can. EVs can work for some people, I'm just saying they're far from ready for everyone. I'm sure they'll be ready eventually, but I've pushed out my expectation of when it'd make sense for me to get one.

You're not engaging with my actual argument that I know plenty of Capitalists who I would not classify as "scammers". The whole thing that started this was someone claiming that anyone who buys into capitalism is inherently a scammer. Clearly there's a difference between a con-artist and a regular employee at a company. There's an obvious difference between a scammer and a self employed person. Right there are 2 pretty hard to argue examples that people who buy into capitalism aren't inherently scamming anyone.

I'm actually excited about this. Generally like Kagi, and lots of people have wanted someone to try and tackle lemmy searches.