knexcar @ knexcar @lemmy.world

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I don't think it's fair to compare using Chrome to being a chain smoker. It's a browser, just a tool, not something that makes me significantly happier while torpedoing my health. I could just as easily rot my brain with memes on Firefox. Yes, it's not great to foster a monopoly, but there's not much stopping me from switching if Google messes it up too much.

As for it being popular, I don't think I've seen a single comment on Lemmy praising it besides my own, it's all hate. Surely if Lemmy is an random sample of users you'd see someone else defending it.

It would be useful for electric bikes and things that you could feasibly own alongside a car and use for 90-95% of trips.

I’d love gel and lithium-ion batteries in an ebike or a velomobile. It would result in a 40% increase in range with no extra weight, making them more of a viable alternative for somewhat longer commutes (think 10-15 miles). Sure we should be serving those by high speed public transit, but this would be a faster stopgap/alternative.

Oh and it would be useful for electric trucks too, even short-range ones could be made lighter with less batteries.

• I use Google by default but it does let me choose a search engine — at my job I even use an internal one.
• No ads, I get more from Edge (which I use as a second browser)
• Yes to adblockers, Ublock Origin hasn’t broken yet

I see it plastered everywhere, every time I see a post about browsers or websites, people are hating on Chrome (and Chromium-based derivatives) and saying we need to support Firefox. I feel like I’m the only one who doesn’t care about the monopoly.

So steam engine cars then?

First of all, it’s fine to write code on Windows. In fact, many companies have windows-only development workflows.

Second of all, many Linux programs also use standard shortcuts like Ctrl+S. Linux is more than Vim.

Why would I read a long, padded, ad-riddled article when I can get a quick and accurate TL;DR in the title and expert commentary in the comments?

You forgot Unity! Every time they’re mentioned, people say just use Godot…

To be fair, the three-letter directories aren't particularly intuitive. "Bin"? Like the "Recycle Bin"? Or is it short for "Binary" files? But isn't everything on the computer stored in binary? Is "dev" for developers? Is "run" for running programs? Is "opt" for options? What is "ect" even for, files that can't find another home? In Windows, the folder names make sense and have complete sentences like "Program Files" and "Users". I can understand someone wanting to replicate the same thing on Linux.

I had a semi-similar issue where games would randomly "freeze" - or rather, you could still hear stuff happening and reacting to key inputs, but the screen was completely frozen. Turns out slightly lowering the clock speed of my GPU basically fixed the issue. I wonder if something similar would be able to extend the life of your GPU too.

Windows?