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This exactly. We don't need some in-between "compromise".

So all browsers except some forks of Firefox are cooked now/soon?

Jup, still no JIT allowed on iOS, so it's interpreted.

Let's see when this makes it to Tumbleweed :)

Plot twist: they're serious.

This is essentially about using AVX512 instructions for some applications.

I don't know how it works on a technical level, but:

On macOS the app can request permission. In case of screen reading, it can't just ask with a simple allow/deny prompt like with many other permissions (e.g. location), but most app requiring permission usually open the system settings app at the correct page (accessibility > screen readers or something). This page shows a list of all installed applications that specify that they have screen reader capabilities. The user can check a box next to the app's name to allow screen reading.

On Windows, a "classic" win32 application can essentially see anything running under the same user as itself. It can probably capture windows of applications running as another user (administrator), but afaik it can't send keystrokes to them. Appx apps generally have a permission system, but I'm not sure how screen readers are handled.

It's probably deciding what the best audio is by bitrate (file size) instead of codec.

Not really, Fedora is upstream of CentOS Stream, which itself is upstream of RHEL. So it's kind of the other way around: RHEL is based on Fedora, while Ubuntu is based on Debian (although not on Debian stable).

This could be the best of KDE Plasma and GNOME combined (with unique features on top of course) for me.

They "have to" push their current silicon beyond its limits just to keep up with AMD (especially X3D in gaming workloads).

They pushed too far, big time.

The only right thing to do here would be to offer a full refund of the original purchase price of the CPU and mainboard to all customers, stop selling affected models immediately and release revisions that aren't unstable and rapidly degrading by default.

But this won't happen of course.

Is that the one where like 4 of 6 antennas are fake?

Probably a cat and mouse game

This is poorly worded and translated. He was fighting with visibility issues/blurry vision in 2021 up to and including at least the USA GP, but has since fully recovered.

They kind of need some killer apps, killer features and killer (media) content. Someone made a demo watching F1 on Apple Vision with a 3D track map and floating timing page and whatnot. Something like this for multiple live sports. The device itself is quite impressive from a technology standpoint.

And yeah, the current pricing is way too expensive to be mass appealing. It's likely very expensive to manufacture and of course you have to take development costs into account, but most people won't spend $3,500 or more for "wow, this is impressive, but I don't have a lot of use cases for it".

Not sure how much they can save on manufacturing costs on a non-"Pro" model without losing too much of the experience though. Sure, they can omit the outer display and save on materials by using more plastic instead of aluminum, but other than that? They can use cheaper displays, but downgrade them too much and the user experience will be significantly worse. I also don't see them using anything less capable than an M2. But even if they would use, say, an A15, it wouldn't cost significantly less (15 vs 20 billion transistors). I don't think they could get rid of the R1 chip either, as it seems to be quite important for processing sensor data and apparently a lot of it (it has 256 GB/s memory bandwidth for a reason), so I don't think just the M2 (or even the M4) would provide a satisfactory experience.

I feel like most of Vivaldi's target audience is knowledgeable enough to enable an extension that's disabled by default. Heck, just display a notification asking whether to enable the extension when a Google Meet site is opened.

These proprietary, bundled-by-default extensions are just a taste of what a browser engine monopoly looks like. Alternative frontends to the Chromium engine don't make a difference as these frontends will suck up whatever changes upstream. We only have 3 major/relevant engines left, Blink (Chromium), Gecko (Firefox) and WebKit (Safari, originated in Konqueror I think), with Blink being a fork of WebKit (although very diverged by now).

The web is so complex now that I don't really see more engines becoming actually usable. Even Microsoft bailed out and eventually switched Edge over to Chromium.

Just always keep in mind that you might not be home and that this might not be your priority in the heat of the moment (no pun intended).

Why does it require a phone number to use?!

I do, I feel like we desperately need some more competition/options in the browser engine space.

I basically have one primary criteria in choosing operating systems: I want the one that gets the least in my way doing the things I want to do (whether that's something productive or entertainment). I don't care that I'm using Linux, it just happens to be Linux (or a Linux distro) that's currently better at getting out of my way than Windows (or macOS, or any other OS).

I've been evaluating Linux on my desktop like once per year maybe, and until recently Windows always won in terms of getting out of my way. I was using Windows 10 LTSC IoT before (because guess what: it got in my way less than regular Windows 10/11) and it was pretty good honestly, but what finally tipped the scales over for me was that Microsoft decided to let an update add unwanted entries into my start menu and re-enable the stupid search field in the task bar.

So I re-evaluated different Linux distributions last year, eventually landed on Fedora and together with swapping my Nvidia RTX 3080 for a Radeon 7800 XT for better Linux compatibility (especially with Wayland) and also Valve's Proton getting better and better, I started using a Linux distro full-time on my desktop January 1st, 2024.

Stuck with Fedora for a few months and landed at openSUSE Tumbleweed (after some annoyances regarding SELinux and other things iirc with the Fedora 40 update). Tumbleweed or rather the fact that it's bleeding edge had its fair share of issues in the last days (with some big releases like Mesa 24.1, Plasma 6.1 and some other packages being relatively buggy). This made me think about using a more stable distro like Debian or openSUSE Leap (I know there's also Slowroll, but some issues Tumbleweed has also roll over to it), but then again I pretty much always have fairly recent hardware in my PC, which usually demands somewhat recent kernels and other packages.

If I find that Windows gets less in my way tomorrow than what I'm currently using, I'll consider switching to Windows. Or macOS. Or Debian. Or FreeBSD. Etc.