narwhalperson @ narwhalperson @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Good to hear about more people playing Hollow Knight. It’s excellent, and I highly recommend avoiding story spoilers until you’ve finished the main quests.

Do you have a source? The only notable investment of his I’m aware of is framework.

I know. I’m super excited to see how the city will change in Nivalis.

How is it even possible to use the wrong GPU when the correct one is in the same box. That makes it seem malicious rather than foolish.

Answering your question on the inconsistent back button, there are simply too many of them. Sometimes it is the small text link with an arrow in the top left corner, sometimes it is a built in app back button, and sometimes the text version sticks around during navigation for no reason until it is clicked accidentally and throws back to the previous app.

Wow, you weren’t kidding.

Your point is solid, but that level of polish on Apple products is only skin deep. For example, there are several missing features and issues with MacOS that have gone unaddressed for years.

• Window edge snapping is incredibly frustrating. Linux desktops and Microsoft Windows have had proper window snapping support for decades.
• The app uninstall process is inconsistent, with some apps remaining contained in the .app folder while others spill out all over the system.
• The recovery mode process for resetting an Intel-based Mac is incredibly tedious and time consuming.

However, MacOS isn’t the only Apple product with issues.

• WatchOS has an inconsistent and difficult to navigate UI. The bubble menu is inconsistent and difficult to navigate, and the list view requires that you sort by alphabetical when a “recently used” sort would be significantly more efficient.
• IOS doesn’t allow sideloading apps.
• TVOS is filled with ads for Apple’s premium services like AppleTV+
• IOS home screen icons cannot have blank space and must instead tile to the top of the screen.
• Methods for going back to what was previously onscreen are inconsistent in IOS.
• IOS browsers are required to use mobile Safari’s web engine.

However, this isn’t to say that Apple products are bad, simply to remind you that they do have flaws. Based on your wording of “bootleg os’s” I can’t quite tell what your referring to. Windows is the only OS I’m aware of other than MacOS that has heavy advertising, but your phrasing seems to place it in a different category altogether. Although if you are looking for a new OS to try I highly recommend looking into the many Linux distributions available. I recommend Linux Mint to beginners, since it is generally the simplest to use.

Mint is great for beginners. I never had any issues with it and the cinnamon desktop is very nice.

That makes sense. Vivaldi uses a chrome user agent most of the time, unless you use a Microsoft service, in which case it uses a Microsoft Edge user agent.

I appreciate your dedication to the time honored KDE naming konvention.

You can use the element picker in uBlock Origin for this. It works on ~50% of cases.

Nobody is implying that Bluetooth headphones are inherently bad, but just that the additional choice offered by a wired headphone option would be very useful.

I’m not sure about how LifeLock operated in the past, but the second they became associated with Norton they became irrelevant. Norton has yet to produce a worthwhile product in any category. At best their services are useless and at worst actively harmful to consumers.

https://xkcd.com/1357/

It’s a solid point, but VPN companies have violated “no logs” policies in the past.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cyberstalking-suspect-arrested-after-vpn-providers-shared-logs-with-the-fbi/

I’d be interested to hear which plugins you are referring to as my experience with Firefox has been much the opposite. I often find the plug-in selection lacking when required to use a Chromium based browser.

While I would like to try Brave at some point, I can’t really support any browser based on Chromium. Google’s control over the browser market is far too strong as it is, and I would prefer not to support that by using a browser made with their web technologies. Additionally, Brave has a handful of other issues that would prevent me from choosing it, like their cryptocurrency integration and advertising model.

The pricing issue is unfortunate. Is there any way to donate to keep the instance running?