Sylos

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by Sylos 10y ago
I still don't understand how this myth that they wrote Edge from scratch even came to be. You don't just quickly write a browser from scratch in this day and age. And if you did, it would be so much better than Edge or the other c
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by Sylos 10y ago
There's plenty which don't, those are just usually the ones which don't try to make you buy apps and are rather just a service for you to download apps. The Windows Store or also the Play Store and Apple's App Store coul
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by Sylos 10y ago
That seems like a dangerous system, though. Just a few coordinated upvotes can get a post to the front page. And if it's so easy, you'll almost certainly have people/companies abusing that to promote their content.
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by Sylos 10y ago
So, not to be all "Herp, derp, Linux is better", but I started using Linux quite recently, and I never realized just how retarded a lot of these things probably have looked like to Linux users since the beginning of time. I mean,
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by Sylos 10y ago
These new features depend on general Safebrowsing to be turned on, so you shouldn't need to turn off anything new...
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by Sylos 10y ago
I like how the site loads something from ajax.googleapis.com, with Google being known for not respecting DNT.
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by Sylos 10y ago
You can manually edit the APT-sources to point to the new release and then let it perform a dist-upgrade, which is, as far as I understand it, the same as Ubuntu or Fedora do automatically. The Linux Mint devs just don't think that&#x2
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by Sylos 10y ago
Well, a few things which might help: - There's going to be developers who will develop for Ubuntu Touch in their free time, just because they want the platform to succeed, similar to desktop Linux. And essentially no one will do that f
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by Sylos 10y ago
https://this-week-in-rust.org/ features some job-postings in the "fn work(on: RustProject) -> Money"-section every now and then...
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by Sylos 10y ago
> I do sorely miss Firefox with uBlock Origin though! Ads on websites seem even more intrusive than on the desktop. You could edit the hosts-file to block ads...
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by Sylos 10y ago
Mint gets recommended a lot for people wanting to switch over from Windows. I'd say even more recommendations than Ubuntu, because of the more Windows-like interface. Also just in general, Ubuntu is more well-known outside of the Linux
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by Sylos 10y ago
It does, I don't think that affects it much, though, because it's still so much less likely to catch a virus on Mint than it is on Windows, that it's still an upgrade for people switching over from Windows, which is sort of M
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by Sylos 10y ago
1) How do you fix that something is a standard? By not accepting it being done by yet another company. 2) This is not just about the number of connections that are made. It's about the amount of information that could be collected thro
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by Sylos 10y ago
Mozilla Hacks [0] is pretty much the only feed that makes sense recommending here. There's a lot of very detailed explanations for technical problems and their solution in there, which I find pretty interesting. Otherwise, though, less
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by Sylos 10y ago
What does it matter how fair it is? It's neither fair to compare a monkey to a fish in terms of being able to climb trees, but that doesn't change that one of the two is most likely already sitting on a branch. And ultimately, if
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by Sylos 10y ago
I wanted to comment, but what is there to say? Anyone here can figure out themselves that this is shit. It's not like there's a question about it. And it's neither terribly surprising that Microsoft would do this. I mean, may
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by Sylos 10y ago
Yeah, I noticed. Saw that Syncthing had an update for the desktop-version and wanted to check that the Android-client was on roughly the same version number, so that the protocols wouldn't be incompatible. And because GitHub was down,
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by Sylos 10y ago
You can self-host GitLab, so he's probably talking about that...
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by Sylos 10y ago
> Windows' one's battery life promises As in promises that Microsoft has made or as in what Windows Edge actually delivers? Because so far, from what I've heard, there seems to be a pretty big discrepancy between those two
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by Sylos 10y ago
You completely missed the point of my comment. "Objectively better" means that it's better in all accounts, as otherwise someone with different priorities could perceive it as worse, making it therefore only subjectively bett
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by Sylos 10y ago
Not for users either. It's by far less locked down than Windows, as it's pretty much just Debian with Steam pre-installed.
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by Sylos 10y ago
It means that the developers marked it as Linux-compatible on Steam. I don't know, if Valve requires anything for that, but it's specifically not the percentage of titles which you can get to work through any combination of blac
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by Sylos 10y ago
That's the exact problem. They are not objectively better. If they would be, they would not grant Microsoft more control and no one would complain.
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by Sylos 10y ago
Is sideloading of apps unrevocable?
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by Sylos 10y ago
Most other comments sort of hinted at it, but I feel like no one really said it: If Microsoft makes the Windows Store the only place for users to get applications, then they can abuse that position like you can abuse any monopoly. They coul
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by Sylos 10y ago
There certainly is an opportunity, it's just still very questionable how things will play out. Current state is that 25% of the Steam library is Linux-compatible. That's about 2500 games, so definitely enough to keep you entertain
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by Sylos 10y ago
> how do I close an application again, on iOS, Android and Windows8? Christ, yeah, I still remember before Microsoft attempted to patch Windows 8 into a somewhat less unusable OS, I had opened one of those Metro apps to see what it was l
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by Sylos 10y ago
So, what you're telling me is that I can now build a complete computer into my computer as graphics card?
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by Sylos 10y ago
The Stock-Android Contacts-app has a pretty big design-flaw like that. When you open up a contact, it shows you a list of the ways that you can talk to this person. So, either call them, write an SMS, write an e-mail etc. And the Call-butto
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by Sylos 10y ago
Not quite as much of a no-brainer, if you consider that Yahoo! represents about a third of the competition for the place as default search engine in Firefox. If they can retain this competitor, they might benefit from it more than by cashin

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