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by bwat49 7y ago
> Can't you also plausibly in a similar spirit argue for the point that the regulations about retraining pilots were responsible for the 737 MAX disaster? I don't think that's a great argument, pilots needing to be trained
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by bwat49 7y ago
yeah pop is just using the gnome desktop (with custom theming, a few extensions, and an improved set of default keyboard shortcuts. They have collaborated with elementary in a few areas though. Instead of gnome software, they have Pop Shop,
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by bwat49 7y ago
For me, firefox's touchpad scrolling is much smoother than chromium's on linux. Also, firefox implements kinetic touchpad scrolling on linux, whereas chromium still does not (this is a huge missing feature IMO)
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by bwat49 7y ago
> it also adds articles to your new tab page, which is possible to remove but not easy for most people It's two clicks.
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by bwat49 7y ago
That's a bit of a loaded question given the huge variety of hardware configurations out there, and the fact that most vendors only test with Windows. Linux hardware compatibility has improved vastly over the years, but I don't thi
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by bwat49 7y ago
> They said if she avoids using pronouns, she's just as guilty as using the wrong one. People that think like this baffle me When I refer to people online, I rarely use 'pronouns'. IMO in online communication, it's mo
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by bwat49 7y ago
> but if you just want to install a driver and have your system work, Nvidia is ahead. But if you want your driver to not break horribly whenever there's a xorg or kernel update, nvidia is behind Or if you want your driver to just w
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by bwat49 7y ago
by itself it won't, but they've been working on various optimizations to shorten startup time. A few ms isn't much by itself, but when you add up a bunch of small optimizations like this one, it can add up to be a significant
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by bwat49 7y ago
thunar got buggy/crashy long before the switch to gtk3
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by bwat49 7y ago
> Extensions should be able to have their permissions limited by domain (e.g. to customize YouTube or Reddit) at a minimum. This would break adblockers, which are by far the most commonly used extensions
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by bwat49 7y ago
A decent email client will load images asynchronously. Many can also be configured to not load remote content at all until you allow it.
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by bwat49 7y ago
Agreed, I've been really happy with evolution
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by bwat49 7y ago
for passwords you can just use the firefox lockwise app
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by bwat49 7y ago
it already blocks trackers by default
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by bwat49 7y ago
as a user (I do QA testing) I use JIRA every day and I really like it compared to other bug trackers I've used
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by bwat49 7y ago
Agreed, I was totally on board with the parent comment until those points. All browsers have a default search engine and start page... it's expected.
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by bwat49 7y ago
donating to mozilla specifically does NOT go towards firefox development, unfortunately. It just goes towards mozilla foundation's advocacy stuff.
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by bwat49 7y ago
Not sure if there's a full list anywhere, but Firefox Send is another nice one
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by bwat49 7y ago
Regarding your first 2 points, it sounds like you haven't used firefox in a long time... 1. Firefox does automatically download and apply updates like chrome does (at least on Windows), and has for some time. It notifies you when updat
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by bwat49 7y ago
because it isn't supported, just look at the comments from google employees on the bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=463440... sure the situation is better than it is with firefo
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by bwat49 7y ago
google refuses to support this on desktop linux though, it requires a patched chromium build. The only reason vaapi support is there at all is because their chromeOS uses it.
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by bwat49 7y ago
They don't currently, but adding a better channel to deploy hotfixes is something that's specifically mentioned in this article...
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by bwat49 7y ago
The outrage over looking glass was because it was an unwanted advertisement/promotion being pushed as a 'study' In this case, they were pushing a hotfix for a critical issue effecting all firefox users. It was only pushed thr
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by bwat49 7y ago
> I used to love customizing the window manager to death but I'm older now and I just want something that is consistent and works out of the box. it's called GNOME
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by bwat49 7y ago
> Why would anyone want to upgrade from XP? Is that a serious question? Security? Compatibility with Modern hardware? If you want to use a car analogy, what you're asking is 'why would anyone want to upgrade from a Model T?
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by bwat49 7y ago
my linux system already had the studies hotfix 24 hours ago
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by bwat49 7y ago
I think it just triggers firefox to check for any new studies on the next launch I stumbled upon this myself earlier
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by bwat49 7y ago
I found that setting app.normandy.first_run to true and then restarting firefox triggers the hotfix study to be installed (and the pref then automatically sets itself back to false)
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by bwat49 7y ago
The new darter pro gets decent battery life, I get around 7 hours on mine. It has similar hardware to the galago pro, but with a 54 whr battery instead of 35 whr. Their other models do have poor battery life though. The galago pro is especi
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by bwat49 7y ago
https://github.com/pop-os/docs/blob/master/docs/difference-b...

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