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by creshal 5y ago
> Does having colours on your site (such as theirs) increase energy? Only on OLED screens, which still don't have a that impressive market share.
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by creshal 5y ago
> the idea of the MozLink thing is that you reduce the number of clicks it takes to find your website — and so reducing the number of requests made to servers. And then they send you on a merry goose chase through various blog sites if y
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by creshal 5y ago
Constant invasive changes (Pocket, Hello, Mr Robot advertisements, etc. pp.) coupled with performance issues (freezes for a single frame every second on Linux, on top of hardware acceleration issues) and lack of support by video chat softwa
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by creshal 5y ago
A browser is to 99% a canvas for other software to draw on, and neither Safari, nor Edge, nor Chrome are investing terribly much into constant UX changes, so where does Mozilla's perceived "need" for UX changes come from?
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by creshal 5y ago
Just treat it like another game console, then, if you think that Windows is inferior for all other purposes.
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by creshal 5y ago
The steadily dropping user count indicates otherwise. They might be useful if Mozilla wasn't cannibalizing itself and stretched so thin that neither these services nor Mozilla's actual products were competitive, but as it stands
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by creshal 5y ago
> For regular users, having software look great can be quite important. How many of Firefox's UI changes really impacted this, though? There was the big move away from menu bars and to a more minimalist UI, OK, great. But all the ot
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by creshal 5y ago
The development of Proton has already changed it a lot, the progress is really impressive.
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by creshal 5y ago
Yes, and? Computers are so much more than gaming devices, it makes no sense to restrict yourself just by that one facet. Or should I use a PlayStation as my main computer just because it has exclusive titles I like?
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by creshal 5y ago
> Go to a carrier store and these are so many modern looking Android devices that rival the iPhone 12. Are there really? From what I hear from non-techie friends and coworkers, what they care the most about in a modern phone is the camer
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by creshal 5y ago
Pay to… buy out the news company? I guess?
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by creshal 5y ago
Consent is only necessary for cookies that aren't in the interest of the user (session cookies, other cookies set to fulfil user requests). You only "have to" press these because a lot of websites decide they'd rather to
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by creshal 5y ago
Civilian ones for deep space probes, yes. There's probably more contracts around for various bits of military hardware that are less well documented.
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by creshal 5y ago
> Since the redesign Reddit has been putting a huge amount of effort into keeping people on their platform. On something , anyway. Whenever Reddit tricks me into opting into the redesign I'm disoriented by just how much of reddit I
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by creshal 5y ago
Meanwhile interns and junior developers apparently have to handle the bulk of hiring and job interview work. No wonder people complain about the quality of job interviews.
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by creshal 5y ago
Persona 4 e.g. (which prompted me to go down the GloriousEggroll rabbit hole) is hardly what I'd call Bleeding Edge, it's a dusty port of a Playstation 2 game.
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by creshal 5y ago
The last PlayStation I owned was a PS3, so my experience is admittedly a bit rusty.
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by creshal 5y ago
It also depends on your kernel, the FUTEX_WAIT_MULTIPLE patch solves a specific Wine/Proton bottleneck that native software doesn't care about¹, but delivers a significant performance improvement if compiled in. ¹: https:/&#
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by creshal 5y ago
That has always be the promise behind Trusted Computing, yes. Maybe in another 20 years Intel will actually deliver a reliable implementation of it.
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by creshal 5y ago
"Thanks" to competitive gaming involving real money incentives these days, cheats have reached the level of custom PCIe cards directly accessing kernel memory via DMA. So a kernel rootkit is the bare minimum to try and detect th
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by creshal 5y ago
It's still a bit rough around the edges, as the best compatibility is found in community Proton forks you need to install manually, plus the need for out-of-tree drivers and non-standard bluetooth module config flags to get game contro
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by creshal 5y ago
Small er , yes, relatively speaking. But in absolute terms, the gap is still vast, and not exactly closing. (If anything, widening, as we keep getting more and more reliable emulators on PC that give access to hundreds of older console excl
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by creshal 5y ago
> Even for single player games it's never certain everything will work 100% compatibility isn't guaranteed for Windows either, you can always get screwed by random driver bugs. For that, you need a console.
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by creshal 5y ago
> PoW is now done more with renewable energy than most of other sectors. Bitcoin is one of the most clean markets out there. A market for scams and scam accessories. If it stopped existing, we could shut down fossil fuel plants and put
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by creshal 5y ago
Yes. At the bare minimum, "crypto" "currencies" must be forced to move to Proof of Stake and stop dragging the entire world down with its madness.
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by creshal 5y ago
> The distributed ledger adds security, longevity, ownership, and provenance: eg. a token is purchased from an artist, and it can be held and traded (ie. "owned") for as many years as the blockchain continues to survive. Unlike
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by creshal 5y ago
When already decommissioned fossil power plants get reactivated to mine bitcoin, I think it's safe to say that a ban of cryptocurrencies would have a significant impact.
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by creshal 5y ago
> The premise of this space is that the tokens hold value because of who distributed the tokens (the artist), and what they conceptually represent (the artwork), and this value can exist beyond the scope of the website or platform that o
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by creshal 5y ago
How decentralized is it truly when it's all depending on the Hicetnunc brand? If you had Hicetnunc-branded certificates of authenticity, you'd have the same "decentralized" trade opportunities, and in both cases the only
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by creshal 5y ago
PoW undermines our attempts to fight climate change, there's tons of examples of fossil fuel power plants being used for the sole purpose of running "crypto" "currencies". That is a very direct threat to our surviva

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