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by luuurker 3y ago
Some devices had a small performance hit, but some had had their clock speeds to less than half, making devices laggy even during normal usage. By itself this is already a problem, but they also decided to not allow you to disable the featu
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by luuurker 3y ago
My iPhone was affected by this. Let me tell you my experience, without "Samsung FUD": - The phone became slow, laggy animations, etc. - I had no idea what was causing the problem. - There was no way to return to an older iOS versi
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by luuurker 3y ago
It works fine on sites that mostly don't do anything to bypass adblockers. It technically can't work fine on sites that do it. Restricting what the adblocker can do will also affect the way they mitigate adblocker avoidance in the
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by luuurker 3y ago
Are you suggesting that a thief won't snatch your +$1k Galaxy S23 Ultra because they'll only get $700 instead of $900 for a similarly priced iPhone? I'm not sure if they're that picky.
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by luuurker 3y ago
> That's not the case for the iphone. You can definitely re-use or sell iPhone parts. Most of replacement parts shops have access to are not sold directly by Apple. As mentioned in the article, some parts won't work and others
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by luuurker 3y ago
These "locks" might reduce theft, but not only they still happen, but you can also make money with a stolen phone. You can sell it for parts. An iPhone will annoy you about the replaced display, but the phone still works. You can
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by luuurker 3y ago
Regarding the iPhone, Apple's behaviour wasn't that nice: - The throttling slowed down some devices so much that it made the phone laggy. There was no way to disable the feature. - If you asked for help in their stores they wouldn
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by luuurker 3y ago
No one ever stole my phone, but I had everything from broken displays to dead batteries, so at least in my case this is not good for me as a owner.
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by luuurker 3y ago
And that's why we all use more than one DNS server. Right? :-P
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by luuurker 3y ago
Let's say you pause every "history" option (location, search, etc) in your Google Account settings. Would you still be part of this information they provide to the police?
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by luuurker 3y ago
Personal vs work profiles, for example. My work profile has uBlock Origin with stricter rules which would break some sites/tools I use for work. I also redirect Twitter to Nitter, use a different password manager, etc. For bookmarks, i
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by luuurker 3y ago
Yes, containers on Firefox are better for that use case. Now imagine Firefox with containers and user friendly profile support. The best of both worlds in one browser.
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by luuurker 3y ago
Profiles and Containers are different things. If more people understood this, we would be asking for better profile support on Firefox and for container support on Chromium, not suggesting containers to people who need profiles or trying to
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by luuurker 3y ago
"Additional software is required for this extension to function, you will be prompted to install it after installing the extension."
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by luuurker 3y ago
Compare that page and how you get to that page to Chromium's profiles UI and you'll understand what the problem is.
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by luuurker 3y ago
I've used that before. Props to the developer, but on top of the extension, we also have to install software for it to work. It also doesn't fix new profiles opening in the background and the messing up of dock icons, although thi
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by luuurker 3y ago
We've had about:profiles for many years, but that UI is not for the average user. On macOS opening a new profile through that also opens the window in the background and may also mess up your Firefox icons in the dock, not to mention t
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by luuurker 3y ago
Different bookmarks, extensions, settings, themes, and ability to sync all those to other machines. We just have to look at what profiles and containers do to understand that while useful, containers can't replace profiles.
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by luuurker 3y ago
Firefox users don't use profiles because switching between them is a pain in the rear (at least on some platforms). Containers are nice, but you can't have different bookmarks, extensions, settings, etc. It's not a replacemen
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by luuurker 3y ago
(I'm replying to the original version of your comment.) How can you have different bookmarks, extensions, and maybe even a different theme (so you know you're using the right window) with containers? The answer is: you can't.
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by luuurker 3y ago
That depends a lot on the site. It works well on some, but on others it's just not enough. Safari/iOS blocking is closer to uBlock Origin than to DNS blocking, but is not as powerful as uBO and some sites "exploit" those
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by luuurker 3y ago
No idea what's happening, but is it possible that they're importing electricity from dirty sources? That would change the colour from green to brown.
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by luuurker 3y ago
Yes, "we" protect TSMC and others like them by providing Taiwan with weapons that makes a war/invasion very expensive and show that anyone that does that will have a though time. But you "have no interest in funding prox
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by luuurker 3y ago
I'm not saying that some guy won't try to make a buck, but the incentive for those in power to allow that to happen is small when they depend on the west to maintain current weapons and get new ones. The F-16's won't fly
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by luuurker 3y ago
You'll understand how it's your problem when you try to buy the latest SoC and can't because the TSMC fabs were destroyed during the invasion of Taiwan (or something like that).
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by luuurker 3y ago
There's no point in discussing this because no one is going to invade Russia. They have nuclear weapons. Even if they didn't, I'm not seeing anyone in the West edging for a war with them. With this said, all that advanced tec
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by luuurker 3y ago
An Ukraine that relies on the West for most of its equipment, is under Russian threat, and wants to join the EU/NATO will go around selling the West's equipment? Makes little sense to me. The West, and more specifically the US, is
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by luuurker 3y ago
I use Firefox (stable and dev) and Waterfox, and Cloudflare doesn't block me. My settings are close to the defaults though, I don't enable things like privacy.resistFingerprinting. For a while I did notice that when using certain
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by luuurker 3y ago
... which is there for a reason.
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by luuurker 3y ago
Containers are useful, but it's like having a few similar terminal windows open. Eventually you'll type something on the wrong window... at least I found myself searching for personal stuff on my work Google container. With profil

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