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by traderj0e 5mo ago
There's nothing forcing you to use Chrome instead of Edge, but some websites don't work with Safari or Firefox because Google has pushed nonstandard stuff. And it's weirdly not only advanced WebWhatever stuff, but also some t
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
The usual complaint is that Chromium dominates as an engine. I don't fully understand the complaint because anyone can fork it, but maybe they're (rightfully) concerned nobody will fork it because Google controls the web standards
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
People use iMessage because it has worked for a long time, during which all the leading alternatives were terrible. Maybe they still are cause I'm still not convinced that RCS even works reliably, seeing how Android users go on WhatsAp
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
Ok so what's your solution to the bot problem? I don't have one, unless you count the option of websites not being free-as-in-beer anymore.
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
If RMS said not to trust Google's self-proclaimed altruism and relationship with open source, yeah. I always assumed that was a backstab waiting to happen. But that only meant I used an iPhone and didn't care that it was more clos
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
and even the iPhone Chrome doesn't use the Chromium engine, it's Safari under the hood
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
Well it does say "install" new software, as in run code locally
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
It was the first to do a separate process per tab, which had security and stability benefits. But it also used like 2x the RAM from the start.
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
Eh, it was brief and never majority. Chrome was the first to truly usurp IE.
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
Yeah I remember when Windows lacked every basic utility that Mac OS had. The most common malware was PDF readers, because a very common search was "how to open pdf." Same with zip.
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
Chrome has gone off doing their own standards to some extent, but you're forgetting what it was like when Internet Explorer dominated. You basically couldn't use the web without IE because they broke so many standards and implemen
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
Even the Disney Pinocchio movie is about telling kids to obey their parents, in ways that 2000s Disney movies probably wouldn't do.
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
The ones who got removed were shutting down their pages to protest API changes, right? Pride comes before the fall I guess
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
and it's hotly debated what is the "correct" way to install Steam in Linux, even though you'd think whatever steampowered.com says is obviously the right way (same with other things)
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
Crostini is built into the Chromebook, vs macOS where I hear a different container solution every time someone asks about it. Colima is a new one to me. Maybe it works great and the others do too, but full 1P support is a step up.
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
No I'm saying it's better that they at least killed the "good" bots, even if this didn't result in killing all the bots.
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
There are already some sites where you're much better off if you have an old account. Like I have a super old Twitter sitting there for random stuff that requires it. I tried making a new one a few years ago, didn't post anything,
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
Gets harder with all the 2FA stuff involved
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
I'd want any/all the bots dead if I were still using that, so at least killing some of them is better than not. The "helpful" ones were just annoying.
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
I've seen a lot of ipv6 wars here without flagkilling happening
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
It's easy to botspam Reddit because even the real users always acted like bots. The big subreddits were the worst, but contrary to how the users keep saying "it's good if you find the right subs," no it's not. Wrote
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
It was bogus even before that. I heard complaints at some point that API changes broke bots, which actually sounds good.
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
They currently go with whatever the person looks like. I'm not saying it's right, but it does exist. Before the crackdown on DEI, Gates Scholarship would've rejected me for being white, even if I had some non-white ancestor.
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
Somehow other states don't need to make them all toll roads, and their roads are better
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
I mean like same as Ubuntu on an x86 laptop for general work. This is assuming you don't have any specific need for x86 binaries, but you also never know what might randomly require it. Would've tried it myself but I'm away f
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
Many countries don't have a Social Security equivalent, and people rely on their families instead. So not having kids can mean not having anyone to take care of you in old age, but it's maybe still ok if your siblings had kids. It
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
I began assuming long ago that Trump is just manipulating markets. Like my finances are managed under that assumption.
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
So select is select or copy, right click is open menu or paste, both depending on whether or not you're in the terminal. Control-C is also copy or kill, and iirc shift-control-c is nothing or copy. There's a meta key on the keyboa
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
I don't know, can see this either way. Iran's leadership has been stating for decades that they want to destroy Israel. They've been funding militias who launch rockets at Israel, during times when Israel wasn't threaten
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
Being conservative doesn't mean I don't want roads or businesses to exist.

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