“Sorry, Tennessee! And Oregon. And Minnesota. And Alabama. And…”

It does now–it didn’t in the past.

Looking around, I don’t think that’s true. Lots of bad things are freely said about Mozilla and the people running it.

The local Uber eats clone here has the submit order button off screen. Reuters on Android sometimes has the top bar of the webpage shift down over the content. A video conferencing site used by my medical provider won’t connect the video. The 3rd party comment section on our local news site sometimes lays out the controls off screen. The Lemmy PWA on Android used to crash on startup (recently fixed yay!!)

FF is my daily driver and 99% of things work fine, but I’ve definitely found a few sites where they clearly didn’t test it. I still have Chrome installed for those rare occasions I need it.

And I don’t even necessarily blame Firefox for this. I used to do web dev back in the day and I remember making my shit work across multiple browsers. Maybe Firefox is doing it right and Chrome is doing it wrong, but everybody targeted Chrome because it has a zillion percent of the market.

I switched to Aegis when google authenticator didn’t allow exports. It’s simple and it works.

Illegal to share? So you see a video of someone and before you can share it without legal risk you have to verify its provenance? How is this supposed to be practical either from a usage or enforcement standpoint?

Was that sadometer correctly calibrated to NIST specifications?

If my ISP starts throttling my traffic, I’ll just switch to one of the zero other providers in my area.

On the last system I put together I used xfs because I was thinking ext4 development was waning. TBH I can’t really tell the difference in my regular usage.

Word on the street is that xfs sometimes corrupts files, but I’m not sure if that’s true anymore.

Maybe on the next system I’ll be back to ext4.

When I was in college we had disposable film cameras. That was more than enough intrusion, thank you very much. I’ve always been incredibly happy that we did not have digital cameras in those years. 😅

I copied all my stuff out of drive several months ago and canceled my plan. But I only actually deleted the files a couple months ago, and they actually only got deleted about a month ago. And who knows if actually deleting files on Google does anything. I got to assume it’s all part of the data set at this point.

Edit: my chief regret at this point is that I didn’t write mountains of Star Trek porn fanfiction for their AI to consume.

“Every dependency is an asset. Every dependency is a liability.”

I’m a teacher at university and I run Arch, BTW. 😁

IA is definitely on shaky legal ground here. But as far as I’m concerned, they’re in the right.

I definitely use them a lot, but I think “very” is too strong a word. It’s pretty easy to get confident, contradictory information from them. They’re a good place to start and brainstorm, but all the information has to be verified either by running and testing the code, or by finding a human source.

It’s about time. I remember finally getting my subscription canceled what must have been 7 years ago by now. That was a happy day. And those were the “good” days of this whole thing!

I hate to do this, but AI chatbots are typically pretty good at giving examples for things like this and you can learn from it.

I have 2000 Saturn with 220,000 on it. It has been amazingly solid and low TCO.

Of course, they don’t make them anymore, so your point stands. They don’t make them like they used to.

The one thing that would drive my parents over the edge is ads in Windows. They already use Firefox and Libreoffice.

Unix has been my favorite dev platform since I first used it 30 years ago. I’m typing this on a Mac, which also does just fine. But I’m happiest on my Linux box. Even WSL was OK, but the bloat of Windows overpowers the hardware. My Linux daily driver is a 9-year-old laptop that couldn’t handle Windows any longer.