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[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

DDG has gone downhill in recent years.

Not as much as Google though, so I've been feeling like it's been getting better and better, but it's just a comparative feeling.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I tried to switch to Tidal, but I found their app not as good, their integration with Sonos lacking, and no parental controls, which is important to me. Music selection was pretty good. A lot of niche stuff isn't there, sadly. For example I sometimes listen to college acapella groups, and there just isn't as much there. All the popular music is there though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I keep waiting for Robert Reich to end up on Game Changer somehow. I want to see the two of them make some shenanigans happen.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reading the article, you do some registry edits to tell Windows that it's in Europe. Then you uninstall as if you were in Europe. No word on what other consequences this might have.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

IMO since the app is Louis' project that is primarily being financed by donating his personal money to FUTO (AFAICT)

For clarity, FUTO is privately funded by an independently wealthy person, not Louis. Louis is an employee who believes in the mission.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I mean, you got my upvote already, but one big reason is that Robertson wanted to control all the manufacturing of the screws and the bits. Phillips licensed his patent out and let anyone make them just taking a tiny licensing fee. Made a fortune on volume. Robertson: good engineer, bad businessman.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't fully agree with these, but these are the cases I've heard of:

  • Deeper integration with webcams
  • USB authentication devices like Yubikeys

I think these are better served with extensions or specific browser protocols that communicate with native apps in order to keep the crazy web world more isolated from the high-value computer world, but what do I know? My guess is that someone at Google went "You know, we're creating a lot of these specific protocols to communicate with webcams, printers, and now we want to do authentication dongles. You know what? They all use USB? Why don't we just create a general way to access USB?"

In the immortal words of Dr. Ian Malcolm:

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I cannot +1 this hard enough. There was once upon a time, back in the Darwin days, when I had my eyes on a Macbook as my next computer. Apple Silicon almost got me there again. I'm itching for a Snapdragon X Elite Oryon OMGLOLBBQ SBC, but I'm not holding my breath. I bet laptop makers snap up all the chips for 2024, and then I get one in 2025.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There's the topic of this conversation, WebUSB. I happen to believe that a missing feature here for Firefox is a good thing, mind you...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At least last time the Thrashers became the Jets. Maybe this time the new Atlanta team will become the Nordiques again or an Atlantic Canada team.

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