yesman

Apple products are great. The Apple ecosystem, not so much. If you're into FOSS computing and FOSS media formats, you're not going to have a good time.

IDK why you feel that way. But I don't know you inside and out, like Google or Apple does.

It makes strategic sense to decouple from American tech now that they know we'ere an unreliable ally. Microslop won't guarantee your data won't go through American servers and jurisdictions. It's also resistance to Tariff wars and Greenland bullshit that pokes the US in it's conspirator industry, Big Tech.

I don't think the proliferation of bad press is anything other than a chronicle of the decline of Firefox.

I've been ride or die with Firefox since early, and I've never daily driven Chrome. But I've had to keep Chrome installed to look at the sites that don't play with FF. Little by little, FF get's worse, and most of the "worst" these days are features, not bugs. Though their are plenty of bugs. They certainly deserve praise for keeping faith with ublock. And I appreciate that they respect privacy more than Alphabet.

I want Mozilla to succeed. I just remember when Mozilla made the case with the quality of their software, rather than the quality of their ethics.

Gnome get's up and out of my way. 9/10.

This is a weird way to say that PC tech is stagnated and improvements between "generations" is incremental.

It’s not a reverse solar panel. It’s not a solar anything. It requires a difference in heat…

The solar part is because the Sun is responsible for the heat differential.

Windows is being re-written from the ground up to be 'agentic'. This means that Copilot is not going to be a feature of Windows, Windows is going to be a feature of Copilot.

Oh, and Copilot is going to be writing the code too. Microslop brags that 30% of their code is AI.

FYI: the prefix "win" is software jargon for insecure software to let advanced users know to avoid.

Also…you don’t think that LAWYERS willing to go up against Meta would have rock solid proof from these whistleblowers FIRST before filing a lawsuit?

This is not how civil court works. It's not trial by combat. There is no standard for the quality of lawsuits filed. And despite what the ambulance chasers say on TV, Layers get paid even when they loose.

"alleged in a lawsuit..." is the same level of credibility as "they out here saying...".

All the talk of games ownership and preservation overlooks the fact that I can play my first steam game today, while so many of my disks have been lost to time.

And let's not forget how much bullshit came with those disks. DRM schemes up to and including root-kits. Serial # and activation codes. And don't forget, though you had physical media, what you actually owned was a licence.