@joeo10@Techmeme ah, so EU regulators probably forced Apple to do some good things, and Apple decided to make sure that nobody outside of that region will benefit.
@g Electron is the software equivalent of wanting to watch a film at home instead of at the movie theater - but you're too intimidated by the idea of learning how to hook up a Blu-Ray player to your TV, so you pay someone to build an entire movie theater in your backyard instead, allowing you to watch movies the way you've always done it before (but now at home!).
I think remodelers manhandled the Cat5e cable one too many times that runs under the house to bridge my family room and office, as it's no longer working :(
I would try putting a new RJ45 connector on the roughed-up end, but I can't find my damned crimp tool. I could've sworn it was with my soldering kit, but clearly they got separated at some point. Argh.
@joeo10@pluralistic yes, all of this. It's also why I don't begrudge folks using things like GamePass - if companies are going to force gaming experiences to be ephemeral anyway, accessing then via a Netflix model makes as much sense as anything else.
It's all going to lead to a dark age for preservation though, depending on how much pirates can accomplish.
@joeo10@pluralistic console games are a lost cause at this point, as many require online accounts/activation - or even day-one patch downloads - from servers that will eventually be shut down, rendering them useless or full of bugs.
Someone is going to try to play Breath of the Wild in 15 years and realize that it's not the game they remember because all of the patches are gone (yes, even that random example received 6 patches!).
@thomasfuchs this happened in a rental house my wife was living in - turned out one phase had gone out. Of course this was at night in winter, and they had to dig a box out of the ground to fix it.
@joeo10@reidrac didn't see this, but your takes there are spot on.
People make Firefox out to be some kind of hero fighting against Google, and it's ridiculously out of touch with reality. Mozilla is not opposition, and if they were, then they would be controlled opposition!
Firefox is like a third party spoiler candidate in a political race, or a proposal to end climate change by using paper straws. It's not a meaningful alternative to anything anymore.
@thomasfuchs@TechConnectify the Honeywell that got installed with our heat pump several years ago defaults to holding until next schedule point, which has always been fine.
I had installed my own janky replacement wiring for a previous Honeywell thermostat from Costco that didn't support trickle charging, and the HVAC installers just reused that lol.
@reidrac why would it be a good thing for even 20% of Chrome users to switch to Firefox? What would this materially accomplish?
Also, would Mozilla remain solvent if Google decided to stop funding them? If not, how can Mozilla actually be trusted to remain completely free of even unconscious Google influence?
Stupid TIL regarding Microsoft Outlook: Header matching rules can cover most cases, and work both more consistently and more efficiently than use case specific rules. WTF?
Loudly unsubscribed from two issues in two GitHub projects - one of which was an issue I wrote - because bots applied a "stale" label to both and threatened to close them if nobody replied.
These bots are passive aggressive and make your project user hostile, period. If you don't plan to actually work an issue then just freaking close it. If you do plan to work it then don't close it.
@mos_8502 yeah, it's filed right next to the one for "I wrote a 3 line message and they still only read the first line before asking questions already answered by the other 2."
@mos_8502 I've seen that "you're not really part of labor" BS from some extreme leftists. I don't understand what they're trying to accomplish by driving wedges between factions of oppressed/exploited people, but I'm convinced it's nothing good.
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