It’s been a long time

Guardian links are unusable on ios

Easy there satan

Let’s hope so!

But the pessimist in me thinks nobody will do it again without craaaaazy investment behind them. Microsoft tried with edge and surrendered to chromium.

I seriously doubt that Apple and Google would succeed today.

Isn’t this what all the second amendment muppets have been screaming about ever since Obama? I bet they won’t do shit

Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox was an in-house fork of Mozilla.

Back then browsers were still quite simple. today they are probably the most complex piece of software running on your machine - including the OS.

fuuuuck klarna. predatory as fuck

Yeah I run it on my wifi. Yesterday it killed rouvy.com when I wanted to go for a ride. I don’t think it has decreased the number of ads I see either - all devices runs adblockers anyway

That will surely fix everything /s

While not Canadian - I’m currently rooting out all US services and products I’ve happily been paying for, cancelling outright or finding other alternatives.

I don’t see myself ever going back to happily buying US again.

Same here, why would I do it myself when they have staff to do it for me? Should I cook my own steak at the restaurant as well?

Also, it would decrease staff and still won’t lower the prices so fuck em

Well with other currencies you sort of have a nation state behind it, backing its value. Failing that, that nations armed services :-)

I don’t get crypto.. is there any coin that’s actually usable as, you know, currency?

From what I can gather, none of them scale so each transaction is slooooow and expensive.

The coins themselves carry no value and is backed by jack-shit. Comparing them to baseball cards seems very apt. Baseball cards, bubbles and FOMO.

He died doing what he loved - pointing weapons at people

I would probably have clicked on this link ~20 years ago. today though, the cringe is too high

Just throw me in the trash

youtube doesnt work for me anymore:

“Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot This helps protect our community. Learn more”

enshittification continues

/rant

Windows2000 was my last. After having managed to work in IT and using Linux on my desktop, I started a new job last year which required me to use Windows11. I find it quite awkward.

Luckily WSL is a thing.

It’s a quote from the series

Crazy numbers