Are you sure the license agreement doesn't give them the "right" to un-grandfather your device at any time? Promises and agreements mean nothing these days.

Owned by India... cost the UK...

The problem isn't really JavaScript. The problem is the frameworks and libraires.

I use an "alternative" web browser. Do you know how many web sites refuse to work on a browser that isn't explicitly branded as Chrome, Firefox, or Safari? Unless you're using vanilla JavaScript, which nobody actually does, hardly anything works universally across all browsers.

Web developers are fucking idiots and aren't even aware that their code refuses to work on anything other than Chrome because they don't audit their frameworks. Hell, I still see tons of sites hard-linking their script resources directly to 3rd-party web sites because they're too lazy to update things locally and don't bother testing anything. Nobody seems to give a damn. If they can't be bothered to test before deployment, do you think they even remotely care about security?

Honestly, yes, I'd much prefer the web went back to static pages. Please!

Disclaimer: I've been a web developer since the late 90's. I stopped doing it professionally years ago because it's too damn depressing. Web development is, hands-down, the least disciplined field of software I've ever seen.

In find it so sad that once Flash was killed off, and we had an opportunity to turn the web back into a document platform, the first thing we did was re-invent a new application-centric platform with JavaScript.

Huzzah, the Flash monopoly is dead! Long live the Chrome monopoly!

The only thing the Flash killswitch did was destroy 25+ years of Internet culture, like all those great interactive cartoons. I miss those so much.

This argument is woefully out of date. I haven't had hardware issues with Linux in a long, long time.

You know what's really wrong with Linux? The culture. This is my general experience:

• -- Windows: Download the binary and run it.
• -- Macintosh: Download the app package and run it.
• -- Linx: Replicate the developer's build environment, clone the GitHub repo, and compile, build, and deploy it yourself. Chances are the build tools will be the wrong versions, each language will have its own package manager you'll need to deal with, live online packages will be missing or the wrong version, or any of a million other things will go wrong that will take days of your time to research and fix.

Are you sure it's wise to act like a pedantic jerk when you're talking about different OSes that are only "based" on each other?

That's especially true for Android, because we all know the commercial versions distributed on phones are not the same as the open core reference maintained by Google. I mean, unless you want to make the argument that Chrome is open source because Chromium is, too.

Pff... I remember when people were saying Google couldn't become evil because the workplace culture at the company wouldn't allow it. The geeks would rebel and refuse to do evil.

Turns out, those geek ideals go right out the window when a paycheck is involved, and most people will shut the hell up and do their job. If that weren't true, nobody would work for Google, Meta, Comcast, Oracle, X, etc.

Unions are just like any other organization. Some are good, some are bad, and realistically local unions can face competition from other unions. Typically, the small, local ones are good, but the mega-huge ones can be rife with politics.

Don't blame unions. Blame monopolies, poor government regulations, and basic human nature. Any organization that gets too big and fat eventually becomes lazy.

The thing that really bugs me that that most retro consoles these days are just emulators running on an ARM chip. The emulation on a low-spec CPU is where the real lag comes from. I recently saw demonstrations of the C64 mini and the Neo-Geo mini arcade, and I was astounded at how much lag there was with both the inputs and audio.

Some enthusiasts use FPGAs to make their retro consoles that have no lag whatsoever, but of course those machines are hella expensive.

I thought it was about wrapping all of the dozens of different social programs into a universal system.

I dunno. There may be more going on here than reported. I find it a bit odd that a bunch of people immediately decide to fork the project rather than take the time to cool off and work out their differences.

I've done my share of working on FOSS projects and there's often even more infighting and politics than in commercial products.

Kinda sad, as I've been a huge fan of ZDoom and GZDoom for well over a decade.

God, I hope so. I'm sick of not being able to own anything.

While we're at it, let's hope pinball will make a comeback.

I saw the same thing when I was in elementary school. There were two brothers about the same age, born to the same biological parents, and grew up in the same household. One was the nicest guy you ever met, the other was a holy terror.

I felt bad for the parents, because 40 years ago, unruly kids were assumed to be the result of horrible parenting. Even to me, barely a teenager, it was clear there was something seriously wrong with that kid. Too bad I never found out what happened to him.

Back in my day, we called it, "being random".

I'm sure it was true back in your day, too. What goes around comes around.

Nah... I had teachers that tried that strategy when I was in high school. Reverse psychology is not as effective as you think.

Kids may be inexperienced, but they aren't as stupid as we think they are.