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Comment hard to know (Score 1) 94

It's hard to know if I got down modded for suggesting that Firefox is not perfect, which we all know, or that Chrome is a way for Google to collect your info and sabotage ad blocking, which we all know

Comment I use FF but (Score 0) 94

I do use FF almost exclusively, but there are real problems.

Performance is indeed poor. The browser is indeed flaky. Pocket is indeed a problem but they never should have bought it. They have indeed watered down their privacy promises. And mobile Firefox has atrocious memory leaks related to JavaScript. I have to kill it several times a day because it uses all my phone's memory.

But chrome is a privacy disaster so it's not all roses either, and the various other credible browsers are all chrome skins.

We need a new project to revitalize Firefox. The Mozilla foundation is just never going to do it right.

Comment Re: same same. (Score 1) 195

I don't see rolling release as a big problem, but then, I have root on ZFS and another Linux install on a separate disk. I can snapshot before any update, and if it blows something up, I can revert.

To my mind it doesn't matter for a corporate context either, because you can test and then deploy.

I used Debian with systemd until I had a boot problem which I couldn't solve without a debugger because it breaks early boot logging. Then I fucked off to Devuan because fuck that.

Comment Re:same same. (Score 1) 195

What support? [...] Linux people are chronically dishonest and dismissive about problems.

You're being dishonest and dismissive about the existence of paid support options for Linux. You know what it's called when you do the very thing you complain about, right?

With Linux you have to do a wipe with every system upgrade. Windows updates usually work.

This is the exact opposite of my experience. Most of my Linux upgrades have completed successfully, while most of my Windows upgrades have failed. They either failed and self-reverted (taking hours to do so) or they acted like they succeeded and then the system didn't work right, and maybe didn't even boot. Most IT departments never, ever do an OS upgrade in place; they do a fresh install, make an image, and deploy it.

Windows persists because it is "good enough."

Windows persists despite being shit all day because it has operational inertia, and for no other reason.

Comment Re:Something is wrong there (Score 1) 52

I'm not entirely sure why but they sell their mid-ranged card for $250 letting scalpers buy it up and sell it for $400.

Intel is failing at GPUs like most of us knew they would. They simply are not competent at... well, frankly anything anymore. Their performance advantage was based on willfully compromising security in ways that they were warned were harmful before they did them, but they deliberately chose to do them anyway; and on superior process technology, and their process technology is no longer superior and hasn't been for a whole bunch of years now; and of course, on anticompetitive actions which have been proven out in court time and again. AMD would have outcompeted Intel a long time ago if not for those deliberately illegal acts alone, let alone all the other bullshit.

Intel is circling the bowl. They're big enough that it might take multiple flushes to make them go down, but they're still a turd.

Comment Re: Journalism (Score 1) 117

The problem is that, while it's possible to get better news

[citation needed]

You don't even know who he's getting the news from, but you're sure it's not the highest quality. You don't even know what you're attacking to defend your world view, but you're happy to attack it anyway. That's deeply insecure behavior.

there is no way to know it without considering many other sources anyway

If you reliably get good news from a specific source, then you can reasonably trust that source, until such a time as they show themselves to be untrustworthy. This isn't as complicated as you want it to be in your defense of the mainstream news which we can see lies to us constantly.

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