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I don't think it's fair to suggest that my use cases and priorities are less important than yours. Maybe LibreOffice and GIMP are enough for you. They are not for me, especially in…

Even if you completely run out of power, the screen should stay on the last image it was showing. You might just see the same picture for days/weeks/several heat deaths until you d…

How much did the hardware cost? Is e-ink still super expensive?

Sorry, meant to say "show me ads". But yes, it's still an acceptable tradeoff to me. I mean, our own government harvests even more data and does jack shit with it. At least Google …

Shopify?

Google was definitely better than the algorithmic crawlers. But Yahoo often still had gems for a while, a few years maybe, before they gave up. It's too bad.

You probably don't run the same hardware or software, then. DRM doesn't quite work on Linux (so no 4k). MS Office, a business need, requires WINE or similar. No Adobe. There's Prot…

The thing about Chrome is that it's a known evil. Google monitors me and sells me ads. OK, not exactly benevolent, but I can live with it. I'd prefer they just charge me $100/yr or…

Meh, long before I was a dev, I was a user... and it's true I didn't care about telemetry, but a HUGE difference is that Google's services were USEFUL. Syncing passwords, extension…

Yes. There was a period of several years when Google's results were better than Yahoo, but once the human search engines bankrupt, the algorithmic SEO just kept getting worse and w…

I'd gladly pay for a good search engine, but I'm probably in the minority.

I know. I remember and loved it then.

You know, if that were the only roadblock, I wish someone would take the top 10,000 Google queries and just manually curate them. Hire different interest groups -- outdoors, travel…

The only UX/UI request I have for Firefox: Stop changing it. Don't add any more useless tweaks or adware or bundled services. Its UX "history" made it plummet from the top browser …

IMHO, as a user first and dev second, "things entirely controlled by 3rd parties" aren't a bug, they're a feature. That means someone else gets to jump through the hoops to make it…

Eh, I only said that because I didn't grow up in the US, and had to learn American ways to live and work here. America's a huge part of the world economy and international business…

Not the OP, just offering some thoughts. > There are two possible cases here. (snip) I was under the impression that it was common (in places that use the 12 hour system) to instea…

That's really fascinating. When do businesses typically open and close? Are there set times?

Believe it or not, some Americans will be confused by that. Our modern educational systems don't really prepare them for international communications. It just depends on your audie…

I like this. The guerilla war for universal understanding!

I don't think this is a scheduling thing but a cultural thing. 11:59pm would be 23.59 in other places. The mere use of "11" would suggest morning.

If you can convince my government and my CEO, I'm game!

In the United States we do not say "half nine". We'd say "half PAST nine" sometimes but honestly "nine thirty" is a lot more common.