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you have no idea how SLOW banks move. And how little say the tech teams have there. The companies selling you the devices make 1/3 (appl) to 3/4 (alphabet) of their entire revenue …

completely missed the point, sorry. Pixels (barelly) running a binary-blob-heavy port of android is far from what is being discussed here. In fact, that is intended as a misdirecti…

I wish their deep tech teams moved as fast as the privacy violating ones.

some small company licensed the blackberry brand and sold really good devices with physical keyboard. They had support up until 2 or 3 years ago. Gone now.

> Very sad how it was allowed to happen so easily. says everyone, using chrome. sigh.

the people deciding this are the ones selling the devices

It would be a wild defense strategy to make the point that "apple is bad at locking doors for ex-employees" (the argument to save the employee) to save them from hiring one of thos…

Ecclesiastes 1:1~11 (where that title is from) talks about futility, using only verses that are hopeful. (but that is lost on newer translations because the language was simplified…

his magnum opus Explode Eath and most of humanity, because of bureocracy apathy, in the first 10 pages. ...Oh I see now. nvm.

on KDE5-6, ironically, to have high-contrast windows and square borders, one must use something written because the author wanted round corners on older versions of kde :) https://…

"piping everything to sudo bash makes a home server easier and fun"

The only thing worth saving from windows8-10 is the windows border. it is a huge usability win. Clear borders. square (so it's also fast). clear colors showing which window has foc…