OK

Somehow it still has a cult like Apple

Is that a Lemmy community… ?

They did. That’s why Beeper Mini exists.

https://github.com/JJTech0130/pypush

https://jjtech.dev/reverse-engineering/imessage-explained/

https://www.wired.com/story/beeper-android-iphone-texting-blue-bubbles/

XPS are the exception to the rule of Dell’s quality, really. I guess the Precisions were also half decent, but I never bothered with them - they were ThinkPads but worse for the same price. Everything else is mediocre to bad.

GNU Network Object Model Environment

A university degree in Canada costs 16-20k CAD per year for tuition/books/etc, more if you’re an international student. Plus residence fees and food and other costs of living if the student isn’t staying at home and just commuting to university.

There’s a reason Canada suffers from brain drain of so many of our skilled workers leaving. Other places, particularly the USA, are popular destinations because they are better opportunities economically.

Yes

Yes

Good translation. It is indeed “the search box”, or rather “the box of search”

MX Clears.

Ayy, another Tex Shinobi user. Sweet.

Take a look at the global human population chart over the last few millenia. Things can seem sustainable when there are a million people on the planet. When there are 8 billion things are a bit different.

It’s also available in the Android Play Store and will be on the iOS App Store soon.

Seems 12ft.io doesn’t work for NYT, but archive.is does:

https://archive.is/r8L9I

1. Website requires user to visit using particular browser
2. User refuses to use said browser
3. ???
4. No profit

Sure. And the further a fork diverges from upstream the more difficult maintenance becomes. My point is that relying on the open source model to fork projects making hostile changes only works so long as the community is actually able to maintain the fork(s), and so long as those forks actually have a reasonable chance of being adopted. It’s equally important, if not even more important, to try to ensure these large projects steer in consumer friendly directions than to react and fork to try to remove anti-consumer features.

Google has enough market and mind share that they can push this and it’s a real risk of becoming an anti-consumer standard regardless of any attempts to maintain a fork.

So what do I think we, as a body of users of the Internet, should do? Simple. Stop using Google Chrome and any other Chromium based browsers. Google has the ability to push these changes and make them defacto standards (and later, codified standards) because we collectively give them the power to by using Chromium downstreams.

“Just” fork it. Right.

It’s a massive undertaking to maintain a fork of something that large and continue pulling in patches of later developments.

Not to say that Brave doesn’t have the resources to do so - I really don’t know their scale - but this notion of “just fork” gets thrown around a lot with these kinds of scenarios. It’s an idealistic view and the noble goal of open source software, but in practical and pragmatic terms it doesn’t always win, because it takes time and effort and resources that may not just be available.

Same as the others - nothing.

Was that meant to rebut the idea that Meta wants to federate with other ActivityPub services? The fact that Google did the same thing with XMPP, gained user share, then defederated once they achieved critical mass - classic EEE?