I am on an older version and I so not looking forward to moving to another launcher.

Nova just so many small useful things that all just work (folder/icon gestures, icon pack support is exemplary).

That would have been true of any upgrade to the WPA algorithm, WPA2 was released in the mid 2000s.

Although I didn’t know it was mandatory for WiFi 7. At the end of the day you should be able to pick if you want to run WPA2 or WPA3.

I outlined my thoughts around Waterfox’s decision to work with StartPage and whitelist their adds further down in this thread. I don’t see an issue with this.

You keep making bombastic statements, but when anyone calls you out and asks for specifics, you either ignore or try and change the subject.

How do search suggestions in Firefox integrate advertising? Is it tied to a specific search script and what is advertisement display logic?

The on-hover provider sponsorship notice is indeed an ad. That’s fair. Definitely not an example of “Firefox is bursting at the seams with ads.” and you know it.

As I said in another post, Mozilla has massive issues, there is no question about that. But you clearly have some sort of weird agenda and have no qualms with being deceptive and promoting misinformation.

I am done here.

Search engine placement isn’t that big of a deal as long as you can change the search engine list. If anything as a user you would want this to be leveraged to provide stability for something as critical as a browser as it doesn’t undermine privacy or user flexibility (it can lead to undesirable incentives as with Mozilla, but that’s the true of almost everything that concerns money).

I have a heavily customized Firefox, so I may have missed new developments in the baseline profile (I see none of the things you mention on Windows and Android), but how are search suggestions ad?

Wouldn’t this feature depend on which search script you are using? And isn’t the search suggestion logic for paid placement search engines still explicitly tied to their search systems? Can you explain how this works in terms of specifics?

Or are you saying that one of the default paid placement search engines places an ad on the first row of the search suggestion list?

I was curious about the weather widget (as I said, I often miss certain baseline profile features), I actually thought they decided to add a Android widget for weather which seemed strange. Are you sure this is an ad? It may well be, I’ve never seen it or used it, but a quick search suggests this isn’t true. Happy to be corrected.

Mozilla has a lot of issues, but I don’t think it is helpful to muddy the water in this way.

Sounds like a pretty desperate move. One would think subscriptions would come organically.

If they were serious about malware, they would have to permanently ban all Meta apps (potentially even blacklist senior Meta executives so apps from other companies would also be banned if they hired the Meta hoodlums).

But again, Google is a large American technology company; i.e. a rat’s nest of crime, lies and degeneracy.

Robin Liu, the OnePlus executive who recently dismissed rumors of the company shutting down, has now resigned and returned to China. OnePlus has confirmed the news, further stoking rumors about the brand’s future in key global markets.

Looks like they are indeed exiting markets outside of China.

This is a stupid reason to fork systemd, this is an optional features. I can think of totally reasonable use cases/situations where such an optional feature makes a lot of sense.

Mind you, while I don’t have children, I have no intent to restrict their usage of the internet. Teaching them critical thinking and providing them a broad cultural exposure seems like a much more productive approach.

Moved Laptops and Gaming Laptops to piefed.social:

• !gaminglaptops@piefed.social
• !laptops@piefed.social

I think it went pretty well.

The text editor sounds crazy to use.

The question is how soon.

The bubble can go on for a long time with circular financing schemes and it has full backing of the US gov.

It’s worth pointing out that lack of RIO has been a thing for a while now.

You can use an Android phone without logging in to your Google account.

I tried this a few years ago.

And even if you do use an MS account to log into Windows, can they really lock you out of your own hardware? i use local account and I will never log into Windows with an MS account.

Do Apple computers not have a local account option?

You definitely need a local copy of all cloud storage.

Tbh, and I plan to do this for piefed.social soon (and rimu has given me the go-ahead) - abandoned discarded communities with literally zero posts need to be purged by instances. It’s just clutter.

Cool, it’s a good idea. But there are also other instances.

Then there is the issue of communities with a large number of subs but where the last post was 7 months ago and they have 0 MAUs. While a community with a lot less subs can have several posts per week and at least some MAUs (couple of hundred).

This is solved by Piefed.