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bwat48··on GeForce RTX 5090
I think the limitation here is more with the process nodes then with the GPU architecture
bwat48··on What We're Working on in Firefox
Containers is not a replacement for profiles, they are completely separate use cases. Those who use multi-profile do so because they want separate bookmarks, settings, etc (e.g. personal profile vs work profile)... which containers cannot do.
bwat48··on What We're Working on in Firefox
Really happy that they are finally improving multi-profile support
bwat48··on Microsoft quietly supported legislation to make it easier to fix devices
The CPU requirements are because they wanted to enable virtualization based security by default and have it be performant.
bwat48··on Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing
This is why I use firefox, you can just un-check 'show search suggestions ahead of browser history in addressbar results'
bwat48··on Tell HN: Google search partial outage while rolling out new search?
for me it works when signed into one google account but not another
bwat48··on Counter-Strike 2 – Limited Test for select CS:GO players
they'll never do this because one of the main drive to buy cosmetics in multiplayer games is to show off to others
bwat48··on Microsoft hijacks Google's Chrome download page to beg you not to ditch Edge
Microsoft: What great ideas!
bwat48··on Trilium Notes: note taking application for large personal knowledge bases
it supports tags (multiple per note) and you can search with #tag
bwat48··on Teams is killing my Mac every day
It's on windows store, called 'Microsoft Remote Desktop"
bwat48··on Add-on support in new Firefox for Android (2021)
misleading title, some addons are available... e.g. I use ublock origin in firefox on android
bwat48··on The mites in the skin of our faces
This has been used for rosacea for a long time, predating the pandemic. there's a prescription called soolantra
bwat48··on Probiotics can support the effect of antidepressants
probiotics 'colonizing' at all is very rare, they are generally transient
bwat48··on Deluge BitTorrent Client
there are unofficial builds, I've been using them for quite a while with no issues
bwat48··on Modern CSV Version 2 Beta is now available
Yeah excel silently mangling csv files has always infuriated me

Just gave this program a try and it lets me save changes without removing any of the double quotes, yay!

bwat48··on Celebrating Firefox: How we got to 100
The release cycle is absolutely nothing to do with chasing version numbers.

It's about being able to ship new features when they are ready, instead of waiting for a 'major' new version.

This release cycle makes the most sense for 'evergreen' software like a web browser. There's a reason why every major browser has adopted it.

The only version that matters for a web browser is the 'latest' version.

bwat48··on Why is inflammation a dangerous necessity?
Probably due to the bacillus subtilis probiotic that it contains
bwat48··on Zim – A Desktop Wiki
I love this program, I've used it every day at work for years for my personal knowledgebase
bwat48··on Ask HN: Why do new browsers use Chromium instead of Firefox as their base?
I prefer firefox to brave
bwat48··on LastPass appears to be holding users' passwords hostage
not really, on desktop I can just go to firefox menu | passwords and search/view/copy any of my saved passwords

on android, firefox can autofill passwords in any app

bwat48··on Winamp source code leak
musicbee is pretty good
bwat48··on Piracy release group EVO ‘blames’ movie industry for its popularity
I buy almost all my music on Bandcamp these days, great platfotm
bwat48··on Office 2000 is good to go
Yeah the teams search drives me crazy, I can find the comment I'm looking for, but it's impossible to find the thread with all of the important context if it's too old

reminds me of this:

https://xkcd.com/979/

Only denvercoder9 is myself!

bwat48··on Google features that Microsoft turned off in Chromium Edge
I'm not a programmer myself, but it's my understanding that chromium is pretty well suited to being embedded.

Just look at how successful chromium has been in this space, stuff like Chromium Embedded framework, Electron, the myriad of chromium based web browsers etc...

bwat48··on The Pixelbook is being used to test Google's Fuchsia OS
Yeah I pretty much disregard any distro that's based on 16.04, too many ancient packages
bwat48··on Why hasn’t the Year of the Linux Desktop happened yet?
Anecdotally, as a PC gamer I've seen my fair share of people having constant mic issues on windows. Sometimes mics are just a pain in the ass.
bwat48··on Why hasn’t the Year of the Linux Desktop happened yet?
It's still pretty annoying though. And even if you disable those ads in the settings, it seems like the preference randomly gets switched back on every other time you update windows

It's been a few releases since I used fedora, but I don't recall ever seeing any kind of ads in the apps menu... and the vast majority of linux distros don't have any of that kind of garbage

bwat48··on Firefox 54: E10S-Multi, WebExtension APIs, CSS Clip-Path
ublock is actively maintained, and afaik they have been working on a webextensions version, so I assume they'll be ready by then if not soon after.

In the meantime ublock works fine and is e10s compatible.

bwat48··on Firefox 54: E10S-Multi, WebExtension APIs, CSS Clip-Path
even chrome doesn't do one process per tab afaik, if I recall they do something closer to process per domain
bwat48··on Firefox 54: E10S-Multi, WebExtension APIs, CSS Clip-Path
ublock will work fine with e10s. It's not a webextension yet, but it is e10s compatible already
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