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Intel's poor handling of the Meltdown fiasco and now this tomfoolery, means they have lost me as a customer forever.

I'm on the AMD train now, never buying Intel again.

I don't blame anyone if they don't want to support Edge/IE. Microsoft's browsers are horrible to develop for. Personally I'd be much happier if more of my users would switch to Chrome.

They make dimmer switches that can be controlled via Zwave/Zigbee as well. If you replace your wall switches with these instead of using bulbs that do the same thing, your automations will have no more problems of this sort.

Or we could be civilized and professional towards our colleagues. Why is that too much to ask?

Yeah I was thinking the same thing. This whole concept is a tin-foil pipe dream. It will never see mainstream adoption because data can be really profitable. What business would choose to eliminate a revenue stream for no reason like this?

Plus, as a user, I don't like analytic data being collected. As a software provider, analytics drive nearly every decision.

I like the spirit of what Solid is trying to do, but as long as targeted advertising works better than randomizing every ad you see (it always will), there's zero reason for any profit-seeking entity to choose it.

They'd find some way to ruin it. MS doesn't exactly have a good history with regards to the PC gaming market.

The reason that the adblocking bit is significant is that it makes the benchmark comparisons pretty meaningless. Failing to load 40% of the content that was served will obviously cut the load times by a comparable amount.

For an accurate comparison, Brave's adblocker should be disabled so that it loads everything that Chrome did.

Correct, .eu is a ccTLD, not a whole country. Glad you're able to see the difference.

If you're going to be pedantic, at least do it properly.

I completely agree that most of them are extreme memory hogs. I was just pointing out that the previous commenter's definition of a desktop application made almost no sense to me.

Correct, but IL isn't 'native code'

> Desktop apps are supposed to be: native code

That excludes every single .NET application.

> well integrated in the OS

Don't even know what you mean by this.

> still working when the net is down

Not necessarily, a "native" app for Signal still wouldn't work if the net was down.

> and using system widgets and OS look&feel

I guess that excludes pretty much anything built with Qt.

> Uh, it's the ads that are hurting the user experience

Amen to that. Not only do they slow down page loads by several orders of magnitude, they also frequently slow down the website after page loads. The shenanigans some of them try is really infuriating and blatantly disrespectful to the end user. Embedded cryptocoin mining, firing off HTTP requests rapidly and endlessly, changing the page's scrolling behavior, loading right in the middle of the page's main content, etc.

Any change to a web browser that interferes with or defeats online advertising is one that I welcome. Until online advertising becomes unobtrusive and malware-free again, I, along with millions of others, will keep the adblocker enabled.

Just wanted to say that I've been using svelte a bit at work to create widgets that our clients can embed on their websites, and I absolutely love it. Creating svelte components is super easy and consuming them is even easier.

Thank you for having the vision, thank you for making it, and thank you for continuing to improve it.

I know what you meant, but the word doesn't have an x in it. Espresso is the correct spelling of the word.

Very cool. I'd love to use it, but...

Any plans to release source code? I can't trust any privacy claims without seeing it.