johnsea

I'm aware that Brave is a for-profit company, this must not necessarily mean that they'll do evil things. And if they would and Mozilla is no longer around, this could also be because Google stopped funding them.

I never switched to Chrome, always used Firefox.

But it increasingly got more config-involving to make FF do what I wanted and maybe I overdid some settings/plugins and websites started to show incorrectly. Also the imho (much) too high salary for the CEO annoyed me (Mozilla is supposed to be "Internet for people, not profit").

Tried Brave and it was a nice experience after some initial cost to e.g. disable crypto. Some weeks ago I uninstalled FF on all my computers...

In the beginning after the fork, gitea added features which I didn't need. Nothing against gitea just thought I'd also mention gogs, which hummed along here fine and if possible I prefer the code from the original author. (Edit, mmh, not always true, I use neovim...)

FWIW I prefer gogs (from the original developer).

FreeOffice works great on Linux. Same as on Windows and the Mac.

(https://www.freeoffice.com/en/)

Thank you. Didn't try out yet (need vim) but it looks very nicely done, bravo!

Can't you add some sort of impressum to the website where you give some information about you?

gandi.net

There are DDNS scripts on github to update the DNS record. Picked gandi a very long time ago and have no complaints.

It's subjective. I like my Win 11 installation much better than 10. What I (still) miss though, is a tabbed Windows Explorer and some more polishing here and there. The Windows terminal and WSL2 work great. -- This said, my main computer runs Pop!_OS and Windows is only used when externally required.

Maybe you should add contact info (email) to your profile? Who knows if then a person who is able to help reaches out to you.

You could use a service like readly and pay (a little) for the content you read.

(But I must mention, your Spiegel is not covered there atm)

> (I too need to learn Vim)

well, then start. What are you waiting for?

E.g. here: https://danielmiessler.com/study/vim. Don't miss Vim as Language.

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> A fork of cdrtools with this bug fixed is on GitHub: https://github.com/samboy/iso9660

I dedicate this repo this his memory. --> I dedicate this repo to his memory.

Maybe if they would spend it on the right things, Google would stop paying?

I believe the permissions are more granular now but I didn't look into it in detail. See: https://sailfishos.org/wiki/Android_Compatibility#Permission..., https://sailfishos.org/ (search for security) or https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/sailfish-apps-permission/5466.

> nobody forces you to buy Apple

there is a lot of pressure to buy either an iPhone or an official (GooglePlay) Android phone. Most (all) services only support these two options. Also true for public/governmental institutions.

SailfishOS/Jolla is a great option.

The problem is, that some important (e.g. banking) apps are missing and cannot be installed/run with the Android emulator. Another problem is, that Sailfish is available only in very few countries, e.g. not in the US.

Nice bike/attempt but not many of them in circulation (too expensive, too exposed). Fwiw, pedaling does not provide a large fraction of the needed energy and I don't think the mechanical complication was worth it. Twike is the past imo.

Maybe Microlino, a wonderful, stylish, energy efficient vehicle, will be the future (certainly smarter than the crap suv tanks one sees driving around here (in the inner city)).

I stand corrected with them mentioning blur/block in the authentication email (this was not the case earlier). But anyhow, what is for you "some foreign company" and "some hosting" is for them "some customer" which most likely is nice/friendly but there are exceptions.

There are bad actors. I don't know details but suspect that passport requirements help with deterring them. If Hetzner gets a bad reputation it affects all their customers.

Nice that you have options which meet your wishes. But I like the way Hetzner is doing business (not to mention the great quality-price ratio which is hard to find elsewhere).

Why wouldn't they reject a ID/passport with some details blacked out?

They have proper support lines where one can call and ask. (At least this was so a couple of years ago, no need to call support since then..).

All power to Facebook!

I can (and do) block Facebook and be almost not affected with what they do, but iPhones as part of a duopoly cannot be avoided. I like and use Apple hardware but hope that Facebook and Epic rip them into pieces. It's completely inacceptable that a single company holds the sole power to access such a widespread platform. There needs to be a side-loading choice and alternative app stores.

Normally I use Firefox, but as it didn't run well on SailfishX/Android, an alternative was needed. Tried Brave, adapted some settings and this browser runs very well, I can recommend it. And, at least for me, Brave is very useful!

Threema doesn't.

I pointed out such promotions in reviews and never had a rejection. Other than your review I also wrote some sentences about the product. Maybe that makes a difference?

In any case it's import that people point out such bad practices. (One time I would have received a gift certificate for 30 $ for a product which costs 25 $. Crazy!)

Offtopic: since theguardian.com kicked out Suzanne Moore in a rather unfriendly way, I don't read this newspaper any more (at least for some time), also no further (small) donations.

Unfortunately breaks windy :-(

SO is fine. On discourse (besides asking questions like on SO) there is also space to e.g. discuss why one feels exhausted, defeated and uninspired after working with Julia. This shouldn't be! And there is certainly a way to "fix it" :)

Have you asked on https://discourse.julialang.org/ already? Maybe, hopefully, you can find help there to feel less exhausted.

-- It's not an opinion when you e.g. say that precompilation has not been addressed when it is being worked on (with much cost, I'd suppose). Same for haven't focused on the UX [snip]. In case you aren't on the julialang discourse I really encourage you to register and ask.

Frustrating that after all those nice world web saving words "only" egoistical overpaid upper management people remain. On the other side, these are likely the people who bring in all the money from Google. Hmm?