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kayart_devon iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan

Although I partially agree with you, Firefox on Android is a wonderful mobile browser (with some weird stuff though). I would love to have the same Firefox on my iOS but it's currently just impossible.

kayart_devon VS Code deactivates IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot

Unfortunately, people often resist change and prefer to stick with what they know. Maybe a small percentage of people will look for alternatives but it'd be a drop in the ocean.

kayart_devon Google removes Sci-Hub domains from U.S. search results due to dated court order

Brave Search has an independept index (https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/28/brave-search-doesnt-use-bi...) and Qwant and Ecosia recently announced that they would be working on an independent European search index too (https://blog.ecosia.org/eusp/)

kayart_devon LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted

https://guiltygamer.com/diggs-beta-is-already-showcasing-the...

kayart_devon AGI is not possible even in 10 years

This comment can be easily read in Slavoj Žižek’s voice

kayart_devon Collabora Online Desktop Released with Improved UI from LibreOffice

If your software can look and work pretty similar to what Microsoft Office does but be cheaper or even free at the same time - there’s a market for this type of stuff

kayart_devon LinkedIn is loud, and corporate is hell

I agree. If you follow people that are really interesting to you and if you don’t just connect with anyone who tries to connect with you, your feed can be pretty good. Sometimes LinkedIn reminds me of the good old days when everyone had a Twitter account and people could discuss there their work and other related stuff without too much politics involved

kayart_devon Microsoft doesn't understand the dislike for Windows' new direction

Zorin OS developers already announced a huge spike of new downloads: https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/this-linux-os-ha...

I believe many similar beginner-friendly projects like Mint or Fedora see the same trends on their end

With SteamOS and other related projects like Wine and Proton getting more support and attention, I hope more and more developers will start caring about making their apps support Linux out of the box

kayart_devon Wrapping my head around AI wrappers

It’s hard to count how many ffmpeg wrappers are there

kayart_devon Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash

Microsoft has been pushing AI features into both VS Code and GitHub for quite some time

kayart_devon Google Antigravity

On the contrary, I am glad that the Sublime team did not fall for the trends and avoided adding AI slop into the editor

kayart_devon New in Firefox: Visual search powered by Google Lens

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/search_by_ima... is even better in my opinion, it supports multiple image search engines at the same time