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I've been switching to Firefox for private use a year ago, but overall I find it not good. Weird bugs, usability issues, dev tools not that great, etc. And privacy-wise, the defaults don't seem great either. There was something about containers that are supposed to prevent tracking between different domains, but if you actively have to create containers rather than them being automatically applied on each domain, then that's not much use since it makes things cumbersome to use.

> Most wines don't handle the abuse of an open day well.

I've had a wine that, although initially intended as a cooking wine, tasted fantastic 4 weeks after opening it.

Unsurprisingly. There is still more CO2 being emitted than removed.

It opens three messages - 2 of them modal and one annoyingly large - whenever I login, and I have to login every time I open it. I'd call that a quite terrible experience. Using the web app.

I'm already having mild trouble to convince everyone to use signal, there is no chance I could get them to use and keep using Element. Element is terrible.

But if I need to wrap around everything, I might was well just use jQuery.

This is all I get: https://ibb.co/N62J5cK "Skip" is the only thing I can really do here.

> When you see this message a notification will show up on all of your other Element devices asking you to verify that new session

I have two element devices, both PCs at different locations. And both using the web version of Element. Am I supposed to verify the other device while logged in at both PCs at different locations?

EDIT: And this is the "help us improve element" message that always pops up, no matter how many times I decline: https://ibb.co/WKkDHDd

PCs, using the web version. One is "Verify your login" with no option to verify, only skip. The next one is "Are you sure you want to skip?", which is insulting/ironic because skipping is the only option. The third one is "Help us improve Element", which doesn't accept a no and keeps asking again and again. And just now I closed element and trying to open it again results in a white page.

Yeah, the switch was the first and last console I bought since the PS2. The value proposition of a combined console and handheld, coupled with lots of nice games made it well worth it. On the other hand, I'm no longer interested in the Playstation series due to lack of backwards compatibility. I've still got lots of PS1 and PS2 games but no more PS2. If the PS6 will support them, I'd get it. Otherwise, not.

Matrix, or at least Element, has terrible UX, though, and I'd never recommend it to my family. It opens three message boxes every single time I open the web client, and I can't disable these boxes permanently. Oh, and I have to login again every time because it doesn't remember logins.

I don't like it, at least not Element. It pops up 3(!) message boxes at every single login (and I have to login every time because it doesn't remember logins) with no apparent option to permanently disable them.

I'm also in favour of OSMs color scheme. It's much easier to parse.

I dislike the forced windows update because they shove crap down your throat with the updates, try to force edge on you, and repeatedly try to get you to accept their privacy stuff.

> Even cities with world-class mass transit, e.g. Tokyo and London, are full of cars

I've found Tokyo had surprisingly few cars for a massive city with high population density. Also, virtually no street parking, which makes the cityscape much nicer, and many side-alleys that are largely car-free.

> Have you ever consider that 1m gap is a product of speed limits?

It's hardly better on rural streets with 100km/h limit and lots of space to overtake. It's not a speed limit issue, it's an issue with car drivers not giving a damn about cyclists and pedestrians because they have no concept of how dangerous this is. Speed limits are essential in a city, and bumps are needed in addition to them.

In my city, cycling lanes are never going to happen. And even if they were to happen, I would never ever want cars driving 100km/h through cities.

Speed limits are important for non-cars. As a cyclist, I don't want people overtaking me 100km/h with a 1m gap. As a pedestrian trying to cross a small city or town street without dedicated crossing, I don't want drivers to suddenly appear with 100km/h from a small curve. I'd argue that 50km/h in a city is still too much. 30km/h should be the limit.

It's not because immigration became harder - they are all MScs or PhDs, some even already did internships in the US, so moving shouldn't be hard. It's because we think that the US is no longer a desirable place to move to.

> P.S: a lot of the young in Europe are learning english because they want to get the f--- out the EU as soon as they can.

This is absolutely not true. English is tought in most schools simply because it's used worldwide. Also, most of the people I know are very happy to live here, and most who may have wanted to emmigrate to the US lost any desire to do so after the four years of Trump.

Same. The new interface is an abomination.

The interleaving/morton code bit hacks are great. They result in serious performance improvements if you need to compute morton codes.

Abstracts nowadays are way too large, bordering on a full blown introduction. I agree that's what they should be for, but they are not, in practice.

A large amount of things won't work with the best of software optimizations. You won't be able to decode 4k videos on 20 year old consumer hardware. You won't be able to run games with today's 3D graphics on an N64, no matter how much you're improving the rendering engine. We absolutely do need faster hardware for a whole lot of things, especially multimedia.

It's also why I didn't by consoles anymore since the PS2. The PS2 was awesome and the backwards compatibility to PS1 games got me hooked. However, I have no desire to buy 3 new consoles every 6-7 years that don't support my previous collection of old games. If the PS5 had backwards compatibility all the way to the PS1, I'd buy it in a heartbeat, but since it doesn't, I won't buy it.

> based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide

So I guess it just doesn't count JS developers as skilled engineers?

Web browsers are just getting started, in my opinion. Browsers already are the most effective way to share content with a massive audience, and WebGPU and WebXR are going to lead to a whole lot of new types of content.

> PS: the original motiviation for the STB single-file libs was actually that Windows doesn't have a default place where dependencies are installed

I've had so many issues with shared libs on linux in the past, I gave up on it and started to include all the necessary source of any third party library in my projects. Makes building and distributing things much easier.

Way simpler to integrate into your project. If there are multiple options, I'll chose the single header lib any day. If there aren't and the library turns out to be cumbersome to integrate, I may just reinvent the wheel or do something different. E.g., I'd never ever integrate boost ever again into any of my projects and just reinvent the wheel instead or just not do whatever would have required boost.

I'm not doing any painting in Krita, I'm using it for image editing. I always hated when I had to use GIMP in the past and it ways a joy to discover Krita and find that it does everything I needed GIMP for, but with a sensible user interface.

It's like GIMP, but good.