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It's insane to me that they're charging anything for their store; that split is actually insane

Kinda. Firefox keeps changing things anyways and adds more stuff to turn off or modify. I used to routinely find myself helping out family members with getting their Firefox back to how it used to be, and it really did suck. Worst of all, they're now forcing Firefox Accounts down people's throats. Swapped to Librewolf some time ago and haven't looked back, but it's unfortunate that they soil their name like that.

onkoeon More difficult to set default apps in Windows 11 than Win7-10

That still speaks to another problem in the Windows ecosystem - that is the installation of applications. Maybe Winget will help with that, but we can only hope they add its functionality to the Microsoft Store as well so it can become mainstream :)

onkoeon Clubhouse: We are changing our name

House

onkoeon Half of the pandemic's unemployment money may have been stolen

I don't know if we'll ever see a truly bipartisan digital currency in the form we know it now. Fraud prevention and similar services exist in the US government to prevent extreme exploitation by bad actor businesses, which rules out the support of many people in the government who could work to create any such currency. Protection procedures exist only from government institutions, and these range from hard to completely impossible to make with a cryptocurrency or similar systems.

That said, a digital currency (as well as secure identification) would certainly reduce things like credit card fraud or identity theft. So maybe it balances out? This is really difficult to answer definitively lol

onkoeon Salesforce completes acquisition of Slack

Electron works wonderfully and is quite fun to develop with. It's a shame that the performance is.. questionable.. but it's not hard to make stable apps with it. Seems to be a Microsoft issue at this point lol

onkoeon ProtonMail includes Google Recaptcha for login

They use the word privacy a lot, so surely they respect it, right? :(

onkoeon USB-C is about to go from 100W to 240W, enough to power beefier laptops

You're right, but I don't think that the other commenter was speaking to iGPUs. Higher wattage laptops mostly have beefy GPUs sucking up that power, and you'd be hard pressed to find any iGPU that compares (including that of the M1)

onkoeon Ask HN: Do You pinch yourself to remember?

I just set a reminder or something lol

Something unique I do is write with dry erase on the mirror, acts as a more physical reminder

onkoeon Co-founders tried to reduce my equity after company was accepted into YC

this is some fun shit, would watch a tv show like that lmao

onkoeon Big Mail: Your inbox, upgraded

apple only? and $7 a month? lmfao this is worthless

onkoeon M1 iPad Pro: Apps Reportedly Limited to Maximum of 5GB RAM, Even with 16GB

not sure if i'd call it amazing, but it certainly does its job