Real people who will tell you that your minor, fixable, hardware or software issue is impossible to repair, or would cost twice the price or the device, so you are advised to buy a new one or upgrade. The main reason amazon's support is so great is because they have almost zero stakes in it. They offload the blame and costs to the sellers or manufacturers most of the time because they can.
How did billionaires amass that much riches? How much environmental distrution, erosion of democracy and workers rights, and general negativity brought them up to this level? Giving back a few million to the community does not offset that.
That I don't need to stare at a small, bright, distracting screen when I'm there to relax and enjoy time with friends. Add to that that most restaurants have terrible accessibility in these digital menus, like PDFs with tiny fonts, poor zooming capabilities, etc. Paper menus don't waste my data and battery. They are also inherintly private and don't communicate my personal data to others.
When you're a CEO, you're also the face of the company. His "personal contributions" were to support banning of same sex marriage, and it was just 5 years earlier. That's just unacceptable, even in 2014. It really showed how politics work inside companies like Mozilla.
But you're not alone. That year lots of users dropped Firefox.
It's honestly a pity. Firefox is it perfect but the Internet is becoming worse because of chrome. Google is able to fast track any non standard Web tech and the hordes follow. Soon after, that become the standard. I don't want to cheer for a broken browser, but only Safari is able to stop this madness now.
Also, Firefox on the Desktop is really good and still let's you do so much more than chrome clones. But it suffers specially when using Google websites.
I think no company has yet figured out how to make affordable waterproof phones that are also user serviceable. The moment you open your phone, you destroy the adhesives and say goodbye to IPS6. Watch makers have solved this problem long ago, is it just not scalable for bigger devices?
The main reason safari is used in desktop is because other browsers are not first class citizens. They have access to resources that third parties don't.
Another way to make money without having to detray customers is to... Ask for money. One Plus positioned itself as a cheap flagship killer by having paper thin margins and no marketing, and the moves to just make expensive phones like anyone else. Framework is not cheap and you get what you pay for.
Most UX design makes lots of assumptions. Someone who is not familiar with Google maps could very well interpret the dotted grey arc as a real path. It's almost identical to the dotted blue path.
For a project as massive as a browser, being open source is vastly irrelevant. Only major companies are able to truly maintain a browser these days. You can fork Chrome, sure, but you won't get anywhere with it. Chromium is Google.
Turns out, when you follow the GDPR and make it as easy to give as it is to remove/reject consent, people will generally reject consent to be tracker and personally identified unnecessarily.
I love github as a product but for the past months, issues are a weekly occurance, often multiple times a week, and always in the middle of the day (Europe).
In Berlin, if you live in the ground floor of a residential building, you're stuck being the building's personal packstation. No mail man will bother ring all the bells of the building.
It's funny. I've been using Nebula occasionally (terrible interface, slow as molasses, close to no discoverability of videos, but otherwise nice content), and it's always so weird how videos just get to the point and then end abruptly. I grew so used to pointless intros, stretched content, and sponsored outros that Nebula videos feel really off in contrast.
I remember that years ago Bender, the 3D editor, had tutorials on YouTube without ads, but due to the volume of views they were forced to enable adsot sure if that has since changed
While I agree with you, the truth is that among gay men, the use of condoms was already in sharp decline despite HIV, and before PrEP being so ubiquitous years ago. So while this medicine might have made people forgo condoms faster, it also came at the right time to prevent youths from a life with HIV. Furthermore, each new PrEP prescription (prepscription?) requires tests for a series of common STIs so at least guys are getting tested regularly now.
People have always killed other people. Some people even eat other people. And we let them. Have you tried to convince a lion to eat a soy gazelle? I suppose not, because of the strong language barrier. They would probably not digest it very well, as they are real carnivores. My point is, we are capable of having this complex discussion with several points of view and your whole reasoning is "animals eat animals, why shouldnt I?".
Depends of the volume. Cows don't just drink, eat, and return lovely fertilizer. The huge amount of urine and manure some cow ranches produce is dangerous to the environment around them, and to the ranchers, so their waste actually needs to be removed and processed.