I’ve been using it for a while, and it feels almost indistinguishable from regular Firefox. Broken sites are not a common problem.

Windows 8 was awful. Windows 7 was better. But instead of using a nearly 20 year old version of Windows, we can use modern Linux.

I agree in principle. I know how to self-host, and I do self-host some things, but I can’t always afford the upfront investment (especially with today’s hardware costs) and I don’t always have time to keep up with the administration (because I’m a wage slave) so I end up renting some of it. I’m not the only one in this position.

I think there’s a place for rented tech services just as there’s a place for rented housing, but the problem in both cases is regulatory capture by landlords that mean we get stuck renting forever from exploiters. (And with tech there’s the surveillance too, so they’re the landlord that puts a secret camera in your bedroom.) So anyway, I’m trying to at least pick my tech landlords more carefully until I can afford a better solution, and as far as possible I try to make sure my stuff is encrypted before they see it.

I ended five subscriptions to US tech services over the weekend, and I’m working steadily down my list.

Yes, it seems like it could be a deflection to take the attention off Israel and muddy the waters. Everything else was pointing to Mossad.

The answer to that is yes, dark gray still saves battery, but this is the part where most people say “but pure black saves more power because the pixels are actually turned off!” I’m going to sort of contradict my own title here, but yes, both statements in that outcry are true.

So don’t use that title, since you admit it’s false? But I guess “Black saves only a tiny bit more power than dark grey” wouldn’t get the clicks, though true, because it’s not as surprising as the falsehood.

Daily Mail attributes its findings…

The source is the notoriously untruthful Daily Mail so take this with a big pinch of salt.

They asked what you think it means. Please say something about that.

I’d guess that either they think communism = all things bad (because they have no clue what communism is), or they think Trump is on Putin’s side and they didn’t notice that Russia hasn’t been communist for 35 years now. The most charitable reading is that they think Trump is authoritarian and that the USSR was not so much communist as an authoritarian dictatorship despite its communist rhetoric. That last one is at least debatable, but it requires more nuance than is probably there in sticking a hammer and sickle in the middle of Trump’s name.

Let them drag their feet over Windows 12. It won’t bring anything good.

And it will be called Copilot 365 12 Teams for Home.

That’s crazy talk. Just change the colours and shovel in more AI and ads. Don’t dilute your brand.

Ah but now they’re going to be a robot company selling fewer and fewer robots instead.

The kakkiest of kakistocracies.

From here in Canada it looks a lot like, instead of governing responsibly, the USA is burning up its own land in the expectation that when things get tough it can just take ours.

Italy kind of said yes to fascism already. Their government is at least fascist-adjacent. Funny that even they don’t want ICE anywhere near them.

Scott Bessent is an absurd human being.

You really need a VPN to torrent safely, and the UK Government is in the process of restricting VPNs.

That’s not the point. This is a protest by the company running these sites against a system that’s not fit for its claimed purpose (age restriction of websites) but is very fit for surveillance.

Then we just need a hero to route all our traffic through the House of Lords.