...for killing off my beloved N900 device family for the dumpster fire the business ended up as. The N950 would have been wonderful.
Absolutely loved that phone. Still, at least I still have Jolla.
Funny thing is, Whatsapp apparently originally started as XMPP, then moved to an extended flavour of the protocol, then closed itself up. Perhaps it's still some sort of XMPP internally, just without any of the good bits, like federation.
Not exactly out of the box, but buy an Xperia and flash Sailfish onto it? Works great, been running it for years.
Same with many games and banking apps. The irony is they're more than happy to let me access their services on my PC (or if they have one, their website using a browser on the same phone!), but heaven forbid I do so on a rooted phone. It's nuts.
I think you have that arse about face. Games are tailored to the capabilities of what the hardware can do. The NES' gimmick was fast hardware scrolling and sprites. Platform games benefit from that, but you can hardly claim Zelda 1 was a platform game, nor things like Punchout. The SNES's gimmick was better graphics and sound and the famous mode 7 scaling and rotation. They looked for games they could develop to show that off, and that's why F-Zero was a launch title, and Mario Kart began life as a multiplayer version of F-Zero.
New consoles are released when there's something worthwhile about them that the company feels will make you buy a new one. Be it better graphics, better controls, bigger games, or simply an anticipated game they've held back to only release on a newer system. If they can eeek those improvements out over more systems, they will so they can sell you more things.
...but I thought Robinhood was already on in the Play Store?
How does enabling that setting prevent it from rebooting? It still forces the reboot, that option just delays it. The OPs solution presumably prevents it altogether, so may well be worthwhile.
You seem to have accidentally omitted all the work between 4.01 and 5 which went into XHTML, which was far better than HTML5, IMHO. Crappy FEDs whining that they'll have to close their tags and generally do things properly led to HTML5, not lethargy by the W3C. HTML had support for all that multimedia by using a generic object tag.
Unless something's changed recently, they are all just skins over Safari, as Apple doesn't allow other rendering engines.
...if copyrights only lasted a sane amount of time, say, 10 years or so, with a couple of optional 10 year extensions. Then the long tail of potential rights holders in a given work would dramatically reduce, making systems such as this much more feasible to manage.
...for bloat like this? Seriously?
What the hell is wrong with the Mozilla Foundation? Just focus on making a minimal, high-quality, open source browser. That's it. that's literally all you need to do. That's why we have rich extension mechanisms, right? So people/companies can build and add-on whatever gubbins they like without wasting core resources building and maintaining it.
I despair sometimes, I really do.
I have feeds on my FF toolbar that show me the latest articles and I click them if one interests me. I can do it with just a single click and a wave of the mouse rather than firing up some external program. Unless they've fixed up the webextensions RSS feeds so you can have a separate button per feed (and no, having separate extensions per feed is NOT sufficient) that also generate a menu showing each item, it's not a good enough replacement, IMHO.
You were doing so well until the nonsense about Nazis. I really don't get the American ignorance about Socialism, I really don't.
Educate yourself:
https://www.indy100.com/articl...
https://www.snopes.com/news/20...
http://www.newsweek.com/nazis-...
It's really not that hard.
One important factor you've neglected to factor in is the cost of administering the current means-tested systems. You have to:
a) have rules
b) enforce those rules
c) maintain those rules as loopholes and variables change
...and yet all the gains we get from battery improvements will continue to be squandered on yet more and more layers of JavaScript.
"I don't believe in sweeping social change being manifested by one person, unless he has an atomic weapon." -- Howard Chaykin
