Comment Re:Firefox dev tools suck (Score 1) 34
Quantity or quality because the one I care the most about doesn't work well on Chrome.
Comment Re:Educated guess (Score 4, Insightful) 115
It's going to take 25 years. 10 years to end long-term agreements with Microsoft, 10 years to transition and another 5 years of pain and suffering while trying to use Linux as a reliable desktop before realising that they need to switch back to Windows.
I don't think you know the meaning of the word reliable.
Windows is proprietary. In my experience Windows is not as reliable as Linux.
Comment Re:Love systemd (Score 3, Interesting) 118
I've been administering systems remotely, thousands of miles apart, for over 30 years and never had an issue with systems not coming up until SystemD was introduced.
I'm not saying it hasn't happened to you but the choices you make generate your results. I prioritize stability, reliability and security so I never had an issue.
Labels like 'tribal kneejerk anti-SystemD people" don't help the converstation. There are people who believe their is a right tool for the job. A Swiss army knife is great for emergencies but you never see a carpenter using it as a main tool.
Comment Re:Hey Canada, here's a hint (Score 2, Informative) 108
Hydro-Quebec is owned by the government and all the profits go to the government and helps paying the cost of running the government like education, roads and social programs etc.
Just like every other tax collected by the government. You didn't mention the cost overruns of SAAQClick, nor the disaster that is the road network that is falling apart or the construction of a hospital parking lot instead of fixing a hospital that is crumbling with water cascading from years of negligence.
Yes Quebec has an abundance of hydro electric power due to the appropriation of land and assets. You make it sound like a utopia when reality is more middle ground.
Comment Re:Subsidized, isn’t a plan. (Score 4, Insightful) 156
and yet just this week how much oil is released from reserves? Why do we even have oil reserves? I won't even go into the subsidizing of oil and ICE.
If subsidizing isn't a plan then we should do away with all.
Comment Re:This is stupid (Score 2) 255
It's not as if masked police can pick you up and detain you with no access to legal representation. Oh wait, they can. They did it to to legal US citizens as well.
The US constitution is not worth the paper it's printed on with the current administration. The fact that there is a risk that you can just be deported anywhere is just nuts.
Not to mention that crossing the border makes you feel like a criminal with finger prints and cell phone searches. Canadians and Americans used to cross the border just by showing a drivers license.
What's really stupid is people defending this illegal action.
Comment 27" 5K? (Score 1, Insightful) 47
You would think that we would have moved to larger formats by now. I have an 55" 8K with a 32" 4K as a secondary monitor with multiple desktops. I would say a 27" 5K monitor would feel cluttered. It reminds me of working in a cubicle.
Comment Land of the free? (Score 1) 64
better get their act together, and be helpful during this phase out period, or I will use the Full Power of the Presidency to make them comply, with major civil and criminal consequences to follow.
Sounds more like China or Russia to me...
Comment It's interesting (Score 2) 25
how communists, dictators, and presidents are all starting to sound the same. Alex Pretti, Renee Nicole Good and Pavel Durov accused of abetting terrorists.
Comment Re:Good Low Level video on it (Score 2) 66
but it's not like a user isn't warned several times when clicking on such a link.
But why does every app have to be a browser? Is this functionality going to be added to solitaire? Why not?
To me it seems that if Microsoft was in the tool business every thing would need to be, or function like, a hammer.
Comment Re:Defintely Not Everyone (Score 1) 186
That's what i have now, get off the couch or get up and restart the systems...
Tech was supposed to make our lives easier...
Comment Re:Defintely Not Everyone (Score 1) 186
Exactly!
Not to mention going from one remote that worked properly to multiple remotes that don't work as expected and new issues with every update and every gadget.
Where is the smart in smart TVs? To me they are the Trojan horses. I had to move them off the main network.
Piracy sounds simpler and way less intrusive
Comment Vibe is killing itself? (Score 1) 106
I don't know of a single company sharing proprietary code. So where will vibe be if there is no code to scan?
On another note. A while back people were worried that open source licensed code would make it in commercial licensed code and would create some legal issues. Isn't this also an issue with vibe generated code?
To me it seems that it's more of an issue that vibe creates a problem for proprietary code. GPL to vide makes vibe code into GPL. Share and share alike.
Comment Re:So this probably isn't a good idea (Score 1) 64
The US invading would hurt the US. Just the threats have opened peoples eyes. Migrations take time and I don't know anyone that ever ran to aÂbully to get abused.
Comment Re:This is correct (Score 1) 136
You're probably 20 years late to this party. There are very, very, VERY few of the usual things that the phone replaced where the phones are doing a sub-par job. Maybe the only relevant somehow common example is a bright, telephoto lens, sure you can't beat physics and replace sometimes literally kilograms of glass with a lens as small as the tip of your pinkie. For the rest, the complains are usually overblown. Compact cameras are just about as good, as the good phones, what can one insist on, having more physical buttons? If anything phones have even decent advantages there: they're usually waterproof (while most compact cameras aren't), they have a huge screen that not even 50k$ camera have, networking capabilities that really work not the wifi afterthought that's a pain in even the mentioned multi-thousand$ cameras, encrypted storage and so on.
My 20 year old spare camera has a better battery life than a new phone. I can also buy a spare battery and have it charging. Precision focus and target selection. ISO / shutter speed / aperture selection with a roll of the thumb or finger while keeping my subject in frame. Unlimited storage. Hands free operation. etc... etc... etc..
What else, mp3 players? What can one insist on, maybe better DACs in a particular model
How about simple transfer from/to phone without having to connect to a third party. How about Ogg. What's good for the goose is not always good for the gander. When someone uses sheeple as an argument it shows they no longer have a point to make. Who cares what others are using. I care about my privacy and listening to the music and songs I paid for or created.
Digital organizers, or address books? C'mon. Oh, wait, I have a good one: alarm clocks! Remember when you had an alarm clock at home, and a nice folding travel alarm clock? How is the phone worse, not good enough haptics if you need to smash the snooze button?
Digital organizers were and still aren't an issue. Your good one is not that great. Terrible, example. I no longer sleep with my phone in my room what with all the annoying alerts that you can't turn off.
Why do you need a travel alarm when the hotel telephone system has a wake up call feature?
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