Well, it didn't turn out well.

We'll see how how it'd go in Paris.

Context:

Munich hosts Germany's MS HQ. And merely few visits (no gifts or rebates!) from them to the local govt was enough. ... But MS's main European HQ is located in *drum roll* Paris. Good luck to all participating in the migration.

Why are you searching only for 11" when you were originally comparing to an Air, which only comes with 13" and 15" screens?

In the Windows world, the best values tend to be in the 15" class, while smaller screens are generally on more premium models.

And yes, there are a lot of options. Some of us like that, instead of being at the whims of what one manufacturer wants to offer in a given generation.

Update your jokes. They are too stale.

I couldn't find AdBlock for Vivaldi. I don't trust the built-in stuff from commercial vendors.

Vivaldi has also implemented Google's "manifest v3" for some reason. That's precisely the thing I want to avoid - but Vivaldi apparently embraces.

P.S. Googled it. ... Oof. They use Chrome's extensions?! No own extension store??? So Vivaldi is merely a dressed up Chrome? Disappoint.

Any decent Firefox alternative appeared?

I've long started dreading Fx upgrades. It's an unpleasant feeling. Time to move on.

Is there any Firefox-based browser appeared that is suitable as a "workhorse browser" like e.g. older Firefox/Mozilla/Navigator versions?

Something that just works without idiotic animated everything or sliding menus BS? no pop-ups announcing "new features"(tm)? and please no pastel or gradient BS?

Yes, a Chromebook that is likely several years old and cost $200 is going to be disappointing compared to a $1000 laptop from a premium manufacturer.

There is an awful lot of middle ground between those, though.

The tasks may be similar, but iOS is aggressive about suspending or terminating applications that are not in the foreground.

I would be skeptical of performance with multiple foregrounded apps, personally.

Year of Wayland on Linux is any minute now. Thus it's never too early to throw away the "old junk"(tm), that works and is used daily by millions, that is inevitably going to be replaced by... jam tomorrow.

What's going to happen first: Wayland or AGI?

Interesting idea. Though probably a PC-in-a-dock would have been a better idea.

Keyboards (and mice) were always the most disposable parts of a PC - for a reason.

I mean, with this device, you now can spill coffee on your PC too.

Plus all the hygienic hazards. (I would never want to use keyboard/mouse of some of my colleagues.)

The correct title should have been "GNOME devs are still idiots". With "now joined by Mozilla Inc." added.

Why is this even news? These idiots had removed Alt+Tab from early GNOME3 by default. And it took weeks of debates on the mail lists by Ubuntu people to force the idiots to put it back.

What else did you expect?

The whole discussion feels weird.

Whole of Africa (1.5B pop) and Asia/India (4.8B pop) since the beginning were IPv6. There were never enough IPv4 addresses for them to begin with.

And here we have another tempest in a teacup whether IPv6 was/is success or not.

According to VGChartz the Switch has YTD sales of 12,477,026 compared to 14,233,301 for the PS5, which had six additional months of sales.

That's a lot of people who don't need to buy a Switch 2 for Christmas because they already bought one a few months ago.

In a web environment, yeah, my understanding is that there still needs to be some amount of glue code to manipulate the DOM.

I'm a backend developer, so that is less of interest to me than WASI, the WebAssembly System Interface.

AssemblyScript might count, but with a WASM target instead of Javascript.

Google's Gemini AI Is Coming To Your TV

I wish all the luck to Google - to locate my TV in a landfill (or a recycling yard) where I have sent it to several years ago.