Is there an alternative that is still as good as pre-2020 Google, or at least better than 2024 Google? I tried many alternatives around 2020 but didn't like the UI or search results of any of them compared to Google, but now I don't like Google Search anymore either so I may reconsider. I just want straight-to-the-point search results without having it trying to outsmart me and flood me with things I didn't search for. What I search for is what I want, nothing else.

The next thing on their TODO list should be to become compatible with Facebook and Instagram again, after giving a broken experience there (scrolling jumping around like crazy) for nearly two years. Yes, I understand that the problem is that Meta has badly written JavaScript code that is broken on Firefox. No, that doesn't matter for end users. I really want to recommend people to use Firefox, but sorry, I can't because of this.

Far too much line spacing for my taste. My favourite terminal//coding font is Agave (but the Nerd Fonts version, of course).

Do you work at Verizon, perhaps? The link you provided currently says "1 RUB = 0.00744345 USD", which is about 0.74 cents.

They already dropped the fingerprint sensor about 4 years ago, after iPhone 8 (not counting the iPhone SE). At this pace, will probaly see Fart ID before a comeback of Touch ID, though.

Not sure what you are doing on your computer but I've been using a 4750G extensively for half a year and I've had zero issues with the GPU drivers.

Sounds like you're talking about The V Programming Language. :)

I hated the new tabs, mostly because of the vertical height. Luckily, I found Lepton which brings back normal looking compact tabs. With it installed I think it even looks better now than before, actually.

The latest cards reportedly don't have the reset bug. At least not 6800XT.

Don't worry, you will have it your way. The EU will from now on never again rely on the US for manufacturing of anything important and more and more vaccines and medicines will be produced on EU soil going forward. That's the most positive thing for the people of EU in this whole mess, that manufacturing will be brought home. Can't rely on countries that stop acting like allies as soon as some shit hit the fan.

I use Duplicacy to Backblaze B2 storage. The CLI tool is Open Source and free on all platforms. The backups are deduplicated, compressed, encrypted and incremental. It's also lock free, so different computers can backup simultaneously to the same storage repo and be deduplicated with each other.

It may be outside of the usage patterns of the average user today, but the existence of data caps may also be the whole reason that the average user isn't already using a lot more bandwidth. Service providers are held back by their users' data caps, preventing the "cloud revolution" to really take off.

Gaming from cloud gaming services at good quality is about 16 GB per hour. That's 2.5 hours of gaming per day to reach 1.2 TB just gaming. Combine gaming with some Netflix, Youtube, PornHub and cloud backups and you quickly reach 1.2 TB. Nowadays it's even common to watch old school TV channels over the internet instead of using the antenna or cable. You often even get better quality. Cast CNN/FoxNews/whatever to your Chromecast or AppleTV and keep it running in the background from early morning to late evening. I can easily imagine my non-technical parents doing that, every day.

Also, I recently reinstalled my computer and Dropbox downloaded some 600 GB worth of mobile camera pictures and videos in the background, just like that. I don't even take that many pictures, it just builds up over the years. I can easily imagine non-nerds using up multiple terabytes on cloud storage services for their mobile camera selfies and travel/party pictures/videos alone.

It's not just marketing, it's also UX. On general purpose computers, nobody comes close to Apple's whole-package UX for the vast majority of people. Granted, macOS lacks (or overly complicate) many things that may be important for some categories of power users and especially tinkerers, but Windows is not close to the level of consistency and frictionlessness of macOS for 95% of the end users, and Linux is not even playing the same game. ChromeOS does match and even surpass macOS in UX but I don't consider it general purpose enough to put it in the same category.

I must add, though, that many of the problems with Windows these days are not even Microsoft's fault. It's a combination of legacy software and culture developed over decades. Somehow, Windows software companies still think it's fine to have applications popup "a new version found, do you want to upgrade?" dialogs at boot, and then requiring "next, next, EULA, scroll. I agree, next, next, finish" to upgrade the already installed application from v2.12 to v2.13. Then you have the computer or motherboard maker's support software with knobs and buttons randomly sprinkled all over some scifi-movie-looking GUI and even the builtin anti-virus software defaulting to regularly putting big popups on your screen saying "Windows Defender scanned your computer and found no viruses.", which makes the heart do an extra beat. The combination of 100s of little things like this that each take away a little from the overall experience.

Most swedes just say "it is how it is", then go out and enjoy the awesome summer weather, decide to stay in the country this summer and that's that. Shutting down the whole country for months is for hot headed crazy people. That's such an extreme and unheard of thing to do. It's flabbergasting that so many try to make it sound like it's a sensible and well-weighted thing to do. I am happy that I live in a country where the government doesn't have the mandate to shut down society on a whim even if they wanted to. I blame the virus for the deaths. Sweden did what it could given the options available. Power in Sweden is extremely decentralized and the hierarchy is very flat compared to most countries. The government can only pass legislation and make recommendations. It's even illegal for the government to order agencies and others what to do, only courts can do that and only to make them follow existing laws if they didn't. The freedom to roam is protected by the constitution and the constitution can't be bypassed for any other reason than a military attack from a foreign country.

I'm actually quite read up on this issue, because I have it myself and I've even had surgery for it. The root cause is that the resting position of the eyes is not parallel, they are pointing outwards when you close your eyes. This is a condition that you and I were born with. If one eye is very dominant, the brain will learn to ignore the input of the other eye and you get exotropia. If both eyes are similarly dominant however, the brain will train the eye muscles to subconsciously hold the eyes in parallel, masking the condition. Not uncommonly, kids get an eye-patch over the dominant eye to train the other one for this reason. (If the resting position is inwards, you will have esotropia (be cross-eyed) no matter what because human eyes lack the muscles to compensate outwards.)

This happens automatically and you don't even realize that something is not normal because it's been like this for your whole life. In reality, though, the eye muscles are tense in the same way as when you intentionally make yourself cross-eyed, all the time except when you close your eyes. As you get older, the eye muscles get weaker and also stretched out, making the condition more and more prevalent. I was 35 when I was diagnosed but I had struggled hard with "keeping the pictures together" for at least 10 by then, and the problems were there my whole life, just very lightly.

The VR headset did not cause this problem, you were born with it. It is not impossible that VR made the problems come a year or two earlier than it would had otherwise, but I am not so sure.