Right. So EU can commence now the creation of regulated social media and blocking of US unregulated social media (or erecting the great firewall of EU). US is the best example of turmoil brought by unregulated social media.

They have their own x86 CPUs. https://www.tomshardware.com/p...

Even if your anecdotal example is correct, that does not mean you have to be rude in your responses. Please tone down your rhetoric so potential participants in the conversation are not put off. As for the topic - My Firefox with three dozens of tabs open (includes websites such as Amazon, TechRadar, Pinterest, Gmail, Protonmail, etc.) consumes 603 MB of RAM. I would say the problem is on your side. Referring to Firefox 3.x, which was released between 2008-2012, in a conversation about the browser in 2023, is hardly useful.

>> Almost everything is rented these days. You've already noticed that your music and video and games are subscription items.

Not true. Your choices matter. If you and others choose services that only allow subscriptions, then it is only your fault. I buy my music from https://ie.7digital.com/ . They offer MP3 and FLAC downloads.
For computer games you have GOG. "GOG.com is a digital distribution platform with a curated selection of games, a "you buy it, you own it" philosophy, and utmost care about customers."

Support vendors with desired business practices and they will flourish.

You can try a standalone, debugger flash version. I heard it is not time-bombed but I have not verified this. Good luck. https://www.adobe.com/support/...

"Since OnePlusLogKit is disabled by default, the attacker would require access to the victim's smartphone to enable it." So what is the problem exactly?

No power related IT outages? What about this? http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...

APNG. Supported out of the box in Firefox.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Is it any different/better than already existing PGF file format?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

> i don't give a crap whether the system boots twice as fast - reboots are years between, and in scheduled windows.

On my PC with an Asus mainboard the Sleep and Hibernate simply don't work (and never worked with multiple distros and kernels). I need to reboot each day therefore boot time is important for *me*.

Just buy an Android phone without Google Apps pre-installed.
I have one (Huawei).

No Google Play Services (and any other Google Apps - Maps, Mail, etc.)

The blog post also says this:
"(...) I understand that every OS has diagnostic functions, however these services break the promise that Apple makes with the consumer when they enter a backup password; that the data on their device will only come off the phone encrypted. The consumer is also not aware of these mechanisms, nor are they prompted in any way by the device. There is simply no way to justify the massive leak of data as a result of these services, and without any explicit consent by the user.
I don’t buy for a minute that these services are intended solely for diagnostics. The data they leak is of an extreme personal nature. There is no notification to the user. A real diagnostic tool would have been engineered to respect the user, prompt them like applications do for access to data, and respect backup encryption. Tell me, what is the point in promising the user encryption if there is a back door to bypass it?"

I probably shouldn't respond to your post but...
Martian gravity is so low that it's atmosphere just gradually escaped to space over millennia.
You might agree with me that having almost no atmosphere quite significantly alters a planetary climate.

Check this article out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Mars

Google thinks it does have a good reason for not wanting memory card slots on Android devices.
First thing - a card mounted via UMS (USB Mass Storage) to a PC isn't available to Android OS. Think of all apps (and their data) installed on the card and how would they behave if the card suddenly becomes invisible to Android...
Second thing - security issues. FAT filesystem on most SD card - no file ownership.
Third thing - One of the core Android principles is that you never need a file manager. With a memory card mounted a user can start to wonder where data (photo, music, file) ends up.

I miss memory card slots on Android devices a lot but I can understand Google reasons for shunning them.
A nice (albeit long) article on the subject:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/11/18/impromptu-qa-session-with-android-engineer-dan-morrill-brings-to-light-reasons-behind-galaxy-nexus-lack-of-usb-mass-storage/

Exactly.
The difference between high and low solar activity is small (0.1% difference).
With solar radiation at the average level of ~1366 W/sqm the variation is a tiny 1.3 Watts...

The temperatures during the so-called Little Ice Age were lower than average by less than 1 degree Celsius.
Calling the period an "Ice Age" is incorrect.