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Comment Re:Why Chrome? (Score 4, Insightful) 161

I've been running the "lite" version of uBlock Origin and it seems fine. I'm sure there's some esoteric situations where it falls apart, but I've yet to run into them.

Yeah, esoteric situations like blocking alphabet's own ads.

That's the entire rub. Google wants you to block ads. All of them, except theirs. I think there's a word for that.

Comment I thought Cachy WAS Arch (Score 1) 35

I mean, if you search "CachyOS" on wikipedia, it redirects to Arch. So now were saying distros based on another distro are completely different distros? Oy vey... It's going to become like techno where if you take a drum and bass song and add or subtract a hi-hat hit, it's suddenly this completely other genre of techno that's has nothing to do with the genre it's derived from.

Comment Re: Over (Score 1) 157

And, when did he buy his 2011 Mac? 2023?

The first one? In 2011. I think he got his third (and final) 2011 pizza box in like 2016-17. Just a terrible design with cheap parts. But it's a 'budget' model, right?? What do you expect? (Except you could get a lenovo with a smaller form, more ports, similar--if not better--specs since apple ran the same specs for 10 years, for $200 less. I got one in 2016 or so, fits in my back pocket and still runs. The power brick shit the bed in '21 or so, but I got a new one for $30)

Comment Re: Over (Score 1, Troll) 157

I worked for a guy who was firmly a 'mac person'. He bought a 2011 'pizza-box' mini, and in three years the power supply died. Normally not a big deal, except the power supply was soldered to the motherboard and the whole thing needed to be thrown out. He bought exactly the same mini at exactly the same price three years later. This one lasted two years before the power supply fried, and again, it was donated to the dumpster. He then bought exactly the same mini at exactly the same price now five years later (after two had failed in the dumbest manner possible). I got another job, but an inside source told me that one made it a little over three years before... well, you know. Thankfully, Apple had finally introduced a new mini by this point, saving him from buying the same model at the same price a fourth time. Unsurprisingly, the new model has it's power supply soldered to the motherboard...

The moral I learned? 'Mac people' don't give a shit and apple knows it

Comment Re:Disimproved with more last-mile problems (Score 2) 171

an ebike gets down Hamilton Avenue, just as fast as a car

While there are very definite law about cars riding down the sidewalk and striking pedestrians, unfortunately, not so much for e-bikes.
As a pedestrians who worked on a college campus last year, I feel secure in declaring: FUCK E-BIKES

The gig was about 9-10 weeks long, which puts me at an average of being struck once per week. Ranging from torn-clothing scrapes, to full-on linebacker hits onto concrete.
Furthermore, I was privy to the scene when the students left for summer. Dead e-bikes ditched in the middle of the sidewalk everywhere. In the middle of crosswalks! Who cares? If they want one for the fall, they'll just throw $300 more on mom and pop's credit card.

So much better for the environment than public transpo...

Comment Re:If you're under 40 there's no reason to change (Score 1) 145

Most folks in their 50s absolutely can still do it. At least they can if they have been doing it and are in shape from doing it.

Yeah, I've never bought into the "uh... I'm way to old to be doing anything like that" when they're 42. I'm ten years older than that and still cook part-time on the weekends (and if all else fails, I'll move to full-time). I do 200 covers a shift minimum, and can keep pace with dudes half my age without a problem.

You're supposed to be highly-skilled, college-educated, big-brained, white-collar people. Are you telling me the concept of working smart rather than hard is beyond your grasp?

Comment Re:Enshitification never stops. End of gmail for m (Score 1) 92

Thanks. I do want to have access to my e-mails at all times and places. This includes times when I'm traveling, or when my ISP and power go down at home. For the ~99.7% of the time when they are up, I would consider doing this on a low-power system such as Raspberry Pi. I don't see a build of Seamonkey for Raspberry Pi, though.

Last I heard, the official word on seamoney for pi was "just use firefox/thunderbird". RE: internet outages, while I can't speak towards the current Thunderbird, if there's one thing that's very nice about seamonkey, when I do want to move my mail/filters/etc between machines, it's a matter of copying a folder from a thumb drive, and that's it. No cloud syncing or other nonsense (my internet was out for over a week last spring and it would have been a NIGHTMARE if I relied on cloud/web)

As I recall, the search was very slow, and also not very good. This is something gmail does right. I'm not sure if there are IMAP and/or webmail clients that can properly replicate this.

You may want to give a look at Vivaldi. It's attempting to be a seamonkey for cromium, and it's email search is very fast/good. That said, it's devs seem to want you to use it instead of folders (it wouldn't be a stretch to call the devs 'anti-folder'), so thus, folder options are pretty limited. It's by the same people who made the old opera email client, If that gives you any idea how it operates.

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