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Comment Re:And replace them with what? (Score 4, Insightful) 88

You kind of need actual viable alternatives if you want to migrate off something.

It's called a private cloud, it's not rocket surgery, we were doing clustering with machines with only dozens of MHz clock speeds and less RAM than most modern embedded platforms back in the nineties.

Comment Re:Environmental impact probably overstated (Score 1) 148

I use Firefox with UBO and occasionally youtube gets mad for a day or two, then it works again. Yes, I've run updates manually.

I still recommend it as long as it works, though.

Sadly I can't recommend Firefox for mobile any more. It crashes on me every day, sometimes multiple times, when using javascript-heavy sites.

Comment Re:Consent? It's a file copy (Score 4, Informative) 148

When you install software, you can see how big it is, in some OSes/installers you are prompted if that's okay, if you want to enable/disable optional bits, etc. When you install Chrome, it's a certain size to get a web browser.

However, at some indeterminate point later, when you RUN Chrome, it downloads a chunk of data (that's not a browser) that's as big as (or bigger than) the initial browser install. It does this per user on a multi-user system. It does it with no prompting or notification. For a home user, this could be annoying (I discovered this right when it started last fall because it exploded my backups); for a corporate (or especially government) environment, this is unacceptable behavior.

This would be like installing Solitaire, and while you're playing it installs Excel in the background.

Comment Re: She agreed to have sex with me once (Score 2, Insightful) 148

It's the techbros who don't understand it, obviously. You agreed to install one thing, they took it as permission to install another thing. Conversely, they also offer to support you, then they release the same product under another name and tell you to go fuck yourself. That shit is fucked both coming and going and you're here to defend it.

Comment Re:lol (Score 2) 103

So we're back to blaming voters for everything. As if we really had a say in how things were going to run.

We do, but we don't get it until we swap the thoughts and prayers for torches and pitchforks. As long as we spend our time fighting over scraps while the billionaires feast, we will deserve the nothing we get.

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