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Comment Re:FIrefox losing to Edge (Score 3, Interesting) 87

Firefox losing to Edge has more to do with the long-term enshitification of Firefox than any anti-competive behavior by Microsoft. Google Chrome trounces Edge despite Microsoft.

Nah. Having used Firefox since it was called Firebird, I seem to have missed the actual enshittification. It is even much much more robust than it used to be. In the olden days once you had enough tabs for the application to use one gig of memory, it basically had to be restarted. My current development session is using three and not lagging at all. And no, the memory usage has improved, not gotten worse. My adblock and decentraleyes, + treestyletabs plugins work. The URL bar is ...awesome, and actually remembers stuff, which seems to be too much to ask for with some browsers.

The local translation feature is also a plus. The other AI stuff is kind of meh, so.... I haven't used anything else, and haven't been forced to.

Comment Re: Imagine if the COVID vaccine cultists (Score 1) 317

wrong, the covid vaccines didn't prevent infection or shedding of viruses, only gave much better odds of survival and less damage to the body after infection. A vacinated infected person could spread the disease. The benefits are to the vaccinated person.

Ah. Not exactly. Even with Omicron, it did prevent some infections. ~30% for a month or so..., ~20% for a few months. The percentage was bigger for the original strains. There were statistics for those too in earlier reports. (I think there was also a page listing related papers)
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Comment Re:Not the worst mobile OS (Score 2) 82

After all these years, I too miss some of the features. Especially the tiles for specific persons were lovely. A combination of person specific notificatios, previews, and if I don't remember incorrectly, photos, was rather nifty.

Yeah, I can get a separate icon for my wife for opening Whatsapp conversation currently. And it shares the notifications with the Whatsapp process. Meh.

Comment Re:While unpopular, I'm not 100% against (Score 1) 449

Nothing is free. Using tax revenue to undercut an entire industry that creates jobs doesn't really sit well. There is no free, everyone is paying for it

Wouldn't it make more sense to promote industries that produce actual productive work? Having an industry that takes money from people on top of the taxes just because they can doesn't really make sense. Especially, as noted here, the actual functionality still needs to exist in IRS. Having a pre-filled suggested form which you correct as needed would save everybody's time.

Comment Re:Countless (Score 1) 279

In Finland there's an app for emergency services. "The 112 Suomi application enables the automatic delivery of the caller's location information to the emergency service dispatcher (in Finland)."

And the app shows your coordinates, so you can tell them to the emergency services if there's no data connection available. Not quite as good as automatic location information sending built into the phone, but better than nothing.

Comment Re:Easy (Score 1) 561

This may sound like the usual iHate, but having a single iPhone in an otherwise non-Apple household is a chore. Just having it sync media with the various other devices requires many extra steps not to mention installing iTunes, etc.

Yeah, there's now an iPhone in our house. So long sharing images via NFC or bluetooth to SO. A minor dissappointment. Nothing that can't be worked around, but since the capability exists on the phone, the walled garden is somewhat tangible.

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