I’m here to stay.
But that is a decision the user takes, not Google. If people don’t want to install alternative stores because its too much work, then its not Googles fault. The problem is that phone manufactures do not have the alternative stores installed (besides Samsung). Its entirely in the hands of phone manufacturers and they should be sued over, not Google.
I just want to play games.
Edit: On a more serious note, I am actually a bit on Googles side here. Because everyone can actually install an alternative store. It’s like asking Steam to add an installer for GOG and Epic Games Store in the Steam store. There is no technical limitation on the smartphones why anyone could not install alternative stores or software. The lack of installed alternative stores right from the start is not a fault of Google, but the phone manufactures who did not put these by default.
Overall, am I wrong with my observation? I really think Google is not at fault for this particular thing.
I am curious too. You tested two different versions, one beta and the other current nightly (different content). It’s okay for a quick test, but you can actually have a much closer test. Both nightly and only one day difference:
I run this quick test multiple times and on average these are typical results (don’t forget to delete the unpacked folder between each runs):
$ time tar xjf firefox-135.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
real 0m5,784s
user 0m5,700s
sys 0m0,371s
$ time tar xJf firefox-135.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.xz
real 0m1,699s
user 0m1,621s
sys 0m0,315s
Most normal users do not do this. But there might be special packages with special setups, like scripts downloading and installing from Mozillas download links. Or package creators themselves might use it. Or maybe you are a developer, in which case such direct downloads would be helpful for testing and comparing stuff. I also assume most people do not care or notice any difference with this change. Still its an improvement without much drawback and thats always good, even if its only a few people benefiting of it.
I like seeing the EU more and more adopting open source and decentralized technologies. Looks like the EU will be the leading role in that regard. The US might not do this, because they like to collect information and don’t want to give information to the enemy. I guess something like that. And Japan? No idea what the state of this topic is in Japan.
Definitely VirtualBox in my opinion. I used it before. Recently switched to libvirt with virt-manager (Qemu+Kvm), but this is really a bit more advanced and need more understanding and setup. VirtualBox is much easier and simple.
Snapshot feature of VB is fantastic (not to any reader, snapshot is not an screenshot, rather a temporary image point of the entire system you can revert back anytime like a backup). Binding and accessing directories from your host system is also relatively easy, if I remember right. It’s been a while since I used VirtualBox.
I’m not sure if that’s possible, but if, not in this size. You would probably need an oven in the size of an entire truck maybe? It probably needs lot of energy for both, isolating and transforming/amping the signal. At that point the power going in to transform the signal could be used more efficiently otherwise to achieve the same goal without Wi-fi (as those small microwaves proves it).
I had a bakery/kiosk mix of shop, where I baked bread every morning for 13 years or so. There was a customer who questioned my oven, because she actually does not know if it really radiates. And how I can be this sure about it. Its a damn oven! Like one in every household, just a bit bigger. People are really this dumb. Besides, it wouldn’t be legal… oh man still upsets me. Not because of being accused for, but it upset me that people like her have the right to vote.
Maybe you can buy a DLC to have additional functionality. Or you need to pay micro transactions with each cooking. No money is wasted.
It might be because they were developing Azure. And they also include Linux distributions in Windows too, so it makes sense for Microsoft to work on it. Microsoft is one of the few top paying Platinum members in the Linux Foundation: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members
I’m not ashamed of my pile of shame. Will add the game to my library. Thanks.
Microsoft doing Microsoft things, such as working on the Linux Kernel.
Some suggestion to make it more useful:
Its also missing some optional settings, such as if it should apply to say embedded videos from third party sites (like YouTube player in a blog post). And an option to enable that functionality for certain websites only. And if the tab should be opened up automatically only when a video is currently playing or always.
Many reasons. There is probably not a straight forward answer if you never tried to answer (its my first time) this question. But I’ll give it a go.
Most importantly and in the long run (and I’m talking about hundreds of years) future generations can study old games, to learn how the past was working. For the short term (I"m speaking about now for next decades) its partly about nostalgia so you can play the games, if companies fail to preserve them. Also preservation allows us to play and see the games in their initial state in example. Game developers also can study old games, which is important to make new ones. Reading books how the golden era was this and that is one thing, then playing those games and seeing how it works is another. Even if its not 100% authentic recreation, its still helps.
Why do you preserve old books, films, music, art? Why do we preserve old technical devices we found, old bones of animals or even humans? Compared to those, its much more complicated to preserve videogames, not only the bits and bytes as they are available, but also to have them playable. Videogames is part of our society and preserving them is preserving part of our humanity.
“Firefox now has a new anti-tracking feature, Bounce Tracking Protection”: Nice! This is why I use Firefox.
However the integration of tabs in the sidebar takes much longer than I thought would be. Well I guess its ready when its ready. Does anybody use this feature “Picture-in-Picture: auto-open on tab switch”? I had it enabled for testing, but it was totally annoying.
Nice overview and conclusion right at the top. Last edited 19. Nov, so its pretty active. I’m glad its not named “Are We H.264 AVC Yet?”. :D
Me too, yet we click and decided to reply.^^
I’m happy for others, plus it makes life easier for those who expect a working Discord like on Windows.
Back then I was using AutoHotkey for most stuff (before it was the hot shit it is now, before gamers knew about it). With the switch to Linux I needed something and that’s when I learned about Python 2 in 2008. I do lot of stuff in Bash too nowadays.
Python is really not hard to learn or use. The only awkward thing it has to me is, the logic and grouping of code is indentation based… Python even comes by default with Linux, and similar to Bash you just need the !/usr/bin/env python3 and can use the entire language and its features like Bash is using the commandline tools. I highly recommend to learn some basics of Python, because this will be useful for the rest of your life. Even if you don’t end up writing yourself much, you can read and confirm others code are not doing stupid stuff or make changes as you wish.
#!/usr/bin/env python3
print("hello world")
I thought the title of this post was a joke. How is C a Hidden Gem (or Gold)? C won’t die, its like the portable Assembler of the entire computing and programming languages. Newer languages can do some things easier and better, and more secure (yes I’m talking about Rust). Or if you do not need low level access and just want to create a simple application, nothing is wrong by using a more high level and garbage collected language too. In such cases its better than C for the specific person.
Use the right tool for the right job.
they will all be “replacements for C
Don’t think in terms of replacements, but in terms of additional tools to have. In example in the Linux Kernel Rust won’t replace C, but is added as an additional way to program. Especially if we talk about C, as it is the backbone of everything. That’s exactly how you should look at it in my opinion. For literally any other language, you can make arguments of “replacing” it, because none else is the backbone of everything. And I’m not even a C programmer and prefer Rust and Python.
In that case, its all Google I agree.