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You're mistaking "hungry" for "wants to eat".

My son during teething was hungry a lot. He was absolutely unwilling to eat for hours till we found whichever thing he was going to tolerate each time (since he's stopped teething for now he's gotten a lot better about it, but you still have to offer food since he doesn't always recognise he is getting hungry).
The differences are bigger between Chrome on Windows and Chrome on Mac than between Chrome and Firefox on one OS. At least all of the keybindings are the same.
I edit markdown on the go for quick website updates and even that is painful. I usually finish things up and commit once I get on a computer. The files are synced with Syncthing.

It's hard to move the cursor, hard to select text, hard to input special characters, hard to manipulate files, and so on.

Instead I use that time to annotate content with my Apple Pencil on my iPad. It feels like correcting paper documents, and keeps me more focused because I can't edit anything.
Not sure what you mean, downloading and backup your take-out-data from google maybe?
In my experience pipewire didn't work for me but Jack did.

> It had a steep learning curve and a lot of configuration

Yeah I experienced that with Jack too. I spent even more time trying to learn and configure Pipewire, much longer than I ever did with Jack, all to give up and go back to Jack.
Correct.

I use a script in a root terminal to control a lot of my workflow. One thing is that I start browser windows from it when needed. I start them with

sudo -u desktopuser chromium example.com

Because

sudo -u desktopuser firefox example.com

does not work.

I thought that is relevant to the question "Why bother with Chrome".

desktopuser of course is the normal user which would also start Firefox if I did it via the Desktop gui.
Please submit all these games, I've tried some of them too and agree that they're great.
As others already hinted at, pretty much all the arguments against using the mouse for some things break down when you have a touchpad.

In most cases windows resizing, moving and usually selecting and scrolling (with chiral scrolling) are faster and more convenient by an order of magnitude.

And reaching out to a (central) touchpad takes about as much effort as reaching any keyboard key.

People should really give them a chance; unfortunately many are mislead by the Emacs and Vim's docs, but when they were written touchpads didn't even exist.
Vertical tabs are The Reason why I stick to Edge despite the constant annoyances Microsoft throws my way. That, and the fact I can still hide most annoying things (like the tools sidebar and bing chat and stuff.

Has has also gotten split screen tabs which is awesome, though I keep forgetting about it and don't use it.
I am in a similar situation I actually switched to Brave a few months ago and while the translate function is there, it is VERY slow for some reason and seems to work less often than Chrome.

I wonder if I am just imagining things or if they use a different service for translation or, if the same, if it is being throttled.
The best way to help Chrome users is to get a significant number of people to stop using Chrome, so they Google needs to compete for users properly again, and backs off some of these changes.

Complaining without action won’t do anything.
"According to New York Times columnist Kevin Roose, Bard isn't the helpful inbox assistant that Google apparently wants it to be — at least yet. In his testing, says Roose, the AI hallucinated entire email correspondences that never took place."

LLMs will revolutionize office work and AGI is right across the corner.
I am a technical writer and have been for ~4 years. I love the work that I do. I got started because I loved coding and writing.

I see my job as taking in as much information as possible and distilling it into what I think the target reader needs to know. Indeed, I am often asked to document projects just before they are out of the door. Taking ownership over that process, and thinking hard about how I should articulate information, is a delight.

That reader might be someone who is learning a skill (for whom I am writing a "how to"), or a customer who needs to know how to use a software package (for whom I am writing reference and quickstart documentation).

Technical writing has led to some interesting personal stories. An old friend found one of my technical articles while studying for a course; that warmed my heart. As I have written more, I get the occasional email from a student asking about my work.

Happy to answer more questions! (but, honestly, I should blog about this!)

As for getting started with technical writing, setting up a personal blog is a good idea. Document a project you have made in the past, whether it is a website and how you built it, a software library that you made, etc. Or contribute to existing documentation if you have expertise that you can lend (i.e. add a quickstart to a library you use and love, contribute to MDN if you notice something that could be improved).
I really love that TV version. One of my favourite things on Netflix.

And I didn't think they could possibly follow up that first season with something equally weird without becoming repetitive, but they managed it.
Exactly - and going back further it was even worse.

Around 2001 using audio on my computer (via OSS at the time) would crash it on Linux regularly.

Right not I have some weird problems with graphics from time to time, hopefully these iron out.

I could really do with the desktop being able resume if the graphics driver restarts, or even switch between drivers.
> I prefer the variant where nobody owns land-- the local government can lease it out

That means the government de facto owns all land.
Perhaps people should be more understanding.
I've never heard anyone speak on this topic with such clarity. I'm sure you're well respected in the periodic table tooling configuration community.
It's pretty much impossible to have them show up as separate taskbar/dock items. The workaround has always been to run Developer Edition, but that's still not great OS integration. Edge even allows you to pin profiles, and adds the profile icon in the corner.
It's weird to me that no one on Hacker News has pointed out the MV3 version of uBlock works fine. At least I haven't noticed any difference except for the rare minor annoyance of cosmetic filtering (which gorhill removed for political, not technical reasons)

Whatever you feel about the politics surrounding MV2 and webRequest, MV3 is by no means blocking uBlock, or ending adblock on Chrome across the board. That's FUD.

It's far more convincing to speak about the on-the-ground technical facts than the paranoia of these gossip rags.
very cool. It would be nice to have this for bike tools.
> Do you think this applies to AGI? That it needs to bootstrap itself by communicating and relating with other intelligences? This, and related concepts like free will, tend to be ignored in the scientific literature on the subject[1].

That sounds plausible. On the other hand, it might be another case our tendency to judge intelligence by the already existing intelligence that we know of, which is us. But we probably shouldn't assume that that is the only form of "intelligence" that exists.

Related to that: these types of discussion tend to get rather fuzzy because most of the words involved ("intelligence" especially) aren't nearly as neatly defined as our gut feeling tends to make us believe. And depending on which interpretation people pick they can wildly talk past each other, or even confuse themselves by not realizing they're switching between which aspect of intelligence they're talking about in the middle of their argument without realizing it.

Which is precisely why I don't really feel the urge to go deeper into what might be needed for AGI right now though, apologies. I think we maybe should put a bit more effort into understanding humans first.
> or a mouse stopping suddenly on an exercise wheel to let it spin it around.

I had never considered they may be doing that on purpose.
The ones before chipped toners were great. I keep on refilling the original starter cartridge with $10 toner powder, no need to reset or anything like that. It just works. Spectacular price/performance ratio.
> Webpages loading that bit snappier really was a big deal back then

No, it wasn't.

Quick reminder, the issue with IE was webpages loading broken, or not loading at all.

People that used that crap didn't switch because "Chrome was a bit snappier than FF", they switched because all of a sudden every webpage, many sotfware install wizard, and even billboards on the street told them to switch to Chrome. Some "toolbars" installed it without asking. They probably never had heard of FF or Opera before.
You can look at your registered service workers by going to about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox You'll see the ones that can do push give you the URL, something like updates.push.services.mozilla.com/wpush/v2/...
I use both Firefox and Brave.

No, I am not disturbed by Braves "involvement with crypto". It took me all of 3 minutes to deactivate every crypto-feature the browser has, they are pretty obvious in the settings. It forces nothing on me, works great, and the best builtin anti-tracking features of a non-TOR browser I have ever seen.

I have yet to check out Vivaldi browser.
Check out e.g. Madagascar. I admit, the salaries are higher now than I remember (or maybe that's just because salaries in the capital are higher), but they're still low enough that you'd end up on a pillory if people were to look into one's business adventures there.

And Madagascar is far from the worst country to be stuck in, since the gunmen to "worker" ratio is rather low compared to other African countries. $50 in Somalia would probably get you a whole, very motivated team and a lengthy prison sentence.
Please try this for yourself. It does not work. Gives the same "Firefox is already running, but is not responding." dialog.
Same for another cross-EU migrant here.

Moving countries and languages means the translate function becomes a priceless necessity on a daily basis, and Chrome's and Edge's built-in translation features are second to none, so I switched away from FF when I moved country. Firefox third party translation addons exist but they always felt clunky and flaky being often slower and sometimes failing where Chrome and Edge would breeze through.

Better privacy is nice but convenience and saving time and frustration is nicer. Beret me all you want but it's not a hill I'm willing to die on.
At least 1.2PB...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2S2RMNv7OU
As sibling commenters said, I'm OK with those kinds of games in theory, but in practice coins are a very reliable indicator of bullshit. Since it's just me checking the games once in a while, I'd rather categorize all games with coins as bullshit, rather than have to wade through the shit 99% to find the good 1%.

Maybe if this gets more popular and people want to help out, it'll be worth it more. I agree with you in principle.
Indeed, I was surprised as well! I'm biased, since I work with saas.group, but Tower, Scraper API, Seobility, and Rewardful are great.
And yet Mozilla also wants it both ways - have a free browser and still be paid to develop it. What gives?
Brother is just as terrible as all the other printer manufacturers but for some reason their refusal to care about improving their products is seen as virtuous.

I’m sitting right next to a brand new brother printer that, once per month, forces me to unplug it, reboot, and re-enter my Wi-Fi password using a nightmarishly Byzantine “up/down” input mechanism…into a LCD display seemingly from 2002. Would really love even a mediocre mobile app to help with this (somehow mine doesn’t support it). A quick internet search shows my experience is not uncommon.

Brand is a powerful thing I guess. 15 years ago you release a somewhat not-terrible product in a stale category…and decades later you can do no wrong. Makes sense I guess, how many people have had the chance to evaluate first-hand more than 2-3 printers in their life.
Whe don't you test it? It takes less time than to guess and have a back and forth via HN comments.
Is it reliable though? I was always skeptical of the idea of conversions happening in the background..
I mention this in my blog post. You can do this, but then you're forced to run all apps that require the IMDS under that specific user. It's better than having no restrictions at all, but having a user shared between multiple apps is also problematic in itself.
Yes. It is a huge generalisation. About the general case. Which is that kids don't have delays. That's why they're called delays. And that is why not having a delay does not indicate savant status.
Yes but that doesn't help for domains that I use for both profiles.

Typically Google, when I click on a Google Doc I need to be able to decide to open it in my personal or pro account.

With Chrome it goes to the last focused window so it will usually match what I'm currently doing, otherwise all I have to do is focus the right Chrome window before going back to the external app and click the link.
> In Comments

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

I’ve been visiting this site for a long time, and it’s getting to the point where it feels like people are ignoring this rule regularly, and it’s disappointing.
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HN has always been an echo chamber :-)

I've been using the MV3 version for months because it does not require permissions. It works just fine.

And in the rare case where I do need cosmetic filtering, I can simply click the extension icon, drag the slider to "more" and grant an individual permission for the site. It's great.

Another benefit is that a permissionless adblocker works in many corporate environments which would otherwise block any extension with far-reaching permissions.
this has gotten much better due to the existence of Safari, if a website supports Safari AND Chrome it most likely works fine in Firefox as well

It is very uncommon these days for actively maintained websites to not support Safari/iOS users
This!

Adobe used to bundle Chrome by default with Acrobat Reader for instance. - this was how a LOT of people got Chrome the first time.
Fun fact: The single biggest problem this service has faced in accepting contributions is people submitting bullshit games with "I know you can pay to win, but it's really not so bad if you grind". I apparently have failed to be explicit enough on "no bullshit" :P
I haven't looked into this at all, but for desktop I would expect the browser to maintain a WebSocket connection (for all websites) to the browser vendor's "push server", if WebSockets doesn't work for some reason, then it can fall back to long polling.

For mobile devices it's discouraged to maintain your own TCP connections for power usage reasons. So I would expect browser developers to have their mobile browsers use the mobile's native push service (e.g. for Android or iOS) to register for pushes, then the browser's backend push service sends push notifications via Apple/Google's push servers which in turn send it to mobile devices themselves.
While switching would be nice, you don't have to. You can just use Firefox to browse YouTube.
Not really. You can have a daemon, that fetches from IMDS just what the particular user needs and stores it in a way accessible to just that user.
I feel like I need a tutorial because I cannot get it to draw anything
why just now? there are many known attacks (SSRF[1] for example) that are based on IMDSv1.
maybe i'm missing something but feels like this should have been done a long ago?

[1] https://www.cyberbit.com/uncategorized/aws-imds-v2-secures-s...
I'm comparing it to fresh sandwiches from Barcelona, Budapest and Zürich.

The last one is important, because there's a huge protectionist tariff on beef in Switzerland, so McDonalds is either buying super cheap import meat or using local. (And my guess is that they are not importing, it's simply noticeably worse.)
Wikipedia claims reason for the linear motor on the Oedo line was a smaller loading gauge and therefore smaller tunnels required.

And generally speaking 5 % wouldn't be considered very steep at all by modern standards. Gradients up to 4 or even 5 % weren't uncommon even on older rapid transit systems dating from a century ago, and for modern multiple units I'd regard 4 to 6 % as about par for the course.

And in hilly terrain, a number of systems definitively go beyond that into the 8 – 10 % range, including some new built systems (e.g. the light rail systems in Stuttgart, Tenerife and Jerusalem).
What makes some folks so attached to particular browsers?

Personally, I'm using a mix of Edge, Firefox, and Chrome. While in theory I could just use one of them (which would probably be Firefox), it's kinda like having 3 different super-profiles for a web-browser (where each browser is its own super-profile), so I'm mostly just using all 3 out of laziness.

I don't particularly trust Chrome nor Edge, so I just don't use them for anything important. Not that I'm 100% confident in Firefox, but if I've got to do something important, Firefox is the easy pick. Then I guess I end up favoring Chrome or Edge for everything else, since I don't want to junk up Firefox with nonsense (so Firefox'll remain solid for when it's appropriate). Between Chrome and Edge, I guess I favor Chrome for junk-level tasks since Chrome feels the most separated (being neither used for important stuff like Firefox nor being tied to the OS like Edge).

I get that some folks might have a business-critical app with compatibility-issues limiting their freedom-of-choice when it comes to certain tasks, but outside of such niche cases, what's the big deal?
> People should really give them a chance; unfortunately many are mislead by the Emacs and Vim's docs, but when they were written touchpads didn't even exist.

Emacs's docs are updated constantly, up to this day. And in there are mentioned both "touchpad" (5 hits) and "mouse" (660 hits).
That would open the url in the default browser (Chromium for me) with the current user (root for me).

The task at hand is to open it in firefox with the desktop user.
exactly this.

I've realized recently that (for me) mouse interactions come more naturally for more exploratory or creative work. I'm happy with my mouse! and yet for straight coding, or writing, I would rather keep my hands on the keyboard. It's fun to get good with all the tools(toys)!
> They sound like they have the capabilities you need

I'm curious about what sounds so endearing about them to app developers. I wrote a WebPush scheduler once that implemented the VAPID protocol. Along the road I came across a myriad of resources that hinted at the fact that it's a heavily restricted feature, due to the fact that browser vendors know it's mostly abused for spam. I kinda figured you wouldn't implement them unless you're forced to explore any avenue for engagement.
I had to use chrome at work and the different windows for different profiles really pissed me off (like, more than is reasonable). I eventually discovered you can have multiple profiles in the same window, it just wasn't the default.
>to get the EU digital markets update, which lets you uninstall Edge.

Again — as a former anti-EU person — I am reminded why I am now pro-EU. While nowhere perfect it is much better than not having an EU and way, way better than the US.
If you have your new tab set to being blank it might never have shown sponsored shortcuts.
I don't know.. but.. it's the way people may use the computer. A former colleague used exactly one window, no matter if it's word or any other software. And most important: the other programs have to be closed, firstly, before switching to eg. browsing. Even my 85y old grandfather who bought his first computer with 73y is capable to use more then 2 windows at once.

So for me, i work with chrome, edge and Firefox (main) at the same time. Firefox is 3 Windows with 150 tabs each. Chrome for quick and dirty - when I visit or do something I know I won't need it later anymore - and edge is used for being chat and/or differential search with goog and bing and other search engines (I know, it's easier to use a meta search engine, but it's ok like I do)

So.. basically. Each window is a room space in my brain for me and I store knowledge in separated rooms, so I know exactly where the tabs are I'm searching for. It's like a library where I always can look up something.
Using favorites within the browser is not possible for me, because I just forget about them. Not so if I work with all the thousands of tabs open :)

So, it's possible to use different browsers without saying "maehhh.. but, I .... "
I see you, fellow dad. Thank you for having the courage to speak up and for fulfilling your duty as a parent, rain or shine. No judgement from me, only respect.
I almost exclusively use Firefox personally and Chrome for work.

I couldn't switch to Chrome for work because some google services are randomly broken on Firefox.

At time google drive will fail to load at all (not that it's great on chrome either) and YouTube uploads will randomly break. UI claims it's uploading but no network activity at all and upload is stalled.
I only switch to chrome when I need to fake response payload, I couldn't figure that out in ff. Otherwise pretty much the same functionality. They also look the same.
You do realize that the donations you're making do not go to the development of Firefox? Do you?
I've used a few SaaS products with decent support: AWS, GitLab, Microsoft (for certain products), Fortinet (for certain products)...

On the bad side I can think of Google and Databricks.

So it's not an unsolvable problem, there are people getting support right.
These days I use Google Drive for exactly one spreadsheet so mercifully I wasn't affected. It's just a data entry app for my job which figures out the value of my time in dollars per hour but losing this file would still have been devastating to me because it's got years of irreplaceable data in it.

I should probably switch to Microsoft already. Excel has dynamic tables support even on mobile. Or better yet, make a proper Android app to replace this thing.
Drives are cheap, but creating a system and process to ensure you always have a local copy of everything on the Google Drive is not cheap. It requires ongoing monitoring and maintenance like all other infrastructure.
Well yes, you can do that, but it won't be compatible with the cloud SDKs so you'd have to write your own code to fetch that stuff, as well as implement your own token renewal since IMDS credentials expire fairly quickly. This is easier said than done on a brownfield estate.
This is the right approach and I did the same. Always surprised how many people here and on other sites whine and moan constantly about how they hate Reddit, Twitter and FB and can't seem to handle even slightest inconvenience to switch ("Oh Mastodon doesn't have a quote-tweet functionality, I can live without it!", "But-but-but my hiking group is on FB!", etc.). You can't argue with big tech companies, the only language they understand is reduced profit.
There is a fine line between stupidity and enlightenment. The problem with this theory is determining who is the stupid, who is the enlightened, and who are the evil.

Trump voters think Biden supporters are stupid and being manipulated by evil. Biden voters think the same about Trump supporters! Arguments can be made for both sides and backed by data, both scientific and anecdotal.

Only time and history reveal the truth. It's really hard to determine in real time. Those that felt the earth was round were viewed and stupid and guided by evil at one point in histotry.
Windows.

While it's technically possible to run something like an old ASP.NET Web Forms app in a container, it'll be painful.
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