phjesusthatguy3

5 tahun yang laludiscuss

I've seen numerous ads for Peleton; I have no idea what Concept 2 is, much less some ad on YC for yet another YC product I'm not going to buy.

In addition, I've seen at least one New York Times article (each) wringing their hands about Biden riding a Peleton and wearing a Rolex, like it's surprising that US Presidents are inordinately rich.

Anyway, I'm gonna get my fat ass back on the hydraulic rowing machine I have stored in my basement before I buy anything else from anyone.

phjesusthatguy3

6 tahun yang laludiscuss

It hasn't flopped; It just won't be available to the majority of people on the planet for a very long time.

phjesusthatguy3

7 tahun yang laludiscuss

I got all my teenage bullshit out on detroit.freenet.org. Now I'm farming HN points.

16 year old me is so disappointed in 45 year old me.

phjesusthatguy3

7 tahun yang laludiscuss

"X browser is killing support for Y format"

Well, good. Now we can go back to when browsers handed files off to helper apps that supported the formats in question. I'm all for it.

phjesusthatguy3

7 tahun yang laludiscuss

No, you didn't go back to my original post, which said I don't trust Google. My apology was about the language I used.

phjesusthatguy3

7 tahun yang laludiscuss

EDIT: I let my parent comment get the best of me, and I apologize for using the language I did. I'm going to leave it here, though, because it does express my frustration at whataboutism.

Excuse my profanity, but what the fuck are you on about?

Why the fuck would I use a browser that has the explicit fucking purpose of tracking me, whatever fucking base they base their fucking browser on?

phjesusthatguy3

7 tahun yang laludiscuss

It isn't silly. How about I don't trust either one of them?

Brave is (and you are) saying I should trust Brave because they're going to rip out Google's tracking and insert their own instead. No thank you. I'll stick with Firefox and whatever chicanery Mozilla is up to.

phjesusthatguy3

7 tahun yang laludiscuss

>Curious: what are some of the shortfalls you see in Chromium?

That it's a Google-controlled project. Seriously, that's it. I have no reason to believe Google has my best interest at heart.

Don't turn that around and say "Oh, you think Mozilla is looking out for you?" because I don't. I just trust Google less.

phjesusthatguy3

7 tahun yang laludiscuss

>Currently, I can go to the App Store, install any app, and be about 99.9% confident that the app will do me (or my technologically illiterate mother) absolutely no harm.

That's the problem though. That last 0.1% is difficult, and Facebook (which, if your technologically illiterate mother doesn't have it installed, many others do) has been repeatedly shown to do harm to their users. Yet they're still on the apple app store.

phjesusthatguy3

7 tahun yang laludiscuss

I actually want to block ads. If you want to put a small text or image blurb anywhere on the page... I don't want to see it. I'd rather people stop whoring me out and start standing up for what they believe in.

And now I have the tools to do so.

phjesusthatguy3

8 tahun yang laludiscuss

Even Debian Stable (9.x, at this point) can install kvm and virt-manager and just run at this point. I have one VB installation that came in under the license smackdown a couple of year ago that I need to migrate. There is no point in using virtualization software the current owners don't want you to run.

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