you completely missed the point of the comment and the article.
yes, it shipped, completely broken. lots and lots of functionality was lost for a while (and some not deemed enterpise-worthy still are).
what seems more correct for you in this car anaology: suppose
- some cars have the turn signal on top left stalk
- other cars have the wiper and healigth control on the top stalk.
would you standardize them by:
a) set a industry standard and wait for them to follow, with a period or brands permanently Opting out (let's say golf carts without turn signals)
or b) force legislation from top down to immediately repurpose the top left stalk for turn signals via sopftware update, no matter if some companies will make the headlight control not work for years or keep the now-wrongly marked control permanently?
systemd is option B. the same system did could easily have been done with a standards for init scritpts and opt-in. yet it was done with a top down idiotic decision that was self serving to some players.
that was forced on some cheap androids between version 3 and 4.
after 4.4 they dialled it back to instead of required now they only apply some seven dark patterns to try to trick users into thinking it is mandatory.
same effect to most users, zero regulatory consequences
after 120 days you start to pay what you would normaly pay, the only difference os that will stop paying a little ity bit sooner because you won't pay over the car cost to pay for the 3-20pct interest rate.
it is exactly the same value and length of payments as before. nothing changed on the monthly prices on those deals. nothing will allow to drive for free for five years or whatever.
"For his disclosure of the Pentagon Papers, Ellsberg was initially charged with conspiracy, espionage, and theft of government property, but the charges were later dismissed after prosecutors investigating the Watergate scandal discovered that the staff members in the Nixon White House had ordered the so-called White House Plumbers to engage in unlawful efforts to discredit Ellsberg."
the US economy cannot be compared to anything because no other country have (or had) the military world power ensuring the dollar as the only tender for internation oil markets.
it completely screws even the wilder economy theories, to the point of printing trillions in recent years with zero consequences. no other economy could have dreamed of this.
it has almost nothing to do with the way this particular small stimulus was dispersed.
firefox should be fixing their privacy settings and adding all those new tech in the settings screen instead.
but no, we get experiment addons installed, canvas fingerprinting even though i have less use for canvas then i did for flash, etc, ect.
trying to play catch up with google crapping features on chrome is one thing, but also copying their irresponsability on hidding/not giving control to the end user is not what an open source company should do.
amazon is a hellhole because of this. makes their search totally broken.
and the funny thing is, amazon itself screws brands that have the same price restriction that they push on their sellers. Thats the reason behind those "see price in cart" shenanigans (which amazon can do, but sellers cant)
i'm with you. have been using the fdroid one. firefox android esl 68 + all security patches) with uMatrix extension (but for non-web devs I'd suggest gorhill's uBlock extension instead)... and this made a phone usable.
I feel like I am back in the late 90s! in the best way! it's super user friendly, just install the app, install extensions like you do on desktop
I type a url or click a link, and what do I get? the content I wanted and nothing else! it's great!
using chrome or those fly-by-night browsers I get a dozen dhtml popups and "whitelisted"-by-the-browser dev ads all over the place. not to mention the own browser popups wanting me to translate from languages I know how to read or if I want to login with my google account on random sites.
PS: the fdroid ESL version of firefox is called by the internal mozilla project name: fennec.
in a time where competiton is triving and github is not synonymous of opensource anymore, offer free stuff to embrace (fake you still support opensource), extend (offer cpu time), extinguish (kill the budding competition before they can establish themselves)
I guess you asked for a question, so here is one: which of these true open source supporters are you more afraid of:
people here will not realize this is not about the pennies saved by those early adopters, but the real damage was done years ago, when the now-proven-false advertisement of a stable price for life likely killed the competition and now allow them and apple to charge whatever they want today.
I hope all their clients gets lots of non-refunded cancelations.
always went out of my way to not pay their abusive service fee (sometimes more expensive than the ticket). until all the suckers would buy exclusively from them, killing all alternatives. hope it plays out realy, realy bad to everyone who is their clients.
you completely missed the point of the comment and the article.
yes, it shipped, completely broken. lots and lots of functionality was lost for a while (and some not deemed enterpise-worthy still are).
what seems more correct for you in this car anaology: suppose
- some cars have the turn signal on top left stalk
- other cars have the wiper and healigth control on the top stalk.
would you standardize them by:
a) set a industry standard and wait for them to follow, with a period or brands permanently Opting out (let's say golf carts without turn signals)
or b) force legislation from top down to immediately repurpose the top left stalk for turn signals via sopftware update, no matter if some companies will make the headlight control not work for years or keep the now-wrongly marked control permanently?
systemd is option B. the same system did could easily have been done with a standards for init scritpts and opt-in. yet it was done with a top down idiotic decision that was self serving to some players.