Thanks for sharing this. I watched the interview and it was one of the most interesting I've ever watched.

Speaking of backdoors in popular open source libraries, the recent incident with xz is exemplary I think.

Reasons to have kids

When they will support installing progressive web apps (PWA) like Chrome does, I'll consider it.

Well I guess it's only about time before Google goes all in with DRM.

As a Linux desktop user, web apps are very much welcome. Apps like Photopea and Adobe's new Photoshop web app are things that make the Linux desktop much more viable as a platform.

I didn't link to it because you can't unsee Ballmer and unhear his voice cracks.

Yeah I've noticed that too. I have a systemd service that periodically updates a DNS record on duckdns.org and it fails quite often.

Some points on why I switched from Firefox to Chrome:

- It "failed" while trying to use Google Meet for work. I don't remember the details of the incident, but it was embarrassing enough that it made me switch, at least for work stuff

- No Chromecast support

- Buggier than Chrome in general: last I remember was an issue with page scaling when printing

- No desktop integration of PWAs (i.e. launcher icon, standalone window). This is what I missed the most as a Linux desktop user.

- Worse performance than Chrome, at least on Android. Firefox was freezing often and even causing my phone to... restart randomly. This is unacceptable.

Well, on my iPad mini 1st gen the web is unusably slow.

Yeah even if there were modern browsers for earlier iPads and iPhones, they wouldn’t be pleasant to use because modern mountains-of-JavaScript websites are too much for the ARM CPUs in those devices to handle. The average Core 2 Duo PC handily outstrips early tablets and smartphones in terms of raw power, which is why they can manage the modern web better — in comparison browsing the web on e.g. an early iPad is like doing the same on a PC from the era of Pentium 3’s and 4’s and PPC G3s and G4s.

Safari crashed regularly on an iPad 1st gen by 2012 with iOS 5.

There's an option that allows to keep showing unavailable tracks. They appear greyed out and are not playable, but at least you know they're there.