[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

FxOS only targeting low–mid-range phones in developing markets only seemed a bit odd. Basically no one had heard of it & these places largely choose used/old version of premium products to buying budget unless they have to. There was hype in the dev community about getting a B2G device, but there was hardly availability & specs were abysmal for an OS running a non-fast interpreted language like JavaScript. Not only that but the marketing was around openness & developer-friendliness—things average consumers don’t care about (even if they should).

Imagine in a parallel universe where the idea was managed properly & B2G left the phone sphere too—where school kids were required to get a FxBook instead of Chromebooks… 😶

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

They don’t package LTS kernels which is pretty concerning—especially if using out-of-kernel modules that don’t always get released in lock step that could leave you with a machine that won’t boot.

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

Matrix isn’t ActivityPub ∴ not a part of the fediverse

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This assumes that just since abuse could happen means we should block access for everyone. Folks might make illegal photocopies of books so we should ban libraries. I & others have done general scraping for our own uses that isn’t done in some abusive manner. But to assume a company beholden to US shareholder is going to “to the right thing” would be to go against the history of US corporations.

And you know who is going to be able to afford to do the scraping? Big US-based “AI Bros” that can do it with venture capital preventing the average user or researcher from grepping the net.

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

He’s the perfect size—they shouldn’t make YouTubers bigger than that

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

We would have that freedom with Android too if those stupid banking apps stopped trying to dictate what you can run on your hardware & Google giving them more features to do so.

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That said… it’s oger & advertize as well as manoeuvre needs more vowels to be considered proper English

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

’90s websites would have had terrible touch target sizes

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That just converts tabs to space but doesn’t address the underlying accessibility needs where some folks demand different indentation due to vision issues or nonstandard IO devices like braille readers. Tabs allow the user to configure the width for their needs. Being static spaces ignores the needs of many folks.

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Crazy how these went from standard features to niche in a generation. Like a sibling comment mentioned, I picked up an Sony Xperia III 5 with microG for Lineage OS installed (tho I swap OLED + <6" screen for your front-facing speaker requirement). Stupidly, not-rooted I still can’t run banking apps since custom ROMs are dangerous (but make me safer). Ironically, the banking apps I would use have trackers in them since it’s their security/privacy that matter, not mine.

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Do you remember CSON? CoffeeScript Object Notation was a cute way to make JSON readable before CoffeeScript kinda died.

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

3D films is always a fad that comes in waves. Given it’s price to set up at home, it will be a premium that only movie theaters will offer—and such a gimmick is what those movie corporations spring on us to try to redrum up folks’ interest in paying to go to the theater (especially when a new technology for 3D is released).

The last one I went to on purpose was the first Dr. Strange movie since it was pretty obvious all of these effects would be well-suited for 3D which personally I think heightened the entertainment of that film. Many other cases were more forgetable, induced a headache, & were not worth the premium ticket.

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