Ok. The general consensus seems to be that Chrome is a bad web browser. But what should I use instead? Firefox? Or, Microsoft Edge…? I’m Edge-averse due to years of knowing how bad (feature wise) Internet Explorer was. But people seem more happy with Edge than Chrome these days.
Edge and turn off the Microsoft stuff you dislike. Much easier than de-Googling Chrome and faster.
Unless you’re on a Mac in which case there’s something to be said for Safari depending on your work.
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you don’t get cross platform credential sync with edge though and it’s only marginally better in terms of performance on Windows (you get hevc decoding which is primarily useful if you want to stream an apple event or watch 4K Netflix under extremely specific drm conditions, as well as slightly tweaked timer and UI stuff). it’s perfectly usable but not really a good enough reason to switch fulltime imo (I use it about as conditionally as I do safari on Mac).
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The credentials thing is what made me move off Firefox when I tried to ditch chrome in the past. I’m pretty embedded in the google infrastructure with my email and phone. Dang.
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I saw the new Firefox redesign uses PLAYING AUDIO text underneath tab titles instead of a little speaker icon and it gets truncated when you have too many tabs, incredible
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it depends a lot on what the web page being rendered is doing, you don’t always get acceleration, and more or less no matter what you do the optimisations Blink (or any other web page renderer) makes for this have to be more generalised than those you’d make if you know you’re drawing a grid of text unconditionally
and Google are, after all, abandoning the “rendering HTML” approach for Docs, and will instead be rendering to a canvas element, presumably using WebGL or something so they can optimise it
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When screen sharing with a desktop res of 4K or above it’s best to share a window that’s sized down to around a 1080p quandrant, right? Is there a better way around this?
Unfortunately not asking for myself, but rather a screen I need to read.
simplest and most reliable way of solving this imo is actually “have another, smaller monitor that you can put the stuff you want to share on as needed” – a lot of that UX still works way better when you can use the concept of “fullscreen,” it just doesn’t have to be your only screen
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This person’s using a 13" MBP hooked up to a huge monitor so that’s perfect, actually. Duh!
i have a resolution switcher on my macbook that i use to go from 4K down to 1080p whenever i am training, it does the trick
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Has anyone else noticed Firefox feeling bloated and laggy every now and then ever since the 89 update? I haven’t actually checked resource usage, I’ve just perceived it. Quitting and reopening fixes it, but what the hell?
wandows 11 hmm…
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Nevermind. I think something screwy was going on with my pihole and ipv6.
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Fuck that noise.
Guess I’ll try this. 
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is this new info to the conversation we had here?
that dark audacity tip is good info
I don’t know, I can’t keep track of every single thread people create here.
That’s boilerplate cya language for a privacy policy. By “potential buyer” they don’t mean “of the data” they mean of their company
The part about an age restriction in violation of the GPL is pretty funny tho. It’s for COPPA and almost every TOS says 13 minimum as a result
This is corporate lawyers copy/pasting the same policy they’d use for anything
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yeah this is (still) the result of people who think they care about privacy but who mostly care about being able to perceive the extent of their free software, finally taking notice of what the reality of this language typically looks like and being aghast
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yeah i was thinking about this because i use sony vegas for audio editing and was like “oh i bet they collect way more data but i’m going to keep using that because i expect it to do shit like that”
i guess it’s just expectations of FOSS? like i do still find it a bit ghastly but only because it’s like “I TRUSTED YOUUUU” not because my data is actually safe anywhere else
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But because it’s FOSS you can just fork it a la vscodium and move on?
And if you’re concerned about privacy you ought to be running a DNS blacklist that would moot all of this
It’s just confusing to me to get riled up about this now rather than like 2006 when it was normal to know a guy on a crusade against gmail