stinerman

This 100%. I’ve worked in some sort of IT all my life. It took what I lived and turned it into a job.

I’m shocked (haha pun) that it still worked but it did.

Also the cord from the power supply to the outlet ran next to the sink.

I was once so broke that I couldn’t afford a case for a computer I had.

So I brought my computer to a LAN in a trash bag and set it up on the host’s electric stove.

We’ve been explicitly told at work to be courteous when asking Copilot for help because it gives better answers that way.

For everyone who isn’t trying to mine crypto, yeah.

I turn off Folding@Home in the summer. Otherwise it’s on 24x7.

I have thought of this exact thing and thought I was the only one.

First, ass world. Then die mart.

My only regret is that I have…boneitis!

My cat actually likes this, so long as I’m not clean shaven.

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PBS here has ads. They are short, but there are ads nonetheless. This is over and above the ads for their own shows that will be on the channel at a later date.

I heard tell from a Gen Xer who said cable TV used to not have ads.

I have just recently heard of both after not knowing who either was like 2 months ago so this was just another instance of a long line of “man those people are constantly in the news.”

I’m not trying to disparage anyone who likes Linkin Park, but my opinion is that, in general, alt rock from the late 90s through the early 00s has aged really poorly. I used to listen to that music a ton when I was in high school and college, but I don’t anymore.

I think it’s fair to think that they could refocus their efforts on the browser if they didn’t have that large slush fund from Google. I don’t think “hey we don’t take Google money anymore” is going to lead to a lot of new donations, however.

it sounds like no one else does either

Maintaining a browser that doesn’t rely on someone else’s upstream code is quite an ordeal. Of the four main browsers (Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox), 3 are built by large for-profit enterprises and the other relies on money from a large for-profit enterprise. Browsers are very complex pieces of technology and can’t be maintained by 3 guys on GitHub in their spare time.

Close. Chromium uses Blink which was originally a fork of WebKit. I have no idea how much they’ve diverged since then.

They could probably raise more if Google went away

I’m interested in how you think Mozilla would raise more than half a billion dollars if they didn’t take any money from Alphabet/Google. Genuinely. In what ways could Mozilla raise money that they’re not doing right now?