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In my experience those users express a mix of surprise and irritation when they get ads about something they did minutes or hours before, but they accept that's the way things are.

I joke that I'm a no-app person, because I install very few apps and I use anti tracking tech on my phone that's even hard to explain or recommend to non technical friends. I use Firefox with uMatrix and uBlock Origin and Blockada. uMatrix is effective but breaks so many sites unless one invests time in playing with the matrix. Blockada breaks many important apps (banking) less one understands whitelisting.


It looks interesting but I'm on my phone and it's definitely not playable on mobile. All I can see are the help dialogs and some chat.

It should work on mobile. Are you able to close the chat so you can see better?

It's much better today. I can see planets and vectors. Probably not enough to play but maybe enough of I were an expert.

I've been running colinux for years until early 2009 when I reinstalled my laptop with Ubuntu 8.04 and Windows XP in a VM. So much faster.

It's a matter of preferences. Actually I like trackpads that don't mind and have physical buttons. The separation between the surface that moves the pointer on screen and the surfaces that generate the clicks means that there are no misclicks and no involuntary pointer movements while clicking.

The MacBook software is so good that I’ve never had issues with misclicks or movement despite your palms sitting on it while typing.

Long ago I installed Linux on a MacBook and found it unusable because of clicks and movement while typing. It’s probably improved these days though.


It is so incredibly "weird" to press on a MacBook (non Neo) trackpad when it is off, it's like touching a dead thing.

I had palm rejection work perfectly in my 2015 laptop; for my 2022 laptop, I had to switch to Fedora for the latest software.

Spoken like someone who has never used a haptic trackpad.

It does not apply. Many vocal Westerners don't find an enemy of their enemy (the USA way to capitalism or to imperialism or pick your -ism) in Sudan so there are no votes to gain, careers to foster, people to gather in protests. "The enemy of my enemy is not my friend but at least is the enemy of my enemy" effect is totally lacking. Who do you protest against? Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran? As a public figure said in my country about the protests for Gaza, "we protest against our government."

Ruby's timecop is great for those test scenarios https://github.com/travisjeffery/timecop

> But what happened to older developers? Did they move over?

I'm working on a project with a Rails backend and a Vue frontend.

I've been working on a JS backend and frontend project in the early 2010s but I think that it was the only project with a JS backend. There are plenty of projects with server generated HTML. In my case the backends were Ruby, Python, Elixir, Java, PHP.


Exactly. Big headaches. It doesn't happen to the salaries of the employees of the companies affected by those price hikes. That's the point.

The Get Started button links to a contact form. That's unexpected. I looked for the source code repository and thanks to somebody here that hinted at it as a Thunderbird project, I found [1]. That's a better Get Started page.

[1] https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbolt


Updated!

A customer of mine uses Postman for its API docs. I never use it to run API calls. I curl to the server from the terminal. I keep a file with the most common sequences and I can add -d @request.json much more easily than from within Postman. Basically I use it only to edit the documentation.

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