FuzzyRedPanda

Exactly. Google had the existing userbase of – and free advertising to – every single person who visited google.com. All it took was a little banner saying “Get Chrome! It’s free and better!”

That, combined with having billions of dollars to throw at making Chrome successful, of course they became the #1 browser.

The Firefox team has never had the funding they really need to compete with Chrome. I see the AI and ad push to be a desperate attempt at securing enough funding to stay relevant. It’s really sad to see.

As long as Firefox lets me turn off any unwanted ad or AI integration, I will keep using them, but damn I hope they secure some funding and get their shit together before they lose the majority of their userbase.

The 4th Circuit court is out of their minds on this ruling.

Help i am trying to get the internet but my son says i need to get a yah hoo? how do i get one???

Well, fuck Capcom I guess.

As someone who currently uses searxng and kagi, I can say that kagi gives the best results of any general internet search engine. Do I like paying money for it? Of course not. But it will keep getting mentioned as long as it keeps providing the best results.

Customer word of mouth ≠ shills.

Animal ownership is, in fact, seen as unethical by some vegans.

The article stated that the game is also on Nintendo Switch.

I used to say this when I was a cringy 20-year-old, before I really saw and understood the world (and still believed in a god).

“Life isn’t fair” always bothered me, even as a kid, because it was used against me to dismiss unjust actions.

Saying something isn’t fair is basically saying it’s not right, it’s not just.

Trying to claim the injustice against me is moot or unimportant just because there’s lots of injustice in the world, seems bonkers to me.

I had some PIAA silicone wiper blades that lasted like 5 years, but I also kept that car in a garage. Amazing wiper blades!

When I moved to a new area where I had to park my car on the street because I no longer had a garage, I replaced the wiper blades with the same model but they didn’t even last a year.

PSA to carefully read and follow all usage directions on any oven cleaner product. Some of that stuff can destroy your lungs (and more) if not used properly.

It deeply saddens me when people pay money for locked down hardware that’s not only designed to spy on them, but their family, friends, and neighbors as well. Ring, Amazon Echo, Google Home, that creepy Facebook robot screen…all insecure spyware.

“I don’t care if his name is Tux – get him out of here!”

No worries! :)

Yeah. I guess we shouldn’t expect that to change any time soon?

If that’s the case, maybe public votes is the best way to go.

You should not be ashamed of your vote history.

I agree, people shouldn’t be ashamed of their vote history unless they are trying to harass a person or community with a pattern of downvotes.

I still don’t want to be harassed for my voting though, nor will I be pressured into defending my votes if a user brings it up.

Who determines the quality of one’s posts though?

The users? Users are reactionary and often vote based on how a post influenced their feelings. It probably works on Stack Exchange because the scope of the forum is solving technical problems.

Downvotes can be useful in certain contexts, like when you visit a thread and are looking for factual information, such as the answer to a tech question. I don’t want to accidentally follow someone’s bad advice because the bad advice didn’t have any downvotes nor any responses as to why it was wrong.

It’s not perfect, but voting is a quick, often effective method of fact checking.

It would encourage harassment the same way comment history does: someone goes looking for it, sees it, and attacks the person over it.

Aren’t we all supposed to be Linux nerds in here?

No! :) The most Linux I use is a Steam Deck.

I feel votes should be visible to admins but otherwise anonymized and private, or else I fear vote-harassment could become a forever-problem on Lemmy. As a woman who has been harassed on Twitter and Reddit in the past, I strongly urge the Lemmy community to embrace privacy on this issue. If there’s any way to make votes more private between users, we should do it.

If we don’t and users get harassed, they might leave. Lemmy needs more women. And you all are great but Lemmy also needs people who aren’t Linux nerds! Lemmy needs diversity.