Tbh, I don’t remember ever noticing any blocked site on my usual internet usage.

I only have one example and it’s not really a good one: 3-4 years ago I had one specific spreadsheet (that I got from the internet) which I used to help plan some stuff in a videogame I was playing. It had a table with a few hundred items with formulas that would iterate over those items many times.

Excel on the local machine could handle changes to that sheet instantly. Anything else I tried (including excel web) would take several seconds to change any value, sometimes even minutes.

It was probably some problem with the spreadsheet itself, but there was no other similar spreadsheet I could use so at the end of the day I had to use excel if I wanted to plan anything with that tool (but I ended up quitting the game within a few days)

Rocket.Chat seems to be doing well in Europe as well; they recently released their own native matrix implementation.

And it’s specific to slack? Or do you have the same issue when sharing the screen on anything else?

Try an atomic distro too, if you haven’t yet. It’s a completely different experience from regular Linux - specially the ones that take care of everything for you like UBlue’s.

When you’re thinking 50%, you’re thinking about the content you actually see. But you likely don’t see more than 5% of reddit’s content - the stuff that goes on in all the smaller subreddits.

15% of the whole site is an absurdly high number.

Thought the point of my comment would be better made without mentioning it by name, but it’s Bluefin.

I was like this until last year. Used Linux a lot for work but couldn’t make the jump on my personal computers because there was always some thing or another that was annoying. Then one day i made one more distro change and suddenly I was having the best experience I’ve ever had in any OS. Now I can only hope I can keep riding on this wave for a long time.

Thanks! And yeah, if it can’t even handle stuff like this properly I don’t think Microsoft will have any luck getting people to use it.

Do you mind trying it with some random skyrim door puzzle or something like that? I imagine it’s closer to what they expect people would use it for, but I don’t imagine it handling any better.

The whole thing is specially useless if you consider that people are much less likely to try it on games that are old enough for the AI to have had data about it than on brand new games that they know nothing about.

Windows Live Writer, obviously.

Everything is about control. The internet was left open by accident for a while and they are working hard to “fix” it. They are just trying to be slightly less obvious about it than China was. All of the forced AI tools, required apps and stuff like that are just ways to move users away from the open web.

Once most users restrict their Internet usage to ONLY content provided by the large companies (for example, once people no longer click on any Google result), then Internet providers will start granting access to the content from large companies for free and charge a lot more for access to anything else.

In 10, maybe 20 years, we will be needing to tell our internet providers when we change jobs so that they may change which “custom” internet services we get to have access to specifically for work.

Because they don’t know what could potentially be running with root access and they’d rather block everything they don’t know.

Earlier this year my accountant asked me to install an app on my phone to give them access to some banking details and that app would not open the login screen without the gboard keyboard enabled, because they considered custom keyboard apps = bad. It also would not let me use password managers, so I was forced to put my banking details beyond a weaker password than any of my online accounts for random sites.

Just got two kobos this month, for me and my wife. I had had one back in 2012 and wasn’t reading much in recent years, but she had owned a handful of kindles before (never any other eReader) and lost all her book collection after her credit card was cloned and amazon deleted all accounts that had ever used it “for safety”.

Her kobo arrived earlier and for a whole week she would come tell me all the amazing stuff she could do on it that she never thought possible. Incredible technological advancements like sending a file directly to it.

I was like “it’s OK honey, you’re out of that abusive relationship now”

AdSense could have been amazing if it was used to find good ads for the user instead of finding good users for the ad.

And God forbid you enable captions on the video or something - it’ll disable itself every time an ad plays.

I’m surprised how Microsoft just took all of Google’s deliberate sabotages without any fuss.

Though in the end what really put the nail on the coffin was Pokémon Go.

They are gatekeeping which apps you can install, not the installation method.

I doubt most people care that much. I do, but I don’t know anyone else who does.

But even if I were to lose this, I would not even consider switching to apple (but I would consider switching to something more open).

There are many different ways to define “stable”. Linux is better in some, windows might be better in others.