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I mean, a million dollars isn't exactly a McDouble.

I'm sure they wanted more money, but a million dollars is still fuck-you money, especially in jurisdictions that won't extradite you back to the US for the crime you committed in getting it.

The good news is that wouldn't happen!

If someone coming from Earth had a contagious disease, everyone would die on the ship flying to Mars, thus resolving that particular problem!

(/s if it's not abundantly clear)

We can barely function in a biosphere actually specifically attuned to us.

If you've never read up on the Biosphere 2 experiment, you should.

We tried living in a dome on this planet and it rapidly devolved into a low-oxygen roach infested infighting mess.

And people think we're even REMOTELY close to doing it on a planet that's actually deadly outside of the dome? Hah.

To be fair, I blame the phone more than Firefox for the performance, though at the end of the day, it's still slower than Chrome.

I went cheap and low spec (OnePlus Nord N30, because it had a headphone jack AND sdcard) for my last phone replacement and, for 99% of the things I do, it's perfectly fine.

That last 1% is kind of annoying and browsing falls into it.

It's a case where loading a bookmark from the home screen will crash about 1/3rd of the time with Firefox and will routinely take long enough that I'm sitting there annoyed at how long it's taking to load. No specific sites are better/worse, but it's all mostly self-hosted stuff: redlib, Lemmy, PeerTube, Firefish, etc.

It's a case of it being basically instant for Chrome, and 5+ seconds for Firefox - and more like 20-25 in the case of Firefish to actually load all the content - so I'm assuming Google is doing some background pre-loading or something that's causing the discrepancy.

I use Firefox, but the #1 complaint that's made me stop evangelizing it to random people is the endless, endless complaints that it's slow.

And, frankly, it is: Chromium-based browsers perform better a good amount of the time on sites that use too much JS, which is, well, basically everything.

It's better than it used to be, but boy do people care less about free software than they do fast software.

I will admit I dumped Firefox on my android phone and went back to Chrome because, good grief, it was taking nearly twice as long to open and load pages and yeah, my patience doesn't stretch THAT far.

I'm going to be greybeard: you should totally use kvm/qemu, and virt-manager is great for that.

Buuuuuuut, you should also absolutely learn how to use virsh to at least manage (start/stop/delete/deploy) them, because that tooling is guaranteed to exist basically anywhere and fancy gui stuff might not, or your system might be broken in a way preventing you from running a gui app, or whatever.

I promise, the hardest thing in virsh is setting up a bridged network if you need that and the rest of it is waaay simpler than dealing with a gui for deployment.

Congress has the authority to take away the court’s appellate authority in the vast majority of cases

Yeah, in theory, but that'll happen roughly never. Congress is far too focused on decorum, and tradition, and making insider stock trades to enrich themselves to pull their collective heads out of their own asses to pass even basic, simple, required and popular laws never mind spending time to fix other branches of the government.

I don't want to veer into the failed state crackpottiness or anything, but even an actual insurrection invading the capitol didn't get them to do anything so I'm at a substantial loss as to what could possibly motivate congress to you know, legislate.

How much is the buggy armor DLC?

Fair, and that's why this should be opt-in: I have absolutely no use case in my life for this that I'm not already meeting elsewhere but I know I'm certainly not everyone.

I don't begrudge other people using it, I would just very much prefer to not use it or, in the case of what Microsoft tried to pull, be shoveled into using it by default-enabling it and then likely nagging you endlessly if you dare to turn it off, like they do with everything else in Windows these days.

Pretty sure you just triggered every developer and/or person who had to sit through a product meeting.

Though you missed the last bullet point: Our user surveys showed that people would actually prefer these changes

Their metadata DB is still poorly and broken, and uh, it kinda makes the whole app pointless.

You probably want LazyLibrarian until and unless (and it's been literal years now) they fix their shit.

That lawsuit is going to go on for years, so uh, I wouldn't wait.

And, frankly, those kind of suits settle out of court and end up in a licensing deal anyways so there's very little chance that anything important will change tech-wise.