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There are UI guidelines to make apps show something however useless it might be. https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/loading

I guess most developers go for a logo rather than a spinner. Maybe they worry that folk will forget what app they tapped on?

Hardly surprising since they were acquired by Google.

It’s only piracy if you grab a cutlass and storm the local shops. It’s time to call it what it is = digital theft / running unlicensed software / whatever. If someone hacks into your accounts, I doubt you’d call them a pirate for stealing all you personal videos and pictures, taking over your steam account, ‘borrowing’ your netflix, and so on. The whole thing is deeply uncool.

Personally I wish the laws would change to make copyright non-transferable from the original artists, who deserve reward for their efforts but shouldn’t be a meal ticket for others. I’d also like to see abandonware legitimised - if folk can’t buy it then it should be fair game.

From memory it has a different layout in /etc, /use, and /opt that kept tripping me up. Simple things seemed harder. I do a fair amount in older versions of Java that caused problems. It’s been a while though, so things have likely changed.

Sad to hear that about Hey: that was how I felt about Basecamp. It’s a shame they are repeating the same mistakes.

I’m halfway between proton and fastmail, mostly because I like and trust protonvpn. It’s tough to choose. For pure email, I’d pick fastmail.

That’s good to know, I don’t think I’ve had any communication about this 😕

That’s correct: I use FOSS where possible, and if I must use closed source it must store data in an open standard.

As you insist on evidence: I can create and open 100% of my archives in all systems I use now or in the foreseeable future without installing additional software. RAR fails that test.

The other reason: RAR is a closed format, and like I said there are better alternatives that are not proprietary.

Likewise your philosophy is that RAR is best and you are free to have that opinion also without providing evidence.

I must have played with SUSE at some point, these words bring back horrors I’d long forgotten.

I scan all files already, so nothing new there.

Personally I choose to not deal with RAR and use a format that isn’t proprietary, isn’t patent encumbered, and is FOSS. These are rational, evidence based choices. There are plenty of alternatives that fit my needs better as well as those of my clients and peers.

I can find faults in any of them, but mostly hate working with Redhat/CentOS/Fedora. Strongly prefer Debian over Ubuntu, and I strongly prefer Gentoo over Arch. SUSE is an unknown, not sure about that one.

I have a fondness for BSD, if that matters.

In no particular order: Fastmail, Proton, Outlook, iCloud, Yahoo, Gandi (free if you buy a domain), I’ve heard Hey is ok, but haven’t used it.

Indeed, I don’t trust those either. As for RAR being “bad”, no I don’t agree with that - but I’ve only ever seen it used in that context. If someone sent me one it would raise an eyebrow, much more so than if someone sent me a .7z file. Likewise if I used it professionally, it would arouse suspicions amongst my peers more than if I used 7zip.

I’ve never come across a legitimate use of RAR, you are quite right about the link to warez/virus/trojans and other malware but it will never shake that association. As for Kaspersky, I trust that steaming pile of Russian spyware even less.

For this much data I’d want to use multiple vans in case one suffers an unexpected hardware failure 😃

It’s much the same when I send .tar.gz / .tgz files. Folk get uppity about it not being .zip. I don’t bother with other formats purely because I know I can expand them anywhere without installing additional software.

As for .rar, I always view them with suspicion. Dodgy.

kiro5hin

I seem to recall spending time on there, but that’s about all I remember about it.

I kinda dabbled in most of them, except 4chan. In no particular order: Various webrings, usenet, tumblr, stumbleupon, digg, kiro5hin, reddit, slashdot, twitter, lots of rss. More reading than posting.

I use ChromeOS because I use Google Workspace. It gives me a cheap portable machine for work, and for meetings I rather carry that than a £2000 overspec’d heavy 15" laptop. It’s the cheapest of the cheap, and it can run Linux in a VM with Firefox. It has fantastic battery life. I also run Linux on the laptop, and on a Desktop PC, as well as servers.

In my mind, ChromeOS works. It’s literally a browser with a screen, a keyboard, and some deep-rooted privacy concerns.

As for Windows, that I don’t understand the need in 2023. I switched to Debian, and immediately saw better thermals, less fan noise, faster boot, longer battery life, and all sort of other improvements. Given Linux/Windows/MacOS/DOS/iOS/Android are all effectively launchers for apps and provide broadly the same services I don’t really care which, but I will choose the ones that make me most productive.

Here’s hoping that happens, but it still won’t fix two things: Firefox is kinda weird and clumsy on mobile, and it’ll still need attestation if that’s implemented on key websites as a hard-barrier to usage. I’m now on Android (I alternate between the two, so next cycle will be Apple), and even as a highly technical type I don’t sideload on there anyway, so I think few will sideload on iOS either.

Probably, which gives more ways to collect data and still uses WebKit underneath.