Yeah. That post has over 900 comments, which is rare even for an Ars article. Mostly negative sentiment, which I get.
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I wonder if this is something that will help bring Firefox usage numbers up to what they should be. Since so many Firefox users are privacy focused and resist fingerprinting, a lot of users don't show up in usage numbers. Maybe there aren't enough of them to make a difference, I don't know. Thus is the only non-nefarious usage I could think up.
The OP discusses exactly a solution to the anyone setting up an instance to capture the data, because the users home instance federates their votes anonymously.
There maybe flaws in it, not that's exactly what it aims to solve.
That's what I was missing.
This is the main thing preventing me, and probably a good amount of other folks, from using alternative roms. If I can get all the apps I need to run, then I can't use the rom, even if I would prefer it.
Not seeing it on f-droid yet.
I do not like this prediction, because it seems like a plausible reality. Which would be awful.
That's good in theory, but every hour across vast swaths of the US would be pretty boring. As it is most refuel stops are not places you wanna hangout at longer than you need to. That might shift slightly with more EVs requiring charges more often, but stopping every hour, for an hour to charge, isn't gonna fly for most folks.
Vintage is 25+ years, antique is 100. That's the guidance of physical items typically. Seems to fit here as well, IMO.
Such useful features. They should be built-in. But I'm glad they're serviced separately so we get updates outside windows update cadence.
It's a never ending onslaught of beginner questions and experienced folks with domain knowledge burn out. I'm sure it's good when it's new and fresh and everyone is exited to participate, but that wears out. It's why things went away from mailing lists, or why mailing lists started getting archived, so they could be searched.
I guess with most things it comes in cycles, and we're at the on demand answers cycle right now.
I have been able to live with everything else, but this is the one that kills me every time.