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  • My bad if I took your words the wrong way. I gave my answer for why I prefer to use the primary application, because of funding, and your response to me sounded like dismissive condescension. You may not have meant condescension but it reads like dismissive condescension to me like I've heard plenty of whether in or out of the software industry or academia

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  • Is your first instinct talking to people is to be a dick? Forks pull changes downstream and hopefully push changes upstream but if you want to see either the core Firefox web browser engine or F-Droid reach more popularity, you need Mozilla support so I would rather support Mozilla directly than any fork

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  • Support from the primary source of development is what I'd prefer. That's where the money is. Mozilla is the only one that could actually have a sizable marketing budget along with employing dozens to hundreds of software developers

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  • I wish Firefox would do this. I'm stubbornly always favoring it for a non-Chromium browser

  • Which Distros Are Doing Best Currently?

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  • The whole of Fedora atomic distros are interesting in an exercise in getting good with layering and distrobox. Pop_os 24.04 just to see if a third pillar of Linux frontends with GTK and Qt is viable. People are always pissy about Manjaro but they seem to have an interesting present being pre installed on the Orange Pi Neo handheld

  • Dragon Age: Veilguard lead level designer Brian J. Audette responds to criticisms on Bluesky: "We couldn't have made a better Dragon Age, only a different one."

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  • Dragon Age fans could always grasp at the developing lore that David Gaider was trying to hold together through branching paths game to game. Fans even put up with Inquisition's CW soap drama quest lines as long as they got interesting darkspawn, elven, mage/templar/chantry reveals done well. Veilguard is where fans got nothing to cheer about even. Fans now wax poetic about what could have been reading the Veilguard art book that showed concepts of the game that didn't get made

  • Dragon Age: Veilguard lead level designer Brian J. Audette responds to criticisms on Bluesky: "We couldn't have made a better Dragon Age, only a different one."

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  • That's just being in denial. The game killed the series. A better Dragon Age would make the Antivan Crows a lot more interesting and integrate in elven communities with the elven gods rather than the venatori. It's not a good Dragon Age game

  • You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning

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  • That is an issue that I imagine only being solved with a larger user base that banks don't feel like they can ignore anymore

    As the other guy mentioned, the website. All these apps are usually web wrappers anyways or some sort of cross platform software dev framework that does web/mobile so the website is usually pretty much the same as the apps

  • You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning

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  • Just saw there's a sort of large Lemmy degoogle community

    https://lemmy.world/c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

    Personally I think it's a good start to just replace Google applications. Organic Maps over Google Maps. Proton Mail/Drive/VPN/Calendar over Google stuff. Firefox and forks over Chrome. Duckduckgo over Google search. After that you can maybe find an old old Google Pixel phone and then start flashing ROMs off XDA forums as practice before you try a newer more expensive phone

  • You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning

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  • Just searched degoogle in Lemmy

    https://lemmy.world/c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

    There are levels to it. The advanced level is using a custom Android ROM for your phone that has no Google play services/apps on it and that'll depend on what's available for your phone from community ROM makers. You can see if any of these support your phone or plan any future phone of yours around these

    https://itsfoss.com/android-distributions-roms/

    An easier first step is just starting with non-Google apps. You can start with replacing Google apps like replace Maps with Organic Maps or something similar. Replace Gmail with something like Proton Mail. Same with calendar and cloud storage. Proton has alternatives. They even have an okay Google docs feature. Use a different search engine like duckduckgo rather than Google.

    F-droid as an app store. Instead of Google authenticator use Aegis. Instead of Chrome use Firefox or a fork of it.

    It's difficult so a process over time of lessening dependency on Google applications

  • You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning

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  • I swear all of this was predicted to happen by open source advocates of the 80s and they'd be called alarmists/whatever and then 30 years later you had Snowden leaks and all the surveillance bills and now Microsoft, Google, and Apple are all advertisement companies mining data through the software and devices they sell

    The best people can do is just keep using and advocating for Linux adoption. Try out degoogled Android or a more traditional Linux phone device. Need more users and funding to get the software kinks worked out. They're not as good as the high end Android and Apple stuff, but it's a process

  • You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning

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  • Ya it was pretty good. It was also pretty great for all the niche community groups. It had great photography, music, open source software, I remember Bernie Sanders was big early on on Google+ well before he ran for president. Google+ was the shit compared to Facebook/Instagram/Twitter. Google just fumbled by giving up on it too soon and not recognizing how good they had it with the photography and hobby interests groups. Their best shot at competing with Instagram and Twitter

  • Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games”

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  • Dragon Age 1-3 all had their drawbacks but could always fall back on how beloved the lore was and how it was present. Dragon Age Veilguard has much of the lore the original creator laid out but presents the revelations in its game poorly and retcons lore from previous games in sterile ways. The original creator left after 3 and over the decade has dropped tidbits about the changing culture of the studio he left

  • Israel-Iran conflict ‘drives the final nail into the coffin’ of postwar world order

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  • That doesn't sound different than anytime post-WWII. Right after WWII France went straight to killing Algerians, Southeast Asians and probably more

  • As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG

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  • I'll play the game in like 4-5 years like how I played the first one years later for way cheaper. So cheap I couldn't be disappointed with the writing and just enjoyed the solid but unremarkable game

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  • I guess this bodes well for Proton becoming increasingly a Google One products replacement with more users potentially paying

  • Inside the 'Dragon Age' Debacle That Gutted EA's BioWare Studio

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  • I don't get EA/Bioware. Fantasy is consistently more popular than scifi. Inquisition was their best selling game. Yet DA was never treated like a heavyweight like Mass Effect. My expectations tanked when David Gaider left

  • Most used encrypted messenger besides Signal, Whatsapp, iMessage, and RCS?

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  • I would guess Telegram if the users hit the toggle wherever it's not default. After what you've listed and Telegram, I'd guess Matrix/Element

  • The Outer Worlds 2 Can't Be Anti-Capitalist When It's Charging Us $80 To Play It

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  • Play that years down the line. The first one was OK but I paid like $15 for it with the expansion. Obsidian hasn't had a clear jump in quality since the MS purchase. Possibly even signs of writing regression with Avowed so can't imagine much hype for this game

  • Fast Food @lemmy.world
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    Do KFC Buffet Locations Still Exist?

    www.chowhound.com /1821494/do-kfc-buffets-still-exist/
  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    South Korea, Vietnam Agree to Boost Economic Ties Amid Looming US Tariffs

    www.usnews.com /news/world/articles/2025-04-14/south-korea-vietnam-agree-to-boost-economic-ties-amid-looming-us-tariffs
  • Fast Food @lemmy.world
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    Shake Shack Introduces New Dubai Chocolate Pistachio Shake at Select Locations

    www.fastfoodpost.com /shake-shack-introduces-new-dubai-chocolate-pistachio-shake/
  • Fast Food @lemmy.world
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    Wendy’s Is Releasing 6 All-New Frostys—Including Collabs with Oreo and Pop-Tarts

    www.allrecipes.com /wendys-frosty-swirls-and-fusions-april-2025-11712649
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Chinese chip giants say they don't care about U.S. tariffs — many don't sell to the U.S. anyway due to existing sanctions

    www.tomshardware.com /tech-industry/chinese-chip-giants-say-they-dont-care-about-u-s-tariffs-many-dont-sell-to-the-u-s-anyway-due-to-existing-sanctions
  • Fast Food @lemmy.world
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    Man travels 50 miles to sleep in car outside Popeyes for free chicken

    www.walesonline.co.uk /whats-on/food-drink-news/man-travel-50-miles-sleep-31401999
  • Business @lemmy.world
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    Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs

    finance.yahoo.com /news/trump-exempts-phones-computers-chips-124707368.html
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    The world's hot new trade is "sell America"

    www.axios.com /2025/04/11/sell-america-trump-tariffs-bonds
  • Business @lemmy.world
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    LVMH finds making Louis Vuitton bags messy in Texas

    www.reuters.com /business/retail-consumer/lvmh-finds-making-louis-vuitton-bags-messy-texas-2025-04-10/
  • Fast Food @lemmy.world
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    Jack in the Box Launches New Nashville Hot Menu - The Fast Food Post

    www.fastfoodpost.com /jack-in-the-box-launches-new-nashville-hot-menu/
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Trump says 'major tariff' coming soon on foreign pharmaceuticals

    www.usatoday.com /story/news/politics/2025/04/08/trump-tariff-pharmaceuticals-economy-china/83001917007/
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Canada to impose counter-tariffs on U.S. auto imports on Wednesday

    financialpost.com /transportation/autos/canada-counter-tariffs-us-auto-imports
  • Android @lemdro.id
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    How to start using the new Linux terminal on your Android device

    www.zdnet.com /article/how-to-use-the-new-linux-terminal-on-android/
  • Android @lemmy.world
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    How to start using the new Linux terminal on your Android device

    www.zdnet.com /article/how-to-use-the-new-linux-terminal-on-android/
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Hong Kong leader says city will sign more free trade pacts amid 'ruthless' US tariffs

    www.reuters.com /world/asia-pacific/hong-kong-leader-says-city-will-sign-more-free-trade-pacts-amid-ruthless-us-2025-04-08/
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Judge jails Trump clemency recipient Jonathan Braun after child assault arrest

    www.cnbc.com /2025/04/04/judge-jails-trump-clemency-recipient-braun-child-assault-arrest.html
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Trump's tariff rates for other countries radically larger than World Trade data

    www.cnbc.com /2025/04/04/trumps-tariff-rates-for-other-countries-larger-than-word-trade-data.html
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Bernstein Posits That A 10 Percent Baseline US Tariff On Raw Semiconductors Is "Not Going To Do All That Much," But PCs, Servers, And Smartphones Are About To Get Pricier By ~40 Percent

    wccftech.com /trumps-liberation-day-bernstein-posits-that-a-10-percent-baseline-us-tariff-on-raw-semiconductors-is-not-going-to-do-all-that-much-but-pcs-servers-and-smartphones-are-about-to-get-pricier-by/
  • Nintendo @lemmy.world
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    Trump’s Tariffs Are Here to Jack Up the Price of Your Switch 2 (and Everything Else)

    gizmodo.com /trumps-tariffs-are-here-to-jack-up-the-price-of-your-switch-2-and-everything-else-2000584267
  • Firefox @lemmy.ml
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    Firefox maker Mozilla prepares Gmail-like Thundermail

    www.theregister.com /2025/04/02/thunderbird_pay_services/