Hoping the new calendar will finally have a search. That’s the one reason I have to revert to Google calendar at times
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blackbeans@lemmy.zipto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Not once in my 40-odd years of life have I used a WYSIWYG editor that, once committed/submitted/saved, actually *gave me what I saw*
4·4 days agoIt sounds like you are only talking about html.
Delphi VB6 C# Winforms Qt
These wysiwyg editors usually worked/work without issues.
blackbeans@lemmy.zipto
Today I Learned@lemmy.world•Energy efficiency of various transport modesEnglish
4·8 days agoAlso the data seems to be from 2018. More than 50% of all new purchased city passenger buses in Europe are zero emission (usually electrified). And that number is higher in some other countries, with China being ahead of everyone.
blackbeans@lemmy.zipto
You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK: The French language is projected to be the world's most widely spoken language in the world by 2050
1·10 days agoEnglish is the number one language for trading, even if the US falls into despair. It is the most dominant second language in the world. Even the Chinese learn English starting primary school these days.
blackbeans@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•EU age verification app announced to protect children onlineEnglish
2·10 days agoIt is possible but doesn’t sound all that realistic to me. A truly decentralized app cannot be blocked by dns or endpoints. Thus a country would have to DPI the entire internet which is very resource intensive. And even then the data will be encrypted so you would have to resort to fingerprinting and finding patterns. From an age verification app to automatic data blocking based on deep packet inspection with fingerprinting of the entire internet - that seems quite a leap. Personally I don’t think decentralized apps are next in line to be blocked.
blackbeans@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•EU age verification app announced to protect children onlineEnglish
1·12 days agoHow would they do such a thing? Require every open port on every internet connected device to be registered? Disallow https and implement full scale layer 7 scanning?
blackbeans@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Thunderbird Team Unveils Thunderbolt Self-Hostable AI ClientEnglish
3·12 days agoCould you explain what email summaries have to do with this announcement? Thunderbird and Thunderbolt are separate applications. Thunderbolt doesn’t include AI models, it is merely a frontend to an AI API of choice, similar to how Thunderbird is a frontend to an email server of choice.
blackbeans@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•EU age verification app announced to protect children onlineEnglish
4·13 days agoIt could greatly boost the use of decentralized apps. Which will ultimately give people more power than they have right now. So in the long run, it might have some positive side effects.
blackbeans@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•YouTube's ad problem just got worse: Users now seeing 90-second unskippable ads!English
4·20 days agoMy setup to make YouTube bearable:
Firefox mobile and the following extensions:
- uBlock Origin
- DeArrow
- Hide-Shorts
- SponsorBlock
blackbeans@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming MarketshareEnglish
1·26 days agoAlso important that Mac primarily supports their own proprietary graphics api, while other platforms support open standards like Opengl and Vulkan. Which makes coding games for Apple a pain few are willing to endure.
blackbeans@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal informationEnglish
91·1 month agoDepends on your angle. The Pixel is a good phone and the OS works well, but it is a Google device. A growing minority wants to avoid investing in US big corp, or in anything US related in general given the current political situation.
blackbeans@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Bring Back the Burned CD— They’re a love language. And a reminder of the hope we once had.English
1·1 month agoIt’s weird though. Pencils were never a good way to transport tape. It was also investigated that only certain Japanese pencils fit as these are bigger. In my memory we always used a BIC ballpoint pen which fits perfectly.
blackbeans@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Bring Back the Burned CD— They’re a love language. And a reminder of the hope we once had.English
6·1 month agoI agree with your point. However that’s not what the article is about. It’s about the social and aesthetically engaging aspects that come with physical media compared to the utilitarian services where music is presented like “tap water”, and the sense of indifference that’s created through abundance, hurting the artists financially.
blackbeans@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Bring Back the Burned CD— They’re a love language. And a reminder of the hope we once had.English
52·1 month agoThat authors’ view is explained in the article.
Unlike a burned CD from a friend, there’s no social contract that compels me to sit with something new, and take the time to better understand it. There’s very little on Spotify that will compel me to dive into the catalogue of a new-to-me artist, then seek them out when they go on tour.
blackbeans@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Firefox 149 adds built-in free VPN with 50GB monthly dataEnglish
672·1 month agoUsable addition, and the fact that it is only in-browser is actually a merit in some cases. Firefox gets a lot of hate but is way more privacy centric out of the box compared to Chrome. AI is only opt-in and you can literally customize the entire browser using about:config. Mozilla also maintains the only real competing web engine (not considering Apple’s locked in ecosystem) and they are the reason browsers are open source these days.
blackbeans@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Firefox 149 adds built-in free VPN with 50GB monthly dataEnglish
4·1 month agoThe free option is limited to a certain amount of GB. Mozilla can upsell an unlimited version in the future. Likely the reason they don’t do that right from the start, is that their VPN network is completely new and it’s hard to judge the network capacity needed.
blackbeans@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Spotify playing ads for paid subscribersEnglish
4·1 month agoConfirmed by Spotify that it was a bug and has now been solved. It only applied to Basic users. Basic is the slightly cheaper version of Premium which doesn’t include audio books.
blackbeans@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC IndustryEnglish
3·2 months agoThe law is there solely to ensure the customer always has the option to buy the product without a charger, in order to fight waste. It doesn’t restrict manufacturers from offering the product including charger as well.
For consumers it doesn’t matter. Capitalism is capitalism. If the price of the laptop + charger is not attractive, consumers can buy a competing product. Arguably buying an Apple on a budget is a controversial choice anyway, as the ecosystem costs (software, cloud services, accessories) are generally higher compared to other OS, which have an open hardware architecture, less licensing costs and more competititon.
blackbeans@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgradesEnglish
14·2 months agoTo be honest offline Office 2016 is a solid product and the desktop software is still more snappy and capable than the online counterparts. If you don’t need collaboration and online integration there’s little reason to go subscription based. I can understand that small companies make that decision. After all it is just a tool and not a goal in itself.

Not really. WordPad supported rtf and things like embedded images. It has been obsoleted by MS.
Notepad doesn’t do rtf, but they did add markdown support. Which I think is an ok feature. The bad part is the application now also includes AI and other unnecessary features and doesn’t feel as snappy and fast as the old one.