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@noiob i want absolutely nothing to do with chrome or edge, firefox isn't great either but at least it's not google or microsoft
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@noiob i just want things to stop breaking and changing things that were the way we liked them and i want things to be the way we're used to them being
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@noiob with the new extension framework doing that has to open a modal window asking if you want to open the file and yes we want to open the file that's why we double clicked on the thing
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@noiob so you can double click a downloaded file in a bottom-of-the-window statusbar and have it open as though you'd double clicked it in the folder in your file manager
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@noiob well why didn't they replace the old extension system with one that still allows extensions to open files on the computer, because that's literally the only thing that's keeping us from switching to a more compatible browser
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@noiob i don't need a phone to be anywhere near as high-powered as they are, and we don't care if it's thick and chunky, hell we'd prefer that, so it doesn't feel like it's going to just break if we drop it from a height of more than one inch
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@noiob why did firefox have to break all their old extensions and make it so that a feature we rely upon is literally impossible to implement in an extension for current firefox

why do websites have to keep breaking compatibility with waterfox classic, the only way we know of to continue using the old extensions

why can't people consider accessibility and customizability in anything when it comes to tech
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@noiob why can't they at least provide *something* for people who don't

why do all the US carriers have to lock everything down to their "approved" list of devices

why can we not connect the devices we want to use and use them

why do phones have to be made so expensive and fragile

why can't tech be more accessible, both in the disability sense and the financial sense
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@noiob why does everything have to be terrible
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@noiob why is it that we keep having to go to high-end niche products for what we consider basic needs

we also had to get a fancy gaming laptop just to get one that didn't have those awful tiny arrow keys
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@noiob also fuck we can't afford that
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@noiob concerned about the "preorder" button with a "shipping in february 2022" though. that was two months ago, it's not really a preorder anymore
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@noiob oh hey that one actually supports CDMA networks, it might be possible to use it on verizon in the US
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@noiob they're exactly the kind of phone we want and i want a new one like that

and yeah we've seen people using things like that, it does Not agree with the way we think about typing
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oh yeah phone calls, music, solitaire, and occasionally reading up on random interests on wikipedia, forgot that last one
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@noiob that's why you have it do this, full size screen and you still get a keyboard

why did they stop making these, we had one of these for years and loved it

also we barely even know what "swipe" means in this context so that doesn't matter to us
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@noiob that's just too small

the vaio (why is it mirrored by the way?) could be a good phone form factor though, i miss having a physical keyboard on our phone
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this came up when talking to @noiob about mobile devices and learning that we have a very very different relationship with them

we can't stand using a phone for anything other than phone calls, music, and solitaire, it's way too small and you can't have multiple windows open at once (even if the OS allows it it's not usable on such a small screen)
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today we learned: there are people out there who find a 15" laptop to be too big

we do not comprehend this mentality, 15" is too *small*, we need a 17" one minimum (and i don't think they come bigger)
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@LexYeen well they do take reservations too if you need a special event or something
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