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i also vividly remember the specs of my first machine but weirdly nothing else after. i386SX with 4MiB RAM and a 10MB hard drive

I read your reply as the scenario from GP is unlikely to happen in practice or has low impact. To me it seems you need to make frequent backups of "your" data to have a copy of it.

Can i run multiple PDSes with my own single identity to not give one provider exclusive power over access to "my" data?

True. i didn't mean "not terrible for employees" i meant "not terrible for company goals". Yes, these are intertwined, but assuming not everyone quits over introducing AI workflows it could make Microsoft a leader in that space.

Personally i would also not particularly like it.

Well, what you describe is not terrible way to run things. Eat your own dogfood. To get better at it you need to start doing it.

I find these tools super awesome, but i never use them beyond trying them out once, because they don't usually come with coreutils or something like that.

Haven't found a way to use these tools in a user-local way.

For my own homemade tools, i put the binary in my dotfiles and they end up in .local/bin and i can use them by default. I can do that because I don't need to update them.

The value is in leadership, and being able to avoid certain classes of bugs from appearing in the first place. Troubleshooting just happens to be the skill that allows you to gain the knowledge to lead.

It's even worse than that.

Making troubleshooting skills a profession in itself makes reliability a property of a specific person or team and not a property of the system. The former doesn't scale.

I'd pay for news, even bad ones. I see it like a donation to the Red Cross or something.

My experience and reasons for not paying anymore are similar. Used to pay for The Guardian for some time, but when they started pestering me about a subscription renewal the whole thing felt a lot less classy. Now it suddenly was about me and not news anymore.

Me too: never again. I would pay for anonymous vouchers or similar where I'm not identifiable to the newspaper, though.

Can you name a few LLM-based features in browsers that users find useful?

I found I'm ok with the divide. Both can coexist and in our case it works.

I manage people and anecdotally I see engineers having collectively more output if they are in the office, and they do grow in seniority on average.

The remote folks produce sum-of-its-parts impact and do well, but grow slower and not as much.

More senior folks really benefit from WFH, they have similar performance, but I as the manager of the team miss out on a senior person training the junior folks.

We don't offer remote positions for junior candidates.

Are you asking because you have the power to implement some of the missing features, or because you will tell me I don't actually need what i think i want.

1) i never could get password/autofill syncing between several devices working quickly and reliable as in chrome.

2) no app mode in Firefox

3) on desktop i don't like the UI and i would need to install userchrome stuff to "fix" it.

You want to censor me because i have a different opinion than yours?

I assume you have good intentions and want to advocate for Firefox and have it have wider adoption. I want the same thing, but it's imo not enough that Chrome gets shittier (it doesn't in my opinion btw in terms of UX), Firefox needs to become better to win.

I recently switched to Firefox and the main blockers for staying on it were a bad experience with syncing of passwords and such a across devices, the UI (i found a nice fix but it's tedious to setup), and no app-mode.

It's very subjective, but I won't try switching again before certain things I value in Chrome are available or work similar well on Firefox. You can switch based on ideology alone but I want convenience more than that.

You still need a tangible reason for switching. Maybe we can push, but Firefox would need to sustain the momentum and I don't see them doing it.

My pet peeves: sync and app mode. I don't want to switch at the moment, tried many times, but it doesn't stick for me. If i ask my my aunt to do that, and she dislikes it, she won't do it again and won't trust me anymore on top of that.