Well I tried it before commenting, and I see the same thing as OP… I’m on Firefox stable 145.0.1.

I have a really hard time understanding how he considers any of that a problem.

Sharing is much quicker than copy/pasting manually, especially with direct share targets.

It might not be the end of the world, but Mozilla really should have made the “feature” opt-in, or at least give us a heads up.

It’s only for links shared via WhatsApp for some reason. Not sure how they know you’re sharing to WhatsApp… (Edit: firefox implements a custom share widget instead of the one provided by the OS, so they get a callback when the user selects the target)

OP is wrong about the “unique” part tho, I get the same URL as them.

I bought Dredge and finished it, it was really nice. But yeah I had to look for it after reading some nice reviews, the play store is a dumpster fire when it comes to discovery.

I want to pay up to 10€ for a complete game. I don’t want these “free” games where half the screen is littered with timers, microtransactions and a billion different currencies. I tried Underdark as I’ve seen it recommended multiple times, the gameplay is OK I guess but seriously, look at this shit:

Each red dot opens a popup where you collect a miserable amount of currency. There are usually tabs and scrolling lists in the pop-up, you need to spend 5 minutes just to collect them all while avoiding the ad-supported ones because there’s no way to come back to the game once the ad is opened.

$31 for a weekly box?? Who the fuck pays for those??

Even if the app is relatively simple and feature-complete, you need to go back to it at least once a year to make sure it complies with the latest guidelines/restrictions, replace deprecated APIs, and check dependencies for security issues.

Simple enough for a calculator, but if the app needs to do stuff in the background, communicate with web services, play multimedia content, or use the camera, it can become very time consuming.

It may make sense on Macs where users accept making a $10 or $20 one-time payment, but very few mobile users accept paying for apps at all, let alone $5 or $10. In that case, you need a lot of buyers or you’ll end up maintaining it out of pocket.

Yeah, you can’t expect devs to actively work on an app indefinitely just because you gave them a few bucks that one time. It makes no sense financially if the app isn’t exceptionally successful.

Proton is WINE, it’s a fork maintained by Valve and Codeweaver with DXVK (Direct X -> Vulkan) on top. If you use Steam for gaming it will set up proton automatically for you.

And yes macOS is a step up from Windows, but it’s still a walled garden. Want to develop an iOS app? You must buy a Mac, you must buy a developer license, you must use the worst IDE ever created, and you must distribute it through the app store (except in Europe in theory, but they worked hard to make the experience so miserable that almost no one bothers).

If a majority of users want it, offering the feature makes sense, as long as you can disable it.

I’d argue that if the app is not monetized, you deserve whatever the dev feels like giving you, for free.

Try it, you might be surprised. I played WoW under Linux like 15 years ago, and for a couple of patches WoW ran much better under Linux than Windows because of a bug in the GPU driver or something. The Wine folks handle buggy Windows software all the time, and might fix bugs that MS won’t bother with.

Yeah, they’re always “just guessing”

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My tech-illiterate mom uses my Jellyfin instance with no issues. I sent her a link to the app store, her credentials, my server’s hostname and that was it. And once it’s set up, Jellyfin is much more straightforward to use than Plex.

Sure Jellyfin has issues and doesn’t support as many types of devices, but Plex is far from perfect. I use it like twice a year, and the UI gets more and more confusing with each update IMO.

Yeah but if the script which initiates the connection to the local server is blocked there’s no connection to intercept in the first place.

Nah, the script connects to a server run by the Instagram or Facebook app and feeds it info, bypassing isolation mechanisms entirely. I think ublock or other script-blocking add-ons might work though.

Plex sucks but jellyseer, the *arr stack and jellyfin are all open source and entirely free. Together they provide an experience almost as straightforward as any commercial streaming platform: find a media on jellyseerr and request it with a single click. A few minutes* later the media is available in Jellyfin, and you can watch it on your computer, smartphone, smart TV, …

*with Usenet and a good internet connection

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Windows 11 home costs more than $200???

Yeah, if an app posts any kind of notification it definitely needs background usage permission.