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Sponsorships, Office makeover, Halo Infinite and Epiphany - Patroncast Episode 55 (Patreon)

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2021-12-14 06:38:13
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2024-03
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Hey Everyone!


Here is your exclusive weekly patroncast, this time, episode 55 (I swear in January, I'm starting a second "season" and starting back to Episode 1).


In this one, I talk about:

- The channel and some more personal stuff, like sponsorships coming and going, getting a new TV, and doing an Office makeover

- Halo Infinite, and how my first 10-12 hours with it were kinda disappointing, but the game really improved after 4 more hours

- Epiphany / GNOME Web, and how I really wanted to stick to it, but how it's really not possible for me with the current limitations it has


I hope you guys enjoy listening to this one (it's a bit longer than usual) :D

Nick

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Anonymous

Hey Nick ! Oh boy, every question mark on Witcher 3. I feel you... Amazing game by the way... It's in my top 2 with the Mass Effect serie. (minus Andromeda). I'm glad you're donating to Gnome ! You seem to have changed your mind about it a bit since starting using Fedora. BTW, I just recently discovered that you can display application list by double taping the super key (1 year later, yeah....). Maybe you already knew, or don't need this info but I'm sharing anyway. About your browser, I don't remember exactly why you didn't go Chromium. Because it's mainly backed by Google ? It's open source and works really well. I know that it uses blink and you don't like monopoly, but you wouldn't be bothered if 85% of users used Linux as a desktop OS right ? Which would be kind of an open source kernel monopoly situation. So why be bothered by 85% of people using an open source JS engine ? I really think a Chromium with alternative extensions for storing passwords and stuff could be a nice way to leave Firefox. Have a nice day !

thelinuxexperiment

Oh yeah, The Witcher and Mass Effect are definitely some of my favorite games, I even enjoyed Andromeda :D I always liked GNOME as a desktop, but I felt it needed extensions to be usable. I no longer think that! The default is really,really good once you get used to it, and yeah, I discovered the double tap for app list while using Fedora, it's super useful! Yeah, Chromium is just another Google product, that will enforce a "one web engine monopoly" on the web. I would be just as bothered if Linux has a monopoly on the desktop, it wouldn't be healthy either :) I think it's even more dangerous on the web than on the desktop,though: the web is just how we do EVERYTHING. If one company can control how that looks and works, what new feature can or can't be supported, we're in big trouble. The difference with Linux is that it's not controlled by a single company that makes all the decisions. If something new is interesting, it can be implemented, or forked. If Blink decides not to support another technology, you can't do anything about it: forking that engine will not give you any marketshare, so web developers won't implement the feature, because the most used browser doesn't support it. The situation is quite different :)

Anonymous
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Well I kinda disagree. Most major browser feature specs are developed by groups like IETF and W3C which are not solely controlled by Google. Then, browser developers implement those features at their own pace. And sometimes never, but in this case Apple with Safari is the bad guy. Not Google, not Mozilla, neither Microsoft with recent Edge. As a web developer, I never felt limited or restrained by any browser developer except Safari which is all against PWA. All other browser developers provided has much features and functionalities as possible. It's in their own interest to allow developers make applications that allow users to do almost everything nowadays. Google and Microsoft are pushing as much power as possible into the browser and I never felt obligated to go into one direction or another. And finally, open source third party packages fill the rest of our needs. I can understand the argument of safety, lack of concurrence which is bad in case of monopoly. But I won't put "I'm Google and I decide never to implement that feature because I can" in that category. (Apple did :)) Of course there are small features that are browser specific, but for the most part it's dictated by large working group of experts. (sponsored by major companies of course, but everything is sponsored under the hood, even Linux). Don't get me wrong, Google and M$ are shitty at a lot of stuff. But I don't find blink and Chrome V8 to be one of them.