What about doing business with Russia? Any dangers here? Or it’s fine to buy their gas and oil?

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We all are.

Far from it. A lot of people in Europe are brainwashed by Russian propaganda, even more people are not doing that great and will not sacrifice anything to help Ukraine. In many countries the right is either in power or very close to getting it. Each government is very carefully calculating how to keep the war going without losing the next elections. I think European troops should have been providing air defense to western Ukraine from the very beginning of the war but half or most of the people (depending on the country) don’t support sending any troops there.

Firefox requires a PWA extension.

And the extension requires a package from a 3rd party repo. Probably that’s why I missed it until now. It works nice on Android though. Maybe I should do a PWA… But it’s like… learn new tools, host it somewhere… I will think about it. Thanks!

Do you know any websites that integrate into Linux desktop and Android like native apps? I mean I can run it from cmd/icon, and it opens as new window without any decorations? I never saw it but if it’s works fine it’s an interesting option.

You’re actually right, by now browsers have APIs to do most of the things apps do. Technically you could convert most apps to websites. I guess as a user I just don’t want all my apps to open a tab in my browser. I want to move apps between virtual desktops and monitors independently and I don’t want my app’s window to be clattered by all the menus from my browser. On mobile I also prefer switching between apps than between different tabs. For me the best compromise is:

• for system tools that don’t have to be cross platform and critical apps write native apps
• for small/medium cross platform apps use webviews like Webview2 or Tauri
• for big apps like Teams or Discord just use a website

Just use the website then?

It is a good solution for some apps but if you need to store data locally, use push notifications, run something in the background or access any native APIs you have to go with a native app.

It’s because people want cross-platform apps and web is the easiest way to do it. Yes, you have Flutter, KML or Qt but those are often hard to work with (looking at you, Flutter) or it’s difficult to find devs that can work with them. You choose web (JS/wasm) and you have plenty of devs familiar with the tools and you can support all the platform easily. I’m using Tauri for my personal projects because it’s fun and easy. I could use Qt but I don’t want to work with C++ or Python, at least not in my spare time. If anyone can recommend me a nice framework supporting Linux and Android and using modern language I might switch. I haven’t found one.

This can only mean one thing: you’re a bot!

Are you buying it for yourself or as a gift?

Being from Europe doesn’t mean you can’t be stupid. It’s just harder because it’s encouraged not to.

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In my experience vast majority of people will not do anything inconvenient because of some ideology (religion being the obvious exception). They only ever fight to gain something for themselves. Everyone knows how evil Amazon and Bezos are yet everyone is still using it simply because it’s convenient. I have educated, well informed friends that still travel to US for holidays, buy things on Amazon, use Apple products… There’s actually only very small group of people that care enough to sacrifice something in the name of it and you’re not going to change it with talking and stickers. People will switch when they will see it’s better for their finances or security. Constant flow of news about US turning it’s back on Europe will do its job over time. Or not. We’ll see.

Oh my god, so many possibilities!

A slapstick comedy about accidentally killing a journalist in an embassy and desperately trying to get rid of the body by dismembering it and taking it out in suitcases.

Alien invasion movie, it turns out the only thing that kills the aliens is crude oil.

Historical drama about prophet Mohammad: first ever movie where the main character is always just out of frame.

That was the first thing I’ve said. People are just dumber now.

Email chains? You’re thinking about some early internet 40 years ago. Twitter has 20 years, Instragram 15. People were sharing fake images on social media long before AI. I just can’t imagine anyone responsible making decisions like stopping trains based on a single image on the internet. You know how easy would it be to post an image of a forest fire on Twitter? You don’t even have to fake it, simply take an image from some other fire. You make decisions like that based on credible calls, not something you saw online.

Really? I remember tons of nicely photoshoped pictures on Snopes. There was a lot of trolling by people with skills going on.

So? People with skill don’t troll? Clearly the dumb person here is the one who believed the fake. What does someone else’s skill has to do with it?

How do you give someone gold here?

How can you be sure the person you’re asking is not a hallucination as well?