I switched to Thunderbird when they started to get insistent about switching to Outlook.

The support article explains the rationale.

Unchecked by default would render the experiment useless.

1. PPA doesn’t make Mozilla money.
2. Firefox is developed by Mozilla Corp, which can’t take donations. Mozilla Foundation does do fundraising drives, but that’s mostly for their public advocacy (which, ironically, may be where the idea for PPA originated).
3. PPA has a checkbox in about:preferences.

Pixels have had large camera bumps for several iterations, fold or not, like pretty much every phone.

They forked it into Blink a long time ago now. They’ve diverged significantly since then.

Previous way for companies to cut down on customer support costs was to make a better quality product (making support interactions rarer). That is not so much the philosophy anymore.

Google can’t operate Play Store in China because it closed its Chinese offices in response to China attempting to hack them (and several other corporations) back in 2010 (Operation Aurora).

It’s just a writer seeking to vary their language a bit. It’s a trick to keep themselves from repeating “Microsoft” quite so many times in a short span, as too much word repetition can cause readers to “tune out”.

Best of luck, I guess, but seems like a doomed project to me. Forking WebKit, Gecko, or even Servo would seem much more reasonable, and even that is a huge undertaking.

many (if not still most) games with Linux builds run better through proton than the native build

This is probably only true for Nvidia GPU systems.

GNOME Web (Epiphany) should be a decent Safari stand-in.

I believe Apple still has the power to block third party store apps based on signature. It’s a security thing to be able clean malware.

Anyone used Beagleboards?

Libre Computer itself is a Chinese company, though, no?

South Park was right all along. Those time travelers really are taking our jobs.

It’s more that it’s a recent change to not allow it on US models. I think only the iv and v don’t allow it.

Only in some of the most recent and high-end. I think Apple just added one to the iphone within the last year. Qualcomm wasn’t much quicker. There’s a lot of perfectly good phones out there that don’t have AV1 hardware decoders.

It seems more concerning that YT is apparently forcing AV1 when there’s no hardware decoder for it (if I’m reading that thread right). Seems like that will make people think their battery is starting to go — better software decoder or not.

I’m dubious Android even serves as a base for Kobo’s OS. I’ve seen no evidence to support that claim.

EDIT: if you are referring to Tolinos, they are not simple rebrands of Kobos.

Tolinos use different processors precisely because they run Android, while Kobos do not.