homulilly
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8 years ago
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on: Uber rolls out in-app tipping
Yes. Drivers tend to prefer Lyft but I'd still sometimes use Uber since I didn't have to worry about tips. Now that Uber no longer differentiates itself in that way I may as well just use lyft all the time.
homulilly
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8 years ago
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on: Uber rolls out in-app tipping
You see this sentiment ALL the time in food services. Wait staff or pizza delivery guys always bitch about "cheap" customers instead of the reality that their boss lies about prices and then skims it out of their paychecks when people don't pay the "real price" of the food.
homulilly
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8 years ago
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on: Uber rolls out in-app tipping
Potentially still an issue if drivers can see if you tip or not (with some services, such as Postmates, Amazon Prime Now, they can) and give riders who don't tip 1 star or something.
homulilly
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8 years ago
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on: Uber rolls out in-app tipping
This was basically the only reason I ever used Uber instead of Lyft. Now I'll just use Lyft 100% of the time since drivers seem to like them better anyway.
homulilly
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8 years ago
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on: The Konami exodus
I'm a big fan of the idea of having business owned by their employees instead of a handful of shareholders.
homulilly
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8 years ago
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on: Vue Loop – Infinite scrolling
I'm in chrome and uh, this doesn't seem to actually do anything?
homulilly
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8 years ago
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on: TypeScript 2.3
for all the problems I have with Microsoft and some of their other products, I really have to say that the typescript and vscode teams are doing a phenomenal job. Every release is a vast improvement over an already great set of tools. don't think I've been as excited to see new release announcements since the early days of Firefox.
homulilly
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9 years ago
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on: A Look at the Ugly Side of Getting Rich
It's something only the fabulously wealthy can say. For almost everyone else, even if money doesn't directly make you happier, it removes the vast majority of barriers to attaining happiness (though clearly not all of them). I know I'm much happier now that I make six figures and don't have to worry as much about medical bills, rent, food and so on and have disposable income to direct into new hobbies I couldn't have afforded before (fishkeeping and hydroponics in my case).
homulilly
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9 years ago
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on: Ubuntu Unity is dead: Desktop will switch back to GNOME next year
Never been a fan of Unity, glad they're dumping it and finally going back to something that works.
homulilly
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9 years ago
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on: FBI arrests author of NanoCore after it was pirated and abused by hackers
turning off the light seems easier and more thorough to me.
homulilly
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9 years ago
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on: FBI arrests author of NanoCore after it was pirated and abused by hackers
I don't know about major corporations but smaller businesses or government institutions (such as my old highschool) use stuff like this.
homulilly
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9 years ago
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on: What the death of the CRT display technology means for classic arcade machines
Screen tearing is, iirc from the gpu buffer only partially overwritten with the next frame when it's sent to the screen.
homulilly
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9 years ago
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on: LibreTaxi – A free and open source alternative to Uber and Lyft
Using this looks like a great way to end up stuffed into a suitcase in the bottom of a lake. Part of the appeal of Uber or Lyft is that they ostensibly conduct background checks of some sort to weed out the psychopaths.
homulilly
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9 years ago
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on: Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled
I keep trying to go back to Firefox but it's so slow and janky compared to chrome (even with electrolysis enabled) I switch back within a day. Will probably see if there are any good chromium builds out there though.
homulilly
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9 years ago
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on: What’s up with Firefox?
They all already have bug reports that have either been open for multiple years or were closed without actually fixing the issue which is why I suspect this may be a problem with internal politics or misguided design philosophy.
homulilly
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9 years ago
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on: What’s up with Firefox?
Firefox still suffers from a lot of minor quality of life issues compared to other browsers, I don't know if it's neglect or weird internal politics but they add up to making firefox less attractive than the competition.
A few off the top of my head:
* Firefox doesn't respect Windows 10's titlebar accent colors
* No option to set a default zoom level for web pages
* Firefox for android ignores intent filters
The first two have addon or userstyle workarounds which makes it even more baffling that they have remain unsolved issues for years.
homulilly
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9 years ago
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on: What’s up with Firefox?
Yeah that's correct. Awesome!
homulilly
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9 years ago
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on: What’s up with Firefox?
Still doesn't work in a number of situations like if you have a touch screen.
homulilly
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9 years ago
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on: What’s up with Firefox?
the poor state of e10s feels like neglect to me
homulilly
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9 years ago
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on: Privacy and Security Risks of Android VPN Permission-enabled Apps
If you're just doing a google search then yeah it's reasonable. It's less so when you're a professional who's supposed to be an expert on these things. If you can't spend more than 5 seconds double checking the accuracy of your research why should I trust it?
