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eramdam
@eramdam

Seeing people argue that Chrome is Goodโ„ข๏ธ because of "features" in the engine that Google imposed on everybody through its hold on the Web is going to turn me into the fucking joker.
WebUSB exists because Google wants to sell Chromebooks, not because it's a good idea.

Google would love to make the Web Chrome-only if it could. They almost did it with the Web Integrity bullshit and they'll try again and again until they succeed and it feels like they will in the long-run and it fucking sucks.


eramdam
@eramdam

Call me a boomer but I swear I see that shit from clearly people who aren't old enough to have lived through the 2000s when Firefox/proto-Chrome competed on merit instead of what we have now, which is Google making the rules and everybody having to follow them.


MxSelfDestruct
@MxSelfDestruct

STOP LETTING GOOGLE ACT LIKE THEY OWN THE FUCKING WEB, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD


DecayWTF
@DecayWTF

No see we really need uhhhhhhh WebDildo it's a critical feature we need to make a website yeah it's a shame we can't support a browser that doesn't support WebDildo we need it to display ads


pendell
@pendell

In the modern age, with all the classic software means of interfacing with Sony's NetMD Minidisc recorders now all but unusable, there is one very good piece of software that can interface with the recorders easily, importing and recording discs over a standard USB connection with no frills, multi platform and everything. Just one problem.

It's only usable through a website.

If the website goes down, you can't use the software, because the software is the website. There is no way to install an offline version of the program, albeit it's open-source so one could, I dunno, spin up their own personal server for it?

Anyways it's dumb as hell that it's not just a normal installable program that does all its work on my damn computer I'm using anyways. If I have WebUSB to blame for this then Google is at fault for making things worse.


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in reply to @MxSelfDestruct's post:

We have reached a point where people mistake "useful feature" for "only UI I know how to use/can use intuitively". I legit think we lost a ton when the attitude towards computers shifted from tools you legitimately just have to Learn How To Use ((admittedly my memories of this are hazy i was YOUNG; im age peers with ipad babies we just were poor)) to something thats supposed to be seamlessly integrated into every inch of life. I see it in graphic design and stuff like typsetting; I've had to teach people my age & older how to Use A Word Processor as anything other than "place you type stuff". The kicker is even libreoffice is legitimately a more powerful program than docs or whatever else and way easier to use to do stuff like, make a zine or pamphlet that looks nice in a 3rd party font; you just have to...take time to learn how to use software...

in reply to @DecayWTF's post:

I can't remember where it was I saw it but I remember bringing you the Curse'd take of "firefox will never be a proper full-development platform, while it doesn't do what Chrome does, and it will limit it to just being a tool for using webpages," and I remember shaking my phone like "YES! THAT'S WHAT IW ANT IT TO DO!"

in reply to @pendell's post:

Yep. WebUSB is also the reason why now to connect a Logitech mouse to your computer via its USB dongle you have to use a website instead of the old utility. Because they rewrote it to be a webapp using WebUSB because I guess they can't afford to make Mac/Windows1 versions of that tiny utility anymore?


  1. I bet that website might work on Linux now but I doubt they ever cared about Linux support anyway so who cares.

The thing that really irritates me above that is that they switched their devices to a new dongle that does absolutely nothing new or unique to the old one, but they are incompatible with each other. I made the purposeful decision to buy a matching Logitech mouse and keyboard with one of the benefits being they could talk on the same receiver, only to receive them and find they were different generations of dongle so I still need to plug two dongles into the computer, although they both still show up in the single "logi options +" app.

Oh and also the cursor speed set by the app is not a fixed firmware thing in the mouse, it's applied on the fly by the Logitech app, so sometimes the cursor speed just momentarily reverts to the default speed and fixes itself by the time you've opened the app to see what happened.