Go-On-A-Steam-Train

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Cake day: April 19th, 2023

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  • I have a silly reason! I got a windows phone and loved it, so was happy to use Edge (when it was still its own thing and not effectively Chrome).

    Edge’s PDF viewer was great, and in general things were speedy, got out the way, and best of all it synced bookmarks to my phone. :) I also liked the rewards system for using bing, and between microsoft and google, I regarded google as worse ethically. (Obviously… yeah not a solid argument)

    I think I switched back to firefox and variants mainly because I started caring about my data, open-source, and also those advantages Edge had were eroding in real-time, with adverts, nagging, and Windows things creeping in - the rewards ended, the chrome thing, it started feeling like the IE days again.

    One of my coworkers uses it still, and it pains me to see what new AI gimmick is being shoehorned in.

    If I stopped for dumb reasons, I like to think I came back wiser for it. :)



  • As a former history student I love that RT word it as “USSR’s victory” and theirs only. I can almost hear someone’s children dissecting this in a few decades, ideally with a very pro-US source to contrast, and seeing if that sentiment shifted from 1945 to now. :)

    (Before anyone puts words in my mouth, I studied history, and am well aware that we’d all be toast without Russia, and they suffered massively. I just find reading like this interesting.)