I recently switched over to Vivaldi on desktop (Microsoft Surface Pro 9) as well as Android (Pixel 9 Pro). I was on the fence about making Vivaldi my default browser for a few months mainly due to inconsistent sync performance. The latency in sync was making it very hard to use as I switch between Android and Desktop a lot. Glad to see that 7.0 has improved the sync drastically. The sync performance is noticeably better in 7.0. But, I will be honest, it still has some room for improvements to be on par with Brave (not comparing to big tech browsers like Chrome or Edge). Sometimes I have to close the browsers on the desktop and the phone to let the sync trigger. I also have placed vivaldi:sync-internals on the side panel and use "Trigger GetUpdates" to sync the browsers manually. It works perfectly. But, an option in the browser at the top near the sync cloud to manually sync would be awesome. One more feature that I miss from Brave is the global media control button near the address bar, which makes it easy to control media playing in one of the tabs.

I absolutely admire Vivaldi's vision and mission. I would love to join the millions to be a part of this journey to promote and respect user privacy without compromising on innovative features. So tired of the big tech. Awesome work @Vivaldi

@neoluddite ??

It happened to me more than once when I was in Zürich and almost always while being in Germany. There was and is one pub in Basel which is English only, but this ran since the 1980ies and specifically hired children of expats who migrated there above 16 to work there. Works for me. But every other restaurant, bar, club, even doctors and assistants? No. Fuck off and learn (Swiss-)German.

@neoluddite except that Switzerland is not part of NATO, but part of the global network of hubs, but you already know that.

The good part is that our forests and woods are emptier by the year. Biking trails are in fashion, but anywhere else: Blissfully quiet.

Today's story from "bad cattitude"

boriquagato.substack.com/p/too…

is about this topic. Where you have Republican staffers toning down the messages because the truth is too weird to believe.

too crazy to see

examining the big lie

^{el gato malo (bad cattitude)}

Well that can’t be right, this article seems to imply that the Boomers did well based on socioeconomic conditions and not(as they will explain at great length to any millennial who will listen) their great wisdom, hard work, vast intelligence, toughness and character.

How can this be?

Their children didn’t do as well because they were screwed over and economically hosed? And not because they are terrible lazy human beings?

Well somebody needs to do more research clearly!

Ich denke derzeit darüber nach, auf meinem schon etwas älteren Laptop das Windows7 durch Linux zu ersetzen. Habe aber wirklich gar keine Erfahrungen mit Linux. Da ist es natürlich schön, mal ein paar Infos/Empfehlungen lesen zu können. Danke dafür!

Eine Frage hätte ich: Hat man bei Linux/Mint oft Probleme, Programme (zB Games), die ja idR 'für Windows gemacht' sind, zum Laufen zu bekommen? Also wie sieht es generell mit der Kompatibilität unterschiedlicher Programme mit Linux aus?

While I do understand the sentiment, I think the problem with search has been more the ads than anything else

Things like the AI overviews are bad, but search has been more or less powered by AI for a while, it's really just been this new bout of generative AI where they're really *saying* it out loud

But even without that GenAI, search results have been getting significantly worse for a bit now

Umm. Isn't the idea that you turn it on and leave it on? Or am I missing something?

If it asleep, it should wake up on network activity if it is providing services.