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In other words, in OCaml, you don't have to write type annotations into the function parameter list. It will infer even those.

It's useful for small ad-hoc functions, but personally, I'm glad that Rust is more explicit here.

The initial creator of Rust, Graydon Hoare, took lots of inspiration from OCaml. In fact, the first Rust compiler was written in OCaml.

I don't think 'people' think about Tor. Most would not know what that is...

Yes, I was listing ways this could be solved without throwing out the baby with the bath water. For one, to point out that they really did actively choose the worst option.
But also, because as a professional software developer, I'm sympathetic to needing to roll out updates, even if they're not security-relevant, since you can't perfect your code before shipping.

Having said that, I do think, the professional/commercial software development model is terrible for such basic utility applications. Use an open-source application instead, where the hobbyist dev does have the time and passion to perfect the code before shipping it.

Well, either roll such updates out centrally, which Windows is capable of, I don't know why they don't use it here.

Or make it an entirely optional download, where the user can decide when to download.

Or just make the update process less shit. Don't block usage until the update is applied. And ideally just swap out the files in the background, although unfortunately that really isn't easily doable on Windows.

I misread that, too. With punctuation, it would be:

...for my food. Windows, why?!

(They're addressing the Windows operating system.)

I use a SHIFT6mq with GApps-less LineageOS and only apps from F-Droid.

And I do lots of things with it. Media consumption, email, web browsing, music, social media, RSS, messaging, note keeping, shopping list, navigation tool (map & public transport), ticket wallet, 2FA etc..

I don't care to use proprietary services, so not having access to the respective apps is not a problem for me.

Really, I'd want it to be even more open. Android has some real limitations to it, like no way to just quickly script something, and just generally, it disallows apps from doing lots of useful things, because it assumes apps to be malware.

recent versions of Firefox (with a few privacy add-ins) have become nearly unusable for me.

Due to performance issues? Mind that Linux is likely a good bit more usable on your hardware and you may very well not need to move away from Firefox after all.

“missing MSVCR120.dll” (part of Windows C++ Redistributable pkg)

Not sure, if you're saying that you already found this out, but yeah, there is an installer from Microsoft for this Windows C++ Redistributable package.

bergerrealty.com & attheshore.com (web cam hosting sites)- “no compatible source was found for this media”

I'm on Linux and these work for me in Falkon. But it could be that your particular hardware + the Chrome browser engine that Falkon uses, results in no source being compatible (e.g. your graphics card only offers acceleration for the H.264 codec, which is what Firefox generally uses, not VP9, which is what Chrome/Falkon prefers). Then it would still not work after the switch, although again, Firefox would probably work...

legacy.com (obituary site) - various page loading and display issues. If I fully enable content permissions, I can get the home page displayed, but no links are functional.

Again, works for me. I didn't have to do anything. I have the built-in ad block enabled, but no other customizations, as far as I remember (I only use Falkon as a backup browser).

facebook.com - Log-in successful. Home page displays, but is immediately followed by: “Qt Qtwebengineprocess has stopped working” here is the pertinent info from the Windows analysis pop-up:

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH; Application Name: QtWebEngineProcess.exe; Application Version: 5.12.1.0; Fault Module Name: Qt5WebEngineCore.dll; Exception Code: c0000005; Exception Offset: 00b75263

I don't use Facebook, so can't test this one. This could be due to using the 32-bit version, but it's really difficult to say. Only real pointer I can give you is that "QtWebEngine" is a thin wrapper around the browser engine of Chrome (which is called "Blink"). It's part of the Qt GUI framework that Falkon uses. So, likely not specific to Falkon.

If you've got a spare USB stick, I would recommend just preparing it as the Linux Mint installation medium. You'll be able to boot off of that into a largely functional Linux Mint system, without actually installing it.

This will be slower than a proper installation, as it will read the data off of the USB stick rather than your hard drive, and lots of these "live" installation medias do not come with all the media codecs, so this will probably not be representative for your webcam sites.
I'm also not entirely sure, if you can just install Falkon into that live system.

But at the very least, you can give Firefox a look (it's the default browser), see how that performs, and just play around with the system.

Yeah, currently scheduled for Firefox 120.

Point is, we have laws enforcing that possibility. It's not goodwill from companies...

I do also imagine xenophobia being involved, but the tourist might have just translated the word "grenade" and held that up on their phone screen.

I'm mostly a fan, because I don't feel like I have to have faith.

If my instance explodes, I'll make an account on another instance. If the Lemmy devs collectively evaporate (and neither me nor others want to pick up the slack), then I can go to Mastodon or Kbin or whatever.

Individual rogue instances can be defederated. If e.g. Reddit truely disappears over night and Lemmy were to gain mass market appeal, then I can likely find a more isolated instance with a smaller community sharing my interests.