It is absolutely frustrating because it has that mid 90s utility design.

I don't think I have seen any other utility hasnt really progressed on interface design like GNUcash. Like they built a prototype went "Nailed it!" And then moved onto back end stuff while ignoring all input from users.

I do worry about those nowadays that are "raised by the internet". I see the stream of influence that social media is having and I have to remember than for many people, this is all they have ever known of the internet. There is no other context. Many viewing this stuff are smart folks, but when that stream of media becomes like the air, many can be tugged in all manner of directions and now even realize it.

In the same manner of drugs, try not to turn them into a diet. The internet is a wonderful tool but a questionable 'way of life'.

My shoot from the hip intuitive thought is that the massive amount of plant matter it took to make petroleum demonstrates how inefficient it is to get energy in that chemical state. A fools errand to try and do it over.

It has been said that Coal/Gas/Oil is a half billion years of stored solar energy. That is wildly inaccurate for many reasons, but even if we are using a few thousand years of stored energy, that is still a wide gap to cover.

This also goes a lot for the leap from command prompts to GUI's. You trade off control for functionality and that is not necessarily a bad thing. I just wish it was easier to get back to a middle path on this. Many have tried but it all seems a little too fragmented.

It is probably inevitable, I mean if even Microsoft couldnt fight off Googles browser dominance, what hope does Mozilla have long term.

The alternative is to either have the user pay for it or have little to no funding which is a dead end in its own fashion.

Like a calculator app a friend made called the 'Crapulator'. It lived up to the name but not in the same fashion as the 'wrongulator'.

Money is a token of power, billions in the bank influences politics.

But there is a big gap between what is technically possible and what is economically possible. Yes, with a limitless budget, they could probably over come the technical issues. But can it be done within a budget limitation.

I am with you however, I am very skeptical we will see this happen but more than happy to be proven wrong. It is easy to say something, it is the doing that matters. Amateurs talk strategy, professionals talk logistics.

Yes, there are still some issues being worked out (possibility to cause diabetes) but it is just neat to see in action. The medical field is one that still seems to be making these kinds of leaps. It is wild seeing some diseases that only a decade ago were a death sentence or had extreme solutions now becoming treatable.

I am waiting for Nintendo to get wind of the huge ROM dumps on there, it is not going to pretty. No manner of 'moral high ground' will defend against lawyers.

I love Firefox (fork) it is my only browser but you can see the long term trend and I do wonder if it will even be a thing in a decades time. Unless there is a sudden shift towards it, is will eventually be relegated to the last of the most devoted geeks as we watch it wither away at the hands of the tech giants running the net.

A big thing was when they cut the Servo team that was when I knew they had sort of given up on trying to push forward but merely follow.

I speak to a lot of people in various science fields and generally they are some of the heaviest drinkers I know simply because of the system they have been forced into. They want to do good but are railroaded into this nonsense for dear of losing their livelihood.

Like those that are trying to progress our treatment of mental health but have ended up almost exclusively in the biochemicals space because that is where the money is even though that is not the only path. It is a real shame.

Also other heavy drinkers are the ecologists and climatologists, for good reason. They can see the road ahead and it is bleak. They hope they are wrong.

Just a shoot from the hip theory based on him stooping to new lows.