Kind of off-topic but: This legitimately feels like FUD. Riot's anti-cheat system is called Vanguard and it's one they built themselves. Of all the anti-cheat software out there, I'd assume theirs is one of the better ones in regards to not collecting information. I'd highly recommend providing some sources to back up those rather large claims.
I will concede that Riot is owned by Tencent which is a Chinese company.
I respect the desire to limit buying/using software, especially if that software compromises on ideals you have about privacy and data collection.
Sorry I like the battery in my laptop, and I like my browser not consuming 1GB RAM per process, tabs not taking multiple seconds to close if I have the browser open for a while without restarting it, etc. I try it every so often and it’s always exactly this bad. I’ll just stick to something like Brave if I’m not using Chrome directly.
I have to say that is precisely the opposite of my experience.
I held on to a 2012 4 GB MacBook Air until fairly recently as my casual web browsing machine. With such low system memory, I had to be extremely economical with my open tabs; no more than 3 or 4 at a time. The great suspender plugin helped until it became malware infested, and with that no longer an option, I moved to Firefox. The resource utlization improvement was immediately apparent and I haven't looked back, even after I finally updated my machine.
Chrome will catch up on energy use once non-heuristic / dumb ad blockers are the only option for non-tech people. Once manifest v3 is in place, the other shoe drops, and you start getting ads that you can't block. And ads add page bloat, unneeded data transfer, etc.
E.g, my boring Chevy starts to looks pretty performant next to your Ferrari once you have to tote around 2 tons of bricks and I don't :)
> Sorry I like the battery in my laptop, and I like my browser not consuming 1GB RAM per process
With more effective ad blocking in Firefox you'll process less and load less. And since Firefox lets uBlock Origin use WebAssembly the blocking runs faster and more efficiently too.
I don’t use browsers unless I have uBlock Origin installed. Despite Firefox getting better features from it, it’s a crazy resource hog. And that’s in comparison to Chrome! Let alone all the other issues I have which I have no hope of going away either. (Well, no hope isn’t quite accurate since like I said I give it a spin occasionally only to walk away disappointed)
Funnily enough, responding to someone saying "I literally saw multiple processes eating 1GB+ of RAM" with "This website over here did some measurements and says you're wrong" isn't going to come across as well as you think it is.
I've had Chrome open for some number of days and when I check Activity Monitor, the most RAM-expensive process is currently sitting at <500MB, a few others at 100-300MB, and the rest at under 100MB. The "energy impact" of it is at 160-ish. Whereas, again, Firefox was taking up 1GB+ of RAM in multiple processes and the energy impact was more like 260-ish, my battery was dying way faster, I would see CPU usage of double Chrome regularly, and macOS was always saying that Firefox was using a lot of power. The RAM usage is something I've seen on Windows as well, along with issues with the browser just behaving poorly over time. I just don't see these issues on Chrome or (most of) its derivative browsers. (I've used Brave a lot as well)
Guess I'm just objectively wrong though, because Toms Guide disagrees with what I'm seeing.
I guess I could give it a try. I see this kind of thing across both macOS and Windows though, but I do have sync on so theoretically there could be something there causing extreme issues across multiple computers and 2 OSes, generally despite me trying to even follow stuff like FasterFox to make it work better.
Don't use Fasterfox. It tweaks many settings that frequently result in performance regressions. The default networking-related settings are set the way they are for a reason.
Performance has not been a complaint of mine, especially network-related. It's everything else. Almost like Firefox is optimizing for just shoveling as much CPU power and RAM as possible into it's gaping, bloated maw, not caring about anything else. Kinda like an old mail application from a startup I worked at. Nothing has ever matched how amazingly good it was at certain things it did (or even have similar features), but hot DANG did it just drink battery like its going out of style.
> Almost like Firefox is optimizing for just shoveling as much CPU power and RAM as possible into it's gaping, bloated maw, not caring about anything else.
Don't use a fork and don't customize your user.js. It is exceedingly unlikely that excess power consumption is caused by anything you can easily tweak. Instead report issues to Mozilla.
Same could have/could be said about Jetbrains products. People are likely always going to use vim/emacs and create tooling around whatever new hotness exists for them. And honestly? VS Code is just a new iteration on how vim/emacs work in a lot of ways: Providing a place to edit text and then a bunch of plugins that do things with that text.
And if you want vim/emacs to keep living, then you should spend time helping! Create your own extensions, maintain/contribute to existing ones, etc. They will only die out when the last person actively contributing to them stops, so keep the chain of people going :)
A more niche mobile Pinball game that I like (gacha game with surprising complexity) is called World Flipper. It does exactly what you said: Builds a lot on standard pinball with RPG elements and party building. The unfortunate reality is that it's a pretty simplistic "pinball" and that framing for the game takes a heavy backseat to all the other things it's doing. I'd personally love a game that leans more heavily into being a pinball game but still having the really nice complexity of what World Flipper offers.
I've done a lot of different things over the years. What I've finally been settling on (though I might change this up a bit because another app I've really liked in the past just updated and might have finally filled a gap I needed):
- Google Drive for file backup/sync. I used to use Dropbox, but how they handle photos is awful. Drive's desktop client is way worse than Dropbox in almost every possible metric, but...
- Google Photos for photos. I pay for more storage in Drive which gives me the room I need in photos for everything. Very convenient not only for cloud access to photos anywhere, but also really good search, and being able to share albums with people.
- Evernote for all my notes. Also for going paperless. (I've been doing a TON of cleaning of my office and being able to get rid of old documents by scanning them to Evernote is great) Nothing else fully replicates all the features Evernote has: OCR of images/PDFs/etc., email to new note, literally the best web clipper, connect to calendar and create/link notes to events, go to note/tag/notebook, etc. It's not the fastest app out there, but generally pretty consistent no matter how much I throw at it. I tried importing my notes to Apple Notes or Bear and they tend to start choking a bit. The best part and one of the reasons I can't leave for anything else: The search is too darn convenient. I can just throw things in and it's easy to find later even if I don't go crazy with notebook/tag organization.
- Apple Reminders for TODOs. Very fast to add things via Siri or text, has just enough smarts to do some natural language setting of dates, just generally convenient to use via my phone or laptop. I don't do anything complicated here, mostly just to keep track of what I need to do in a day or anything I need to do on a schedule like laundry. I might migrate to TeuxDeux at some point now that they've added better repeating TODOs (they were very primitive previously and didn't do what I needed). Or I might migrate to Evernote tasks which I used in the past but had enough bugs at the time I decided to stop and wait for reliability updates.
- Fantastical for calendar, synced to Google. This might change since apparently Hey is working on a calendar? We'll see how that ends up working out.
It might sound like a lot, but it actually is pretty simple and I keep my usage of things simple. Things like basic notebooks in Evernote or just throwing things in an inbox. I don't stuff my calendar full of things, I just use it to keep track of stuff that is happening at certain times (vet appointments, job interviews, etc.) or something I might want to link to a note in Evernote. I've ended up here because of the simplicity of how it ends up working. I don't want to spend tons of time managing anything, so I just want things I can quickly throw stuff into and stop worrying about it.
LASIK can't be considered until your prescription stabilizes for at least a year or two, so that isn't helpful to someone whose prescription is constantly changing.
As far as I can tell: No, and the roadmap doesn't include anything for adding it. I think it would actually be pretty much perfect for me if it did have OCR.
This REALLY SUCKS. I’ve been using Evernote as a catch-all app for a bit now: scanning documents for paperless, archiving website snapshots, notes for various things (I love being able to make a note tied to a calendar event!), the super good OCR capabilities, task management (even if buggy…), etc. It does a lot for me, and it has great capabilities for bringing information/content into it. There is literally nothing else out there that has the unique set of capabilities I actively use in the same package. (And no, Joplin is not “just as good”) Unbundling to multiple places that don’t have the same capabilities (not to mention not having their supposed upcoming AI search I was really looking forward to) is going to be an absolute downgrade for me and make it harder to manage my life.
If someone knows of something that can fill the void of Evernote so I don’t have to like, use Apple Notes with Reminders (which while you can access them on Windows via the browser, it’s a mediocre experience at best) and like raindrop.io for website archival all at the same time.
And I’m not moving to OneNote which while it might have most of that stuff, I hate using it.
I was a big (paid) Evernote user for a long time, and also don't particularly like Onenote. I switched to Notion (paid) and it's been pretty good - they had a patch a year or two ago where the mobile apps were a bit rough but they have improved a fair bit. I don't make big use of some of the more advanced features but the basics are solid and work well. Sharing a couple of notebooks with family members works fine. Exporting and importing from Evernote also worked quite well, a bit of formatting fixup was needed on really old notes.
(Note - the Notion Reddit forum is full of weird life optimization types who want a dashboard for their entire lives with aspirational quotes or something, and that doesn't match my use case even slightly. You don't have to do any of that stuff.)
Obsidian looks nice but the pricing for the sync feature, converted to my currency, is wildly out of whack. It wants to charge me the same amount per year as a family license for all of Office 365, so that's a non starter.
I was going to reply with similar. I have a secondary Android device (largely for Tachiyomi, but I'm thinking of migrating to Android full-time) and I put a Todoist widget on my home screen. I also put an iOS Todoist widget on my home screen, and the difference is night and day. The iOS one has very specific pre-set sizes it can be and has no interactivity.
The Android one I can: Check tasks I've done, scroll the list of tasks, select individual tasks, change the view (which opens a selection dialog), open the configured view in Todoist, and add a new task to the configured view (which opens a small UI over my home screen).
The iOS one allows you to long press to change some settings, select individual tasks (which opens Todoist completely), open the configured view in Todoist, and add a new task to the configured view (which opens Todoist completely). It also has __very__ limited options for where you can put it on top of the already-limited sizing options. I can either put it at the very top of the screen, the middle of the screen (2 rows of apps above, 2 rows below), of the very bottom of the screen. While the Android one can be resized to basically whatever and put anywhere. You can also only see 3 total tasks in the widget since you can't change the size, the text size, and you can't scroll. I might as well just click the app because it offers __very__ little that just tapping the app doesn't, or notifications don't.
No wonder not many widgets are being adopted for iOS. They're extremely limited. And that's all on top of the point another comment was making about people making websites into apps with React Native or a wrapper which makes it really hard to create widgets, especially with things like heavy memory/CPU time limitations placed on widgets in iOS making it hard to be able to boot up the app and get enough data to create a widget with inside those limitations. Let alone making the iOS-specific APIs and whatnot available to your app.
WoW, Call of Duty, Overwatch 2, Diablo: Immortal, etc. etc. A lot of people might post vocally online about how awful a lot of stuff they've been doing is, but they're definitely making bank from stuff like the Overwatch 2 shop. It's generally only a vocal minority that talks about how much they dislike the microtransactions or skin prices.
I will concede that Riot is owned by Tencent which is a Chinese company.
I respect the desire to limit buying/using software, especially if that software compromises on ideals you have about privacy and data collection.