Yeah… but who was that guy named after?

Wait. Wait, wait, wait – are you saying he actually named two of his kids literally the word “unnamed” (as opposed to the names not being publicly known)? 'Cause that’s both fucked-up and disturbingly plausible.

No, we all got the pi = march 14 part, but WTF does that have to do with anything?

Kind of want servo to become stable and someone to make a browser based on that.

Maybe that’s why Mozilla quit contributing to it.

Inspired by yesterday’s Jeff Geerling video, were we?

If it were backend, Voyager would be slow too because it’s requesting the same data.

Maybe Voyager connects to the backend using something other than XmlHttpRequest.

It can’t be the backend because it’s got to query the same data whether it’s feeding the web UI or Voyager, so that wouldn’t explain the vast loading time differences between them. If the backend were slow they would both be slow, but Voyager’s load times are great.

I’m pretty sure .world being slow is a web frontend problem. It often takes forever to load in my browser, but the same content loads quickly in the Voyager Android app.

I should probably try the several alternative web UIs they have available to see if they’re faster than the default one, but I can’t be bothered to walk over to my desktop PC right now.

Or maybe just your app isn’t ready, and you should switch apps (it renders correctly as an image hidden behind a toggle on Voyager).

Okay, I guess there’s one more criterion for computer literacy: being able to distinguish between a reasonable workflow and a batshit-insane one. (That might even include a little bit of understanding of complexity: not enough to be able to classify an algorithm using “big O notation,” but maybe enough to avoid a basic “Schlemiel the Painter” situation, for example.)

Typing is irrelevant. Office software is irrelevant. There is one thing, and one thing only, that determines whether a person is computer-literate or not: whether the person can put together a custom workflow to solve a novel problem.

I don’t mean “programming,” per se, and I don’t mean “scripting,” per se, and I don’t mean “piping together commands on a text command-line,” per se. But I do mean being able to (a) understand the task you want to accomplish, (b) break it down into its component steps, and (c) instruct the machine to perform those steps, while potentially (d) reading documentation and/or exploring the UI to discover how to do said instructing if necessary.

A computer-literate person can be sat down in front of a computer running an OS and/or other software they’ve never used before and (eventually) figure out how to use it via trial-and-error, web-searching for tutorials, RTFM, or whatever, without shutting their brain off and giving up or demanding that some other person spoon-feed a list of steps to memorize by rote.

Joke’s on you, I’m into that shit.

(Seriously, listen to this one.)

They claim they fall under the Presidential Records Act, but they’re lying.

The fascists are already dismantling the CFPB. I’m sure the FTC will be on the chopping block soon, too.

So who’s going to stop them when they flagrantly ignore the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act and refuse to honor your warranty for having your car serviced somewhere other than a dealer?

Ah, that’s unfortunate, and another good reason to consider resorting to a commercial display.

'Course, it’s also possible that a commercial display is so much more expensive/a hassle that it might be worth figuring out how to buy a Sceptre TV in a country where it is sold and then importing it yourself.

Again, the brand I mentioned in the previous comment is a consumer-oriented one, that you can simply buy off Amazon etc., that still sells dumb TVs. I’d only suggest resorting to commercial displays if you’re boycotting that brand for some reason.

You have to reject smart TVs at the time of purchase, or manufacturers think this shit is okay and will keep escalating until even an Nvidia Shield won’t save you.

And then buy a non-smart TV instead. At least one company, Sceptre, still makes them. (I don’t want to make it seem like I’m shilling for a particular brand, but I genuinely don’t know of any other options, aside from commercial signage displays.)