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Microsoft Paint has been marked for death:
The era of Microsoft Paint appears to be coming to an end with the upcoming release of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. The image-editing application is officially being classified by Microsoft as a "deprecated feature," as noted by The Guardian. That means that, come this fall, Paint will "not be in active development and might be removed in future releases."
I go hard in the paint.
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After 32 Years, the Death of Microsoft Paint
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(Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday July 25 2017, @08:24AM (9 children)
old sync protocol = WebRTC?
(Score: 2) by linuxrocks123 on Tuesday July 25 2017, @01:27PM (8 children)
No, Firefox Sync 1.1: https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2015/07/31/shutting-down-the-legacy-sync-service/ [mozilla.org]
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday July 25 2017, @04:45PM (7 children)
The stuff that keeps your bookmarks etc on a central site?
Hard lesson in not-your-computer-zap.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday July 25 2017, @05:00PM (6 children)
Had you read carefully, you had noticed the following line:
I run my own server and didn't want to upgrade it.
So no, this is not a case of not-your-computer.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday July 25 2017, @05:17PM (5 children)
But you had to consciously re-configure it to do that?
All too often various software tries to sideline users into someone-elses-computer because it's so convenient. Well until it's gone ;)
I specifically recall Mozilla wanting to sync bookmarks etc, because it was sooo much easier. And I was like "fuck no" ;-)
(Score: 3, Insightful) by linuxrocks123 on Tuesday July 25 2017, @09:43PM (4 children)
Well, actually, if I'd originally allowed Firefox to sync with Mozilla's servers, they would have automatically migrated me to Sync 1.5, and I wouldn't have had a problem. The only reason there was a problem was I chose to run my own server, so an issue arose when they removed support for the old protocol. So, if there's a juvenile "lesson" to be learned from my experience, it's not to host your own server.
There isn't one, though because I'm happy with all my choices in the matter. I could have also self-hosted the Sync 1.5 server, and kept using Firefox, but switching to Pale Moon seemed easier and I liked Pale Moon's direction more. I still ask about other browsers every so often, though, because it's worth keeping an eye on all the options.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday July 26 2017, @12:17AM (3 children)
The thing that Mozilla has against it is that it lack one process per tab. That method handles some issues a lot better.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Wednesday July 26 2017, @04:35PM (2 children)
e10s-multi is expected to be released in Firefox 55, with up to four content processes so as not to overuse RAM the way Chrome or Chromium can with many processes [erahm.org]. A lot of devices still in use still have 2 GB or less with no way to upgrade other than complete replacement of the device, such as a mobile device or a laptop whose chipset can't recognize modules larger than 2 GB. I already see the improvement in 55.0b11, though occasionally I think I might be getting unlucky when multiple heavy tabs get assigned to the same content process.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday July 26 2017, @04:47PM (1 child)
Can it shuffle tabs between these four processes? interesting concept. If it's possible to configure number of processes it would be really great.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Pino P on Wednesday July 26 2017, @05:55PM
I'm not aware of such functionality.
Four is what Mozilla engineers have determined to be just right [medium.com] for typical desktop scenarios. But if you have the RAM for it, open about:config and increase dom.ipc.processCount.