Microsoft hides their links if they see you run linux. So you need to manually set your OS in the browser settings to see the download link. Very convenient.
Before Windows 10, NVidia and others had this button Detect what thing suits me best on their websites. Now many of them just look it up in one’s fingerprint without asking.
Fuckin oath. If we cater to the stupid too much the folks who are middling just get lazy. Make people think. It’s important that we know how to use our brains.
It’s like undefined behavior - most people usually do one thing, but it’s perfectly acceptable for me to make my website as hard-to-use as I want. Ctrl-click the website logo to submit the form.
Ideally, to save bandwidth on both sides, the server would only want to serve you the JS and CSS you need. I’m not sure how frequently that optimization is made, however.
I’m a bit rusty on this, but I think you’d need to split your Sass/SCSS/etc before Webpack will perform tree-shaking or allow lazy-loading. I don’t think many devs wrote it that way: personally, I like my mobile rules beside my desktop ones, since my styling is component-wise.
Fair point, there could be reasons, and I’d say there’s no privacy concerns if that’s all they get, but I know it’s part of fingerprinting. I said 99% so they don’t even need to know that
as a front end web developer, I’ve found it useful to know what user agent is requesting a page in order to load conditional styling. For example, to compensate for Safari’s god-awful outlines support (pre-version 16).
99% of sites only need to know your screen aspect ratio and maybe available input devices, can’t think of a good reason to share anything else
Knowing OS is useful for download links.
having 3 different ones solves that issue though? the user can figure out whic OS they’re running pretty well imo.
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I can tell you’ve never had to do T1 tech support before.
It’s kind of staggering just how illiterate users can be.
I doubt the fix is to make them need less literacy
When you are competing for customers not providing the illiterate morons of the world a simple UI leads to them going to your competitor which does.
And unfortunately those illiterate morons outnumber every one else by a significant chunk.
Microsoft hides their links if they see you run linux. So you need to manually set your OS in the browser settings to see the download link. Very convenient.
I’d be down for an ask to allow that info. Sort of like how sites request access to cam and mic.
Before Windows 10, NVidia and others had this button Detect what thing suits me best on their websites. Now many of them just look it up in one’s fingerprint without asking.
Oh no, they’d have to list more than one link,the horror!
The vast majority of people would have no clue what to download.
Let them be confused. They’ll learn eventually. Or they won’t. Computers are too user friendly today anyway.
Fuckin oath. If we cater to the stupid too much the folks who are middling just get lazy. Make people think. It’s important that we know how to use our brains.
No one ever promised an easy to use internet.
It’s like undefined behavior - most people usually do one thing, but it’s perfectly acceptable for me to make my website as hard-to-use as I want. Ctrl-click the website logo to submit the form.
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Ideally, to save bandwidth on both sides, the server would only want to serve you the JS and CSS you need. I’m not sure how frequently that optimization is made, however.
I’m a bit rusty on this, but I think you’d need to split your Sass/SCSS/etc before Webpack will perform tree-shaking or allow lazy-loading. I don’t think many devs wrote it that way: personally, I like my mobile rules beside my desktop ones, since my styling is component-wise.
I haven’t done UI work in years so I’m not sure how they do it these days.
that’s how css gets its media queries, user agents
Fair point, there could be reasons, and I’d say there’s no privacy concerns if that’s all they get, but I know it’s part of fingerprinting. I said 99% so they don’t even need to know that
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as a front end web developer, I’ve found it useful to know what user agent is requesting a page in order to load conditional styling. For example, to compensate for Safari’s god-awful outlines support (pre-version 16).