Google Voice is good. I use it to call from the USA to Australia which is only $0.01/minute and doesn't have any monthly fees. You can see the rates here: https://voice.google.com/rates
I've got an Android phone and you can configure Google Voice so that it's automatically used whenever you make an international call from your phone's regular dialer.
Building a browser from scratch is going to cost well over a million dollars in development costs. I don't think they'd be able to achieve it without sponsors.
Most consumer sites are optimized for chrome and even safari, firefox & Edge (Obviously) face issues with scripts and plug-ins.
This is why it's dangerous that Chrome has such a large amount of market share. Instead of using standard features, sites are using Chrome-specific features and even relying on Chrome bugs that don't exist in other browsers. It's exactly the same reason Internet Explorer was bad.
The web platform is huge... It's going to take a long time to reach parity with other browsers.
They recently started developing it again, after being silent for a long time. They released Amarok 3.0 in April 2024 which migrated it to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5.
What's the advantage over regular Firefox?
So is this really just a local AI model? Or is it something bigger? My S25 Ultra has the app but it hasn't used any battery or data.
I use Borgbackup, with borgmatic to configure and periodically run it. I have two storage VPSes "in the cloud", and back up to both of them. My main storage VPS is a HostHatch one with 10TB space for $10/month. I got it during Black Friday sales in 2021.
If you do back up to multiple destinations, Borgbackup's devs recommend configuring two separate backups, rather than doing a backup to one server then syncing it to the second one. This is to handle the case where one of the backups becomes corrupted.
Hetzner have decent deals on their "storage boxes". You don't get root access, but they support Borgbackup, restic and rclone in addition to the regular protocols (SFTP, FTPS, WebDAV, SMB).
Make sure you configure the SSH key to only allow it to run borgbackup in "append only" mode, so that malware/ransomware on the client system can't delete the backups. This is a common issue with other backup solutions like rsync - the client has full access to the server, so a malicious user/code could delete the whole backup.
The only difference between a physical and digital copy of a video game is the format of the license key (on disc vs attached to your account). In either case, you're buying a license key that can be revoked by the manufacturer at any time. A playable game isn't even on the disc any more, since games aren't finished by the master date any more (so you need to have internet access regardless of if it's a disc or digital copy)
At least California is doing something and forcing stores to make it clearer that you're only getting a revokable license rather than actually buying the product: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/26/24254922/california-digital-purchase-disclosure-law-ab-2426
simplified naming scheme with labels like ‘Pro’ and ‘Max.’
How is that "simplified"? Which one is better, Pro or Max?
Actual simplified naming would probably be names like "Basic", "Business", "Gaming", or numbers like what Intel does with Core 3/5/7/9.
I'm still sad they got rid of MSN Messenger in favour of Skype. MSN had superior video and audio quality.
I had so many international friends on MSN Messenger that I have no idea how to contact any more.