Exactly

Probably because most of us suffered for ten years or more with windows and we’re traumatized by it

This one: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/966237-REG/iogear_gus404_4x4_usb_2_0_peripheral.html

I’ve had it about 4.5 years now.

That is what I do. I have owned like 4 kvm switches. Even when I paid extra to get a “good” one they never lasted more than like a year or two. My USB switch has been going for about 3 years. Occasionally it glitches out and I have to unplug it from everything but it’s only about every 3-5 months

haha that was so infuriating. if their intent was to bastardize the filename horribly to make it noticeable that you defied the DOS limitation, they certainly succeeded. Yuck, totally forgot about the ~1 thing!

Ah I gotcha now. I forgot about the capitalization stuff haha!

I was so curious if there was some weird Linux audio system I didn’t begin to understand lol

It sounded plausible kind of because every device is mapped to a file path somewhere!

I sense sarcasm but I don’t really get it. I still can’t tell if the OC had a typo or not :)

Linux audio?

We had a repo with some really weird (filename) case issues on Mac also. I could only fix it on my home Linux machine, by deleting all the affected files, committing that, then restoring them with all lowercase names. Only time I’ve dealt with that in 20 years but it can happen!

8.3, actually!

Uh wat

Maintaining a printer is hell on any OS. I learned to not own a printer long ago. That’s what places that offer printing services are for. And it’s not very expensive typically

I just find it odd that you need to know the OS to display a site for 3 different form factors

Yeah, a lot of things seem odd until you take 20 years to understand them.

I think it may display a warning but thats it.

Yeah that’s what I said. It is your opinion that a warning is not enough but I very much don’t feel that way. Users should be treated like adults by default.

No they often take Windows 10 on FF ESR

I don’t know what this means unless you’re saying it just always reports win 10

As far as the rest of your comment… I have been building websites for 20 years now and I’m not content to do things the wrong way, so I’ve researched and considered the available options.

It doesn’t matter if it’s a “browser problem” since I don’t get to tell users that iOS sucks ass, which it does.

Kind of feels dismissive the way you’re hand waving away all the problems I deal with all the time. Like I said, until browsers behave consistently or at least predictably if they don’t support something, UA will be needed sometimes. I haven’t needed it for anything but safari in a long time but again I don’t get to tell those users to get a decent browser. On iOS they don’t even have that option if they were to want another browser.

Lol this won the Fediverse today.

Why is it “head cannon” and not “head canon”? You got some kind of gun strapped to your head that you keep stories in?

Still unsure what you’re saying about https. Firefox treats insecure sites as dangerous and tries to tell the user to beware, for that one time a year you might run into that situation. And by default, insecure content in a secure page is blocked in FF and I think that was true even in IE 11. That’s been pretty standard for a long time.

Regarding OS in the UA, no, rarely would you need it. I think browsers can send whatever they want there though. Are you saying that LibreWolf sends one without OS? Again to me it’s a little paranoid to nitpick this but what I thought you were saying before is that UAs should not exist period, which I was disputing because I literally have been spending the last month working through safari specific bugs that would be nearly impossible to handle without a UA string to know the user is running safari. Sometimes I do need to know iPad vs iPhone, but that’s not only rare but probably even more offensive to you than the UA mentioning the OS/OS family.

I really don’t understand. So the fact that FF warms you against a (btw rare) thing is somehow not enough? …

And I’m telling you as a web developer who has to support multiple versions of Safari, it’s not something I can just dismiss as irrelevant as you’re apparently intent on doing.

And about brave, you brought it up not me. Still don’t understand why it even came up, especially if you’re actively against it…

I agree with you about ads for sure. But I’m not really sure what you mean about https being off by default. What I’ve noticed is that if I type an IP address into the address bar, FF first tries https and if that fails falls back to http.

Regarding UA string: As a web developer I have worked on many projects, one currently, where browsers misbehave in unpredictable ways. Most notable these days is Safari. Without a user agent string I really don’t have a way to workaround that browser’s shortcomings. Yes, for this purpose, the UA string should be a last resort because feature detection is best, but trust me feature detection isn’t always possible. It would not work for the current slew of issues I’m working through in Safari.

Also, I would encourage you to read up on Brave and funder/fundamentalist Peter Thiel. Brave is not only a Google supporting browser by virtue of using chromium, it’s also wrapped up in some shady shit, including being funded by a conservative psychopath.