Re: [GTALUG] Rogers "Anyplace TV" does not support Firefox

2019-03-08 Thread o1bigtenor via talk
On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 8:48 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > | From: o1bigtenor via talk > > | What about Chromium? > > Not listed. I expect that means "no". Might be worth a try - - - ?? --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] Rogers "Anyplace TV" does not support Firefox

2019-03-08 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
| From: o1bigtenor via talk | What about Chromium? Not listed. I expect that means "no". --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] Rogers "Anyplace TV" does not support Firefox

2019-03-08 Thread o1bigtenor via talk
On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 8:30 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > Why would that be? > It claims to support MS Edge, IE 11, Chrome, and Safari. > > I don't have Chrome on my desktop because it is closed source. What about Chromium? Dee --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org

[GTALUG] Rogers "Anyplace TV" does not support Firefox

2019-03-08 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
Why would that be? It claims to support MS Edge, IE 11, Chrome, and Safari. I don't have Chrome on my desktop because it is closed source. --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] Ontario Bill 72: "Right to Repair"

2019-03-08 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
| From: James Knott via talk | My notebook is a Lenovo ThinkPad E520, which I bought 7.5 years ago.  | It's still going strong, though I put in a larger hard drive.  I've had | a thing for ThinkPads ever since I worked at IBM in the late 90s and | most of my work was on them. I like ThinkPads.

Re: [GTALUG] Ontario Bill 72: "Right to Repair"

2019-03-08 Thread James Knott via talk
On 2019-03-08 12:36 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > My current main notebook is just over 5 years old and still great. I > haven't had to repair it -- thank goodness, since it is an > Ultrabook(TM). This is partly because, knowing that upgrades would be > very hard, I pushed all the

Re: [GTALUG] Ontario Bill 72: "Right to Repair"

2019-03-08 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
| From: James Knott via talk | That's a big problem these days, people put price ahead of value.  | There's an old saying, "You only get what you pay for".  With many | things, the "savings" are  less than the added cost or lost value. It depends. I often buy cheap-ish phones and computers.

[GTALUG] kdevelop5

2019-03-08 Thread Gary via talk
Does anyone here use kdevelop? I just downloaded the latest version and when I set breakpoints (yes the Makefile sets the -g option) kdevelop recognizes the breakpoint by colouring the line but then when debugging it skips right to the very last line of code, thus ignoring my breakpoints. I

Re: [GTALUG] Ontario Bill 72: "Right to Repair"

2019-03-08 Thread James Knott via talk
On 2019-03-08 08:30 AM, Don Tai via talk wrote: > You buy cheaply and get cheap. That's a big problem these days, people put price ahead of value.  There's an old saying, "You only get what you pay for".  With many things, the "savings" are  less than the added cost or lost value. --- Talk

Re: [GTALUG] Ontario Bill 72: "Right to Repair"

2019-03-08 Thread Don Tai via talk
Beyond phones and tech is the physical world of appliances, toys, clothing, shoes and others. While quality has certainly gone down in almost all categories, they remain largely repairable. Most things still use screws and not glue. Old appliances are much better made than new ones. Most plans are