You are technically correct in that Google Chrome is not available for Raspberry Pi. Instead, one would access Google Earth using Chromium, which is the same thing as Google Chrome except without components under a proprietary software license.
What problems have you had getting Chromium to run on your Raspberry Pi?
Second try: "Jitsi" on Wikipedia. The article states that Jitsi is a native client application, not a server. Therefore, it would need to be used with some sort of server software and a hosting account. It states that Jitsi is available for Linux (by which I assume it means X11/Linux), Android, Windows, and macOS, which would exclude members of our community whose primary device is an iPhone, iPad, or Chromebook. It states that supports IRC and XMPP for text, SIP for voice, and proprietary services of major IM networks (MSNP, OSCAR, and YMSG). Which of these protocols A. have a server available to the public and B. support server-side storage of older messages and attachments?
I've never seen a single instance of PII being tracked
Let me guess: the sites for which you consulted either A. are paywalled, B. are donation-supported and run by a charity, or C. exist to sell some real-world product, as opposed to being funded by advertising on them. I make this guess because ad networks and ad exchanges track viewing history across publisher sites that contain the particular company's ad code in order to build an interest profile on each viewer.
What did you mean by this? A break room computer at work is not the only environment that restricts installation of native applications. Another is a computer at a public library. A third is a computer using an uncommon architecture for which the application's publisher has not compiled the native application, such as GNU/Linux on ARM instead of x86-64. From Google Earth on a Pi? - Raspberry Pi Forums:
No google only provide downloads for 32 and 64 bit debian and RPM packages. Nothing for arm, so it wont work.
Uploading custom emoji to Discordapp.com works in Chrome and in Chromium but not in Firefox 57, where clicking the upload button has no effect. It's even worse in Firefox ESR 52 on Debian 9 "Stretch", with many actions lagging and pegging one core of a Core 2 Duo CPU for one or more seconds, sometimes blanking the whole page for a second. Discord staff has a habit of closing issue reports in Firefox to the effect "Works for me in Chrome. Could you try it in Chrome?" Would you recommend stopping using Discord over this incompatibility? If so, then to what text and voice chat platform with built-in support for retrieval and search of older messages and attachments do you recommend that a community using Discord migrate? (IRC lacks voice chat, retrieval and search of older messages, and attachments.)
One example is using a computer whose policies are set to allow temporary installation of third-party JavaScript code into the browser's RAM and disk cache by websites visited by ordinary users but not permanent installation of third-party native code into persistent storage by ordinary users.
Your reference to "Safari" implies that you define "proper phone" as an Apple iPhone. This particular brand requires a Mac to load non-App Store apps programs from source code, in addition to the leading brand computer that you are more likely to already have.
And whether it's practical to define the relevant market to include China in turn depends on the added cost for app developers outside China to target users in China. This includes at least translation, distribution, and promotion. Otherwise, you have two disjoint markets: "Android outside China" and "Android in China".
free software makes up the vast majority of operating systems for servers, mainframes, and smartphones
Correct me if I'm wrong, but by "the vast majority of operating systems for [...] smartphones" I assume you're referring to devices that run Android. In that case, what's larger on an Android system image: AOSP (Linux and free components of Android userland) or GMS (Google Play Store/Services and other bundled Gapps)?
I think the primary *failure* here is in the moral and legal dimension where users don't necessarily prioritize their rights.
And the unfortunate result of this is that economies of scale associated with support make laptops made for Windows* cheaper than laptops made for GNU/Linux.
* A device is "made for" an operating system if its manufacturer claims that reasonably complete drivers exist to make the device work with that OS.
Provided you're coding only for web browsers that support Vanilla. Edge and Safari, for instance, have tended to lag behind Firefox and Chrome in their Vanilla support, needing a "polyfill" framework to replicate some of the missing parts. And unless you target Edge and Safari, you won't reach Windows 10 S and iOS.
The one silver lining is that IE prior to 11 no longer receives security updates, giving a convenient excuse not to support browsers that are that downlevel. This means the more convoluted Vanilla equivalents of jQuery calls aren't as necessary anymore.
Page reloads are painful, but the loss of privacy to third-party trackers, the loss of download allowance to large frameworks and video ads, and the loss of CPU time to real-time bidding and Monero mining scripts are also painful. They're so painful, in fact, that many anti-JavaScript hardliners here and on SoylentNews would prefer page reloads as less painful than the effects of widespread misuse of JavaScript.
Lesson #1 of the Internet is that you never rely on 100% uptime for remote content.
Tell that to operators of websites using anti-adblock. If the cross-site tracking server goes down, the site's script assumes the user is using an ad blocker.
Synfig Studio, because it outputs as proper video files or animated images that can be viewed in many more places with less resource usage than HTML5
Last I checked, SWF was a lot smaller in bytes transmitted over the (potentially slow or capped) network than WebM or MP4. I had hoped that HTML+Canvas would be comparable in size to SWF.
If I had the choice between HPs best desktop model and a raspberry pi I would choose the pi without hesitation as I know that while not a star performer it won't let me down.
My work involves FamiTracker and FCEUX debugger. These applications are free software, but they're made for the Win32 API and compiled for i686. Have you tried recompiling Windows applications for ARM using Winelib for Raspberry Pi? If so, what problems have you run into?
is you have a PC/Mac with an older system that "just works" why are you gonna buy some new hardware that likely will lock you into the latest OS that just "doesn't seem to work right"?
The biggest reason to run macOS is macOS-exclusive applications, and among Slashdot users, the most prominent of those is probably Xcode. The version of Xcode that targets the current version of iOS runs only on macOS Sierra and later, which needs a Mac from 2010 or later. My Mac mini is from 2009.
Macs are simply too expensive and locked into a crappy walled garden.
To what "crappy walled garden" do you refer? A user of macOS can bypass Gatekeeper and trust an amateur-made application by Ctrl+clicking it and choosing Open.
And becomes useless when the publisher of the application on which your business relies closes both your request for a native X11/Linux port and your request to correct brokenness when the application is run in Wine as RESOLVED WONTFIX.
It's not quite "grammar taked out". Grammar is made up of morphology (inflections and derivations) and syntax (word order). The more you take out of morphology, the more rigid the syntax becomes. For instance, Chinese and English have very little inflection, but their syntax is more rigid than (say) Russian or Latin.
Besides, there is a Latin minus inflectional morphology, and it's called Latino sine flexione. It was proposed by Giuseppe Peano, who also invented fractals and put math on a rigorous axiomatic foundation. The better-known Interlingua began as a reform of LSF.
A desktop user is more likely to plan out good uses for excess data to come in just under the cap, much of it during prime time from 7 PM to 11 PM tower time.
I assume you have data sources to back up those assertions.
The article "The truth about tethering: Pay up or you are a thief" by James Kendrick implies an expectation among carriers that customers not use the entire monthly data allowance, where carriers price plans based on this expectation. From the article:
Our agreement may state that we must pay an overage fee when we exceed a certain amount of data usage in a given period (the cap), but the carrier is not stating we are paying for the right to use that much data. Most carriers have unspecified "normal usage" parameters that are used to determine when customers exceed the intended usage, even if under the data cap. Carriers have been known to throttle usage, or even cancel, customers who regularly exceed the normal usage parameters, even when they don't exceed a specified cap. We may not like it but that's the way it works.
I would forward your request for data to Mr. Kendrick, but "Comments for this thread are now closed."
In addition, a desktop user is more likely to watch long high-definition streams, compared to a 5" screen that occupies less of the visual field (in units of steradians or square degrees) than a computer monitor or living room TV.
I assume you have data sources to back up those assertions.
Then let's make some data. 1. How big is your PC monitor diagonally, and how far do you sit from it? 2. How big is your living room TV diagonally, and how far do you sit from it? 3. How big is your phone's screen diagonally, and how far do you hold it? From these figures, I can calculate the apparent density of SD and HD video in pixels per radian and compare them to the human fovea's limit of roughly 3400 pixels per radian.
Why should they care what you use your allotted data for? 10GB is 10GB is 10GB.
6 GB is not 10 GB is not 10 GB. Not all customers on a 10 GB/mo cellular plan will use all 10 GB on their phone, letting some of the data expire at the end of the month. A desktop user is more likely to plan out good uses for excess data to come in just under the cap, much of it during prime time from 7 PM to 11 PM tower time. This is even more common if the cheapskate user has canceled wired home Internet in order to be able to afford mobile Internet.
In addition, a desktop user is more likely to watch long high-definition streams, compared to a 5" screen that occupies less of the visual field (in units of steradians or square degrees) than a computer monitor or living room TV. This requires a larger data rate and thus more scarce time slots on the tower. The "Binge On" promotion that T-Mobile has used, which doesn't count standard-definition streaming video against the user's cap, appears related.
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you cannot install chrome on a raspberry pi
You are technically correct in that Google Chrome is not available for Raspberry Pi. Instead, one would access Google Earth using Chromium, which is the same thing as Google Chrome except without components under a proprietary software license.
What problems have you had getting Chromium to run on your Raspberry Pi?
I tried visiting the first result in Google Search, and it gave me error 502 Bad Gateway. Not a good sign.
Second try: "Jitsi" on Wikipedia. The article states that Jitsi is a native client application, not a server. Therefore, it would need to be used with some sort of server software and a hosting account. It states that Jitsi is available for Linux (by which I assume it means X11/Linux), Android, Windows, and macOS, which would exclude members of our community whose primary device is an iPhone, iPad, or Chromebook. It states that supports IRC and XMPP for text, SIP for voice, and proprietary services of major IM networks (MSNP, OSCAR, and YMSG). Which of these protocols A. have a server available to the public and B. support server-side storage of older messages and attachments?
I've never seen a single instance of PII being tracked
Let me guess: the sites for which you consulted either A. are paywalled, B. are donation-supported and run by a charity, or C. exist to sell some real-world product, as opposed to being funded by advertising on them. I make this guess because ad networks and ad exchanges track viewing history across publisher sites that contain the particular company's ad code in order to build an interest profile on each viewer.
Or get back to actually doing your job?
What did you mean by this? A break room computer at work is not the only environment that restricts installation of native applications. Another is a computer at a public library. A third is a computer using an uncommon architecture for which the application's publisher has not compiled the native application, such as GNU/Linux on ARM instead of x86-64. From Google Earth on a Pi? - Raspberry Pi Forums:
Friends don't let friends use Chrome.
Uploading custom emoji to Discordapp.com works in Chrome and in Chromium but not in Firefox 57, where clicking the upload button has no effect. It's even worse in Firefox ESR 52 on Debian 9 "Stretch", with many actions lagging and pegging one core of a Core 2 Duo CPU for one or more seconds, sometimes blanking the whole page for a second. Discord staff has a habit of closing issue reports in Firefox to the effect "Works for me in Chrome. Could you try it in Chrome?" Would you recommend stopping using Discord over this incompatibility? If so, then to what text and voice chat platform with built-in support for retrieval and search of older messages and attachments do you recommend that a community using Discord migrate? (IRC lacks voice chat, retrieval and search of older messages, and attachments.)
One example is using a computer whose policies are set to allow temporary installation of third-party JavaScript code into the browser's RAM and disk cache by websites visited by ordinary users but not permanent installation of third-party native code into persistent storage by ordinary users.
Your reference to "Safari" implies that you define "proper phone" as an Apple iPhone. This particular brand requires a Mac to load non-App Store apps programs from source code, in addition to the leading brand computer that you are more likely to already have.
Google Earth runs in Chrome but not in Firefox 57. What replacement for Google Earth do you recommend?
Depends if you include China.
And whether it's practical to define the relevant market to include China in turn depends on the added cost for app developers outside China to target users in China. This includes at least translation, distribution, and promotion. Otherwise, you have two disjoint markets: "Android outside China" and "Android in China".
free software makes up the vast majority of operating systems for servers, mainframes, and smartphones
Correct me if I'm wrong, but by "the vast majority of operating systems for [...] smartphones" I assume you're referring to devices that run Android. In that case, what's larger on an Android system image: AOSP (Linux and free components of Android userland) or GMS (Google Play Store/Services and other bundled Gapps)?
I think the primary *failure* here is in the moral and legal dimension where users don't necessarily prioritize their rights.
And the unfortunate result of this is that economies of scale associated with support make laptops made for Windows* cheaper than laptops made for GNU/Linux.
* A device is "made for" an operating system if its manufacturer claims that reasonably complete drivers exist to make the device work with that OS.
Provided you're coding only for web browsers that support Vanilla. Edge and Safari, for instance, have tended to lag behind Firefox and Chrome in their Vanilla support, needing a "polyfill" framework to replicate some of the missing parts. And unless you target Edge and Safari, you won't reach Windows 10 S and iOS.
The one silver lining is that IE prior to 11 no longer receives security updates, giving a convenient excuse not to support browsers that are that downlevel. This means the more convoluted Vanilla equivalents of jQuery calls aren't as necessary anymore.
Page reloads are painful, but the loss of privacy to third-party trackers, the loss of download allowance to large frameworks and video ads, and the loss of CPU time to real-time bidding and Monero mining scripts are also painful. They're so painful, in fact, that many anti-JavaScript hardliners here and on SoylentNews would prefer page reloads as less painful than the effects of widespread misuse of JavaScript.
Lesson #1 of the Internet is that you never rely on 100% uptime for remote content.
Tell that to operators of websites using anti-adblock. If the cross-site tracking server goes down, the site's script assumes the user is using an ad blocker.
my wife receives an annual payment from the government to compensate her for the possible loss of royalties that libraries might bring
In what country? I wasn't aware of such payments in the United States.
Synfig Studio, because it outputs as proper video files or animated images that can be viewed in many more places with less resource usage than HTML5
Last I checked, SWF was a lot smaller in bytes transmitted over the (potentially slow or capped) network than WebM or MP4. I had hoped that HTML+Canvas would be comparable in size to SWF.
If I had the choice between HPs best desktop model and a raspberry pi I would choose the pi without hesitation as I know that while not a star performer it won't let me down.
My work involves FamiTracker and FCEUX debugger. These applications are free software, but they're made for the Win32 API and compiled for i686. Have you tried recompiling Windows applications for ARM using Winelib for Raspberry Pi? If so, what problems have you run into?
is you have a PC/Mac with an older system that "just works" why are you gonna buy some new hardware that likely will lock you into the latest OS that just "doesn't seem to work right"?
The biggest reason to run macOS is macOS-exclusive applications, and among Slashdot users, the most prominent of those is probably Xcode. The version of Xcode that targets the current version of iOS runs only on macOS Sierra and later, which needs a Mac from 2010 or later. My Mac mini is from 2009.
Macs are simply too expensive and locked into a crappy walled garden.
To what "crappy walled garden" do you refer? A user of macOS can bypass Gatekeeper and trust an amateur-made application by Ctrl+clicking it and choosing Open.
Linux beckons.
And becomes useless when the publisher of the application on which your business relies closes both your request for a native X11/Linux port and your request to correct brokenness when the application is run in Wine as RESOLVED WONTFIX.
And Rovi was an abbreviation of the company's original name: Macrovision. The company that introduced analog gain control copy protection.
vote with your wallet
What alternative to Adobe Animate would you recommend for people trying to replace a secondhand copy of Flash with something that can output HTML5?
You're talking about "Darmok" (ST:TNG 5x02), an episode that the staff of Ars Technica disagree about.
But we already have that. It's called "meme culture" and "Obligatory xkcd/Oatmeal/Onion" and "if you don't get it, turn in your geek card".
It's not quite "grammar taked out". Grammar is made up of morphology (inflections and derivations) and syntax (word order). The more you take out of morphology, the more rigid the syntax becomes. For instance, Chinese and English have very little inflection, but their syntax is more rigid than (say) Russian or Latin.
Besides, there is a Latin minus inflectional morphology, and it's called Latino sine flexione. It was proposed by Giuseppe Peano, who also invented fractals and put math on a rigorous axiomatic foundation. The better-known Interlingua began as a reform of LSF.
A desktop user is more likely to plan out good uses for excess data to come in just under the cap, much of it during prime time from 7 PM to 11 PM tower time.
I assume you have data sources to back up those assertions.
The article "The truth about tethering: Pay up or you are a thief" by James Kendrick implies an expectation among carriers that customers not use the entire monthly data allowance, where carriers price plans based on this expectation. From the article:
I would forward your request for data to Mr. Kendrick, but "Comments for this thread are now closed."
In addition, a desktop user is more likely to watch long high-definition streams, compared to a 5" screen that occupies less of the visual field (in units of steradians or square degrees) than a computer monitor or living room TV.
I assume you have data sources to back up those assertions.
Then let's make some data.
1. How big is your PC monitor diagonally, and how far do you sit from it?
2. How big is your living room TV diagonally, and how far do you sit from it?
3. How big is your phone's screen diagonally, and how far do you hold it?
From these figures, I can calculate the apparent density of SD and HD video in pixels per radian and compare them to the human fovea's limit of roughly 3400 pixels per radian.
Why should they care what you use your allotted data for? 10GB is 10GB is 10GB.
6 GB is not 10 GB is not 10 GB. Not all customers on a 10 GB/mo cellular plan will use all 10 GB on their phone, letting some of the data expire at the end of the month. A desktop user is more likely to plan out good uses for excess data to come in just under the cap, much of it during prime time from 7 PM to 11 PM tower time. This is even more common if the cheapskate user has canceled wired home Internet in order to be able to afford mobile Internet.
In addition, a desktop user is more likely to watch long high-definition streams, compared to a 5" screen that occupies less of the visual field (in units of steradians or square degrees) than a computer monitor or living room TV. This requires a larger data rate and thus more scarce time slots on the tower. The "Binge On" promotion that T-Mobile has used, which doesn't count standard-definition streaming video against the user's cap, appears related.