I had to look up ‘html modal’, yeah it sounds like the same thing. I learned web dev back in the xhtml days. Back then those kinds of boxes were only beginning to see popular usage, and there was no official tag for making them.

I remember one of my exes repeated a statistic a lot, “one in three women are raped at least once in their life.”

I don’t think you’re appreciating the challenge of these circumstances when “not all men” might literally be the exception, not the rule.

I remember around 15 years ago I was excited to get my first computer with a dedicated graphics card, a laptop with Nvidia Optimus. It was also around the time I was just beginning to get into Linux. I found an Ubuntu forum post with detailed instructions on installing Ubuntu and setting it up properly on that exact laptop, so I tried to follow that.

It didn’t help that I was unfamiliar with using the terminal at the time. But even so, this was before tools like Bumblebee were in a usable state (is Bumblebee still the preferred way to use Optimus?). I remember getting to the part about graphics switching and seeing some messy confusing hack for it. I don’t remember the specifics, but I think it involved importing a script and using diff to patch something. And I think all it did was just disable the very gpu I was looking forward to trying out.

I jumped back and forth between distros and Windows 7 a lot at that time. But it was such a shitty experience all because of Nvidia that I have never purchased any of their products since then. I’ve owned a lot of computers in that time, and I’m just one customer lost. I hope Nvidia looks at AMD sales and wonders how many of them are users that Nvidia lost because things like that.

I just imported it, and still have to tap before I can swipe. I also checked eBay after importing, and that app banner still pops up.

I try that in uBlock from time to time, but I still can’t seem to get it quite right. Testing in Duolingo right now, I set it to get rid of the app popup, as well as the semitransparent overlay that darkens the whole page. But there’s still some element on the page that restricts me from scrolling until I tap on the page. It’s an improvement, but still not quite there yet.

Misandry is getting increasingly prevalent, and it does suck. But at the same time, at least on an individual basis, I can hardly blame people for it. I don’t know if I’ve ever known a single woman has never been assaulted by a man. The fact is we collectively do have to do better.

There’s too much loneliness going around regardless of gender, so no, a sweeping generalization about an entire group probably isn’t the most helpful idea. Nor does it address the real problems.

I occasionally do searches to see if there’s a blocker for those obnoxious, “Do you want to use the app?” lightboxes. To no avail. 😿

Strange, I was also on a thread about ending support, and I found (and upvoted) tons of comments about switching to Linux. Must have been from different communities.