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[–] RacoonVegetable@reddthat.com 58 points 1 year ago

I had a heart attack

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)

April Fools! Today will actually be great :3

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For me, the worst thing about April Fool's day is that Think Geek shut down in...2019? They always had a great joke products on the front page, and every once in a while they'd actually make and sell some of them.

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Think Geek shut down? Man it's been 5 years and I didn't even notice

[–] user224 4 points 1 year ago

2019 was 5 years ago?

[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I almost got got by the Palworld one that came out late yesterday. They are Japanese so it caught me off guard when it wasn't April 01 for me yet.

[–] FakeGreekGirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IGN did one about Nintendo announcing a Virtual Boy Pro that you slot a Switch into a la Google Cardboard. That one almost got me, until I got deeper into the article and saw some of the more ridiculous quotes.

But they did literally already do that with the Switch, with the Labo VR kit. I remember even seeing some bits in Odyssey that used it IIRC.

[–] passepartout@feddit.de 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Finally. Hail the google overlords!

[–] CCF_100@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Where the analytics run free

[–] StellarExtract@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago

Oh man this made me angry for a fraction of a second

[–] Roflmasterbigpimp@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

NGL, you had me for a second.

It got me when I first saw it yesterday too

[–] soulfirethewolf@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If it wasn't a joke, perhaps it might actually get them somewhere at this point

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the last major holdout against the entire internet being consumed by chromium, so while it might attract a certain demographic, it would be really bad for society

[–] HKayn@dormi.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The last major holdout that is also financially dependant on Google. Chromium has consumed the internet in all but name.

The saving grace though is that it's open source and there are excellent, well-maintained forks suck as LibreWolf, Fennec, and Mull and an active community of users and contributors

[–] FakeGreekGirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox is pretty much the last major browser that is not derived from Webkit. If they go, then browsers are a monoculture, and that's a problem.

[–] soulfirethewolf@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago

Chromium is still open source. And it can still be deviated from. Different for the sake of being different seems ridiculous.

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If they forced separation between chromium and Google I would say go for it, but as it's standing there is way too much power for Google to be like hey nudge nudge do it this way and then they would control the entire ecosystem

With that being said I do still think that there should be some form of competition regardless