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That's interesting, because it's the reason I do use vscode. I just want to work and it takes a whole of 5 minutes to setup and get going, on basically any OS I want. It can't be light weight and also include every feature everyone wants.


I thought I was the only one. I much prefer small fonts and I am often made fun of for it. This font is still great, but I often have problems on OSX with the font becoming blurry and not being able to set anti-aliasing properly.


I don't think it's fair to equate not trusting the Chinese government with racism.


But thinking US companies are different because they claim they're not working with the American surveillance state is mostly deluding one's self. If you ask them, Opera can also probably issue a statement saying that they don't let the Chinese surveillance state spy on them, if one says "I believe you" to one class of orgs, and "I don't believe you" to another class, and the difference is the race...

Obviously in the US there's more checks and balances, to make a company's statement more believable. Or that's what we believe anyway...


>Obviously in the US there's more checks and balances, to make a company's statement more believable. Or that's what we believe anyway...

Without significant prove that this is not the case this handwaving way of comparing the US democratic state to China is just wrong. From Consumer protection to free and fair elections the US system is almost nothing alike the chinese system. Of course the US has massive issues (as do other Western democratic nations) but this handwavy "well they just don't tell you' stuff without actual good data behind is just destroys any credibility and is a huge problem for our democracies. Please stop doing it unless you provide exhaustive evidence.


Consumer protection? Let's ask the people in Flint how their water is. Free and fair elections? Yikes, you want to talk about this during this regime? How about voter suppression, gerrymandering, making sure minority districts have to queue for hours on voting day, electronic voting booths with accessible SD-card slots? Just because it's not covered on FOX News, it doesn't mean the problems are not there.

Or maybe oooh "We have massive issues, but China is worse.".

Also I don't think Obama ever did any curtailing of the NSA's program. Hello to the NSA machine reading this!


Why would the standard of evidence for US totalitarianism be higher than for Chinese totalitarianism?

Because "it's obvious in the case of China"?


Opera was bought by Chinese companies, not the Chinese government.


Subject to Chinese laws though.. although what gets enforced is a different matter.


it's pretty much same, if you wanna do business in China, you must give access to all your data to chinese government and do selfcensorship


Yeah, I am pretty sur we have no problems with Korean and Japanese companies, but suddenly Chinese is new race aparently.


It depends on the person's post history...


Loving the software, but I am finding the nag screen incredibly obnoxious (especially with its functionality, having a randomised button to click) when I can't even buy a license to get rid of it.

Looking forward to you fixing that so I can actually use it :)


You're 100% correct. It's stupid to say "buy me" and when you do want to buy say "sorry, you can't buy". I didn't think this through properly (because I didn't expect to be sold out) and am working on a solution. If you leave your email for the waiting list [1], you will know immediately once a solution is available.

[1]: https://fman.io/buy


Just curious, what's the rationale behind invite-only licenses?



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