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 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 8 months ago

2019 was 5 years ago?

[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 17 points 8 months 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 8 months 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.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 8 months ago

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 8 months ago (1 children)

Finally. Hail the google overlords!

[–] CCF_100@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago

Where the analytics run free

[–] StellarExtract@lemm.ee 28 points 8 months ago

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

[–] Roflmasterbigpimp@feddit.de 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

NGL, you had me for a second.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 8 months ago

It got me when I first saw it yesterday too

[–] soulfirethewolf@lemdro.id 1 points 8 months 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 8 months 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 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 8 months ago

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 8 months 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 8 months 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 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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