This makes me physically ill.

Cars are the only weapon in the world where you could injure or kill a few dozen people “by accident” and be let off without being held responsible. And it happens all the time.

Even when someone is charged with anything, it never accounts for a loss of human life. It’s always some BS traffic violation that might as well be a parking violation.

Good. Hopefully this will put an end to idiot parents who illegally park in the bike lanes near schools, putting cyclists and kids at risk, just because they are lazy AF.

Exactly why we need to deconstruct car infrastructure and promote 15 minute cities.

Food deserts are also, in part, due to systemic racism and the lack of incentive to invest in impoverished areas.

That would help, but wouldn’t do much for the mountains of people in cars on the weekend… going to stores they could easily walk to.

Personal driving needs to be one of those things that you might do a few times a month, when necessary, to get to a destination further than 25 km away.

The only vehicles you should regularly see on roads are delivery, emergency services, transport trucks, and maintenance vehicles.

Anything else can be handled by public transportation, micromobility, walking, bikes, zoom calls, etc.

Yes, it’s not easy for everyone to do that, which is why government should step the hell up and subsidize and incentivize the crap out of every mode of transportation that isn’t a car. Give away free e-bikes to every family if you need to, just get people out of cars!

Floccus is what I use for bookmarks.

Works across pretty much any browser and on Android (maybe iOS, I’m not sure). I’ve got it set up on my Synology NAS through webdav, and it’s been reliable.

I do also use Linkwarden, but that’s more to collect web pages, and not just bookmark them. The archive feature is great, since it doesn’t rely on the page still being live to work.

Linkwarden and Floccus are very different, IMO.

Been using this for a few weeks on my synology nas. Absolutely love it!

Edge was a bit choppy when zooming in, but nothing bad when panning…

That’s interesting. Edge (and Opera) in G Earth are 100% smooth at my monitor’s max refresh rate (60 fps).

Thanks for that. I’ve got a Framework laptop, and just looking at their support community, it seems like Firefox has not been playing well for quite a few people, with many citing “choppy” performance, so I’ll have a look what they’ve discovered.

I have run both Google Earth and Google Maps in Firefox on Windows since forever and it has allways been fine.

Yes, they both work (no issues with Gmaps from what I recall), but try Google Earth on Edge and tell me if it’s any smoother. To me, it’s so dramatic that you simply can’t ignore it.

Yes, GPU is active and even confirmed through the Windows Task Manager. I’ve added more details to my OP.

I’ve confirmed that the GPU is being used (through Firefox and through the Windows Task Manager). On a fresh FF profile, I’m getting the same slow performance out of Google Earth.

I’m putting more details in my OP.

I know, I’ve tried Linux. Many times. I tend to break linux without any way for me to fix it. So I always come back to Windows.

It’s like an abusive relationship that I can’t leave. LOL

You can check if hardware acceleration is working by going to “about:support” and checking the “composite” line. If it says Web Render (without software written there in brackets) it’s hardware accelerated. I

It does say “Compositing WebRender”.

I’m going to try a fresh profile to see if that happens. I do have the same issue on multiple PCs (all windows), so I must be doing something that’s creating this issue on all my installs.

Thanks for trying! Google Earth is running my max refresh rate in Edge, but it’s painfully slow on FF. If it’s working for you, then I know there’s hope!

I’m on Windows, unfortunately, so that’s one variable I can’t change. I’ll consider that config, though!

Other thing could be how much you use each browser, how many tabs you have open when you tried them? How many extensions? What other programs did you have open?

It doesn’t make a difference, even with a barebone configuration. That’s kind of why I have Librewolf available, so it’s separate from the config I have with my main FF profile.

I was afraid that might be the case. It certainly seems like that. I’m blown away by how much faster Edge is compared to FF. Google Earth seems to run at 60fps (max refresh rate of my monitor) in Edge and like 15fps in FF… if I’m lucky.

That’s an out-of-the-box idea, but I just tried it with the Windows/Edge and then Windows/Chrome setting, and Google earth spit up an error about the browser not being compatible, but I can try anyway (didn’t load), or it simply didn’t load (forever loading).

That would have been an interesting “fix”!

“Therefore,” concluded the report, “cars continue to be the main contributor to changes in overall motor vehicle traffic.”

When you think about it for a second, the worst traffic congestion you’ll find are in places where only cars and trucks are allowed to be: highways.

Yes, you get traffic congestion in cities, too, but hours long congestion only happens in places where cyclists aren’t.

If a [insert ridiculous number] lane highway at [insert any speed] still results in bumper to bumper traffic, perhaps really should be blaming cars for being the least efficient, traffic-inducing, time-wasting form of transportation available.

I use Rustdesk for 99% of my remote desktop needs (RealVNC only for my Raspberry Pi).

I will add that self-hosting Rustdesk makes it reliable and fast. When I use the public servers, it was not a good experience.

I’m running it off my Synology NAS through docker.

Was using Mull and now with Iceraven. Add-on support for both has been awesome.