… Uh… This doesn’t seem that objectionable. It’s a bunch of targeted fixes to websites, I imagine every browser does it in some form. Firefox at least allows you to turn it off if for some reason you wanted to.

BTW, I think Proton (for playing games) does this as well.

Also, Every site FF pretends to be a different UA on is artificially reducing FF market share data.

Ehhh… I think a bigger effect on FF market share statistics is probably all those privacy addons and settings everyone is using.

Was going to say my phone but honestly? Probably my bed.

Any y’all got any tips for getting worries about the future out of your head?

I’m trying to get better at the whole “If you don’t have anything to add, don’t get involved. If joining in won’t be good for you, don’t join in.” thing. I’m still bad at it, but I at least now know it’s a problem.

I think it’s petty to not play a game just because of the engine it’s written in…

I think I may have to make an exception to that rule for this. :P

(Trans rights are human rights, btw)

Edit: … Wait, hang on. Isn’t the notion of using a game engine at all “woke” in itself? Like, isn’t that the entire thing that started this whole thing?

Counterpoint: If you’re working from home it might be the only people contact you get for days.

Supposedly talking to people and touching grass is healthy.

I’m thinking things like where they don’t give you access to a console. I guess like Android or things with heavy parental controls or whatever.

I mean pretty much any distro that isn’t locked down will be good for programming. All you really need is a package manager with a selection of at least somewhat modern dev tools, which almost all of them have.

I was taking to my sister, who is an artist, about setting up Linux and warned them about poor Adobe support. Their response was “⭐ 𝒻𝓊𝒸𝓀 𝒶𝒹𝑜𝒷𝑒 ⭐” due to their AI shenanigans and high costs.

So thanks modern Adobe for making it easier for people to switch to Linux.

For most people, the only security they really need is against people either stealing devices or accessing them without permission. In those cases, biometrics (if implemented properly) and passwords are roughly equivalent.

I mean, I can kinda see it being useful for people wanting to sell a wee box that does nothing but launch a game on steam.

Ignoring the obvious bait in the title, I think it’s mostly a numbers thing. On Reddit you can follow only communities that you vibe with, and the voting system works to keep low quality posts down. I’d be surprised if there wasn’t the same proportion of people on Reddit that you find objectionable, but they’re stuck in the bowels of downvote hell.

Or maybe you’re just surrounded by people with different views or life experiences and don’t know how to process it. Idk.

“Wait, you all aren’t American?”

Because people outside are scary and confusing.

Also, I have a fwb and it would be awkward to bring up.

AI GM be like: “Yep. Seems legit.”

Honestly, IMO Mint is just Ubuntu without all the scetchy stuff. The only real major difference (besides the packaging debate) is the default graphical shell.

If you like gnome shell, I wonder if it’s worth installing Mint and then gnome-shell…

I like to think that people, on the whole, are becoming more accepting of those that are different.

I don’t know how true that is, and there’s certainly loud arseholes out there, but maybe the common non-chronically-online person is more welcoming than 10 years ago.

Just as an fyi: If you want people to read huge blocks of text like this, please break it into paragraphs.

Worth noting that if you’re trying to block telemetery or ads or things like that, using an adblocking dns is probably the better option. Either through a pihole on your network or some online adblocking dns.

Other than that, if you’re looking for one because you think you “need” one, don’t worry too much if it’s just a personal computer connected to a router. Most distros ship with sensible defaults for security.

If you actually want to use a firewall, block all incoming and allow all outgoing is a reasonable rule of thumb if you aren’t running a server. Note that “block incoming” doesn’t block connections that the system itself started.

Wonder if we’ll have another good ol’ browser war when/if Ladybird releases.