Well, that’s you. I’m not having, as I said before, any issues with Gecko, I do have many with Google and any monopoly.

Is it still kicking? Wow, never thought I’d come back to Dillo, Midori, Epyphany (GNOME Web) and links.

/u/Nora is right. There was a short period when Yahoo! made a better offer to be the default search engine a long time ago, but Google was already there and came back to Firefox swiftly.

Sounds very useful, BTW.

This hurts, too soon (awesome work).

People keep saying that, but I don’t think there are noticeable differences in performance between both engines. Gecko is competitive, the problem, I think, comes from the web developers not bothering to optimize or test under Gecko anymore.

Wow, that carbon footprint. You must be proud.

It’s not needed. Nobody is looking for AI powered shit and they will feel it in their numbers. Why invest the pennies Mozilla can invest in a technology that big monsters are developing with billions and billions of dollars and natural resources? It’s not even reasonable, like a Pocket 2.0.

Better to “send keystrokes” to Google.

There are Firefox forks to circumvent AI. But even if there weren’t, I’d be using GNOME Web before bending to Google’s Chromium. If Vivaldi Chromium promises no AI, and LibreWolf Firefox promised the same, why on Earth would I go to Google’s camp?

Those are blatantly not people, they aren’t even human.

Specially, nobody needs more Chromium based browsers.

Gaaaaaaaahhhhh, please make it stop!

I was curious and done with the malware. Living in a very small city in some third world country where the internet was only for some government offices, higher social classes, universities and one or two cyber cafes, grabbing a Linux CD was a daunting task. I got a set of RedHat CDs but couldn’t make it boot in my own PC (a Compaq).

Life got me living in Mexico City to get my BS and suddenly I got many more options to try this Linux thing. Mandrake was now the go-to distro for beginners, since Ubuntu was not a name yet. Installed the Linux, loved it. After discovering the DE variety, I distrohopped for years. It was easier for me to download a Live CD somewhere, often at my University, than changing DE in my offline PC. At that time Mandrake became Mandriva, and I distrohopped between Zenwalk, Slackware, Fedora Core, Dreamlimux (lesser known Debian-based Brazilian distro), then got Ubuntu CDs by mail (they used to send them for free, and even included stickers!), and I settled there until Unity.

I’m ditching it for listenbrainz since those social capabilities are useless for me. My use case is actually for logging and storing info, not publishing it.

What a fucking douchebag.

Of course not, but being a pragmatic can help. If people with money can sustain a legal battle against Apple, all power to them. For the rest of us, it is achievable to distribute the eggs in several baskets, or even keep the eggs at home (selfhost).

Yeah, it’s better to take Apple to the grand jury. That will fly for sure.

Huh, the ransomware-ish features all locked out “ecosystems” put you through are fruitful. Don’t worry, as long as it works for the 99% of their clients, business as usual. Luckily, this guy recovers access to his account and if he is smart enough, he won’t trust them ever again. It’s sad this news won’t make a dent in the army of zombie consumers of Apple.

My checklist of features is always complete with a ~200 USD offer:

• GPS with at least compatibility with three constellations/bands, included navstar
• needs to have FM radio or something similar that doesn’t depend on an internet connection
• 3.5 jack
• SD card slot or 256 GB or more local storage
• huge battery life, so I can keep it at 80% maximum to save battery cycles for the long run
• oled screen, of +60Hz, better
• decent camera or set of cameras
• unlockable bootloader
• good odds to make it to official status in Lineage OS