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  • Convenience beats owning things. 99.999% of non-techies I’ve talked to do not want to manage their computer or media. They don’t want to learn how things work or how to fix them. The video says it, “… it took away the burden of ownership.”

    I can’t even convince them to use my seedbox to torrent media—heck I’ve even offered that I’ll do all the work, they just have to access Jellyfin! But, no. They prefer to pay to get access to the media now instead of messaging me, waiting for me to get the media, and then watching it.

    At the same time, they’ll complain that “everything is a subscription now!” I’m like bro…


  • One time, I was at a concert at a small-ish venue. I went to see a popular-ish band that I like, place was packed. The band started like 30-45 minutes late. When they finally got on stage, I happened to yell out during a brief pause, “Finally! We’ve been waiting forever!”

    No one said anything and the show kept moving—but immediately after I yelled that the girl in front of me turned around and gave me a huge scowling look, like she was super embarrassed for me, like I had just done something really awful.

    That look has stuck with me ever since.
















  • At one point in my career I cared about what I did and who I worked for I felt pride over my product and my team, and all I feel now is shame to be associated with my company, I feel disgusted with myself that I work not for my customers but for shareholder value.

    This tracks with my experience here as well.

    keep my job and not get layed off.

    For me, it seems like falling in line and kissing the ring is more important than showing ability, if you want to avoid being laid off. At a previous job, I got laid off before my very noob coworker who took months to complete PRs because I wouldn’t shut my mouth about RTO.

    a meritocracy

    🌎🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀 Never has been.


  • There is some degree of independence. For example, if Mozilla releases some super evil patch tomorrow, I’m pretty sure everyone would just patch it out immediately. In fact, this is what most derivatives seem to do, patch out the ad/telemetry stuff.

    But yeah, these are all modified Firefox browsers. Hopefully, nobody was thinking these were unique, new, browsers.


  • paequ2@lemmy.todaytomemes@lemmy.worldMe after Mozilla and Proton
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    Browsers I tried yesterday (on Linux):

    • Zen: neat, but the UI is too different for my taste
    • Floorp: also neat, but features I don’t use
    • Waterfox: sweet spot for me

    Librewolf and Waterfox seem pretty similar on paper. I went with Waterfox cuz idk. So far, Waterfox seems to be a drop-in replacement. I haven’t noticed any problems with websites and haven’t run into any bugs.

    One note about Waterfox is that I would have liked if it was added to the official Arch Linux repos. I installed fine with the AUR, but still.

    Bonus: Waterfox is available on Android! 🥳