Firefox + uBlock Origin + sponsorblock. Set it and forget it.

I haven’t seen an advertisement or a sponsored segment on my desktop in over a decade, and same with my phone for several years. I’m astonished how willing most people are to put up with a constant barrage of ads coming from devices they own

Firefox allows all addons now on mobile but for a while it was only a few selected addons (ublock origin being one of them)

I am currently using 19 extensions on mobile

Brave is a bad product as of now.

Firefox with ublock is at least acceptably performant on desktop and mobile without all the crypto/tracking downsides of Brave or the open unpatched vulnerabilities (as of this posting) of Chrome/chromium (that also affect Brave)

The name is awful. I’d rather see the posts here if that’s the name of the community

You should switch to Firefox with ublock origin.

Brave is a mess of a browser and a dumpster fire of an organization, even compared to the famously dysfuctional Mozilla.

You can look up your games on ProtonDB and see which will and won’t work. Pirated games are no different from retail compatibility-wise but there might be one or two extra steps

Wayland is a mess for me with Plasma 6 (Fedora) but i’m not going back to X11. Quite a few features i use(d) have been broken along the way.

On the upside high DPI support is getting better and better

I have hundreds of hours in Dwarf Fortress and i feel i’ve barely scratched the surface

In a sense i agree, but the crash was in Summer in North Dakota and they are European honeybees.

Honeybees are quite invasive in North America. They kill and displace native pollinators and they are generally less effective pollinators of native plants. The release of dozens more colonies into the ecosystem is a negative thing no matter how you look at it.

North America has the greatest native bee diversity of any temperate part of the world, but if you go out into habitat and actually start counting insects you will find honeybees outnumber everything else in most places, most times of year.

Taking photos chews through battery for me, maybe because of the GPS tagging.

I want the GPS tags and most of my photos are in remote areas with no signal so i carry a backup battery

Suspend and hibernate both work 100% of the time for me so far on both of my laptops, and have for as long as i’ve had them.

Thinkpad x270 Fedora (current) KDE spin

Thinkpad x250 Ubuntu 24.04 GNOME

Fully working since 2019 and 2016 respectively. I have not tested opening the lid after just 5 seconds so i can’t say for sure how long it takes.

My previous laptop before these (an x200) would sometimes fail to suspend and get super hot in my bag before running out of battery. I was using Gentoo at the time and i suspect i had something configured incorrectly. It only happened a few times but it was pretty frustrating.

It won’t be long before turn signals and windshield wipers are behind a sub menu

Apple can still read the copy of the conversation automatically backed up to iCloud (unless everyone in your groupchat disables it)

nano but i’m a casual. i can use vi/vim in a pinch, but i’m inefficient. ed and emacs are totally foreign

i tend to use a graphical text editor like Kate unless there is a specific reason to do it in the terminal

a kosher carnivore’s bucket list!

Not your fault he sucks :)

Lunduke sucks

Hopefully they are converting only Ag land and not good habitat. I’ve been in that area quite a bit and there are still a few scraps of healthy ecosystem here and there between the farms and fallow fields. It’s not clear to me from the map if those are all being preserved.

Closer to Sac there is an old-growth oak woodland that is planned to be levelled to put in a solar farm. The same thing happens in the Mohave as well: healthy ecosystems bulldozed for solar.

Solar farms have many benefits, but habitat protection is also incredibly important.

Ah i see. You are right, new hardware would need new drivers.

If MS just released the source of W95 as GPL you could still use the existing proprietary drivers, but like now you’d still have to download them from each vendor.

Making it possible to study the code itself would allow WINE devs to audit their code for edge cases and get W95-era compatibility to pretty much 100%

Which ones? Every single Prego variety at my local grocer has added sugar. It’s not good sauce

there might be inexpensive brands without added sugar but if they exist they aren’t available in my grocery store. The “store brand” at my local grocer is on the expensive side, like $8/jar, but it’s very good

My grocery store is within walking distance of my apartment, and i live in a very very car-centric region, so i’d much rather go there than drive to say a Costco