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Cake day: October 9th, 2023

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  • I am curious why Librewolf isn’t for you?

    Overall I’ve had no issue with librewolf. It’s runs just like Firefox without some of the bloat. The very few sites I’ve found don’t work, don’t work on FF either (usually payment/online stores with popups and shit). Download whatever extension, change the settings and even sign into Firefox cloud. Yes, you’ll make your “fingerprint” more unique but, the other security improvemts/defaults make it a worthy trade off.

    Biggest annoyance is by default cookies/logged in sites are wiped on close. That can easily be changed globally, or white list what you want to save site settings for. Signing out of websites is a good habit anyway, especially ones with payment attached.

    The neat part is there’s a lot options to pick from, some of them are doing cool things like the one outta Japan Floorp looks interesting.













  • I can see an international trip costing money, either funded by participants or fundraiser.

    Sounds like you had a cool time traveling, in the states you’re lucky if they have the funds to bus some kids to the public library

    There were a lot of after school stuff that had travel, mainly sports and music. The foreign language dept sometimes was able to an abroad trip with like 7 students.

    But the history class that wants to go to a museum can pound sand.




  • Don’t people buy stuff on OF, more than just a sub? Is it easily available for download in a common file format or is access stuck on the website even though you bought it?

    I agree that straight piracy of content is bad. Piracy is primarily a service problem, TV and movie piracy was down in the mid 2010s until all the streaming services divided. Music piracy is basically gone thanks to early iTunes and even more so with today’s streaming services. OF piracy will always be a thing because people want their free porn and the parasocial relationship they don’t get on the regular free sites.

    If corporations refuse to just sell us the file and can randomly revoke access or change the content (like Amazon’s been doing with book), then the community will find ways to strip out the DRM and other protections just to preserve the content they bought.

    I don’t have a problem with github removing of projects that aim to circumvent purchasing content, but projects that simply “unlock” purchased content should be allowed to thrive.

    Edit: I should add, if corporations can’t be bothered to respect what the word buy means, why I should I bother to provide them money? morality is a two way street, if one side is dishonest and shady, do they really have a right to whine when others steal from them?

    Edit 2: in case it wasn’t clear the “dishonest and shady” one is the corporations. Its to the point were I pretty much only pay creators directly (patreon, etc) where I know good chunk of my money goes to the artist not the publisher/middle man. If I’m buying a movie or something its either a DVD or getting screen caped on the first watch for archival purposes.



  • My bad, I was thinking of the comic when

    in "The Search"

    Zuko got hit point blank and walked away like it was just another rock to the face. (RIP Jet, the only one without clear plot armour)

    As for the age/maturity of the show, we have to remember the odd spot the show’s audience puts the creators in.

    It’s being made for children, marketed to adults, and going to be watched by a large number of very judgmental adults stuck in the past. It’s not like a normal cartoon where the parents mostly ignore it, and its also not a cartoon made for adults like Arcane.

    Exploring darker themes will have to tread lightly and have comedy/brighter bits mixed in at inopportune times (Melo…) to keep a kid enganged. I honestly don’t think the network will let them get away with how dark the early ATLA episodes were (but I hope they do!).

    ATLA did a great job of balancing the needs of children and adults, I hope they can pull it off again.