I’ll take a program that isn’t getting updates anymore or simply wasnt working in my modified environment using slightly more ram and storage over it not working at all.

I have firsthand experience with videogames made for one flavor of Linux not working on my machine due to dependency hell.

This is a good reason for static linking. All the dependencies are built into the binary, meaning it is more portable and future proof.

We don’t need flatpak for this!

It isn’t being pedantic to call out this specific comparison as being unfair. You can still have your other examples.

This specific one (Green and Green) is what is being discussed. Don’t use worse examples when (allegedly) better ones exist.

I’m excited for my cursor to not get trapped in a window anymore.

On Wayland at least, u can completely disable pointer constraints. Thus, a game window freezes, it doesn’t lock your cursor in it.

With X11, the only solutions I found were basically recompiling the X11 code. Thus, I deal with one game window making my cursor disappear and frozen inside itself, affecting all other Xwayland windows.

Annoying and ridiculous. Hopefully not long before wine-wayland matures enough to fix this.

Discord servers are just groups. Lemmy “instances” are actual separate instances of Lemmy communicating.

They have also had this issue open for 20 years.

And this amounts to just allowing the user to specify a different directory for Firefox on Linux (~/.mozilla is terrible).

Frankly unacceptable.

We can use dinit, s6, runit, and openrc.

There are more, but these are all top contenders.

I switched to dinit recently, it uses declarative service management (like systemd unit files). Very clean, fast, lightweight, and portable.

Linus already has a backup. Its Greg Kroah-Hartman.

Yes. ~/.mozilla. Its annoying.

You can fix it with a hack by putting a shell script in your path (before the original firefox) that consist of:

#!/bin/sh

HOME='/home/engywuck/.local/share/firefox' /usr/bin/firefox

Call that instead of the original firefox from now on. it will create the “librewolf” folder in ~/.local/share and chuck its junk in there.

Edit: This bug has been open for TWENTY YEARS.

Honestly ridiculous.

Blanket statements of a group are harmful.

Blanket, emotional statements are harmful.

this article does not attempt to compare the privacy practices of each browser but rather their resistance to exploitation.

The Madaidans article lacks relevance, we are talking about fingerprinting.

Last I recall, Vanadium lags behind customized-Firefox in privacy features, and even more behind the Tor Browser.

Having a tool like Noscript is absolutely necessary, with today’s browsers, if you want to fight fingerprinting.

The data collected sounds like a nothing-burger. Of course they collect the data you upload, and of course they store data (like messages) that need to continue to be networked to clients.

How they use the data does sound like corporate trash though.