downhomechunk

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[–] downhomechunk@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

I get it. Date your distro, marry your browser.

I miss the level of customization you could do in Vivaldi, down to minute details. But I don't miss it enough to put up with ads and tracking nonsense.

I started on Firefox back when it was a beta called Phoenix. I eventually moved to chromium based browsers like the rest of the world, but now I'm back. I've come full circle!

[–] downhomechunk@midwest.social 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

My wife didn't even notice when I turned on the pi-hole. She also told me she thinks there's a virus on her phone.

[–] downhomechunk@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I made the switch from Vivaldi back to Firefox recently. I loved Vivaldi, but I'm happy with Firefox too.

[–] downhomechunk@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think it's a delusion of grandeur.

[–] downhomechunk@midwest.social 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Gas like natural gas? Or gas like gasoline? I'm sure it's the former, but I take nothing for granted anymore.

[–] downhomechunk@midwest.social 4 points 3 months ago

I too was a bit underwhelmed by sway. I also bought an amd gpu, but I don't regret it. I couldn't get Wayland to work at all on my 3060 ti.

[–] downhomechunk@midwest.social 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Compiz fusion! I spent so long trying out different effects for different actions. I smoked a lot of reefer in those days.

[–] downhomechunk@midwest.social 6 points 3 months ago

Upvote for soulseek / nicotine

[–] downhomechunk@midwest.social 5 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Does Phoenix have a big enough local talent pool needed to staff this kind of operation? Or are they counting on attracting talent from other places in the US?

[–] downhomechunk@midwest.social 16 points 3 months ago

I've used slackware more or less exclusively since the late 90s. It's been my daily driver since I deleted my windows XP partition some time in the early 00s. It's really all I know. Sure, I can find may way around a .deb based system when I have to. I'm also likely to apt install something, say yes to 50 dependencies, brick my system and have no idea what did it.

I love to tinker, and I love to learn. There's no shortage of either in Slackware, and that's why it's not for everyone. And I don't mean that in an "i use arch btw" way. I'm an intermediate user at best. I ask for help way more than I provide help. Lucky for me I've made some good friends in the Slackware community over the years.

[–] downhomechunk@midwest.social 3 points 3 months ago

I used linux all through the years I should have been in college, but was instead a hopeless drug addict. I regret nothing!!!

...apart from the drugs....

...and not going to college...

[–] downhomechunk@midwest.social 10 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Ddg shows bing results. Are we sure they won't regurgitate hallucinations too?

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