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spootproot, 8 months ago to linux

So me, a LibreWolf user (LibreWolf being based on Firefox), really felt the need lately to move away from Mozilla due to their past decisions, which also contributed to Firefox's decline. Being paid big bucks by Google to have its search engine as default and not really having much other choice in keeping the project alive too, makes me increasingly uncomfortable about its future.
So I was looking at #qutebrowser (which uses vim-like keybindings) for a little while now and, sure enough, on the #archwiki there are some tips on improving its privacy and ad/tracker blocking capabilities, so I went with some of the options there (there's even a global dark mode setting in there, which I absolutely like). So far I'm absolutely loving the experience! Don't see myself switching to much else for the time being.
Now I just gotta get used to the keybindings themselves.
The article I mentioned earlier: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Qutebrowser

I'm not bashing LibreWolf btw, I still love it.

#linux #privacy

skye, 10 months ago to linux German

what are lightweight (!) browsers for #linux that aren’t as bloated as firefox but still offer full functionality, adblocking, font and zoom settings, easy visual access to alt text? looking for something on the gtk side.

it’s for my shitty old laptop, where opening firefox takes a solid 15 seconds and opening or closing a tab has a 50/50 chance to make the whole thing unusable for a full minute. i don’t know why this is so bad. it’s a 2015 laptop and so much more powerful than the T20 i had in fucking 2005, and yet so much slower because the software has gotten so wasteful while still offering pretty much the exact same functionality, i really don’t get it

spootproot, 10 months ago to steam

afaik some people (including me) have problems with apps like Steam and SchildiChat blocking their screensavers while running, even when they're not doing anything on these apps.

Well, for people who use Flatpak versions of these screensaver-perm-abusing kind of apps, I now know of a workaround:
If not already done, install Flatseal (com.github.tchx84.Flatseal), open Flatseal -> [Name of the app], scroll to "Session bus" and remove the entry "org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver", which should completely take away their screensaver perms. Then also restart the app if it's currently running.
Perhaps this could be a double-edged sword in some other areas as well (apparently in e.g. Steam's case it's there for controllers from what I've read(?)), but for me personally it's a worthy sacrifice

#flatpak #steam #schildichat #flatseal

theresnotime, 11 months ago to random

Yup.

spootproot, 11 months ago to random

Just discovered there's apparently an AUR package called "blahaj", first submitted back in April this year, which gives you gay sharks in your terminal 🤔