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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • It takes nearly as long to decrapify a new Firefox install as it does to compile Librewolf.

    Install uBlock.

    Tell Firefox that you don’t want to sync at the moment.

    Disable “sponsored” stories. AKA, listicles designed to draw in idiots who want to see which 8 child actors from the 90s turned out to be the tallest. Alarmingly close to the tacky crap that you might see on a fresh Windows install.

    Tell Firefox that you don’t want to sync at the moment.

    Now disable Pocket. Remembering to go into about:config to really disable it

    Disable telemetry.

    Tell Firefox that you don’t want to sync at the moment.

    Remove Amazon, Bing, et al. from the search engine list.

    Remove “suggested” and “sponsored” autocomplete.

    Tell Firefox that you don’t want to sync at the moment.

    Remind yourself that, despite this crap, Firefox is still a better browser than any Chromium knockoff.


  • Montana, here.

    Nothing quite like when it hits -45°F and you have to start closing off rooms and stuffing blankets into registers and doorway cracks.

    Any kind of outdoor airflow can burn so bad that skin necrosis can begin in just 5 minutes.

    Summer in Arizona is shitty. Winter in the Northern Rockies will straight up murder you.


  • The accuracy required for the ink droplets just isn’t there for prosumers.

    I can (and have!) built multiple extruders for a variety of 3D printers. Some of my own design.

    Sadly, the tolerances for an inkjet are at least an order of magnitude greater.

    I have zero doubt that a few clever hardware hackers could design an open source inkjet printer. But A: They’d get sued back to the mesolithic by every printer company with a patent. And B: the process would likely involve micro machining your own hardware.

    I’ve just said, “fuck it” to the entire industry. I’m in my early 40s and I’m reasonably sure that my Brother laser will outlive me. And possibly the heat death of the universe.


  • I’m two states away from Utah. But because my data terminates to L3 in Salt Lake, half of the porn sites that my wife and I frequent want our Utah driver’s license or passport. For a state that claims to hate stepping on sneks, they do love forcing their “morality” on everybody else.

    No. Just fucking no. If I want my morality policed, the last place I’ll go is to a religious institution.

    Thank jeebus for VPNs.