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Windows compatibility is insane!
- "Can you run on this 20 y/o piece of hardware?"
- "Linux: hold my beer!"
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Windows compatibility is insane!
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Any recommendation for basic PDF tools?
Pdfsam for merging/splitting/etc. For creating PDF from bunch of images you may try Libreoffice Draw, for instance.
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Google engineers want to introduce DRMs for web pages, making ad-blocking near-impossible in the browser
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Mozilla, Thunderbird, and/or the EFF,
Do you know that donation to Mozilla don't (and can't legally) fund Firefox development, right? (opposite to what happens for Thunderbird, actually).
But, hey, you can guarantee Mozilla's CEO a better retirement:
Thus, your money are better spent donating to Thunderbird or EFF or whatever other foundation that does something actually useful.
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What is your favorite open source software?
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Is it the end for linux distros without systemd? Is doomsday near?
I may agree with him/her, I may not. But that's unreadable.
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wayland was a mistake
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Just disable score in your profile settings, man. That's what I did. Score has no point, really. If someone disagrees with you, they can either ignore you or expose their reasoning. Votes are useless.
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Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer
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Thanks, I already knew about the "unfuck" fix made by Black. Too late for me, anyway. I have realized that Mozilla doesn't care about feedbak or users' opinion (or the users at all...), so I don't feel like supporting them anymore.
By the way, the fix is fine. But it is a matter of principle: people shouldn't have to waste their time unfucking Mozilla's fuckups and users shouldn't have to waste their time trying to make a browser usable. So, congrats, Moz Corp, you've managed to lose an hardcore user.
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100x Faster Than Wi-Fi: Li-Fi, Light-Based Networking Standard Released
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Because it works through Blutooth.
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100x Faster Than Wi-Fi: Li-Fi, Light-Based Networking Standard Released
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Ah, ok. I had misunderstood you at first. Now I get what you meant.
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Private search engines.
Go to https://searx.space and enjoy (one of these instances is mine).
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Helping choosing the right linux
EndeavourOS... Is basically Arch but with a nice installer.
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‘Miracle material’ Perovskite solar panels to finally enter production, 50% cheaper made from cheap and abundant materials
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This has been the main problem since years (I've been part of a research group in which most people was working on perovskite SC). I call perovskite(s) "the new graphene".
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Alternate push notifications on unrooted device?
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NP, man. Never heard of it. Now I have something else to waste my time on! 🙃
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Alternate push notifications on unrooted device?
Wouldn't you need root for lsposed anyway?
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Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla
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It's odd to me how this articleis being silenced/removed or downplayed by the entire tech community. It looks like people sinerely believe tha Mozilla can't do no wrong or that Mozilla is above any judgment while other entities are being systematically (and hypocritically) attacked for personal matters (e.g., Brave's CEO).
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Can I edit .docx files without a Microsoft 365 subscription and if not are there any alternatives
My Microsoft 365 subscription is expiring and will not be renewed thanks to you lovely people getting me on the Proton family of software and obsidian for note taking.
I mean... Why would you ditch a service you evidently NEED just because some stranger on the internet told you so?
That said, there's plenty of offline programs that can work on .dock files, such as OnlyOffice and LIbreoffice (with varying degrees of compatibility with existing files). Good luck!
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firefox
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YSK that donations to Mozilla don't go to FF developement (which is done by Mozilla Corp.), but are used by Mozilla Foundation for... other things:
https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/faq/
How will my donation be used? At Mozilla, our mission is to keep the Internet healthy, open, and accessible for all. To learn how your donation is put to use, click here.
You can find more details about Mozilla’s expenditures and governance here.
Don’t Mozilla products, like Firefox, earn income? Firefox is maintained by the Mozilla Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation. While Firefox does produce revenue — chiefly through search partnerships — this earned income is largely reinvested back into the Corporation. The Mozilla Foundation’s education and advocacy efforts, which span several continents and reach millions of people, are supported by philanthropic donations.
It is funny to me how the first link doesn't actually tell you how you money is used, but just points to Mozilla Foundation home page.
In short, if you donate expecting that your money helps Firefox, you're doing it wrong.
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new user question: host an app on the good.cloud
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I doubt that any free service exists allowing apps. If you can shell out some 5$ per month, you may want to look into Hetzner Storage Share. You get 1TB space and you can install quite a lot of apps, create multiple users and so on.
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Any recommendation for basic PDF tools?
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Likely this, yes. I'll have to dig into it. Thanks!
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Best DNS for privacy?
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Even if you use DOH for upstream servers?