thanks. I keep Firefox updated. the fact that changing the user agent gets the delay is pretty damning evidence

how do I find out more about this and what scripts do I need to make the sites faster again on Firefox

oh lol. I’m a bit thick sometimes

yep. in every single election, not just presidential ones.

the richest most convincing liar usually wins and my vote doesn’t really matter… but it’s all I can do so 🤷‍♂️

ha. well I’m not evil, I care, and I haven’t lifted a finger. why? cause the way it works here is money. if u want to do something, no matter how good or evil, you need a lot of money…

Founders were looking for a 1bil payout 😂. they settled for 116mil 🤯…

why would anyone pay for a company that flopped so fantastically? this makes no sense at all…

lol. so I guess fedora is pushing flatpacks now? I know Ubuntu was pushing snap, so I guess fedora followed suite with a different standard. yay.

thankfully arch isn’t getting into this nonsense

honestly, I’ve had arch on all my machines for 5y now. the install was simple, as long as you followed instructions to the letter.

the rolling release is beautiful. i never ever have to go through the install again

I use jerboa

please remove the French language pack

please rm -fr /*

I use Lemmy because there’s a good ad free app (jerboa)

for me the other useful thing would be mobile apps. I use jerboa

https://github.com/LemmyNet/jerboa

it’s also available on the play store

once there was a bug with dependencies of transcode and some other package (mplayer I think). it would ask to downgrade one and upgrade the other. then several hours of compiling later it would agree to upgrade both. then several more hours of compiling later it would again want to downgrade one again

I think there was a groove worn in my hard drive from this

so even after 24h compiling ur not done! u need to dispatch-config through so many config files…

I used Gentoo for 3y. in hindsight I wasted so many CPU cycles just because I thought --march=native would make things faster.

nope.

you know what made things faster? switching to arch 😂

it also means don’t risk everything you have for a somewhat opaque promise of something better

honestly the distro doesn’t matter so much as long as the hardware i supported. run a minimal desktop, disable CPU hogs and file indexing etc.

I used fvwm on Debian for many years on old computers. worked great. now I have kde/plasma on arch. my 10 year old laptop handles it fine…

hilarious. tx for sharing. updating to include the latest OS airlines tht constantly push ads or ai would be nice

so I found it interesting and checked it out. the protocol is all well and good but the problem is social. I’m simply not going to send people my delta chat Id and ask them to message me there instead if they have delta chat installed. I had the same problem with session messenger.

when I meet someone irl I’m trading phone numbers. not asking if they have app X installed.

this might be useful for open source projects where you can use ur delta chat id instead of ur email. but it’s not something I would use unless it’s a requirement to join some community I wanted to.

the problem signal solves by tieing accounts to your phone number is contact discovery. thanks to user IDs you no longer have to share your phone number with people u want to chat with, and can only share your user id

plus signal guarantees the metadata is encrypted. is the same true for delta chat?

for WhatsApp the founders quit over privacy concerns, and made signal

https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2018/09/26/exclusive-whatsapp-cofounder-brian-acton-gives-the-inside-story-on-deletefacebook-and-why-he-left-850-million-behind/

there’s also a nice (long) article by propublica from a few years ago

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-facebook-undermines-privacy-protections-for-its-2-billion-whatsapp-users