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TCB13 , 1 month ago to linux in Here’s what we’re working on in Firefox | The Mozilla Blog

I don’t even use Firefox, and I honestly am not attacking but your comment seemed very hyperbolic and with little detail.

Well I used to use Firefox as my main browser, however it does a LOT of calling home. Just fire Wireshark alongside it and see how much calling home and even calling 3rd parties it does. From basic ocsp requests to calling Firefox servers and a 3rd party company that does analytics they do it all, even after disabling most stuff in Settings and config like a sane user would do.

I can’t stand behind a browser that still calls home after painstakingly going over every setting in config and disabling everything that can be disabled. If you search a bit online you’ll also find that I’m not the only one finding this. There’s also the shady finances thing around Firefox and the foundation.

describes a token to track installations vs downloads. (…) Also there is an opt-out during installation.

How much do you trust that toggle? Did you ever test if it doesn’t call home before you get to the opt out?

TCB13 , 1 month ago to linux in How easy is it to switch back to windows?

A modern distro with let’s say GNOME won’t also run decently on a potato…

TCB13 , 1 month ago to linux in NetworkManager 1.48 Improves Detection of 6 GHz Band Capability for Wi-Fi Devices

What issues are you having? I have no issues with switching between networks and using IPv6 on Fedora KDE.

I’ve IPv6 routes that say around after leaving a network and it takes more than it should to switch between VLANs. Wired 802.1X seems to be a pain sometimes as well, no ideia why but it says everything is connected and I get an IP however can’t ping anything until I restart the connection.

I wish they were better with adding advanced features but they are not and probably never will be. (…) DE might not be as pretty and flashy but it is pretty extensive when it comes to settings and fast with implementing new features.

Yeah, we lack a middle ground DE that actually is properly designed and has the advanced features. I don’t get the GNOME team, having features doesn’t hurt their vision as long as you design things properly - something that they can do. Most of the time it sounds like they simply don’t want to implement things so they hide behind excuses.

TCB13 , 1 month ago to linux in How easy is it to switch back to windows?

so often i have to click a button multiple times, ads, or window not responding

Maybe you should use something faster than a potato as a computer. 😂

did I already mention ads?

If you’re capable of installing Linux and getting a productive desktop experience with it I’m sure as shit you are also capable of disabling a few toggles under Windows.

TCB13 , 1 month ago to linux in How easy is it to switch back to windows?

Yeah but make sure you disconnect your Windows SSD before doing anything.

TCB13 , 1 month ago to linux in NetworkManager 1.48 Improves Detection of 6 GHz Band Capability for Wi-Fi Devices

NetworkManager is not the cause for having multiple UIs

Yes, but it is the cause for having issues jumping between networks and never having proper IPv6 support.

It’s never going to have all settings in their simple UI because that’s out of the scope for the GNOME project.

Everything is “out of scope” with GNOME these days it seems. They talk a lot about having a vision but then they aren’t able to get a cohesive desktop experience going. nm-connection-editor vs settings is as bad as it gets.

TCB13 , 1 month ago to linux in NetworkManager 1.48 Improves Detection of 6 GHz Band Capability for Wi-Fi Devices

😂 😂 Well… when the competition is Windows 11…

TCB13 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to linux in NetworkManager 1.48 Improves Detection of 6 GHz Band Capability for Wi-Fi Devices

What sense does it make to have to use two or three different UIs to configure your network. Some stuff can get done under Settings > Networking, others under nm-connection-editor…

And to be fair NetworkManager’s networking implementation is a convoluted unreliable mess that doesn’t support half of systemd-networkd options and is incapable of handling changes to interfaces and links gracefully.

Even the classic Window network interfaces properties window is more consistent than what GNOME and NetworkManager offer.

TCB13 , 1 month ago to linux in Here’s what we’re working on in Firefox | The Mozilla Blog

• news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39166801
• ghacks.net/…/each-firefox-download-has-a-unique-i…

TCB13 , 1 month ago to linux in NetworkManager 1.48 Improves Detection of 6 GHz Band Capability for Wi-Fi Devices

NetworkManager 1.48 Improves (…) still have to use 3 different applications to set network settings. Great job!

Maybe the GNOME team could allocate a few bucks to move the entire network stack to systemd-networkd and create a new unified networking UI.

TCB13 , 1 month ago to linux in Here’s what we’re working on in Firefox | The Mozilla Blog

Here’s what we’re working on in Firefox… spyware.

TCB13 , 1 month ago to selfhosted in Self-hosted alternative to synology drive?

It tries to do everything at once. File upload/ sharing, media management (NC Photos), RSS, mail, calendar, contacts, and much, much more.

Yes, and all of those things are fundamentally broken / poorly implemented.

The performance isn’t good. I mean, the “server” (an old thin client) isn’t fast at all, but the loading times and responsiveness is just awful. The file upload also takes ages, even from the same network.

I’ve had similar experiences with an overpowered AMD server. It isn’t good at all, but how can I expect a thing written in PHP to be good at syncing files? PHP is good, but certainly not to handle files like NC has to do.

I don’t want to spend three weekends just troubleshooting my server and searching for/ installing dozens of individial services. And for that, it’s good enough.

Fair enough, I just hope you don’t have to spend a month trying to fix whatever is wrong with NC on the next update. For me Synching + FileBrowser + Samba seems to be straightforward to get going and is as reliable as it gets.

TCB13 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to selfhosted in Self-hosted alternative to synology drive?

Yes, but Nextcloud is the fastest way to have something half done, always buggy and sync issues once you’ve a ton of small files. Too bad Syncthing doesn’t do selective sync because it would just be perfect.

TCB13 , 2 months ago to linux in It's time to move to Linux - YouTube

I’m not saying they don’t, I’m just saying there’s a LOT of people who would love to move to Linux full time but they can’t do to the lack of field-specific software and/or poor results when it comes to Wine or generic virtualization.

TCB13 , 2 months ago to linux in It's time to move to Linux - YouTube

That’s the keyword “most”. Someone who spends 8h/day inside an app (or group of apps) wants it to work 100% of the time at the maximum performance / with the least amount of small glitches, delays and annoyances.