dipshit’s tantrum tonight is gonna be a doozy.

firefox is a spring garden filled with wildflowers and honeybees going about their business compared to the hellscape that is windows group policies.

it’s what i use for a ‘chromium’ but it’s got even more defaults to flip than firefox does and has some other issues that just simply get in the way too often. but i do like how you can completely rearrange the toolbar like in firefox.

nom nom nom

what are these leftovers you speak of?

lord dipshit no-doubt has something to do with this.

i still go there maybe once a month, but i always have a buy 1-get 1 coupon. that at least gets the price down close to ~ 2019’s.

You both goofed when typing Duck Dodgers (in the 24½th Century)

nix is on a whole different level than silverblue and other ‘atomic’ distributions.

can’t help falling in love, elvis. from blue hawaii (1961).

heard at weddings around the world for decades. in the present day it is the most-streamed elvis song. soundtrack and single both charted for weeks (the soundtrack for a year-and-a-half, 20 weeks at number one).

i first heard the song in the movie. i have the dvd. it’s the one i use to test players at the office.

i get shit like that frequently because scripts don’t run here unless whitelisted. usually either the content requires scripts to show itself, or blocked ads are blocking the rest of the page load, or both.

it’s at this point where i scoop-up the headline and drag it over to the ddg search box in the browser toolbar and find a different source. there almost always is.

this is what that looks like on this page.
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you can also use stylus (a browser addon) and a userstyle for all or specific domains.

and… firefox’s “reader mode”, if available for the page, also has a basic (serif, sans, mono) font choice.

reading.

the ‘computer’ booted up way too fast, too.

iirc the first usr x2 and k56flex modems weren’t out til 1997

It was though. You are living in a bubble. For five years all I ever heard was “You gotta switch to Ubuntu! Windows is awful!” Except this is when I was still using Windows XP, so from my perspective Windows wasn’t awful. It was just out of date. From 2006-2011, that’s all I ever heard was Ubuntu Ubuntu Ubuntu.

ubuntu’s early popularity had nothing to do with it being ‘lightweight’ (because it really wasn’t)… but rather simply because it was ‘new’ and ‘easier’, and everybody was jumping on that bandwagon. that’s it.

xubuntu came around with dapper (june '06) and quickly became a popular recommendation for older or low-spec hardware. ubuntu itself was never that choice. ever.

I’d say around 3-4 years ago it started shifting towards Mint.

linuxmint has been going strong longer than ‘3-4 years’. a lot longer.

my PC hasn’t been updated, or changed in any way since 2023.

I don’t even update firefox. I’m running 133.0.3. I think firefox is somewhere near version 200.

it is your choice to ignore updates. you know your software is out-of-date and vulnerable.

next year: “In order to lower our costs and keep your monthly rate low, the five locations near you are being consolidated into a single location in Farawayville.”

another year later: “In order to lower our costs and keep your monthly rate low, our physical locations are being migrated to an online presence accessible through the HahaTrickedYou app, now available in your app store.”

seven months after that: the app doesn’t work. web site disappears. company goes under.

well, you can, but there are restrictions. ones that ‘smart glasses’ and their users are not following.

soon as someone whispers ‘did you know black people hate data centers?’, they’ll be 'zomg gimme a data center! no, wait!! TWO data centers!!!"

for the really old guys… originally developed for the theatrical release of return of the jedi in 1983. spun-off by lucasfilm in the early 00s so it could be sold to creative.

for the really really old guys, it was named after lucas’ first feature film, from 1971, thx 1138