I personally would prefer LibreWolf over Mullvad, because it is based off Firefox.

They both are.

The only thing worse than open source Chromium-based browsers like Brave are proprietary ones like Opera and Vivaldi.

I’m not a security expert, but I think it’s roughly on-par with LibreWolf. I think they both come without Encrypted Media Extensions.

https://mullvad.net/en/browser/hard-facts

And here’s a listing of the compile options:

[…]

• –disable-eme (Encrypted Media Extensions, for other DRMs)

I couldn’t say as I can’t speak to every fork in existence, but I think most of them support all Firefox extensions. AFAIK LibreWolf does.

Vivaldi is even worse: Unlike Firefox, its proprietariness doesn’t end at a closed-source DRM binary blob.

In fact every Chromium-based browser is worse than Firefox: Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening

How to install Libreboot in 2024?

That’s an oddly specific question. When else but now? Did you arrive by time machine?

I’ve shot myself in the foot enough times over the years with rm -rf. Now I use trash-cli. I don’t know what package manager(s) you use, but I install it via Homebrew.

I s👀 you

Linux doesnt need GNU components at all to be a functional operating system.

Indeed: look no further than Alpine Linux.

Alpine Linux is a Linux distribution designed to be small, simple, and secure. It uses musl, BusyBox, and OpenRC instead of the more commonly used glibc, GNU Core Utilities, and systemd. This makes Alpine one of few Linux distributions not to be based on the GNU Core Utilities.

You misunderstand the Luddite movement. They weren’t anti-technology, they were anti-capitalist exploitation.

The 1810s: The Luddites act against destitution

It is fashionable to stigmatise the Luddites as mindless blockers of progress. But they were motivated by an innate sense of self-preservation, rather than a fear of change. The prospect of poverty and hunger spurred them on. Their aim was to make an employer (or set of employers) come to terms in a situation where unions were illegal.

The welcome app shows several package management buttons, but no clear explanation of what they really do or if & how they relate to each other. What’s a beginner to do, click each one multiple times and hope for the best?

By introducing more package management commands than came with Arch, they’ve made it seem more complicated, not less. Am I supposed to use eos-update as well as the other commands, or is it supposed to replace one or more of the other commands? Admittedly I’ve only spent half a day with EndeavourOS—the first Arch-based distro I’ve ever used—but I have no idea.

I don’t think it compares well to a beginner’s experience of package management on Debian or Red Hat or Alpine-based distros.

EndeavourOS is easy to install but unclear how to maintain.

• Don’t use GUI package managers, but here, have some GUI package managers.
• pacman, pacdiff, yay, eos, AUR??? The Complete Idiots Guide did not clear things up for me, either. AFAICT they made something more confusing than Arch, not less.

That’s a poor analogy given that the Pi 5 & Pi 400 are incomparably more powerful than 1980s home computers, and I don’t think OP was asking if a Pi 5 can run WordPerfect or VisiCalc.

To mention anything remotely associated with Russia is to be a paid Putler puppet; a lot of people are saying. See you at Tolstoy & the Dostoevsky book burning.

@[email protected], did you actually look at the options in this poll? Because some of them are as racist and as fascist as can be imagined.

Confirmed. I just turned it off. It’s possible that LibreWolf never sends telemetry regardless of how this is set; I have no idea.

I wonder why users would have such a bias, other than their experience over the last 25 years.
I’m a developer. I side with the users on this.

Despite being an admin I’m not expert on this, but from what I’ve been told, a community on instance A won’t sync with instance B unless there is at least one user on instance B who is a member of that instance A community. And so the smaller a community is, the more likely this will happen.

Because Lemmy is still relatively small, and because a lot of people view by “All” or “Local”, if you crosspost to many communities, your posts will dominate people’s frontpage, and they will downvote you.

What I find works well is to not post to more than two communities—three at the very most, and that those communities be on different instances.

Your “hostname.net: Question?” gimmick is annoying and dumb. Not every subscriber of a given community is a user account on that community’s instance. You’re not going to get increased engagement with this transparent ploy.