stinerman [Ohio]

People have rightly said that their executives are overpaid. However it’s unclear what revenue streams they have. In terms of user services they sell a VPN. I think that’s about it. That’s not going to cut it even if they do lay off tons of people.

Browsers are complicated pieces of software and there needs to be a lot of money behind them if they’re going to succeed.

I’m new to it, but I’m really enjoying libredirect so far.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/

It’s fine to criticize Mozilla for taking money from Google, but you would also have to accept that Firefox wouldn’t exist without it. Google revenue is something like 80% of the revenue Mozilla receives in a year.

Google has now legally been declared a monopoly so they no longer have a reason to be paying Mozilla.

In fact it may be that Google is no longer allowed to pay Mozilla to make Google the default search engine on Firefox. If this is the case you will get to see how well they do without that money.

To be clear, I don’t like that Mozilla is taking this money either, but the only way they’re going to be able to stay afloat is by taking money from someone. Unless everyone who uses Firefox donates regularly to Mozilla.

Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/incognito-browser/

Incognito mode keeps your browser history private, and that’s pretty much it. If you want more privacy, you’ll need to add Tracking Protection and maybe even browse through a Virtual Private Network (VPN) service. Incognito mode can’t.

I’ve literally done the rm -rf / thing. I thought I was in a different subdirectory, but I was in / and did rm -rf .

When it didn’t return after half a second, I looked at the command again and hit CTRL+C about 20 times in the span of 3 seconds.

I had to rebuild the install, but luckily didn’t lose anything in /home.

Agreed, but I think there are enough flavors of Debian to satisfy someone if they want newer packages without resorting to Flatpak/Snap/etc.

I don’t mind the old packages (I’m typing from Debian Stable right now). If that’s a bother for other people Debian Stable isn’t the way to go. Even I wouldn’t recommend Stable on a desktop/laptop unless that person knew what they were getting themselves into. I used to run Sid a while back, but didn’t want to have to deal with the mild breakage from time to time. Generally speaking it’s “stable enough” for most people, especially on a daily driver.

That being said, I have a few flatpaks running, but that’s mostly because they’re apps that aren’t packaged for Debian.

That’s a classic.

Yeah I think Arch is fine, but I’d never recommend it to a new Linux user.

I run Debian and I regularly look at the Arch wiki.