They can be slow to adopt changes. I think the Mozilla foundation getting more funding, staffing, and refocusing on their browser would be the better solution.
While Chromium is an open source project, it is still developed and maintained by Google. For something as important as a web browser, I think it’s imperative that there’s an option outside of their control.
That’d certainly be a good feature, but it feels to me like it’s a fairly niche need. And as per that post, it’s also a big technical effort. I can see why there isn’t anything in the way of development updates.
That is me being a bit of an apologist for Firefox though. If you consider Firefox unusable because of that, then that’s a pretty valid frustration.
Still, I’d encourage you to try and find a way to make it work for you because Chrome is evil.
As long as the record is in good condition, I find the sound comperable. I’ve played the same song on a high bitrate digital audio file and on vinyl and I found both equally pleasing to listen to.
I have a Fluance RT80 turntable, and am using the built in preamp. It’s connected to a home audio receiver (Sony STRDH590) with a 2.1 speaker setup (Polk Audio Monitor 60 Series II Floorstanding Speakers and a Polk Audio PSW10 10" Powered Subwoofer). A pretty midrange setup in others words. And I’m no audiophile, so weigh accordingly.
Edit: I realized you asked specifically about streaming. This link https://support.spotify.com/us/artists/article/audio-file-formats/ indicates that Spotify does up to OGG 320kbps/AC3 256kbps which is comparable to my personal audio library. So, statement holds.
I got caught up in the vinyl revival, so I enjoy collecting that media. But even then, I consider it more of a novelty.
Generally speaking though, I prefer locally stored digital media without DRM over physical media. It’s just more practical.
That being said, I’m glad that physical media exists and hope it continues to be made. Choice is good.
I and anyone I’ve heard say the word says it the same as the English pronunciation in this random video I found searching for how to pronounce it. For whatever that small sample size is worth.
I can easily believe these types of continued enshittification will help drive more users to Linux desktop usage. But that will still be a small percent.
People have to know and care about the problem and then be willing to put in the effort to understand what to do. That combination is pretty limiting.
I’d love to be proven wrong, though.
Ublock origin has cookie banner filters. I didn’t have this problem, I assume that’s why.
Edit: autocorrect
I use rsync for this purpose and the only notable bottleneck is my download speed, fwiw.
I was thinking more as a gateway to finding new people in person. Once established, you can choose a different means of staying in contact.
But if any amount of usage may lead to self harm then don’t, of course.
Hopefully some better advice comes along that doesn’t involve compromising your ideals, which is what I’m about to suggest.
It seems to me the most likely way to meet likeminded people is to find groups and events in your area. And you’re going to have the most luck with those big privacy invading social media services. It sucks, yes. But it also increases your chances of creating local friendships.
Up to you if it’s worth it or not, of course.
Apology not needed.
I agree with you. The ozone layer is a great example of this being successful. And there are other examples of this kind of issue elsewhere. Like the we have to push for user repair rights or against planned obsolescence (which one could argue this is planned obsolescence, in thinking about it).
A small number of informed users won’t disincentiveize companies from abusing the masses. Because most companies are garbage so of course they will if they can. And regulations are the solution. I’m not suggesting we ignore that. But those of us who are informed can still incentiveize those companies that do treat their customers well in the interim.
I concede to the point though. I said, in effect, that supporting businesses that treat us well will help. But I suppose it’s more accurate to say that will, at best, stop things from getting worse.
Setting legal precidents and regulating the industry are musts to curb this behavior. But we also have power as consumers. The ol’ “vote with money” if you will. There are too many uninformed consumers for this to have a huge impact, but keeping our money away from bad publishers and giving it to good ones will help.
Maybe you can do something with the tampermonkey extension to catch when that audio is triggered and have it do an api call that your script catches?
I don’t know if that’ll actually work, I know of the extension but have never it used nor am I skilled with Javascript but it seems feasible.
Huh. I hadn’t considered that. I dislike the platform and liked the idea of it being blocked, but I hadn’t considered it as a limitation of free speech.
Begrudgingly, this changes my opinion.
Maybe conky but probably not?
Conky can be used to display text on your desktop, including grabbing stdout from a program. I’m not familiar with calcurse but if it can dump text output of what you want, that could work.
The big caveat is that conky doesn’t work with wayland. It’s a work in progress (according to the arch wiki, anyway).
Some ideas:
Are you using proprietary nvidia drivers? Display issues after switching kernels could be driver related. If so, switch to nouveau and see what happens.
See if the issues persists with another display manager, such as sddm.
My suggestion just changes your threat model, so may not be a good one based on your wants.
Perhaps consolidate systems? Managing less devices = less points of failure. But adds the risk of any given failure being more severe.
You could combine something like backblaze with syncthing and get both. And you wouldn’t lose syncing if your cloud storage provider became inaccessible. There’s a self hosted aspect to that, albeit an easy one so perhaps still not something you want to do? Felt worth mentioning though.
A quick search tells me that mac mini’s have ethernet. Are you able temporarily connect that way to fetch the wifi drivers?
It depends on the implementation.
If there’s no voice chat, text based chat participation is considered optional, and the in-game community isn’t toxic, then I might get chatty.