Use Librewolf and Mull instead.

And keep an eye on the Ladybird browser, eventually FF forks will die should FF go full-tilt enshittification, but hopefully not till Ladybird is fully ready

Ladybird is a completely new open source browser with it’s own from scratch engine, so that’s one that hasn’t been forked from any other browser

Labybird is a completely new upcoming open source browser, complete with its own from scratch engine

Theres also Servo an open source engine led by the Linux Foundation

There’s always the Ladybird browser and an independent open source browser engine called Servo that’s under The Linux Foundation

This is just the beginnings of the enshittification of FF. There are others out there, Ladybird for example, deserves our attention being built completely from scratch engine and all. Though it’s not slated to become fully usable until 2026 because, they’re building the engine from scratch lol

I’d love to see a source, I have literally never had the internal flap break and I must have had at least 30-40 devices pass through my hands with USB C by now

Everything from a cheap Chinese brand wireless mouse up to my main phones (which are constantly plugged in and out) to all the random laptops, tablets, Xbox controllers and other peripherals in between.

It’s never happened, though crud does build up in my phone port after a year or 2 to the point that I have to clean it out, but that’s nothing but a small paper clip and 5 minutes

Nah, not enough “-inator X000” or talk of taking over the tri-state area. Dr. Doofenshmirtz would have a much cooler plan.

When passing or storing data in code you usually have to specify what type of data is it. An int is an integer, so numbers, there’s also boolean (true/false) and many others. There’s also string which is just characters of any kind (for the most part) which pretty much makes it a catch-all, since numbers can be a string along with letters and special characters.

But to use a number as a number after it’s been received as a string it has to be converted to an int, which means extra code, more effort, more failure points etc etc.

“if that guy ever comes back in the building I’ll quit”

You can’t just leave a story like that lol, did “sr dev” come back into the building? Did the other dev follow through on his threat? So many questions

They’re a Human tribe who has not decided against interacting with the wider world, so they have as much as a right to access the Internet as anyone else

fearing that history and culture — which is passed down orally — could be lost forever

Or they could just…write it down…on the internet…where many others around the world would also be able to learn about their history and culture.

Also many of the elders literally echo what western elders have been saying about the young generation for a hundred years lmao

Im in the same boat as you, when 10 goes, Im going to go back to(see Vista Era) linux as much as possible.

There are at least 3 of us! Lmao, we have until Oct 15th 2025 for win 10

Money doesn’t buy real friends. Doesn’t buy real love. Doesn’t buy real happiness.

No, but what it does buy is the time to do those things, at least until the global system actually changes. I mean you’re not entirely wrong, its all fake, but also real at the same time.

My head hurts now, I need to go lay down…

Maybe educating people about backups (in general) is a better approach than being averse to increasing security/privacy.

Like I said, there’s been various backup your shit campaigns for decades now, why do you think the next time is going to be different? One of my windows PCs literally just sent a notification about backing things up (it’s what reminded me of this lmao), I wonder how many non-savvy users got that and completely ignored it?

I still prefer MS pushing updates to people that never update vs the alternative of them getting viruses and such all the time. I just wish there was an easier way for advanced users to turn it off permanently, but it’s still not impossible so I still prefer this to people not updating at all.

Agreed, but this is not a matter of updates, it’s a matter of how they’re handling this specific update. I personally just don’t see the benefits of forcing FDE on for everyone outweighing the risks.

Your average home user is going to primarily get their data stolen via malware or social engineering, both of which FDE does nothing to protect against.

Just turning it on for everyone like they’re planning is what I have issues with.

macOS does prompt the user to enable FileVault during initial setup, but it defaults to disabled. The other thing users do, is default to the default when they don’t understand something.

So by defaulting to disabled, not many people enable FileVault without actually knowing what it’s talking about. If they do know what it’s talking about then all’s good because they’ll probably actually write down the recovery key.

MS’s plan so far is “On the next update we’ll just turn it on for everyone everywhere and (maybe) display a fast message with a recovery key, YOLO”

It really doesn’t matter what message they show during setup, you haven’t worked tech support or computer repair have you?

The non-savvy users rarely pay attention to shit, a message during setup will be nothing but a blip at best in their memory by the time something happens to the computer 2-4 years later.

We’ve been telling non-savvy users to make sure they backup their shit for literally decades now, they still don’t. Not even macOS encrypts the user data partition by default, this is gonna be a shit show and hell desks and computer repair shops everywhere are on the front line.

True, the system partition is, but not where actual user data is. That won’t be encrypted unless the user enables FileVault, granted it does ask during initial setup if you sign in to iCloud if you do want to enable it, but it’s default is off

like every other OS has for the last decade or so.

No desktop OS does, (Excepting the odd Linux distro I’m sure is out there), not even macOS does.

iOS/Android yes

No, but when their computer dies they’ll take it to someone who does (Paid or not) to “Get their precious grandbaby photos back”

That person will inevitably ask for the key and Grandma is gonna go “What key?!?” And then when she’s told all those photos are lost she’s going to get pissed at the wrong person guaranteed.

These are also the same people that never change defaults soo yea this is stupid, just leave it as an easily accessible toggle for anyone who wants or needs it, but the default should be off.