brb moving to brazil

I’m going to conclude you’re lying and haven’t actually used a webkit browser, because in terms of feature parity with blink and gecko, webkit is pretty good. Maybe some stuff breaks with RTC WASM and other questionable browser capabilities, but for 99% of the web they’re fine. All of the browsers I’ve recommended are regularly updated (except links, superceded by links2), all of them are “modern”. If I wanted to recommend old dead browsers, I would recommend retawq, dillo, elinks or xombrero. Even textmode only browsers are very usable for documentation and reading news and blogs.

Least quixotic lemmy user

Thank you for teaching me a new word. I would hardly call using webkit instead of gecko idealistic, but normies gonna normie, I guess.

???

If you don’t know how to differentiate between a dev having stupid idpol takes and an ad-company feigning to be a privacy organization mass-distributing spyware and adware inside privacy conscious communities then I can’t help you.

I feel like I’m gonna 🤮

There’s a decent selection at the moment:

If you need javascript+css: qtwebkit, gtkwebkit, qtwebengine ( blink based :( ), Ladybird (I really don’t care if the dev sucks; goolag/mozilla’s browser monopoly is too important for me to care about some stupid idpol takes)

If you don’t need javascript but want css: netsurf (there is technically javascript support, but it’s worked absolutely nowhere in my experience)

If you’re an epic hackor that doesn’t need either: w3m, links2, links, lynx

I mostly use w3m, but I use qutebrowser (qtwebkit and qtwebengine) when I need js. I’ll probably replace qutebrowser with Ladybird once there’s a port for OpenBSD (trying to write my own at the moment).

If you just want to abandon www all together, check out gemini and gopher clients.

If Mozilla needs Google to survive, they can go down with the ship for all I care. Mozilla are bad actors anyways.

I’m not familiar with ports, does it provide an easy way to install packages of a particular version? Is it OpenBSD only, or just a system of installing things?

OpenBSD’s ports are just a collection of perl scripts and makefiles managed by a VCS (usually CVS though there are mirrors). Due to how recursive CVS works, you can easily update any part of the tree to a different commit/tag.

$ cd ${PORTSROOT}/games/stone-soup
$ cvs up -CPd -D 'some date_spec' #or -r some_tag
$ make install
$ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ enjoy your old or backported videos games

very scriptable, should be easy to figure out how to automate this should you need to.

Shoving your entire system config into a couple DSL files is elegant? Sorry, I’ll stick to OpenBSD’s ports system and periodic rsync backups, that give me all the same benefits without the mountain of XY problems. Gentoo would also like a word, but they’re too busy recompiling all of llvm with one build flag changed to give input. Hope you never have to use anything other nix, since you’ve spent all your time learing to configure an abstraction layer instead of interfacing with the real underlying tooling.

Looks like a class action lawsuit, smells like a class action lawsuit

Or even better, write userscripts that can be used anywhere instead of inside some non portable extensions framework

A time for celebration

Was thinking of putting “UNIX Hackers” but I thought that might have been too obscure. Referencing people like Linus Torvalds’, Theo de Raadt’s, and cat-v’s opinions on C++.

XREAL Air 2 Pro glasses to give you a virtual “100 inch” display.

Wow!

It’s an ARM-based PC

Good!

it runs a custom operating system called SpaceOS, which is a built on top of Google’s ChromiumOS

Unless the bootloader is unlocked and it’s possible to write an open driver for the glasses, Bye.

I couldn’t care less about performance, I use OpenBSD as my desktop; I just want an open architecture that doesn’t have some backdoor like Intel ME/AMD PSP and better battery life.

I just want a RISC-V mainboard…