Lies, linux user would use firefox or something more libre over chrome
I thought we hated AI here on Lemmy?
Well that is because i would have to install it first because i dont have chrome. Librewolf(firefox fork) for the win! Also i have a shorcut for the browser so its literally faster than most people on other systems. I just press super+w
Is this a Firefox reference?
“Do you want to import your settings from your previous browser?”
“Do you want to make Chrome your default browser?”
“Are you sure?”
FUCK OFF, I’M ONLY USING THIS STUPID PROGRAM BECAUSE MY ASSHOLE UTILITY COMPANY’S WEBSITE DOESN’T WORK WITH FIREFOX
Try user agent switcher. More often than not, websites work just fine with firefox but refuse to load when the browser identifies as not-fascist-google-trash.
Had to do that to do my fucking MATH HOMEWORK because Pearson “doesn’t work with Linux”. Switched my user agent to windows and all of a sudden it works just fine
I wish Microsoft and Google homies would just get beamed into a parallel universe to ruin with their bullshit…
I wish Mozilla would use some of their millions to bring a class action lawsuit against sites that pointlessly lock people out just because they’re not using Chrome/Safari/Edge.
You and me both, but as long as we allow accumulation of capital, that’s not gonna happen, I’m afraid.
Thanks! I’ll have to give that a try.
You are welcome. Worked fine last time I tried it with e.g. the Teams web client (forced to use it for work still)
Report the error to the company and to Mozilla.
That’s basically never an error, but malice. But I admire your naivity :)
Oh, I agree with you. But the more we publicize this, the more pressure we can apply to site devs to support multiple browsers.
These companies typically have management take the IT advice from their IT managers, and if those intentionally block non Windows/Google/fascist software, you don’t find anyone in the organization willing to listen to you. The only way to fight this is by not doing business with them whenever avoidable.
flatpak install ungoogled-chromiumor appimage, arch or deb
I cannot wait for Firefox to finally support WebUSB.
^(I literally cannot wait, it’ll never happen…)
YES. I have to keep chrome installed on at least one desktop or laptop if I want to flash firmware on ESP devices.
It sure would be nice to have WebSerial as well. For some reason Mozilla seems to think users can’t be trusted with it. They could at least add a compile time option to enable it. If someone knows how to compile a browser, they are probably smart enough not to give random websites access to their devices.
That’s why its called “Bloatware”
If anything, I only use ungoogled chromium if a website refuses to work in Firefox. Had a financial fraud and identity theft scam the other day hosted on a Singaporean form service thing that I had to report using that browser because the send report button wasn’t working on FF.
As much as I don’t like it, it’s probably a good idea to have a backup chromium based browser like ungoogled chromium just in case. Just be sure to not be like me and actually have it in some sort of sandbox rather than running the flatpak on its own.
I was under the impression Flatpaks are sandboxed. (I am not an expert.)
Flatpak is a utility for software deployment and package management for Linux. It provides a sandbox environment in which users can run application software in (partial) isolation from the rest of the system.
I also keep Ungoogled Chromium around as a last resort (AppImage in my case).
Flatpak is not a sandbox
Even the author says Flatpak is a sandbox.
The most simple but also least effective sandbox type is the container or wrapper sandbox that builds an isolated process environment and then executes the target application inside.
Flatpak provides an isolated runtime environment using a container type sandbox to execute the target application inside.
… there are two issues that prevent flatpak from providing a real sandbox environment…
Just that it’s no true scotsman, I mean sandbox.
Flatpaks are as sandboxed as the sandbox settings you give them, check out if the defaults are satisfactory on Flatseal before running it.
A windows user downloading a random executable and unchecking all of the boxes that install malware (it is easier than pressing one “Install” button in an app store):
I switched my main to linux about a year ago and install everything through terminal at this point.
I had to download something on a windows system once recently and i was not prepared with how backwards this entire process felt.
I cant understand how i had stuck with such bullshit for so long.
These days if I can’t install it with winget I’m not installing it
Scoop/Chocolatey/WinGet. In that order.
Based
Windows users removing spyware and telemetry while bragging about not having to touch a terminal.
A Linux user running random commands to add a new repo that points to malware (their package manager does not have the program they want by default)
Note: I just did this to install Librewolf, Mullvad, and VS Codium
Missed opportunity to say “installing NVIDIA drivers” instead 🤣
Most casual Linux user
Shoveling in RAM like coal into a furnace
I wrote my own browser using WebKit. Chrome is bloat.
i just memorized the entire web so i dont need to browse anymore. browsers are bloat
I mined and smelted my own silicon. Fuckin’ amateur hour out here.
Used to work on WebKit, built my own browser for a while, but damn if they kept breaking qt/WebKit all the damn time.
I miss Galeon …
Ah, I am using WebKitGTK.
Currently version 4.1, though, as 6.0 is not supported on GTK3, and upgrading the project to GTK4 would possibly require a complete rewrite.
I hate, hate, HATE GTK.
Sorry, it’s visceral, can’t stand using GTK apps, but really hate the framework, it is just so badly hacked together, and QT spoiled me forever.
Need to build one again, this time with a python wrapper, wrote one for VLC and it’s spoiled me too.
Is it a “traditional” web browser or yet another Gnome header bar app?
That’s a great username
Did you publish it? What’s it called?
I call it Magellan. It’s nowhere near ready for production use, though.
clicks on the chrome(ium) icon (99% of distro installs probably)
Where is this from and how can I watch it?
Flight of the NetScape Navigator
Oh I can see the animated N now
Based on the nonsensical chest computer/armour and other garbled elements of the image I’m going to assume it’s AI-generated.
I mean, have you ever looked at Start Trek costumes closely? Shit’s wild…
Also it’s quite grainy and the handle-thingy in the front (bottom right) is out of focus. Not sure AI can be this imperfect yet, though it’s just a matter of time.
Look at the red buttons by the guy’s right hand. They look like a bunch of skittles of different sizes. It is definitely AI
Because it’s cheap greebling. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GbK_98uXAAAaD0I.jpg
Even cheaply you can still easily find something to make buttons that are of a consistent size and shape. And not put one of them on top of the edge panel of the console like one of them is on the picture. This is a typical telltale sign of AI: things that aren’t uniform when they should be and are located in nonsensical places.
There is also asymmetry and sewing lines that make no sense between the left and right gloves and what looks like is supposed to be a pair of pens on his upper right arm is just two nonsensical blobs of crome texture.
No one seems to know about what movie or show this is supposed to be from either…
Looks more like a late 80s movie to me. I assure you, we did not need AI to generate our nonsense for us.
How would one see anything with that dark of a visor and such low light
I remember this being generated by OpenAI’s Sora model.
Alt-D, “chr”, Enter
Who am I kidding, I use Firefox.
I’ve been playing too much cyberpunk lately…
