A windows user downloading a random executable and unchecking all of the boxes that install malware (it is easier than pressing the “Install” button in an app store):
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
No flatpak?
Windows users removing spyware and telemetry while bragging about not having to touch a terminal.
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.
I use chocolatey with win…If I had to use win…
I can’t believe to update on windows I have to navigate to a webpage, download the newest installer, and go through the process…
FOR EACH PROGRAM
These days if I can’t install it with winget I’m not installing it
Scoop/Chocolatey/WinGet. In that order.
Some info on each for the uninitiated: https://daftdev.blog/2024/04/01/chocolatey-vs-scoop-vs-winget---which-windows-package-manager-to-use/
I thought we hated AI here on Lemmy?
Is this a Firefox reference?
That looks badass and the perfect advert for Firefox (the browser)
Somehow I think people here aren’t into Soviet propaganda movies
I see now, this is linuxmemes@lemmy.world, not @lemmy.ml. My bad, comrade.
“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
flatpak install ungoogled-chromiumYup, I like using a combo of ungoogled chromium and librewolf depending on which works better for certain websites or web apps . To me, Linux is about using the right tool for the job.
or appimage, arch or deb
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.
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)
And for when switching user agents doesn’t work: ungoogled chromium saves the day
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.
They already did. We are the other universe.
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.
I doubt it’s malice as often as a cost saving measure presented in a scummy/lazy way.
The simple fact is that all browsers load pages differently.
If you want to minimise cost, you’ll optimise the site to the most popular browsers.
Firefox, unfortunately, is at the very bottom of the popular browser list.There’s absolutely nothing else that most sites gain by promoting Google.
Except, as of recent, a lower likelihood of user having an ad blocker.In the case of Pearson, malice is a safe assumption.
Reporting it to Mozilla can still help. Firefox has a built-in list of sites to fake the user agent header for, reporting it could land this site on that list as well.
Mozilla fakes the user agent for sites without a plugin? oO - that is news to me, but fair point in that case…
Oh yeah, not just UA overrides but other fixes as well. You can see them at about:compat
I cannot wait for Firefox to finally support WebUSB.
^(I literally cannot wait, it’ll never happen…)
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.
It will happen when webUSB is an actual web standard with a proper RFC
I don’t see that happening
That’s why its called “Bloatware”
Reminder that Edge for Linux exists.
Posting to Linux forum: “How do I enable Copilot in Word using WINE on Linux?”
Edgelord for Linux
Missed opportunity to say “installing NVIDIA drivers” instead 🤣
#Zenbrowser on #linux
I’ve been playing too much cyberpunk lately…
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
Thanks for the info.
Personally, I’ve been avoiding Flatpaks anyway on my main machine, but not out of security concerns. Mainly to do with size and the update frequency.
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.
Flatpak does provide the sandbox. It’s up to the developer to use it properly.
Flatpaks are as sandboxed as the sandbox settings you give them, check out if the defaults are satisfactory on Flatseal before running it.
Chrome only has 2 buttons
And, as we all know, those two buttons are…
- Eat all the ram
- Freeze the whole computer
Librewolf here
Where is this from and how can I watch it?
Based on the nonsensical chest computer/armour and other garbled elements of the image I’m going to assume it’s AI-generated.
Looks more like a late 80s movie to me. I assure you, we did not need AI to generate our nonsense for us.
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.
Are you saying this is a Borg from the original enterprise from Kirk? Or do we have to go back further 2 centuries to the space shuttle Enterprise, the one from 1980’s NASA?
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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…
I remember this being generated by OpenAI’s Sora model.
Flight of the NetScape Navigator
Oh I can see the animated N now
A Linux user wouldn’t use chrome.
Having to apply a new update every week
I wrote my own browser using WebKit. Chrome is bloat.
Used to work on WebKit, built my own browser for a while, but damn if they kept breaking qt/WebKit all the damn time.
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.
Is it a “traditional” web browser or yet another Gnome header bar app?
Looks good
Thanks!
Probably too bare bones for what I would look in a web browser, though. Still refreshing to see someone with a WebKitGTK browser not mimic Gnome Web.
i3 and homemade web browser - this guy is legit
How do you do security patches?
Recompile with updated libraries. There’s probably a better way, but it’s further down the list. This thing doesn’t even support downloads yet.
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.
That’s a great username
I miss Galeon …
i just memorized the entire web so i dont need to browse anymore. browsers are bloat
Did you publish it? What’s it called?
I call it Magellan. It’s nowhere near ready for production use, though.
I mined and smelted my own silicon. Fuckin’ amateur hour out here.
