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I think the management's recent decisions, as well as the removal/lack of power-user features for those users, have moved a lot of people away from Firefox, myself included. They really need to focus on providing really good software, not get caught up in trying to chase trends or forcing services people don't want. This WIRED article does a good job explaining the issues.

I am keeping an eye on Pulse Browser, which is an experimental fork of Firefox with uBlock Origin pre-installed and some UI customisations. They've got a sidebar with "web panels" very much like Vivaldi's Panels, and they've got vertical tabs like Edge. People also seem to be posting suggestions to their discussion page on GitHub. It's early days, but if they listen and try to implement some of the suggested features to their best ability, it could be a much better Firefox than Firefox itself.

Not one-for-one, but the BBC actually wanted to put a tax on broadband bills in response to the resentment towards the TV License.

Of course not, but it's worth pointing out :p

Apparently the X used by Twi-- er, X Corp, is from a font that X may not actually have the actual license to use.

Brand X, Brand X, it's simple and plain...

The pink acid one fits amazingly lmao.

I've heard as much, especially on r/TrueSpotify when I still used Reddit. Lots of "where hifi/2fa".

Apple's UX isn't perfect either but the library management is a huge part of why their UX is personally better for me.

If recommendations are what you want, I'd honestly look at getting an account with Rate Your Music if you haven't already and populating ratings with music you love and hate. Yes, the community can be very snobby and cynical at times and the site is slow-updating, but at the same time I've gotten some great recommendations, both from the community and the site's algorithms, while streaming can be very hit or miss. There's no app, but at the same time your recommendations aren't tied to one streaming service, so you can use any service that fits your needs or sail the seas while still getting good recommendations.

RYM has two algorithms to help you find some interesting music, based on finding highly rated music and your taste in genres and descriptors: there's one that recommends music it thinks you'll like, and another that's the opposite of your music taste, to challenge you to get you out your comfort zone. I have found stuff I've loved in both. Paid supporters (iirc monthly is £2 while a year is roughly £20 depending on currency conversion) do get access to tweaking the algorithm to fit their needs, as well as visual access to the data that fuels your recommendations, but I don't mind paying for it over Spotify/AM. Might be worth having a look.

I use ListenBrainz nowadays as the metadata is so much better at handling edge cases than Last.fm is (e.g. featured artists in the artist tag) and I honestly just use Rate Your Music for recommendations now.

Covenience. Most people really don't care about that as long as they can get whatever Android app they have on their computer. I say this as a Waydroid user.

Ditto on Apple Music. Lossless at no extra cost with a much better UX than all except maybe Spotify. Wasn't a fan of Tidal's UX compared to Spotify and Apple Music, and Deezer still has this weird hard limit of 2,000 tracks on playlists. For comparison, Spotify has a 10,000 track limit and Apple Music has none (not to be confused with the 100k song library limit).

My main reason for sticking with Apple Music lately was the library management, particularly when syncing local songs. I have some music I got from Bandcamp that is not on streaming at all. On Spotify, you can't have them alongside your liked songs, while on Apple Music, they're treated as part of your music library and therefore much more streamlined than Spotify's.

Just checked this project out, the single colour icon theming looks really good.

How's Tumbleweed treating ya? I find that when it comes to rolling release I'm very much comfy with the Arch-based distros.

Liking the layout as well, I honestly might look at this or something similar. IDK, the old Windows-style layout is getting kinda boring, want to spice up my workflow a bit.

I presume some of the margarine ended up on the image.

There's also EmuDeck that automates this process too.

Might want to save some Twitch VODs. I've heard some places have been streaming r/place. Those would be useful.

Part of me doesn't like the fact that this is just giving Reddit engagement.

But another part of me is happy that this is here, even if it'll inevitably get destroyed this is honestly a really sweet gesture.

I knew Fedora had Flatpak baked in but didn't know Linux Mint had it. I know they've got a hatred for Snaps, though lol. Thanks for the explanation!

Bloody hell. They're not holding back their anger, are they?

That's cool and all but can it piss beer?