QuazarOmega @ QuazarOmega @lemmy.world

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Finally someone that is being objective here!
If I had to suggest a browser to a non techie person I'd definitely tell them to use Brave since it's the best middle ground between full privacy to the point of clunkiness and, well... Chrome.
It is still a little invasive by shoving features/ads in your face (wallet, videoconferencing web app, sponsored backgrounds, etc.), but they're less armful than other options and easier to turn off than slightly obscure about:config settings that break the experience of a non privacy concious user

What

Bro didn't know that he was about to post a timeless banger 2 years ago

I always wanted to believe this, but, at least in my country, not even a specialized high school degree is enough to get me anywhere for months, it's crazy.
Maybe you could even make it without formal education, but everyone's always looking for those sweet 3+ years of experience in the field (ಥ﹏ಥ)

Lol, this should be its own post

I've never thought about this, but now that you bring it to my attention I think I'd go with a combination of mineral-flower, so for example "tourmaline-calendula".
Also to automate that, I saw that there is this neat website perchance.org that you can use to construct random word generators, I'm wondering if there's an open source alternative though, that would be great

It just expands into the last command you put in your shell, so it's useful for retrying a command that you want to prepend with sudo for example, if you realize you needed elevated privileges, or maybe you want to pipe something in it, pipe it through something, redirect its output etc.

Noob question: do these actually download from Spotify, or do they find the track on another service they can download from?

Ah true, that works too!

Just FIY, it's not really open source, it's missing a part needed to compile it

This is a Haiku install, but that's not import-
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Haiku? It's an experimental OS that I... Oh never mind.

On the phone yes, you can get them easily in Iceraven, if you use any of the Firefox for Android forks (Fennec, Mull, etc.) instead, you'd have to add in the extensions list manually to get access to them.
Casting will be unaffected since you're really just telling a YouTube app running on your Chromecast to play a certain video, some Chromecasts allow you to sideload APKs though, so you could install SmartTubeNext on there

I'm guessing you just got to actually use it now then

If Flatpak doesn't cover your needs you can already use Distrobox on your current distro for that purpose, you'd make an Ubuntu container and add the PPAs to it, if/when it breaks your system will still remain intact

Yeah, actually I don't know how I ended up responding to you, I have since deleted that comment, I meant it for the OP.
Aside from that, when you're as experienced as you, you generally don't end up breaking your system anyway, if one really wanted I think the real good thing to do regardless of distro would be using one of the few packaging solutions that are siloed from the rest system

Dots?

A walking GDPR violation

Nice, this was unexpected to me, yet another reason to keep using Firefox! What surprised me most is that even Brave (bare) that has it embedded just manages to get only at about half of the coverage of Firefox + uBlock, I thought it would be at least a little bit better since they bake in their own version

I usually end up in need of redoing a fresh install until it breaks up again.

That's common when you start adding random PPAs, running some commands without understanding (we all do 👀) and whatnot, but you can save yourself from reinstalling over and over by using an immutable distribution so at any point you will know what changed in your system and if it breaks you can just roll back to the previous working point and either fix your mistake or wait for a fix from upstream when an issue happens there (this year there were a few kinda major hiccups on Fedora for example).
I suggest you try one of the Fedora immutable spins (Silverblue, Kinoite, Sericea) or Vanilla OS, though I would hold off from it until Orchid comes out.
If you want to go all in you can use NixOS, but it takes a lot of reading

You can save yourself from reinstalling over and over by using an immutable distribution so at any point you will know what changed in your system and if it breaks you can just roll back to the previous working point and either fix your mistake or wait for a fix from upstream when an issue happens there (this year there were a few kinda major hiccups on Fedora for example).
I suggest you try one of the Fedora immutable spins (Silverblue, Kinoite, Sericea) or Vanilla OS, though I would hold off from it until Orchid comes out.
If you want to go all in you can use NixOS, but it takes a lot of reading