That’s fair. I do think the desire to make Lemmy a better place is admirable, but their behavior is obviously misguided (if I’m being very generous).

The instances filtered in their blocklist (including the one I am on) could imply something heinous… But I want to give this person the benefit of the doubt here. Maybe it’s ignorance? Maybe they truly believe blahaj.zone and db0 are dangerous extremists? Maybe this was just momentary petty power tripping?

Idk much about this person outside of this cataclysmic rake-stepping, but I believe a community free from hate is built with understanding.

I also believe intolerance cannot be tolerated, and I am glad this platform stood up for our friends on the block list.

I think your goal is admirable, but centralizing the blocklist defeats the purpose of a decentralized social media network.

We already have filtering at the instance level, so it seems to me that any client level filtering features must increase user/admin agency, rather than putting that agency in the hands of the client dev (regardless of how noble they may feel their opinions are).

There’s no good way to do what I wanted without either sounding like a dick, calling people out, or otherwise causing mass ire.

It sounds like you fully understand why this was so negatively received.

I really hope people stop harassing you. Despite our differences, we are all on the same platform for one reason or another, and we all deserve respect and some nuanced understanding.

I’m not a big fan of the NFA either, but its existence exposes the true nature of gun control policies in Cali or NY… To make “progressive” politicians look better during their campaigns without actually affecting their constituents gun control goals.

I personally believe reducing gun violence must start with increasing quality of life in the areas that suffer it the most (eg food, homes, healthcare, etc).

I also think it’s crazy that we don’t have any form of licensing system besides CCW… When that is also proven to not constitute infringement.

I understand that licensing (and taxation specifically) can be used to marginalize people, but I feel like firearms licensing that is as available as a drivers license is a pretty mild concession.

I don’t carry but I got my CCW voluntarily because I believe in licensing and it’s the only form available.

There is one form of gun control that has been effective and stood the test of time: Taxes.

The NFA has been working for almost a hundred years.

If politicians actually wanted to restrict gun ownership (rather than garnering temporary political support via impotent temporary policies the way California does) they’d use the NFA as a template.

As long as it is impossible to get the majority of states to agree to amend the constitution, any policy that infringes on citizens rights to bear arms is temporary at best.

There are decades of precedent in US courts that makes taxes and licensing not an infringement.

Discover is ok… If you limit it to only managing Flatpaks.

I’m not sure I’d ever trust a GUI to manage pacman/apt/dnf

I’m using an AMD APU, so just the regular mesa drivers.

The last time I had issues was about a year and a half ago, and I switched to Brave, but a year later (5 months ago) I was convinced to give Ungoogled Chromium another chance by someone here on lemmy (because of all the controversy surrounding Brave).

In the past I always used firefox because its customization features are so much richer, settings werent intrinsically tied to google (or amputated like in ungoogled), and the source code is more comprehensible (firefox is so neatly organized and easy to build yourself, and chromium is a giant mess under the hood).

I really want to use firefox again… maybe I’ll get a dell precision tower off ebay and shove a cheap old nvidia card in it with the proprietary drivers to solve my problems 😅

Youtube is especially egregious. I’ve tried various hardware acceleration settings and h264ify but it really brings my pc to its knees.

Im on linux, and when I run my windows vm (qemu kvm) with either Visual Studio, SQL Server Management Studio, or Fusion 360 in it, firefox on my host machine runnimg youtube just barely pushes it over the edge.

I absolutely recognize how wild what I’m asking this little computer to do is, but I can just get away with it in chromium but not firefox (since the last time I checked)

The day I can do it all with firefox I will be a happy camper

Edit: also, I specifically said games but didn’t name one… FFXIV and Deadlock both crash if I’m running youtube in chrome (and Discord at the same time).

I absolutely agree. I’ll switch to firefox before I look at a single ad, but for now ungoogled chromium still supports full uBo

Yeah, of course ads aren’t an option, but ungoogled chromium still supports mv2 for now and I can’t watch a youtube video and play a video game at the same time with firefox on my machine…

Granted, I’m probably trying to make inadequate hardware do more than it should, but chromium works and I don’t want to upgrade my hardware right now.

Yes I’ve used a variety and rolled my own. Tbh the differences are difficult to measure

Performance like opening a link crashes another application like my vms or cad applications or VS or a game. The performance differences are relatively minor, but it really matters on crappy hardware

MV2 has always worked on ungoogled chromium, so I just use uBo. I agree with most folks that ads are not an option XD

I did my testing before the AI features were implemented, and I tested a variety of custom profile settings for firefox (and floorp and librefox) and custom chrome flags for ungoogled chromium (and brave)…

Granted, I was using benchmarks, but the differences are somewhere around 15-30% on my machine on Arch

Edit: These are the benchmarks I ran

I see a lot of comments (justifiably) touting firefox’s superiority… but the performance difference is night and day.

My main pc has very weak hardware, and my browser is the most resource intensive application I run. In my environment, I can’t leave firefox open with other heavy apps running simultaneously, but I can leave chrome open.

I’ve used firefox for decades in the past, but the gap is huge and it doesn’t look like Mozilla will make the engine changes necessary to close it. Idk if things have changed, but I remember when they axed the Servo team.

I’ve been using Ungoogled Chromium and I’m hoping this doesn’t affect me for a while… but if I have to choose between ads and closing my browser to run heavy apps, I guess I’ll be reinstalling firefox.

I’m sorry if I implied more than I meant. I suppose information like this really deserves more context, given how inflamatory it is…

I have no idea if Steven Hawking did anything wrong, but the context for OP’s post is an assumption about Hawking based on his presence in the Epstein files.

He’s in the Epstein files

Edit: Just because someone is mentioned in the Epstein files doesn’t mean they are a pedophile. The premise of OPs post is based on the fact that Hawking is somehow associated with Epstein, which has spawned rumors (from dubious sources) about some kind of impropriety.

Goku: 5 (counting alternate realities, but not counting GT 🤮)

Dean Winchester: 111

I had to look up “Panopticon”… What a sick metaphor

Edit: I forgot to even mention, this explaination is for running windows apps on linux with steam (which is a native linux app available in essentially all repositories).

You can run most games (regardless of how you acquired them) directly in steam via proton.

If the app you want to run is a windows executable (.exe or .msi or whatever), you can add it as a “Non-Steam game” (even if it isn’t a game).

If you have trouble getting it started, try changing the compatibility layer in library -> game -> properties -> compatibility -> enable steam play compatibility tool -> choose some version of proton (like proton experimental)

Fair warning: Valve is currently chill about adding games to steam without proof of purchase, but they could change their minds someday.

Also, pro tip, if you really wanna get in the weeds with proton, I recommend proton-tricks. There are very few windows apps you can’t get running with proton and proton-tricks.

Interesting, I had no idea!

Thank you!