a promising start
What book is this? It’s not often a book can catch my interest in less than 10 words.
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I appreciate the failed SpaceX launch for highlighting how many people hate musk for principled reasons, and how many people hate him cause he’s a cringe loser who’s unpopular with their wider social circle.
i think an underexplored way to turn worldbuilding into a creative work is to make a fake wikipedia for it. except wikipedia isn't a very good format for like, history and culture. at some point you'd have to talk about crops. do you make a page for wheat? do you break immersion and link to wikipedia? do you break with the convention of the genre and leave the word black? but a fake encyclopedia iranica wd work
what I'm "planning" (idly daydreaming) to do when I have the time
I used zim when I was designing DnD campaigns
zim-wiki (dot) org
I didn’t make a page for wheat, though
Python’s thing where putting a mutable as a default argument to a function uses the same mutable for every function call seems like such an ugly and disastrous idea that definitely causes a tonne of problems especially with new developers
but it makes writing memoized functions so trivially easy. Just a quick little memo = {0:0} at the end and everything takes care of itself.
They did boil water, though. That was a pretty important thing that happened. Like, I understand where you're coming from here, but they very much did boil water.
Like yeah Firefox is mostly better than the alternative and it's good to share methods to curate and protect your Internet space but Firefox isn't that powerful, it can't just say "no thank you" to all the ways the internet gets shittier. Sometimes it gets worse and there's nothing you can do about it.
With that said, you can make it a little less shitty. here are some lesser known apps/extensions that can make things a little less shitty on mobile (ime these kinds of lists assume everyone's a desktop main)
Apps
IceRaven - I need add-ons. This is the only Firefox variant that lets me use them in any real capacity. Instructions here, just don't bother with Firefox Nightly.
Kiwi Browser - Chromium re-skin with built-in adblock, built-in translation, built-in AMP redirect, and togglable dark mode. Sorry, but there's a reason Firefox lost market share.
Blokada 5 - Not paying for 6. Blocks ads and trackers across your device without needing root. Easy to whitelist individual apps.
NewPipe - Never in my life has Vanced worked. Ad free downloadable youtube that allows your subscription feed as your frontpage. Copy your Watch Later to a public playlist and bookmark the link.
XManager - this one is kind of like Vanced in that it's unclear if you messed up or the app did but if you want free spotify it's worth trying
IceRaven Add-ons
Somewhat tricky to get working (ime Settings>Customize>Set custom add-ons account>don't change anything, just open and close the pop-up <- you need to do this every time you add something to your collections) but once you do, it's a little easier to abstain from chromium. Not all add-ons work on mobile, but I can confirm the following do:
TWP Translate Web Pages - Think I tested every single translation add-on there is and this was the best one. Translates the page you're on. Without it I'd just let google have my personal info.
Consent-o-Matic - Automatic handling of GDPR consent forms. Reject them once and never again.
Redirect AMP to HTML - Firefox should have this.
Old Reddit Redirect - since reddit wants to ignore my old.reddit toggle
Dark Background and Light Text - works better than Dark Reader
I think some of these might be uh. On the advanced side?
#either that or this is some android shit im too iPhone to comprehend #which feels like a weird oversight in a list that prioritizes mobile devices
I didn't realize Apple users even had the option to install third party apps. Yeah this is Androids only. I forgot you guys even exist. We just have to download and install the apks. Sorry.
They don’t, or at least if they do it’s recent, there have been moves in that direction lately, likely as a result of pressure from the EU.
Anyway, @gaphic, not that this diminishes your overall point, but what’s shown in your screenshots isn’t necessary. F-Droid is an app that manages 3rd party repositories, similar to an app store in the way it maintains installation files and handles updates for you. Repo maintainers will manage your app updates for you, but repos tend to be a few weeks behind the actual update schedule from app developers. It just takes time to take an updated app, verify it, and push it into the repo.
What the newpipe devs are suggesting you do is add their personal repo to the F-Droid app, so that you get updates quicker. It’s not actually necessary, F-Droid has newpipe in it’s default repo, you’ll just lag behind a few weeks on updates. It’s a moment of dev-brain to suggest end users go through all that effort when the much simpler method of “install F-Droid, install newpipe through F-Droid” has no functional difference for most users.
Which is why I say it doesn’t really diminish your point: while it is easy to install Newpipe, the social ecosystem surrounding newpipe assumes a certain level of tech knowledge, and the tech knowledge required to understand what they’re telling you to do (plus the tech knowledge required to understand why what they’re asking is kinda unnecessary for most people) is a real barrier to entry. It’s doubly irritating because that barrier is entirely artificial; there’s no reason to push that as the recommended way to install newpipe. It’s something only advanced users looking for the bleeding edge of newpipe features will ever care about.