Somewhat frustratingly, I learned a few weeks ago that they had a new incremental update blob for Linux Mint since January and nobody had bothered to notify me. Even after doing an apt-get dist-upgrade. I had to additionally go into the package manager settings and there was a button in there somewhere to switch to the newer repos.
Just get a Sansa, geez. They even come with a microSD slot so you can expand them, unlike iPods and Zunes.
Unfortunately nobody seems to know they exist. I got mine back when they still made them with a physical clickwheel day-after-Thanksgiving for like $42 (normal price 110? 120?) back in...2008? Still working.
Is some free Tor sharing better? "free" may harm large studios who screw over musicians, but it also harms the musicians harmed by those same studios. Robbing a slave owner never freed any slaves.
What you think is necessary in a browser simply doesn't match what others think is necessary.
Except for the part where Mozilla is hemorrhaging users. So yeah, apparently it does.
And I'm talking about core features of 90% of program GUIs in the last 3 decades. Ditching menus and status bars are not "optional features." Oh, and as you say above, I'm sure that's just a couple k right, so it doesn't matter? But I'm the one being inconsistent, somehow.
they're moving in the very direction you wanted them to move in
Nope.
yet you're quibbling because what you really want is for them to support what YOU want them to support.
I'm going to tell you one more time that you're full of crap. I want the classic GUI elements we've all been using for the last couple decades, and most of the rest as extensions. If in doubt, prune it out. Which I've been quite consistent about in this comment tree.
I'm not saying there aren't settings that you could change but what it is that you're constantly dicking around with in there that is a requirement for making it "usable"? Even if you have a particular preference, just set it when you install the browser and be done with it.
Way back in the 3.0 days it was just a couple settings in about:config that some people disabled to prune down the AwesomeBar behavior. Then it required an extension. Then they took out the status bar. Then Australis rolled and they started removing the about:config options you used to undo all this crud...
So yes, in theory you can do it just once when you install it, but there's quite a few values to twaddle and even some things that can't be turned off at all. Have you seen Classic Theme Restorer? It's basically 19 pages full of checkboxes and dropdowns, and I still haven't found a way to put the page title back in the window frame.
Plus with most new releases they screw around with something new and you add another variable or three to your list of things to unfuck.
I often see these critiques using terms like "barely usable" so I'm wondering if you can explain what your web browsing workflow is?
Firefox 3.5 pretty much exactly, plus a couple extensions. If I wanted no status bar, everything collapsed into one menu button, and no searchbar I'd be using Chrome, dammit.
No, we just want the old paradigm of Firefox (3.x days) back where they didn't have ANY* pointless extra bloat like Pocket, Twitter integration, etc., etc. built in. If you want extra functionality, install the extensions.
So your entire post is apologetic nonsense.
*well okay I'm sure there was some but nothing compared to these days
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7 was the platonic ideal of Windows as far as I'm concerned.
(other than those things they've never been good at like command line and virtual desktops, of course)
Not sure if sarcasm or poster is really that stupid
The implication is that I should upgrade because spying on me is a feature? Does W10 offer any other new features?
that kinda narrows it down.
Feeling nitpicky today?
Somewhat frustratingly, I learned a few weeks ago that they had a new incremental update blob for Linux Mint since January and nobody had bothered to notify me. Even after doing an apt-get dist-upgrade. I had to additionally go into the package manager settings and there was a button in there somewhere to switch to the newer repos.
So yeah, no notification at all :P
Just get a Sansa, geez. They even come with a microSD slot so you can expand them, unlike iPods and Zunes.
Unfortunately nobody seems to know they exist. I got mine back when they still made them with a physical clickwheel day-after-Thanksgiving for like $42 (normal price 110? 120?) back in...2008? Still working.
P.S: Rockbox
Ditto. It reads as a guy who's got a hate-boner for this particular piece of software and wants to rip it as hard as possible while also being witty.
Okay, you really don't like it. I got that after the first two "hellstew" references. And that was just in the summary...
Is some free Tor sharing better? "free" may harm large studios who screw over musicians, but it also harms the musicians harmed by those same studios. Robbing a slave owner never freed any slaves.
And also torrenting over Tor is pretty sleazy.
VLC :)
They added a library section but as the guy above mentioned, I ignore it and just use the folder structure usually.
Bleh.
You're not supposed to mod people down for disagreeing. You're supposed to mod people down for being factually wrong or trolling.
Fine, s/You/You're not supposed to/
They have a -0 Disagree mod over on SoylentNews, but yeah.
You don't mod people down for disagreeing. You mod people down for being factually wrong or trolling.
Who's "not-Jeb"? He has 4 siblings. This is political shorthand for...?
Well, they obviously have a warrant
Definitely not an assumption I ever make anymore.
The idea behind SWATing is people being assholes on the Internet to terrorize people IRL they don't like, not to get them arrested.
Unless you're using "SWATing" to mean something else.
You can have a direct democracy where not all citizens can vote. That was how Athens worked, wasn't it?
How does it feel to lay down in the gutter and wait for them to walk on you?
What you think is necessary in a browser simply doesn't match what others think is necessary.
Except for the part where Mozilla is hemorrhaging users. So yeah, apparently it does.
And I'm talking about core features of 90% of program GUIs in the last 3 decades. Ditching menus and status bars are not "optional features." Oh, and as you say above, I'm sure that's just a couple k right, so it doesn't matter? But I'm the one being inconsistent, somehow.
they're moving in the very direction you wanted them to move in
Nope.
yet you're quibbling because what you really want is for them to support what YOU want them to support.
I'm going to tell you one more time that you're full of crap. I want the classic GUI elements we've all been using for the last couple decades, and most of the rest as extensions. If in doubt, prune it out. Which I've been quite consistent about in this comment tree.
You are aware that the entire reason they started Firefox was to de-bloatify the Mozilla Suite, right? So not so much "always."
So you're saying that it's impossible to write software without buckets of bloat. Since you ignored my entire post so will I yours.
Sounds pretty accurate. My first reply was a bit provocative to begin with.
Have a nice weekend :)
Hey, I didn't say it was better. It just sounded like you were saying it wasn't possible.
I'm not saying there aren't settings that you could change but what it is that you're constantly dicking around with in there that is a requirement for making it "usable"? Even if you have a particular preference, just set it when you install the browser and be done with it.
Way back in the 3.0 days it was just a couple settings in about:config that some people disabled to prune down the AwesomeBar behavior. Then it required an extension. Then they took out the status bar. Then Australis rolled and they started removing the about:config options you used to undo all this crud...
So yes, in theory you can do it just once when you install it, but there's quite a few values to twaddle and even some things that can't be turned off at all. Have you seen Classic Theme Restorer? It's basically 19 pages full of checkboxes and dropdowns, and I still haven't found a way to put the page title back in the window frame.
Plus with most new releases they screw around with something new and you add another variable or three to your list of things to unfuck.
I often see these critiques using terms like "barely usable" so I'm wondering if you can explain what your web browsing workflow is?
Firefox 3.5 pretty much exactly, plus a couple extensions. If I wanted no status bar, everything collapsed into one menu button, and no searchbar I'd be using Chrome, dammit.
No, we just want the old paradigm of Firefox (3.x days) back where they didn't have ANY* pointless extra bloat like Pocket, Twitter integration, etc., etc. built in. If you want extra functionality, install the extensions.
So your entire post is apologetic nonsense.
*well okay I'm sure there was some but nothing compared to these days
If you want bleeding edge just reconfigure your package manager to track Unstable or Hurt Me Good or whatever they call it.
How long is turnaround for Testing anyway? Or does it vary too widely to really have a useful answer to that?
Can I ask what you want all that RAM for? Video editing or VMs?