SpaceCadet

A script kiddie

It’s not an ecosystem of one, though one is very dominant.

You can compare it to Linux. It’s not the only Unix-like kernel, but it’s similarly dominant. If you want to create a new distribution, it doesn’t make any sense to spend a decade trying to write your own kernel rather than just using the Linux kernel (insert GNU Hurd jokes here).

Is that an unhealthy ecosystem then? I don’t think it is.

What makes the chromium situation unhealthy is Google’s ownership and control, not that it’s the preferred engine for other browsers. I mean, even a company as large as Microsoft gave up trying to create their own engine.

Via is a very common tool to setup mechanical keyboards, customize the layout, the layers, the backlight,…

See: https://usevia.app/

Doesn’t work in Firefox because it simply does not support webhid.

Tip: if you install Firefox from scratch frequently, you should build a custom user.js where you disable all the stuff you don’t like, and then just drop the file in the profile directory with a script, instead of manually going through all the settings pages each time.

I mean, on a technical level chromium isn’t a terrible browser engine. Building your own engine from scratch is Extremely Hard™ and it’s entirely possible to build a decent browser on top of it, so I can understand why most alternative projects have done just that.

It’s just… google’s control over chromium is concerning.

Fair enough, you do what works for you.

I checked it out like, mid 2025 or so? Thought it looked somewhat cool, but within a week I was already hit with a few breaking changes and just things being changed around in the UI for no good reason, and the dev seemed to be just implementing things on the whims of what people were saying in the r/zen_browser subreddit. Also it seemed to be making a lot of big promises, but the big change seemed to be that the tabs were now … on the left, and a couple of saner privacy presets in about:config that I was already setting in my user.js file.

Anyway, I do consider how a project is governed before I adopt an important piece of software. I’m fine with a one-man show for something as cute and small as a terminal emulator or an editor, but a browser is a different thing.

With it being a firefox fork, and not an independent project, and knowing that browser engines are complex things and that it is always going to be a constant struggle to keep it up-to-date and integrated with the changes pouring out of mozilla.org, the conclusion I drew was that it didn’t feel like the best run project, and that I probably shouldn’t put my eggs in that particular basket, waiting for the single dev to burn out or lose interest in it.

Firefox doesn’t support WebHID, so I can forget about configuring my custom keyboard with anything other than a Chromium based browser.

Commit history where you see the number of commits per developer tells a different story.

Zen Browser, which is a nice fork of Firefox

I wouldn’t trust something as important and complex as a browser to what’s essentially a 1 man project.

That’s not how things work.

It’s actually kind of annoying since you want to do something while waiting but it’s not long enough

You know you’re the boss of the car and not the other way around right? :p

You can add another one to the list then. I was forced to switch last year (regulation changes and end of lease on the ICE company car). I went from a BMW 3-series to a Polestar 2, and I was initially a bit reluctant and skeptical but quickly learned to love it.

I went basically like this:

Electric is just a superior drive train concept for daily driving. The instant torque, the smoothness of acceleration and lack of gear changes are so awesome, even passengers comment all the time about how nice it feels. And once you get used to the one-pedal drive, you don’t want anything else. Just lift the gas pedal to stop, and step on it to go… couldn’t be easier.

The only downside is that in terms of vehicle dynamics you do feel the added weight, you can’t really hide 500 kg extra. So when changing direction it doesn’t want to turn in as eagerly, and you feel a bit more roll and suspension travel in everything that it does, but the positives vastly outweigh this one negative.

an EV’s electric motor and (usually) single reduction gear means you get basically the same acceleration between 5 km/h and 120 km/h

Same torque, not same acceleration. Air and roll resistance have something to say too.

What’s the original of this copypasta?

Edit: nvm, found it!

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/poob-has-it-for-you

If they’re putting up barriers to selectively exclude certain voices, it becomes everyone’s problem because the outcome of the election no longer represents the will of the people.

Even if 90% of the group that they’re trying to suppress does get an ID, and 10% doesn’t, it can be enough to swing elections, especially in a winner-takes-all system that’s in place in most of the US.

This is solvable though

They don’t want to solve it… the unreasonable burden and disenfranchisement are the point.

In the EU everyone is likely to have an official ID card, so it’s a non-issue.

In the US this is not the case, and the people who do have an ID or who are likely to know what to do to get an ID probably skew a certain way. So requiring voter ID is a way of voter suppression to discourage disenfranchised groups from voting.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it

My salary? I am a wage slave just like everybody else.

Anyway, you didn’t address the main questions:

• Do you think providing exclusive access to a house for the renter to live in is something that has no value?
• This house didn’t just happen to fall in my lap. I put 250k of my own money in over the course of 30 years (10 years to save for the down payment + 20 years of mortage payments). Money that I worked for, doing a job. It’s literally the fruit of my labor. By what ungodly reasoning should I have to give that to you or anyone else for free?

It seems you are the one here who is not making any effort to be understanding.

Every single problem with current rent could be solved by … [theoretical solutions]

Just because things could theoretically be handled differently doesn’t make landlords “thieves” as the title claims.

I’m currently a home owner and not a landlord, but if I would become a landlord, it wouldn’t be in my power to implement any of your solutions, leaving in the middle whether they have merit or not.

All I can do is try to live in the system that exists, and in that context there’s nothing unethical about charging rent to provide someone exclusive access to a property that I worked 20 years for to pay off plus 10 years to save for the down payment. Like, I’m just a wage slave myself and there’s literally over 250k of my own money in my house … why should I have to give that away for free? Seems to me that trying to take the fruits of my labor (i.e. the house that I worked for) for free is the thievery here.

land speculator

Tendentious language.

What service does the land speculator landlord provide to the tenant?

You think providing exclusive access to a house for the renter to live in is not something that has value?

Soon I will probably become a landlord, not because I want to but because it makes financial sense. My partner and I are pooling money to buy a place together so we can live together, she will sell her apartment and I will rent out my old apartment, which I bought with my own money and worked 20 years for to pay off. Are you suggesting I should just have to give the fruit of my 20 years of labor away to someone for free?

You’re fucking insane.