according to firefox android they use letsencrypt

ok but such a sensational announcement like this suggests that before (and without) gpu acceleration the program was noticeably slow for some reason

root seems like a tremendously bad idea

that’s a personal choice. I have chosen its benefits

and a I appreciate their auto updates

yeah auto updates are good, that’s no question, but forced auto updates are not at all. or are we really only angry when windows does it?

to be honest I don’t have a list at hand, but one of the reasons is that (I don’t remember which of the following) either they are more friendly to root users, or they are more friendly to those who don’t want unattended automatic system upgrades. I had to disable the updater app like disabling other apps for it to let me stop updates happening without my approval, which I want for 2 reasons:

1. the occassional downgrades and breaking changes coming from upstream google engineers
2. calyx not using the addon.d thing for some reason so Magisk does not get automatically installed to the upgraded system’s boot partition, which technically is also kind of a breaking change

maybe I have read something about built-in features as well, but I’m not sure about that. it was a few months ago when I was reading up on this.

is QEMU god?

and you have just submitted a unique identifier over the whole internet

sad to hear it. used mull as my primary browser, and wanted to switch to divestos from calyx. I guess not anymore, then :/

cameras were prioritised before audio? Interesting choice

it deals with items of different materials and different kinds of dirtyness. drying is done wildly differently too, and some dishwaser detergent has stuff to help faster drying

is this an advertisement?

also, is it really the world leading oss firewall distro?
I’m no expert but I have never heard of it, even though I’m not exactly new to Linux. in contrast, OPNSense and pfSense is quite popular

I’m pretty sure UEFI systems don’t make use of a boot sector anymore. They look for the bootloader in the form of an .efi file in the ESP or EFI System Partition, of each sata drive (maybe other block devices too).

also, the disk it uses is not necessarily “/dev/sda”. first because it can be on any of the disks, second because that’s not a persistent ID but something that depends on detection order

Especially with software being called firmware and not being called motherbootware or pre-bootware or anything that indicates that this piece of software is the very first thing that starts running during boot.

firmware is a pretty common term for things like this (code on chip that manages low level startup)

which is not a solution, only a hotfix

I run all of these or their equivalents in docker containers and have up to date versions of them. to me it makes management easy and the system clean from random files at random places. just one example: fortunately it does not need babysitting but i2p keeps its files in a very disorganized way inside the container, and I would never want to install it directly to the system (maybe unless the system would be dedicated to that)

For android phone GrapheneOS.

it does not fix a lot of the bullshit changes

why do you think that?

I don’t know whether it would be impossible to do, but using OBS would be much easier both on the short and long term

I also sometimes (but often enough, including a time this week) hear people discuss to not install updates because of this and that.

but then if I think about it, I have trained myself too to this:

• I avoid updates to my smart tv, because I know with facts that they’ll enshittify it, including patching in admin access (was not obtained by a no-interaction attack), flooding it with ads and even more tracking, and even more preinstalled apps and their own tracking. this applies to any “smart” appliences
• I am cautious with android updates, because they sometimes break things with no way back, not even a real way to do backups. besides that, major version updates always reset some settings including to not connect automatically to any random ISP’s cellular network. versions starting with 8 also introduced many new arbitrary limitations out of the user’s control that cannot be reverted
• I’ve seen many apps on the play store get enshittified, but sometimes f-droid apps to make changes that I would wish they rather didn’t do
• windows updates breaking expected and unexpected things just as well
• linux is fragile regarding updates, though at times an immediate reboot solves it (when the issue is caused by incompatibility between the the on-disk and in-memory versions of the programs and program libraries)

for what kind of software? also, do you maybe also have exact features on your mimd?

but then how does it override the default only once?