Downvotes aren’t even a thing on my instance. We only have the upvote button. I like it that way tbh :)

Overly simplistic example:

• You have clothes. You need food.

• I have food. I don’t need clothes, but I do need water.

• Someone else has water. They need clothes.

We could do a complicated multi-party trade. Or, rather than set one of those up for every single necessity of life, find some item that everyone’s willing to trade for. Instead of using items which have intrinsic value such as gold (which we’d presumably also have to trade for), we can use a token whose only purpose is to be that universal item. We call that “money”.

The way we represent that token isn’t really important. It can be metal discs. It can be pieces of paper. It can be numbers in a computer system. But crucially, because everyone is willing to trade what they have for some amount of money, we can each trade the things we have too much of for money, and then trade that money for the things we need.

Again, this is overly simplistic and missing a hell of a lot of nuance. But that’s how money works in the most basic possible terms.

Filters are your friends. :)

Who or what is a a16z?

Here in the UK, retailers have been pretending Black Friday has always been a thing. In reality it only arrived here a few years ago. The first year, it was crazy. The second year, it was underwhelming. A few years on, we have Black Friday Week which actually lasts two weeks (this week and next). Internally we call it Black Friday Month, which should give you some idea of the eventual endgame.

Thought so.

Don’t fancy their chances on being able to keep on going without Mozilla.

Thanks for the reminder to toss the Servo project some money. There needs to be another competitor to Chromium.

Isn’t LibreWolf just Firefox with a preconfigured profile?

I worry that some people actually think that’s how it works.

if you sign up now you get two, so you get double protection

Can you please explain how you think that works?

Japanese only has 46 letters? So we’re completely ignoring the existence of Kanji?

When my Graphene’d Pixel 7 goes out of support I’m switching to something Linux based even if I have to get a Raspberry Pi and a case and carry around a brick. My handbag’s big enough.

There can be more than one bad guy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint

I thought we were the United Federation of Planets Shitposts?

What about your profile, other than your bookmarks and cookies, do you want to keep?

I wouldn’t. Part of how LibreWolf works is that it makes extensive changes to a new profile, just copying your profile over kinda defeats the object.

The best way is to export your bookmarks and cookies from Firefox (there are add-ons that can help if you don’t know how) and then import them into LibreWolf.

Also, if you use Firefox to store your passwords, you should export those too, and keep them somewhere safer. The browser’s an obvious target and LibreWolf disables password storage by default for that reason. KeePassXC is what I use but use whatever works for you.

Thanks. Let me check my understanding here. You don’t trust Canonical, but you do trust Red Hat?

Why?

Not judging or anything. Just curious why it’s your go-to. Mine’s either “Ubuntu” or “try several live distros, see what you like the feel of before installing one”.

Personally I’d pick Xubuntu but that’s just me. Try a few different live distros and see what clicks?