Most sites run as well, if not better, on Firefox for me.

If you’re running a quick and dirty test, you might not get an accurate picture of the performance differences. For example:

• Your usual browser might have cached some content from the last time you used it
• Unless you kill them properly, your computer might not have the RAM/processing to be running two browsers at the same time with the best performance
• One browser might be bogged down with extensions / issues that built up over time

You could try giving Firefox a clean install, or opening it in safe mode (it’s now called troubleshoot mode), to see if there’s any difference

Also YouTube

https://lifehacker.com/tech/stop-google-slowing-down-youtube-firefox-edge

Changing the user agent seems to help in some cases

I tried with the latest version of chrome and no extensions, still getting an error. I think the problem is with them.

Lawnchair is what I’m currently using, and it has some support for changing icons. You can pick other icons from the icon packs you have downloaded, but not random files and you can’t set icons for folders.

It could mean faster development if they can spend that time on other things

I found that after a good part of a year, I wasn’t using the widgets menu at all and it would take me more time to find the right tag than if I had folders that benefit from muscle memory

I do get the appeal though, it’s very polished

Lawnchair is what I’m currently using, and it’s improving. They’ve had a large development push recently. Another one I’ve looked at was SmartLauncher.

I tried Kvaesitso for a while but ultimately it wasn’t for me

There are some other projects in this space already, with varying levels of open source / selfhostability / features

https://zulip.com/

https://revolt.chat/

https://mattermost.com/

https://www.rocket.chat/

Zulip and Revolt looked the most promising for Slack and Discord replacements respectively

You might like [email protected], which is specific to software

An excerpt

Jen asked:

There’s a lot of secure software, that probably people in this room work on, that is developed in the open, and that is used primarily by at-risk users, including things like Tor, Signal, SecureDrop. That’s great, because it makes it easy for folks to contribute. Maybe you don’t want that, I understand that can be hard. But it also makes it easier for people to audit and gain assurance that the app is doing what you claim without having to have, you know, EFF reverse engineer it. Would you be open to making the app open source?

His answer: “Absolutely not.”

Why? “I don’t want anybody from the government to have their hooks in how I’m doing what I’m doing. Once you go open source, everybody has access to it. So I’m just going to keep the codebase private at this time.”

He also claimed that the government can’t learn everything about how an app works by reverse engineering it, which isn’t true.

I agree with Jen. His answers are very concerning.

They do make it possible to adjust the ratings on your own account for the ones you disagree on. It doesn’t affect the newsletters, but I find those to be too american-specific anyway

This seems to be the popular method for dealing with AI scrapers. Is there a better method / tool?

Oh nice! I’ll read up on the suggestions and see if there’s something I can add.

Off the top of my head, a nicer UI would be nice. Luma is the new thing everyone seems to be using, and the design is pretty smooth

https://lu.ma/p4bbb941

Meanwhile mobilizon looks dated and generic. Even just updating it to reflect peertube’s new UI would be nice

(yet.)

Are you planning on working with them in the future? :)

That sounds rough

If you don’t mind sharing, what is your hardware setup? Maybe someone can recommend a distro that’s more likely to work out of the box with your computer. While I haven’t tried it myself, Bazzite might be better for you if it can get you gaming without having to do too much additional work:

https://bazzite.gg/

It depends on how you want to sync. If you’re selfhosting freshrss for example, my personal preference is Capy RSS

I also recommend Foliate as the other comment said. Frog is great for extracting text quickly, especially with the screenshot tool

I’ve been following this project

https://github.com/epicenter-so/epicenter/tree/main/apps/whispering

They recently got a bunch of investment and hired some staff, and so they’re developing fairly quickly. I saw an update about local Whisper support the other day

Assuming it stays user friendly (currently open source - MIT), it might be a good option for you. Previously it was here:

https://github.com/braden-w/whispering

That’s helpful, thank you! 😄

I had been opening it in incognito to get around it, but even then it seemed to fail sometimes. I’ll tell people to try this next time

Unfortunately large institutions have been spending millions to transition TO 365 the past few years. Education and healthcare are the ones I’m aware of

Sounds good! There’s also [email protected] and similar communities to ask questions for all the specific issues you are working on