I hadn’t, but it certainly has some aesthetics that look cool! Will for sure try it out since it the other two commenters seem to like it. Really happy to have a few options to know about so quickly. Thank you!

Thank you for such a good overview! I will likely hop between three advised (Niri, swayfx, and river) since it will be fun to get the feel of TWM options.

Are there any hard forks or similar to Hyperland that are for Wayland? I was going to try it on my Pi5 (it is my main “messing with random Linux stuff” device that I don’t care if I break something), but then I saw people talking about the far-right/fascist stuff and didn’t bother. It looked nice when I saw people in random videos running it (wasn’t the focus of the videos and just stood-out).

I know there are other well known tiled window managers which I might end up trying since I keep meaning to see how I take to them. The look of Hyperland is nice with some stacked window manager elements if needed (which I imagine other projects also have). I just don’t know which TWM projects are “better” (for starting with coming from only using SWM). Some level of aesthetics would be nice but am fine with adding after install.

People really want those builds/any files from Half-Life Episode 3. The other stuff is just extra.

I will say at least with those you can still sell them, trade them, whatever. Unlike digital games.

Being able to sell/trade a specific copy of digital media kind of is the one functional use NFTs could be used for (if companies would be willing to treat digital media to be treated like physical media which they obviously like the current setup). Would also kind of need a universal industry blockchain (or some other ledger system) with better scam protections, and be used for the “new” sales for the trades and “used” sales. Which is way more effort than digital media companies would ever care to figure out (especially now) and were able to get away with not being required to treat digital like physical. And the major players don’t have to care about making their stuff DRM-free.

In the case of video media it is worse since there are so many set-top devices that don’t allow offline downloads like the mobile versions of the same apps (mostly since the boxes don’t have storage for it) or ability to use on a home media server (Plex/Jellyfin). So you may have a license to a movie/show but not have access to it if networks are down. And digital audio media has been reverting since a lot of new music can’t be purchased and only streamed. Which is sad since I had some early hope that the digital video stuff would follow how audio was working with a lot of DRM-free options Apple and Amazon managed to “legitimize”. I will give some level of credit to the UV/Movies Anywhere system that allows retaining a supported movie/show if you have accounts on multiple services and any one of them shuts down. But that still requires that stores/studios support it, AND that the core system isn’t the thing shutdown.

Stuff like that is worse than sites only working with Chrome/Chromium. It is infuriating that site reaches deeper for the OS. A website should work so long as the browser is used.

Same, very rarely “disappointed” with FF outside of the core browser (like the days when Chrome could point to how much RAM older FF was stuck using before Chrome became worse). Still used it as default on desktop and laptop since like 03~04, and completely switched on Android when they started allowing limited extensions (and now can basically force almost all).

The sites themselves are what I actually feel extremely disappointed about. Back when I did randomly buy/stream songs/albums from Amazon it would work. But now they pretend to work and then act like my browser “is out of date” (even link the FF site knowing there isn’t an update and pulls the old IE tactic of really pushing “better with Chrome” or whatever). I don’t use the Netflix site, but know that they have intentionally dark patterned using it on FF with fake limits on being 720p, and very much can run 1080p with third-party extensions likely spoofing Chrome/Chromium coded DRM (I am guessing that is what is being done at least).

Just my personal opinions (ranting) without hard data/facts: Which is basically back to the same issue from the IE days. Chromium is better than IE really because it can be used to make other browsers. But is being coded for by sites like IE in how if the agent seen is not Chromium then it hard stops. Which to me just makes the circular feedback that Chromium IS the standard because more people use it, but people use it because non-Chromium browsers “can’t” load the pages they go to. Same applies to extensions being gutted because Google controls basically what gets to still work, and most Chromium browsers don’t host their own extensions stores. Given most people don’t bother trying other browsers because Edge is the default in Windows (so Chromium) or because a long time ago they were told “don’t use IE and use Chrome” by their “tech friends” when IE was getting worse and worse with malware exploits. Younger folks have grown up with Chrome being “the internet” like IE was for folks in the 90s/00s.

A lot of the folks that do intentionally install Chromium “forks” do it for some misc features/layouts while being told sites that work in Chrome will also work. So those folks at least are interested in trying stuff like Brave/Opera/OperaGX after a YouTuber or some source they trust. But would only try FF or browsers based on it if those same trusted sources went hard pushing it, and if major sites they use (that currently artificially don’t work) did work. The moment one site they use enough doesn’t work, then they basically swear off FF and maybe even continue the telephone game of telling their friends/family FF is bad/won’t work. Then the sites continue to code for Chromium because "no one uses FF (or whatever non-Chromium browsers that aren’t Safari).

I tend to still get pulled onto it via search results when the stereotypical specific answer to specific answers are basically from there. But Lemmy has really grown so much since I first found out about it a few years ago (one of the big ditch Reddit waves of course). Still not at the “magical answer to the very issue I need info on” levels as subreddits, but getting closer and closer everyday. Also really cool to get and reply to sources from other Fediverse projects that aren’t Lemmy if you choose to follow them. Just so fun overall.

Which is why they knew you were running Linux. lol

I have been curious if IPFS would be useful for releases if the trackers keep getting taken down (or another option aside from torrents and Usenet). But aside from installing IPFS a few years ago, I haven’t looked into it. And the crypto parts are a turn-off for folks that hate the crypto-bro stockmarket/scams (which is completely justified to hate). The decentralized part of it is cool.

More related to torrents. It would be cool if Nyaa and other large trackers were to setup i2p versions of the sites. Since it actually helps make the system run faster the more people install the routers.

The rest is general ranting.

With all the different decentralized P2P, a lot of spreading out of concentrated server loads could help beyond piracy. If profits/copyright/capitalism weren’t the things holding us back (along with data caps). I wouldn’t mind sharing some of my connection for so many things. Like updates for programs, media I happen to have copies/parts of, or even random files/parts of files that rotate into and off of specially allocated amounts of my drives.

Even Windows has the option for helping updates for the OS to other PCs. But I am not trying to help them with all the shit they pull while making billions (especially if I had a data cap) while not legally able to do the same for general data. If profits/copyright/capitalism weren’t an issue, then stuff like having digital libraries constantly at risk of shutting down and losing everything would basically be a non-issue. If one service pulls out, the data is still accessible via another front-end. I would even be fine with options to donate money to the devs/artists for stuff I use/like in amounts I can afford as I can.

It doesn’t work every time (I am very much not someone that can just switch off), but I have found “floor time” to help as a method of meditating. Initially I was just doing stretches of time for the sake of countering being slumped posture all day without a specific intention of being a sleep aid. Some of us randomly do it on the cold floor at work if physically stressed out, which is why I thought to try it at home in the dark.

Tend to either have some long form video play that I have watched before and find nice for sound, or put buds in and set like a 20~30min sleep timer for podcast episodes I like and marked to never delete in a favorites section of the app. Ended up also finding some buds (Soundcore Sleep A10 for anyone that wants to know) that can auto-stop playback if they detect sleep (guessing they use like a heart-rate sensor). So they can act as an additional stop if I fall asleep before the actual sleep timer (sadly I have misplaced them ATM). Which help silence my own thoughts, and anchor onto the audio (and thoughts get kept to the video/podcast). And use the timer to formerly end the “floor time” or to avoid losing my place.

Only other thing I try to allow myself to drift into thinking about is if I feel like I have tensed-up or periodic moving my head to each side for a few mins each to stretch my neck. I just stare into the back of my eyelids, but sometimes the darkness of the room (or into something covering my eyes) for times that staring into the back of my eyelids feels weirdly stressful in the same way a staring contest does when open (very annoying feeling).

I have a high level (in my understanding) of Aphantasia, which for people that haven’t heard of it, is not being able to “see” imaginations like folks that talk about “imagine a ball of light” or other guided things. Not fully lacking complete ability to “see” things, but ranging from only the idea (nothing) to extremely quick flashes of mostly super low details. So I try to learn how to focus on keeping the flashes a little longer and “see” simple things or pull the image of the room as I would be seeing it from my spot on the floor if my eyes were open. Made some progress here and there, while still not being able to do it outside of these times. Which I think might be helping me start to nod-off into really light sleep where dreams are close to starting.

Which can slip into that weird sudden falling feeling people have sometimes before fully falling asleep. However even if that happens, I can use that as a stopping point for “floor time” and move into the bed and fall asleep soon after. As my mind/body are much closer to whatever state needed for going over the edge of sleep. If the “falling” thing doesn’t happen, I might reach a slightly deeper sleep where I am dreaming but can either still hear the show/podcast in the dream or it is influencing the dream to some in the short time I nod-off.

I would guess that it isn’t trespassing in the normal sense since they own the house/building. Since the contract sounds like it allows them access inside and outside based on the kitchen stuff. Still would be good to see what legal protections you have for privacy as a renter in your area. If they are closing the window from the outside, it might not be legally trespassing (again in the normal sense of the law) as they could argue it is a facilities issue or something.

I tend to find most of their larger changes to be fine as long as I can relatively quickly adjust to locating things. It for sure will get backlash like a lot of their efforts to evolve and try things out.

Nice to know it shouldn’t need compiling. Still might be fun to eventually try doing that just to say I could follow instructions.

I hope the user agent does contribute something. We need as many statistics as possible to chip away at the Chromium engine monopoly (just like the old IE Trident). Really hate all the fake “please update you browser or try Chromium” messages for random sites that are basically hard coded.

Certainly don’t want to spoof the Chrome agent and give reinforcing stats that Chromium is the only thing that should be coded for. I imagine in a lot of cases the issue is more about them using DRM which FF and forks don’t add out of principle. Even when DRM is supported, they still nerf FF for basically no reason (Netflix being the longest well known example). Really wish there was a way to fully switch Android’s Chromium Web-view to Gecko instead of all apps defaulting to Chromium inside them while I’m ranting about it. lol

I used to try “doing my part” by installing FF on PCs I was setting up for people as a second option (left Edge as default to not completely be an asshole) and just mention it could be helpful for seeing if a site was just not working or if there was an issue with Edge/Chrome. But out of all the stuff people just somehow not “notice” just installing out of nowhere (so many will just accept those scammy drive-by Chromium browsers like Swift or Web-Discover showing up). Saying they just though it was from Microsoft updates like they did with the screen filling IE toolbars. They really noticed Firefox and be like “is this malware?” or otherwise be weirded out. So I stopped though I still add uBlock Origin and the Lite version on all browsers, and show how to white list sites when needed. So I still get to “do my part” on that front.

I really need to catch-up on it. Only annoying thing (normally) with their major changes is muscle memory with the old UI. But using Zen with all the changes they have made more frequently reminded me of how excited I would get for big things FF did over time. I loved how much better the Quantum refresh made speed and memory usage noticeably better. Less excited about the trend of apps and other software making things “rounded” to look “modern” or whatever (though I do like the “floating” tab look from Proton refresh). Just feels like things are larger/taking up too much space, but I am guessing touchscreens are the reason. Aside from the block on unsigned extensions, I hope the functional changes lead to a decent successor to the gains Quantum brought.

Could be useful to try that out to at least see how the process works. Thanks!

Awesome! I could always just change the icon if it bugged me for some reason. Would be helpful to know what stuff gets moved around before running into it when working on someone’s PC. The latest layout change in settings really tripped me out when I first started seeing it on their PCs. They haven’t done such a massive UI change for settings in a while.

Didn’t think about that at all. I might play with that option at some point since I haven’t tried compiling a browser before. Would just like to periodically contribute to the ever shrinking percent of FF share of the browser space (which I believe forks and would guess the unbranded version don’t count towards). Really lame reasoning on my part, but do like to think their percentage needs to stop falling against the flood of Chrome/Chromium stuff. Maybe there is a extension that can spoof the specific telemetry used for that kind of statistic. Wouldn’t mind sending that while benefiting from others that are removed in different forks.

Since I mostly use the extension to download videos from various sites (currently YT is broken but I use yt-dlp with SponsorBlock for that). It might be fine to just load it with the debugging option as needed. I already use the Zen fork a lot, so another fork may just be overkill (though I am glad you shared one I wasn’t aware of). Thanks for the info!