As someone who still plays a lot of 2000s and early 2010s video games, The ‘piss filter’ can stay in the past. And I go out of my way to disable it anytime I can.

For anyone who doesn’t know, look up gameplay of Need for Speed Most Wanted (2005) and noticed the heavy yellow tint over the entire screen. So many games from around that era of gaming had heavy handed colour filters. Not always piss yellow but that was a popular one.

I owned a white original model PSP and that thing never looked clean after the first week no matter what I did.

Honestly people who go all white on everything kinda terrify me…

I’m an older GenZ born in the late 90s and I’ve had to show a few younger peers how to torrent recently.

The idea of you needing a “special” program just for downloading a file seems to throw some of them off.

I do know a few young people are tech/programming wizards but “generally tech savy” people seem to be declining. It’s either you’re really into it or barely know anything outside popular apps.

One other thing I’ve noticed, People just seem to be more paranoid about downloading stuff not already installed on their devices. Which its good people give at least a bit of a shit about security but convincing people Firefox isn’t a virus gets a bit annoying (Yes I’ve had that conversation).

My main backup drive is internal/Sata but I cloned it to an external USB one after I started noticing issues with it

My bad I’m reading this all off my phone rn while using a live boot on my PC

When I tried using Ls on my main install it just froze without giving any output, I even left it for over an hour and it didn’t budge.

It’s not the boot drive and is unmounted at the moment

Any data recovery I’m trying at the moment is from the portable drive I cloned the main one from. And yes I got actually important stuff backed in multiple places, it’s mostly media and stuff like game saves I’m trying to get back.

I’m actually in a live boot rn copying as many files off it to other drives (and it seems to be working unlike on my main install?)

I am using fstab to mount my drives not KDEs mounting solution as I’ve had issues with that in the past.

But I still get a popup in the bottom corner saying the drive couldn’t mount

And yeah even went mounting and going through the drive just using CLI it still freezes up, I dunno if there’s a way to get an error log from Ls? Or something similar

To my fellow Brits, a VPN is NOT optional at this point you’re just putting yourself at unnecessary risk.

Mullvad is £50 for a whole year, and you can pay by mailing cash to their office or buying a gift card so it’s not directly tied to your bank account.

And where in the world you live.

I got a friend in Australia with a pretty similar storage setup to me, but he’s paid about 1.5x as much as I did in the UK.

A lot of us did but not everyone knows about LibreWolf or Mullvad etc

Also can’t help but think the average person will see the news about Mozilla’s new trackers and tell themselves ‘Well if I’m gonna be tracked anyway I might as well stick with Chrome’

I’m normally not someone who gets hung up on fonts but this one thing bugs me SO MUCH.

Yeah pretty much.

Unless you want to build your own car from the ground up, which you can do in most places if it passes safety regulations. But that takes time, money, workspace and knowing what you’re even doing.

Sorry, that just sounds annoying and less productive.

It is but the “holy trinity” of Ui/UX design Apple, Google and Microsoft have been pushing this for years now.

My eye twitches anytime I go onto a webpage that’s just a phone app in the middle of my screen with two blank voids on either side.

EndeavourOS has a pretty nice colour scheme and wallpaper going by default.

If I was forced to use a default distro look, it would be that or Linux Mint probably.

I’ve been using it for years just to translate my PS4 controller to Xbox so it works with most games

Rules for thee but not for me

Pretty sure they do? Unless you’re talking about a different DRM thing.

I’m gonna keep using and recommending LibreWolf for the foreseeable future.

But I wonder what other alternative web engines do we have with both Chromium and Gecko being run by advertisers now?

I know Palemoon runs a fork of a really old version of a Gecko and I used it for a bit back when Firefox 58 broke most add-ons. But I’m a bit iffy of it’s security these days.

As a newer Linux user I really like flatpaks.

I don’t use them for most things I install but proprietary apps I want sandboxed or programs that have weird issues with dependencies I grab the flatpak.

I switched a few months back after using Firefox /w ArkenWolf for years.

It’s great having an out the box product I don’t have to immediately tweak settings or install 3rd party tweaks & plugins to have a decent experience with.