Software Endorsements

[GethN7]

Just out of curiosity, are you running the latest (and x64) version? I saw a lot o people complaining about FF being slow but on either my PotatoWorkStation at work and at home I could not find this alleged slowdown compared to chrome.

Tested both the latest Firefox on Linux and Windows, both latest x64 versions.

In my tests, without any extensions or plugins, Firefox always loaded pages slower than Brave by, at worst, 0.5 seconds.

Brave has always loaded faster on both for me.

Brave was also tested in an Android VM, where it's performance is always a bit slower than it's equivalents on other platforms, but long term, tended to always work slightly better than Firefox.

This may vary on actual hardware though.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Question: I wish to extend one screen to the other. Not extend it onto two screens like usual, no I want them to be seen as one really wide screen for the program I'm running. The screens are the same size and have the same resolution, the program runs full screen so dragging it around is not an option.

Turns out that Nvidia surround works, easier than expected.

duplo-post

Just out of curiosity, are you running the latest (and x64) version? I saw a lot o people complaining about FF being slow but on either my PotatoWorkStation at work and at home I could not find this alleged slowdown compared to chrome.

FireFox Quantum seemed snappy enough during the minutes it was installed while I was raging about it sneakily updating to a version that doesn't support or will never support the extensions I use.

 

[Stock Image Photographer]

The only reasons to use Firefox at this point are to use Firefox-exclusive add-ons and to fiddle with settings that you'd have to recompile the browser to change in Chrome/Brave/etc. Those reasons are enough to convince me to keep using it, but if someone doesn't care about either of those I'd tell them to use Brave if it's available to them.

 

[GethN7]

If the stench of chan faggotry doesn't scare you off, here's a good wiki for software and hardware customization:

InstallGentoo Wiki

wiki.installgentoo.com

Here they recommend a lot of things anyone with half a brain might want to customize their OS with, and if you still have to use Windows 10 but are leery of it's security, they provide a ton of ways to anonymize yourself on it as much as possible.

They provide all sorts of useful information for users of .nix based OSes, MacOS, Windows, and even Android.

They are a bit obsessed with being anon and encryption, but we are talking about /g/entoomen, and if you want to get into that, it's worth giving them a look-see.

 

[byuu]

The only reasons to use Firefox at this point are to use Firefox-exclusive add-ons

Firefox in their wisdom killed that too and switched to Chrome-style extensions.

 

[Stock Image Photographer]

Firefox in their wisdom killed that too and switched to Chrome-style extensions.

True, but there are still some exclusive add-ons like AdNauseam and a WebRTC blocker that actually works. I've also found that canvas blocking works better in Firefox, but that could just be me.

 

[Dread First]

True, but there are still some exclusive add-ons like AdNauseam and a WebRTC blocker that actually works. I've also found that canvas blocking works better in Firefox, but that could just be me.

AdNauseum isn't FF exclusive. If you go onto their website, you can sideload the crx. On the downside, this does mean that Chrome/Brave/other such browsers will always have an annoying notification that tells you "please disable developer extensions" upon first load. You can close it out easily enough, but it's an extra notification to deal with.

 

[Stock Image Photographer]

AdNauseum isn't FF exclusive. If you go onto their website, you can sideload the crx. On the downside, this does mean that Chrome/Brave/other such browsers will always have an annoying notification that tells you "please disable developer extensions" upon first load. You can close it out easily enough, but it's an extra notification to deal with.

Sideloading extensions is jank and insecure.

 

[mugsy]

This might be oddly specific, but it's relevant to anyone with a shitty internet package. As someone currently residing in the Balkan shit funhole that is Serbia for a few months, the connection speeds offered here are marginally better than they'd be in Rwanda or some other 3rd world hellscape wonderland. After purchasing a neutered internet package from the only monopolized provider in my region, SBB, I noticed for the first time that I was unable to download large files and watch videos/streams at the same time. Certain programs like the steam client have built in download throttling, but most others don't.

In my case, I spent 3 hours downloading a game from another client while browsing text-only messageboards. Then, a friend of mine in the area told me to download Netlimiter. It allows you to easily throttle your network traffic with moderate granularity. It's very easy to use, you just check the program you want to limit and set your custom speed in kB/s. Now you can download and watch streams at the same time.

They give you a 7 day trial when you first download it. I recommend keeping the installer file, as once your trial ends, you can just reinstall it and it will refresh the 7 day period. The consensus online is that it's a decent product and doesn't fuck with your pc in anyway. There are other free versions of DL-monitors that might be worth looking into as well.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

This might be oddly specific, but it's relevant to anyone with a shitty internet package. As someone currently residing in the Balkan shit funhole that is Serbia for a few months, the connection speeds offered here are marginally better than they'd be in Rwanda or some other 3rd world hellscape wonderland. After purchasing a neutered internet package from the only monopolized provider in my region, SBB, I noticed for the first time that I was unable to download large files and watch videos/streams at the same time. Certain programs like the steam client have built in download throttling, but most others don't.

In my case, I spent 3 hours downloading a game from another client while browsing text-only messageboards. Then, a friend of mine in the area told me to download Netlimiter. It allows you to easily throttle your network traffic with moderate granularity. It's very easy to use, you just check the program you want to limit and set your custom speed in kB/s. Now you can download and watch streams at the same time.

They give you a 7 day trial when you first download it. I recommend keeping the installer file, as once your trial ends, you can just reinstall it and it will refresh the 7 day period. The consensus online is that it's a decent product and doesn't fuck with your pc in anyway. There are other free versions of DL-monitors that might be worth looking into as well.

Do you use straight up cellular internet? Any decent router with QoS should be able to do balance traffic automatically or it can be set manually. At the dawn of cheap consumer routers with WiFi downloading a torrent could be enough to make the internet unresponsive in general for a whole house.

Even now I can't shake the habit of manually setting every program(torrent, steam, origin) to use only 98% of my bandwidth in their settings, just in case.

 

[Steelersfan22]

I would like to endorse the 7-zip. basically a better version of WinRAR. it can unpack these files: AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VMDK, WIM, XAR and Z.
enjoy

 

[GethN7]

I would like to endorse the 7-zip. basically a better version of WinRAR. it can unpack these files: AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VMDK, WIM, XAR and Z.
enjoy

While not for Linux directly, it's runtime files do make up the core of several Linux equivalents that are the same thing by a different name, so seconded since it's very multi-platform.

 

[BarberFerdinand]

Youtube dlg never seems to work for me anymore, it always errors; I've tried reinstalling to no avail. I know there are plenty of methods of downloading videos available, but what do the experts recommend?

 

[Null]

Reinstalling how? If you're using a linux package, just install it manually. Run "youtube-dl -U" any time you get an error. YouTube is in a constant arms race with YouTube DL.

 

[James Smith]

Run "youtube-dl -U" any time you get an error. YouTube is in a constant arms race with YouTube DL.

The Windows version is updated using the same command.

 

[a_lurker]

I don't disagree but Mozilla Foundation is terminally exceptional.

They've been leaving a shitty taste in my mouth the past few years, and it wasn't just one thing. The whole fiasco that lead to debian rebranding firefox as iceweasel, the mr. robot bullshit, and now they're talking about "premium" subscription type shit for firefox. They've made it clear they don't give a fuck about users privacy, or making the web better, the foundation wants fucking shekels so they can buy new fursuits.


I signed up to ask your (@Null) opinion about 3 pieces of software/services

Keybase
You can use your own gpg/pgp keys.
integrated crypto wallet/file sharing/git are all sort of nice.
Telegram gives me weird vibes.

LBRY
decentralized youtube with a crypto payment system baked in.
should be relatively censorship resistant

cryptocurrency could allow it to be self funding if it catches on, could also be a *coin of the week pump and dump scam with the hopes that the content distribution throws people off long enough for the devs to amass shitloads of money before they cash in and disappear shortly before it falls apart.

Mastodon/GNU Social/Pleroma (all varying shades of the same shit)
roll your own instances of twitter (basically)



IMO Cryptocurrencies, decentralized/P2P content distribution are really the only way forward to sort of have a free, unfucked internet. In a lot of ways the web browser ruined the internet, getting shit off of something accessible in the browser is going to limits its userbase, but hopefully will allow the people willing to look for shit to be able to find it without it being wiped from the net because someone got butthurt or has a financial interest in hiding it.


The "normie paradox", the more people that use it, the more likely it will turn to shit, BUT, if there aren't enough people to keep it going, it winds up dying.

 

[Null]

Keybase
You can use your own gpg/pgp keys.
integrated crypto wallet/file sharing/git are all sort of nice.
Telegram gives me weird vibes.

I don't use any pgp keys routinely because it's encumbering so I've never used it, though I do have an account.

LBRY
decentralized youtube with a crypto payment system baked in.
should be relatively censorship resistant

cryptocurrency could allow it to be self funding if it catches on, could also be a *coin of the week pump and dump scam with the hopes that the content distribution throws people off long enough for the devs to amass shitloads of money before they cash in and disappear shortly before it falls apart.

I also have invested in this but I've not checked up on it recently. It's a nice idea.

Mastodon/GNU Social/Pleroma (all varying shades of the same shit)
roll your own instances of twitter (basically)

GNU Social was not that great when I tried it, Pleroma I've never used though I think Cryptofurher @CrunkLord420 was setting one up, and Mastodon looks like it's catching on but I've never used it either.

tbh @CrunkLord420 probably has better developed opinions on these than me.

 

[Poiseon]

I've switched over to Brave, as Firefox has been really stupid lately, but I'm exceptional as fuck. Is there any video downloading extension available? every time I search it it send me to Chrome, and I know it's based on Chrome to some extent, but I can't get it to work. Is there a certain way to set m,y settings, or is there no way to do have a video downloading extension on Brave?

 

[Remove Goat]

GNU Social was not that great when I tried it, Pleroma I've never used though I think Cryptofurher @CrunkLord420 was setting one up, and Mastodon looks like it's catching on but I've never used it either.

tbh @CrunkLord420 probably has better developed opinions on these than me.

I think he was screaming at you for more access to the server he was running the Matrix server on to do that or something.

You'll have to revisit it with him for any progress.

 

[Null]

I've switched over to Brave, as Firefox has been really stupid lately, but I'm exceptional as fuck. Is there any video downloading extension available? every time I search it it send me to Chrome, and I know it's based on Chrome to some extent, but I can't get it to work. Is there a certain way to set m,y settings, or is there no way to do have a video downloading extension on Brave?

All Chrome extensions should work on Brave. If they don't, you should probably file a bug report.