In today's Freebooters Chris and Drew chat about experiences with Debian Linux and Arch Linux, as well as the death of the web, the rise of the Fedi, self hosting, and Firefox's declining browser share.
I use Librewolf and just ignore that DRM thing by clicking close - don't recall having any trouble with the sites you mentioned. I have made a few small changes to the defaults but nothing major. Also I still haven't been bounced off of YouTube.
I think there is a lot of "old web" still around but it depends on your interests and also with search engine enshittification it is hard to discover. BBSes seem pretty popular again in certain circles too - classic computing being the main one I would say.
The browser problem is something I think about a lot. At this point I don't think it's feasible to build a full-featured 'web browser' for the bloated js-heavy corporate web. I think we can decide to embrace simple, non-js dependant websites and things like gemini, gopher ect.
I'd really like to see more 'small-web'/'small-internet' browsers that are compatible with protocols like gopher/gemini and have basic web compatibility. We can build browsers for the internet we want.
I really enjoyed watching this talk about not talking about Linux anymore on my corebooted Chromebook with Debian stable (less updates) through Firefox esr (good enough) from the main repo (I just don't like flatpak).
Looking forward to a next episode of Freebooters. Around the time when Debian 13 will be released?
Yep and also that some applications like discord close to the system tray so you know when applications that have it as a feature so you can know its open
I like to describe Debian development as Kafka's The Process, but in a good way. And that suits my needs and how I use my computer. Others like Arch, or Ubuntu, or something else. That's perfectly fine too. Is PopOS still called PopOS_! ?
@Chris Were but on PeerTube Didn't realize that Freebooters had moved from share.tube and only catching up now. Did @uoou ever set up his BBS? I'd love to check it out.
@uoou Also, I don't know if you're aware of this, but if you like retrocomputing, have a look at: ssh menu@tty.sdf.org They've got a whole bunch of vintage systems set up and accessible to the public.
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in reply to Chris Were but on PeerTube • • •The browser problem is something I think about a lot. At this point I don't think it's feasible to build a full-featured 'web browser' for the bloated js-heavy corporate web. I think we can decide to embrace simple, non-js dependant websites and things like gemini, gopher ect.
I'd really like to see more 'small-web'/'small-internet' browsers that are compatible with protocols like gopher/gemini and have basic web compatibility. We can build browsers for the internet we want.
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in reply to Chris Were but on PeerTube • • •I really enjoyed watching this talk about not talking about Linux anymore on my corebooted Chromebook with Debian stable (less updates) through Firefox esr (good enough) from the main repo (I just don't like flatpak).
Looking forward to a next episode of Freebooters. Around the time when Debian 13 will be released?
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in reply to uoou • • •ssh menu@tty.sdf.orgThey've got a whole bunch of vintage systems set up and accessible to the public.