d-RLY?

Agreed. Not kidding myself into thinking it would happen. But would be cool if enough of the FF forks were able to form a collective or some body to work on shared effort to develop the main base of the browser in the event (or when) Mozilla calls it quits. The individual forks obviously have their own goals and ideologies that conflict at various levels (LibreWolf and Zen being two obvious examples). But all of them are able to do amazing work with the current base of FF.

Easy to think about, but so much harder to realistically pull off. I know donations are like drops of mist compared to the real money sources for Mozilla. Which would mean such a collective has less of a chance. Though I know a lot of FF users would be willing to donate if they knew it was going directly to the engine/core and not the non-browser stuff. Mozilla more or less seems to really want to be something more like EFF with various efforts not about the browser.

FF went from forcing some amazing demand for breaking away from the fake “standards” MS created and made extensions and tabs normal. To being overwhelmed by Google’s version of modern IE, and trying to chase features that even normie Chrome users don’t really care about (just really care that the sites they use work). Which aside from conflicting with stated goals, tend to not work with so many sites that now code specifically for Chromium and DRM (not even allowing sites to load if anything but Chromium is detected).

One really great thing FF has going for it is the Android version. Having my extensions (even if some of them need to be side-loaded via activating dev mode) really make browsing on my phones/tablets feel more like my desktop. Not an iPhone user, so I can’t speak to the iOS versions. But at least Safari is able to have uBO Lite and other extensions.

I also default to Vivaldi when I need to use a Chromium browser, and I have found that I like the Feeds part of the browser better than Thunderbird. It is for sure the most customizable Chromium based option, so many tweak-able options. Aside from a couple of RSS feeds I check like once or twice a day, Zen and FF are my defaults for basically all browsing. I don’t tend to do things that make use of the AI stuff in FF, but honestly don’t really care if Mozilla has those options as long as they keep them as easy to disable as they currently are.

GIMP is much more memorable for good or bad. I got over the name like 5mins after I first learned about it years ago. WLBR is so bland outside of the spelling. At least Blender kind of sounds like it blends elements to make something, and Plasma sounds like it would look nice. WLBR sounds frumpy/bland (though I would like to know what it will stand for), which is about as bad as trying too hard to sound “fresh/sexy” from a marketing standpoint. Maybe they could have gone with GRIP (GNU Raster Image Program) if the actual concern was about “offending” people while still being easy to remember? Idk, I suck at naming things.

I would love to have an excuse to put that on mine. If the job is tech or imaging related, then they would already be aware of it. For the others, at least it might cause a laugh or confuse them long enough to look it up (which means you might get remembered and taught them something). Just have to own it and not pre-apologize for it, power move, and don’t even act like it is any different when speaking at an interview (just like any of the other stuff you have listed). That or just put “GNU Image Manipulation Program Project” and leave it at that since it sounds “professional”.

That being said, I hate how overly “professional” people try to make every little thing sound much more “impressive” than they are. But I respect that you care more than I do/would, so no hate for you likely being much more likely to land a job. lol

One personal anecdote about wild resume with regards to a video response to questions I listened to while my boss was having to watch to make first picks for real interview. There was a woman that said her name was “Lix Dicks” (I can’t remember how it was actually spelled). I was like “Wait wait wait, did the sound just glitch out??” and my boss also had the same look on her face. We replayed it a few times trying to see if it was our PC or maybe the video. But my boss went back to the text of her resume, and shit was real. The person ended up not making it due to availability listed in a different section (her other previous work and qualifications would have had her much better than most of the others). Best believe we were sad that it meant the in-person interview didn’t happen. We still remember her though. Perfect qualifications AND such a wild name was such a loss for us.

Installed, did notice that even though I tell my phone (Samsung 24U) to use it as default assistant app. Google still opens when holding the home “button” at the bottom of my screen. When I tell it to have the floating bubble the app itself is cool.

Get console OSes since PlayStation BSD stuff could be useful for something, and Nintendo stuff just because they always lose their shit and show their true colours. Modern Windows source code for moving React OS forward because they deserve to hit a real release after so long. And of course all of the Creative Cloud shit to remove reasons for still paying the Adobe Tax.

Would be hilarious if they went in hard with it. Just start copy-pasting just a wild amount of them in grids that don’t connect to any inlet or exit to/from actual roads. After a certain point, they could say it is some national art project that is about the very corruption that leads to this original one.

Same here. Though I would imagine the real people benefiting would be people holding Bitcoin. Especially if true, since shit would jump the price massively while in effect.

https://xdaforums.com/t/research-wip-possible-volte-enablement-for-samsung-devices-on-aosp-based-roms.4664947/

https://github.com/jameskdev/android_samsung_imsservice

Not sure if the above helps (as the links are from 2024), but might be useful for the S10 if their efforts are usable. I haven’t messed with custom ROMs on anything in a long time and I don’t know the processes for patching mentioned in the links. The last time was not with intent to actually have a working phone and just messing with my S6 just to try installing Lineage OS on something I had no plan of caring about.

Wait until they find out what can be done with socks and some rocks inside them.

Solitaire and Minesweeper. Literally the best games for when I just want to play something that doesn’t require a lot of attention (no story lines, long load times, or remembering what I was doing the last time I played). Just enough to focus my attention while waiting around, but able to close out when whatever I was waiting on is ready. Just really calming for the most part.

I might end up looking at newer stuff, but… how tf am I going to avoid shitty touchscreens, spyware, LED headlights, and all that garbage?

And going to get harder to avoid a lot of that stuff once enough of them eventually get into the much cheaper levels of the used market. Though by then (and even currently in the higher priced used levels) most of the stuff will no longer even be supported to use (even if you for some reason did find a need to use them and be okay paying).

I got a 2015 Rogue SV that stuff like nav or whatever other stuff doesn’t even have access to the apps from Nissan to set them up. And was like one or two years behind Android Auto or even Apple’s stuff. So can’t just have the main screen just cast my phone’s maps. Really only irritates me when I need to go into settings and see stuff for features I can’t use if I wanted to do so. But the backup camera and phone pairing over blutooth for calls and music works, so that is nice to have and useful daily.

I am torn on replacing the head-unit like I did with my much older cars in the past. But those were so much more easy and “normal” to replace. I mostly worry that since it is much more integrated, that beyond just not flowing with the design, that there would be more problematic issues caused with the electrics (especially after seeing how much just replacing headlights with LEDs messed up a lot of cars when they were not a standard part) and the main computer.

Had really randomly bad issues with my last car’s computer towards the last four or five years that I never had with much older cars before. But is also possible that aside from my much more abusive driving while being younger, that I just hadn’t had something with any computer element (just the main one as it wasn’t anything built-in with lots of features.