I don’t know how it’s done, but here is a screencap of an update today:

That is always a possibility, but their track record is solid for now

manifest only applies to extensions. Vivaldi’s adblocker is built in.

True, but one of the better options.

I use some Flatpaks. Flatpaks sometimes create problems with paths and permissions and stuff. They are generally useful, as are appimages when created by the author(s), but are not a panacea. Also, there are flatpaks not created by the official source.

Reading the reply above I realized half my post is redundant :)

Cachy’s new package manager, Shelly, which is awesome, BTW (writing about arch or derivatives without using BTW is against the law, remember.) does checks on AUR packages when installing or updating. Zoey rocks!

Yeah, very rarely do tradespeople get rich, but most I know live very, very comfortably, don’t have insane hours or overtime, unless they provide emergency services, which usually pay insanely by the hour, have absolute job security. One of my son’s buddies is an Electrical engineer. He quit his job at a corpo, took the certification exam, and became an electrician. Makes way more that as an engineer, and has much higher QOL.

What are these posts? Used to see them all the time in Reddit. Some kind of encoded message?

I can understand that.

I’m an early Xer, and my mom an early boomer. She’s been a computer user since the late 70s. Right now, She does all these things, install a bajillion apps for things like the BBC and 10 other news services even though I have explained to her that she could have them all as bookmarks in FF, with ad and tracker blocking, etc.

She understands it. She does, but at her age she can’t be arsed to open a website, bookmark it, then go to bookmarks, etc. I’ve even tried to get her to turn things into PWAs, which she gets ! But can’t be arsed.

I’m an IT guy, the eternal tech support for friends and family. Now my eldest son is an analyst at a major telco, and I send him all the traffic, and sometimes even ask him to do or figure out stuff for me, because I can’t be arsed. Same reasons I’ve been on Mint for a few years, until I discovered CachyOS. I started my Linux journey in Slackware, painfully downloaded as diskette images, and have been distro hopping all my life, using all major distros at one time or another. Now I can’t be arsed.

Im still a tinkerer, a maker, homelabber, etc. but the mundane, I can’t be arsed.

Brave is bullshit Malware.

Use Vivaldi.

Made by the people who made the original Opera.

Hyper customizable, ad, tracking, and pop-up blocker by default.

I’ve been a Firefox user since the days of mosaic. I used the original Opera for years, coming back to FF when Opera was bought by the Chinese. While I still have FF as my main browser, I’m now finding myself using Vivaldi about 50% of the time. Damn good.

I installed 2021 for a client last year, because of the pay once model. I guess I should have installed 2024. This guy was using some really ancient version, and is really tech illiterate, the kind that writes procedures in a notebook, instead of learning why he does them. I installed LO first, to see if he could use it and be free of Office, but he got really nervous, so I got him the closest thing to what he had. Now I have to find out a way to resolve this. I guess I’ll get a key from one of the key sitees, or do a massgrave. Thanks MS.

Because screwdrivers are regulated, screwdriver licenses are hard to obtain, and while most people can do the clockwise thing, counterclockwise is a skill that takes years to master.