edited the heading of the question. I think most of us here are reasoning why more people are not using firefox (because it was the initial question), but none of that explains why it’s actively losing marketshare....
I’ve been using Firefox for probably 7 or 8 years as my daily browser for persona stuff. For work related things right now I use Edge since it is Mac/Windows compatible and that’s what we support in my workplace and my workplace has two main separate institutions we use resources from that also use Microsoft infrastructure.
My workplace on the medical institution side has disabled installation or use of Firefox due to DoH DNS since they use DNS for security. But they only do this for Windows devices in the domain, so Mac users can still use it on any of the networks they operate (I still use it on my work machine for anything personal).
I have tried others. Chrome is a slug for me as cross platform user. I loved Vivaldi, but it is very problematic with my work environment and some things just straight up do no work in that environment. Brave I use strictly for my financial personal stuff only.
I have never understand exactly what it is that people need/desire/require out of Firefox that they find missing but which a Chrome based browser is providing them. That said, I am not remotely as interested in spending all my days and time outside of work doing a whole lot of IT work. That’s not to say I’m not interested. It’s to say I am only interested to a small degree, but not to the degree which I would say the majority of Lemmy users browsing a Firefox sub would be interested in.
Wow, yeah, private markets solve all problems. Brilliant. Also, what’s Santa bringing you this year? I hope you got great eggs from the Easter bunny! Do you occasionally knock out a tooth to leave for the fairy?
I’m optimistic. I liked Alternative & Progressive on the levels which they were offered. i.e. I liked them for what they were, which was not trying to be the original. I especially liked Progressive’s story that didn’t focus on romance but on friendship. I’m probably far too charitable a viewer, though, which is fine for me in that I often get to enjoy things that others do not find to their tastes.
Usually only after an unusual shutdown and reboot like a power outage. But for the most part it’s pretty solid. It’s definitely on an improvement on my previous attempts to do it on an iMac from 2012 that had s shit 5400 failing 2.5" HD in it. Current device is a Dell OptiPlex 2020 with 8GB RAM and 250GB SSD with 2TB external drive for media (I have a 4TB waiting in the wings to replace it). Overall, it’s fast and stable. I would say there were definite improvements when I went to a lifetime Pro account with Plex. Given that these are parts that I pay nothing for via discard and device retirement in my workplace, I’m pretty happy with the outcome.
Imagine that the world of humans has been going on for 100s of thousands of years and the current system of economics that’s only been around for a couple of hundred years is treated like we’ve finally reached the pinnacle of how human beings should interact with each other to survive as a species, while we clearly see people in our species starving, being abused, being murdered for their race, etc.
The lie is that “Capitalism benefits everyone. And those that it doesn’t benefit aren’t trying hard enough.” Fuck that. I’ve been working regular, full time jobs all my life, and the trade offs you have to endure to keep jobs and/or advance in jobs are for things like your time with your family, your time enjoying things, your time appreciating life and other people, your perspective and views set aside to tell lies to people that work for you so you can keep your job where you must constantly lie to people that make less money than you that are often equally or more skilled than you.
Capitalism is a lie that is deeply highlighted in this thread. A lie of exploitation equaling opportunity. A lie of hoarders of wealth to convince others that they too hoard wealth at their level.
It is deeply disturbing what level of loss of being a decent human being must be discarded to keep capitalism going.
It also infuriates me that when anyone says “I worked hard to build this business!” that they really are saying “I had to sacrifice my humanity to beg other people to do work that benefits me more than it benefits them.”
indeed - we went from having ‘personnel’ departments to having ‘human resources’ departments - the person has been entirely eliminated in an even referential manner
I figured this out. There’s a girl/guy there this person doesn’t want to take a shit around because OP is a notoriously stinky pooper. Everyone can go home now.
Most of us use it as our media servers. The best way to get it to work is to create a Plex account that you can sign in with when you're setting up your server. That way you can view your own library from anywhere without worry about port forwarding or knowing your IP address and worry about DHCP. You can also share your library with friends and they can share with you.
But... it's definitely not intuitive. You are not wrong. You have to put some effort into downloading the server, installing the server, pointing the server to your media libraries.
There are certainly other ways to use it by adding the channels they offer. In that regard, it works similarly to Roku by hooking up to ad-support free media channels like Tubi and other channels.
But most of us got into it specifically to watch our own media files (and listen, and photo viewing remotely if you want to set it up) and share with friends and view theirs.
I would suggest watching some YouTube videos on setting it up. Search for "setting up plex server" and there are plenty of great videos.
My ex from Norway mentioned how unusual it was that so many places and people here fly our flag (USA), so I was curious to hear what it's like for others here on the fediverse.
Yes. As an American living in the US Southeast (Alabama), this is how I see flying flags as well. As many others have mentioned in the thread, most permanent flags on homes you see are in upper-middle class white suburbs where they have a set of wild-eyed political beliefs (the kind of person that says "I'm not racist, but...").
I live in a small offshoot town from Birmingham called Irondale that has an adjacent city limit with Birmingham but also that has an adjacent city limit to a place called Mountain Brook. MB is Upper-UPPER class as opposed to areas like Hoover (solid middle class) and Vestavia (upper-middle class).
There are some flags in the upper-upper class MB, but a lot more in the upper-middle class Vestavia. Irondale, where I live, is more lower-middle to middle in mix so I can't say the US flag features prominently on very many houses here (with some outliers of course).
Right now, I have a pride flag up. I generally don't fly any flags and no one else in my neighborhood really seems to either aside from a few outliers (that I have identified through other signs over the years as Trump supporters).
Ultimately here's what's going to happen: These closed communities will be forcefully reopened by Reddit admins, the mods will be removed and replaced with toadies that will follow the new rules, and it will inevitably descend into exactly what Twitter is descending into: a right-wing propaganda outlet with racists, anti-Semitic, misogynistic, homophobic content dominating the forums that took a stand.
Movie theater viewing is superior to home viewing due to the communal experience and larger than life screens and sound.
While many of us have had bad theater experiences, many of us have also had bad days, experienced bad drives, bad vacations, bad trips, bad flights, terrible daily commutes, burned food we're cooking, had a bad relationship, etc. ad infinitum.
Bad experiences in movie theaters are misses not hits. Sometimes you have a slump, too, where there are many misses in a row and to you those become a string of hits instead of misses and start to represent movie going in its entirety. It's not true the same way you don't have a car accident every time you drive or have a flight with a screaming child every time you fly or end up in a hotel or AirB&B full of cigarette smoke and roaches every time you stay in a hotel.
To be fair, you had a per-capita same chance of being snatched and abuse and murdered then as you do now, but legal authorities didn't start taking child welfare in regards to missing children even remotely seriously until the 80s. Children went missing no a regular basis and the cops would just shrug their shoulders and chalk it up to the kid running away. Amber Alerts and other child welfare legal protections for public awareness are only in place because it took years of activism from the parents of missing, abused, and murdered children.
I am listening to the OST for The Case Study of Vanitas and being reminded of just how great the anime was to watch. My feeling is that it is underrated, but I'm not sure it is really, but perhaps what it really is... is 'unfound' by it's core audience that is clearly out there. For me it's one of my great anime series of the...
A gentleman who cures Vampires of a condition that causes them to lose control and want to consume blood in an animal-like manner. There's a backstory on how he received/learned the ability to do this, of course. And there are other characters that are Vampires that are interested in his tool and method of doing this since they see the tool he uses as the source of causing the behavior in the first place. It is animated beautifully, the music is truly stunning on every level. Battles are very good, not necessarily great. But set pieces are often great. There is a tremendous amount of fascinating, original world-building in the storytelling, but a few trope-like archetype characters here and there, most of which succeed and a few which do not.
It is very original from my perspective as both a fan of vampire fiction and anime. There is a lot of gender fluidity and not a lot of traditional fan service. The women who fight are largely covered from head to toe, as are most of the women otherwise throughout the series unless some story reason comes up (as does happen in one instance).
Character designs are great and both the Japanese and American voice casts do great jobs and you can watch in either sub or dub and be pretty happy with the outcome.
I found someone that posted this: "In 1985, I bought a Mac 512K and Apple dot matrix printer for $2500. $3500 for Vision Pro seems like a bargain." $2500 then is $7442 now. If it lives up to its hype, it will find its niche and its market.
I saw another post that pointed out "This technology has already been around for 10 years." But you know, so had MP3 players and mobile phones by the time Apple had come to the market with their products and they did end up dominating those markets.
G4 Cube was the last big flop I remember that was an actual product release as opposed to a part of something else that sucks (butterfly keyboards, C port only charging, the current mouse having the battery charger port on the bottom). The Home Pod wasn't a success on launch for the some cost reasons that people are citing as what will kill the Vision Pro, but the mini version has been a great success. AirPower didn't flop as much as it just... never existed. But in regards to recent products, they have been significantly more thoughtful in creating and launching them.
It's easy to discover communities on my instance via the dedicated page in the hamburger menu. But let's say I want to follow a community on another instance, such as !lemmy . I might have found its name mentioned in a post or comment. When I click on the provided link, I'm thrown on that instances web page, from which I of...
Literally came to the direct Lemmy community here to search for how to follow remote communities and this was near the top already. I like the straight up asking without concern for people shitting on you for not knowing attitude here. As a long term tech guy it's nice to see people asking direct questions without people throwing sneers back and derisively acting like you're an idiot for not knowing something.
Work: Edge - all my work stuff is tied into Microsoft back ends. Work: Web Catalog - Creates a distraction free, focused environment for my work activities. Personal: Firefox iOS: Brave across the board for ad-blocking (especially YouTube ad blocking)
Why is firefox losing market share? Why don't more people use Firefox?
edited the heading of the question. I think most of us here are reasoning why more people are not using firefox (because it was the initial question), but none of that explains why it’s actively losing marketshare....
Lemmy might, MIGHT have a small bias towards the left (lemm.ee)
McConnell on Ukraine proxy war: "We haven’t lost a single American in this war. Most of the money that we spend, is spent on replenishing weapons, so it’s actually employing people here."[paraphrased] (edition.cnn.com)
Mitch McConell says the quiet part out loud....
FLCL: Grunge | Toonami | adult swim (www.youtube.com)
Poll: What OS do you run Plex on? (www.surveymonkey.com)
I’m having some issues with my Plex’s stability and was curious what the community thinks about their chosen OS and Plex....
Why are folks so anti-capitalist?
Hi all,...
I need to survive for 3 days without pooping, and eating as little as possible. I can pee, but not very often. It can't take up too much space. What food do I pack?
Please don't ask why I need this....
Plex is intimidating
I've installed plex but I don't even know where to start with it. Is there an "idiots guide" anywhere that I can follow?...
How common is it to fly your country's flag, and how is it seen by others?
My ex from Norway mentioned how unusual it was that so many places and people here fly our flag (USA), so I was curious to hear what it's like for others here on the fediverse.
In response to the disastrous Spez AMA, /r/Videos have announced that they will permanently shut down on 11th June, one day ahead of the planned blackout (old.reddit.com)
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What is your boomer opinion
What opinion just makes you look like you aged 30 years
The Case Study of Vanitas
I am listening to the OST for The Case Study of Vanitas and being reminded of just how great the anime was to watch. My feeling is that it is underrated, but I'm not sure it is really, but perhaps what it really is... is 'unfound' by it's core audience that is clearly out there. For me it's one of my great anime series of the...
Vision Pro's page is live! (www.apple.com)
Following remote communities is hard.
It's easy to discover communities on my instance via the dedicated page in the hamburger menu. But let's say I want to follow a community on another instance, such as !lemmy . I might have found its name mentioned in a post or comment. When I click on the provided link, I'm thrown on that instances web page, from which I of...
what web browser do you use and why?
I use geh Firefox forks mull and fennec, I occasionally use vanadium. I just like privacy but tor is overkill for me