BetterNotBigger

Gentle reminder that you should not use this as an excuse to buy things imo. I see too many people just replacing perfectly good items. It’s much better if there’s an anti consumption stance (use what you have, repair, buy used, buy, local, buy regionally) in that order.

Maybe making a browser doesn’t need to be so damn expensive. Let the web standards freeze so we aren’t constantly chasing shiny things. The browser is in a really good spot today. What else does it need to be?

No but where are you going to go. The options are shrinking.

I asked my friend and in Canada people are doing this as well as other more aggressive tactics to flag American products.

Even if this isn’t entirely true, you know Google wouldn’t pass up the opportunity to reduce Firefox market share to scare everyone back to Chrome.

Far from it, if you’re willing to pay for good search check out Kagi. You don’t realize how busted search is until you see what it’s like when ads aren’t the business model.

Someone will post about victories in anti consumption and mods will remove it minutes or hours later. r/news is especially guilty of this.

I regressed back to Reddit for a bit. I’m back for good after I found out they’re also suppressing anti consumption movements.

Reddit can keep all the NPCs.

And if it changes, I will leave and stop paying. They are a user centric model. They thrive because of paying users.

I did it for a few months and really enjoyed it. At the end of 3 months, I realized I could achieve nearly the same thing by turning off all notifications except messages and calls and uninstalling all social media. I realized… if I have the willpower to use a dumbphone I have the willpower to keep the distraction off my smartphone. Phone usage is now 100% intentional with the right setup.

I did it for 3 months. I really enjoyed my time doing it and learned a lot about my usage. It was a cheap $50 experiment. After I went back to my smartphone, I uninstalled ALL social media apps. Turned off ALL notifications but left calls and messages as an exception. My smartphone is now essentially a feature phone. It’s not 100% the same since the big screen does lure you in to use it but my usage is still way down and because I don’t have any social media there’s no reason for me to be on my phone around other people. I wholeheartedly recommend trying it for those curious.

Just the type of mod I want!

Please tell me ya’ll actually talk to your ducks? Just me? Alright…

Yeah but can it host PiHole?

Sync is $20 to remove ads no? Where is it $100?

Update: nevermind I see it here for sync ultra

I went the unmedicated route. I read a book that changed everything for me and taught me to think differently about my anxiety. It basically destigmatizes the idea that anxiety is a bad thing which actually made my anxiety return to manageable levels. Eventually I stopped worrying about my anxiety and things just kept getting better and better. Every now and then I’ll have a bout where I’m more anxious but I’ll just remember that it’s normal and it never escalates beyond that. I feel like I have a healthy perspective about anxiety now.

Check out the book Dare and see if it clicks with you.

No apologies needed! Cheers!

Oh yeah, not meaning to hate on your suggestion, just giving a fair warning to those who are looking to take the plunge. I consider myself advanced and librewolf drove me crazy for a few days but stuck with it and found a balance of settings that I like.

The biggest example of this is YouTube. Sometimes it runs fine but sometimes videos just don’t load or freeze.

The default settings of librewolf would drive the average user crazy. I’m not a fan of Firefox and use Librewolf myself but Firefox has sensible defaults for an average user that would be a net positive coming from Chrome. Just an FYI thinking of making the switch.

For additional context of those curious, Librewolf is very hardened by default. When you close your browser all site data is wiped (this can be turned off). Most people don’t mess with their browser settings though… there’s also a lot of little things that are disabled by default that will make people think the browser is broken e.g. canvas requests are silently denied by default, it’s just not realistic for most people to use librewolf.