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With all the absurd turns YouTube and Google have taken, I’ve been looking at this for five minutes trying to figure out if this is a shitpost

Oh OK. FWIW I don’t think I’ve lost any tabs on Fennec, but I might have changed something in settings.

I like the way tabs look because I’ve never liked the idea of grouping tabs, but I understand people have different preferences

What’s wrong with it? I haven’t had any problems with it in Fennec.

Not at all. I don’t know the exact mechanism, but a lot of people experience a period of intense unbridled happiness while becoming sober. It only lasts a couple of weeks to a month, but it’s so great when it happens. I’d dance by myself listening to music and just be happy as a kid on a snow day. Some people have described it as having “rainbows shooting out your asshole.” I wish I could feel like that all the time.

Recovered alcoholic since 2017.

One of the trippiest parts about getting sober was experiencing something called “REM rebound” where you dream intensely and vividly all night long, night after night. The way it was explained to me is that alcohol inhibits REM sleep to such a degree that it’s like it has to catch up for lost time. It’s exhausting but also an interesting experience, I’ll say that much.

It took quite some time to feel like I got a restful sleep, but oh man, what a difference when I did! Reflecting on my drunken decade, I don’t think I knew what a good night’s sleep was. I felt like I was sleeping, but it’s more like I was passing out from alcohol overdose day after day. It’s no wonder I was constantly depressed and suicidal all those years.

That and the “pink cloud” phase (which I wish could’ve lasted forever) were the most interesting parts about becoming sober.

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I’ve always struggled to understand why someone would pay the same price (or nearly as much) for a strictly-digital copy

Convenience. I’ve been in situations where it seemed easier at the time to just buy a movie on Amazon. For example, if I’m on vacation or a work trip and I really want to see something.

But that was before I learned about which sites were safe to use for streaming and had high quality content.

Also, I’ve learned that my library still has a large DVD collection, so I apprise myself of that.

I’ve never gotten comfortable with not owning CDs or DVDs. In fact, if I really really like a movie or album, I obtain a physical copy. If it’s an independent artist, I’ll even buy it directly from the record label.

And so far, I’ve been able to stream everything else when I just want to get my entertainment fix ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I don’t really like the term “echo chamber,” but that sort of thing makes me realize I’m really in one. Nearly everyone I interact with online just takes things like adblocking and basic internet hygiene for granted, but every so often I encounter someone who reminds me that there are a lot of people who don’t know the first thing about such things.

I remember one time this kid asked me, “What’s Chromium? I have this app called ‘Chromium’ but I don’t know what it’s for,” so I went into a lengthy explanation about how it’s an internet browser, and how Chrome is based on Chromium but that Chromium without Google exists, whereupon they showed me their laptop, and it was severely infected with some obvious malware that put a search bar on their desktop titled “Chromium.”

Same here. uBO + Firefox

If there’s been a delay, it’s not been noticeable to me

I feel the same.

I always assume that people in a community like this are using them, but clearly such is not the case

This is actually a perfect example of why we need to archive these things. Don’t let corporations try to rewrite history wtf

https://zoo.replicate.dev

In addition to piracy, I’ve also been checking out DVDs from my local library. It’s kinda fun.

Surprised myself because I half expected I’d miss the convenience of Netflix, but I haven’t missed it even a little.

“Was I a good streaming platform?”

“No.”

Companies issuing refunds in the form of gift cards is just straight-up insulting

I’m not a tech person, and I’m currently using a SearXNG instance

I’ve thought the same thing, and I’ve concluded there must be a significant percentage of people who use search engines in a completely different way than I do. Like my dad saying to his tablet, “Ok google, play [song from the 1960s].” If people think this is what a search engine is supposed to do, then I imagine a search engine that actually behaves like a search engine would be pretty disappointing.