The template of this meme is that of the man who cheerfully points his hand at a butterfly, asking “Is this a pigeon”?. In this meme, the man has been covered with icons of the applications IntelliJ, VSCode, Chromium and Signal. The butterfly which he points to is overlaid with the caption “.config”. He asks “Is this a trash can?” At the bottom of the image, we see the command du -sh executed on the directories .config/chromium/ and .config/Code, yielding file sizes of 1016M and 83M respectively.

    • @[email protected]
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      The signal community should band together and write a signal client that doesn’t use the waste of space called electron. There is a rust library for signal and slint for cross platform UIs. Slint is even working (slowly) on mobile targets

      Anti Commercial-AI license

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      I use ungoogled chromium, but only for sites that absolutelly don’y wanna work on firefox.

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        I’m surprised. I haven’t had a website not work with Firefox for a long time. I haven’t even had to install chromium as a backup in almost two years now.

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          I haven’t had a website not work with Firefox for a long time.

          Me too…mostly? But the cases I’ve seen or encountered are always government, financial, education, or medical websites with some super-bespoke “portal” that will simply act bizarre on Firefox.

          It really sucks that it seems so common to just glance at some “market-share” data and, not just assume everybody must use Chrome, but go so far as to force them to.

        • @pufferfisherpowder
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          Just yesterday I had shadow.tech’s Cloudflare “vErIFY yOuR hUmAN” fail on me in Firefox. I had fucking paid for a month already otherwise that would have been enough to turn me off.

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          They are out there. I also have it around for those occasions. More common that you’d expect. Almost always some shitty site needed for work that has problems.

          • Midnight Wolf
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            Oh yeah that reminds me, to use the Graphene web installer, you need chrome. To revert to factory, chrome.

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          Proxmox, when connected to a host, will not see symbols and instead type the numbers instead (shift+1 etc). But it will still type a character, and it’s hidden from the user, so you end up screaming WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THIS MOTHERFUCKING PIECE OF SHIT until you try to sudo in fucking chrome and whoop works first try.

          Found that like 9 months ago. Still pissed as fuck. Like 2h of my life gone, thought I fucked my root account, fucking pissing myself trying to copy data off before I do anything in case I was fucked.

          PM needs to fix their shit.

          E: Oh, cpanel recently broke too. I can login, but am immediately logged out because lack of a security token. That one might be because I’m using librewolf, but it was working a month ago so…

          E2: synology, both nas and router, works sometimes in LW, but other times it loads the page but no content. This is regardless of if I am logged in and refresh, or if I’m just trying to login. Shit just doesn’t reliably work. Chrome, it’s fine.

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      Well you do use files named chrome.css, as Firefox based browsers have their style css in that.

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        Yes ok my mistake, despite * I am of course not talking about files with e.g. .css extension but only the browsers with chrome* as name. :)

        Edit: Above all, I don’t want to imply that Firefox and co don’t use system resources just as wastefully. But they are still the better choice.

        • Lucy :3
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          Yep, obviously, was just a joke. But technically, eg. steam is also chromium-based (which explains why it’s shit)

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              Presto was nice. But I guess being quite strict about standards was just too much to handle for the chrome fanboy developers.

          • @HStone32
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            Valve has proven they will go to great lengths to utterly thwart would-be monopolies that threaten PC gaming (the real reason proton exists). We just need to find a way to convince them that Google is a threat too.

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              I just want better APIs. Users will do the rest. A native client, still steam-style, but made in QT. Maybe not the store etc., but display that via an external browser or inline firefox somehow.

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      Firefox saves its config outside of .config/ as well, IIRC. Can’t check now, I have actually put that crappy browser in the trash bin long ago.

      • @clubb
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        And what browser are you using?

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          Usually the shit-talkers use some fork of FF that would last about 5 minutes if FF ceased to exist.

          Or fucking Brave, the cryptoscam browser.

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            Yea, not a huge fan of the push for crypto on brave