There’s always a security risk, however if you are referring to librewolf from the AUR I would say it’s “safe”?

It has 160 votes and a popularity of 14.73* which means there’s a good chance someone more capable then we are, already looked at the PKGBUILD.

That’s not a 100% proof of reliability but it’s a good pointer to a healthy AUR build.

*The bin package has even more votes and popularity. It’s the recommended way, because the other package compiles from source and can take a long time !

I get you ! And you’re right. It’s never to late though, until it is. We/they have been betrayed more than once by big tech and monopoly, so I think it’s justified to feel a bit anxious when something out of bound to user’s privacy/consent is implemented in the only real alternative we have right now…

I mean, sure Firefox is the only last bastion against big tech’s monopoly and all forks are depending on Firefox… So that’s not truely a real long term solution as alternative (If something is going to happen…). But as a long term Firefox user, I also have the feeling they are slowly following a dark/uncertain path.

Sure, right now it’s not that of a big deal, but what if in 3 years it becomes a big deal? Imagine a scenario where all web browsers become controlled by one single entity? Wouldn’t it be good to have an alternative? (Yeah there is Tor already) This is only possible in this kind of “hysteria” where some people take the lead before it’s too late, otherwise we will be stuck for years without any working solution, while depending on big data’s scrapper/hoarder riddled with ads and privacy invasive browsing…

Hope it make sense and that my arguments are somehow comprehensible? Not my first language so giving my best haha !

Edit: It’s not a matter of if, but when (but I hope that doesn’t apply to Firefox)

Edit2:

Just think about the Linux kernel, right now it’s the only best alternative to Windows/MacOS and everything is perfect. But what will happen in a few years when Linus steps down? Will it still be as good as today? Will big tech take a step into the kernel? Will it become the next Windows/MacOS? Who knows… That’s why alternatives are always a good thing to have before it’s too late !!

Or you can stay on a sinking ship convince yourself “It’s fine !” until it’s too late?

Whatever chose your poison 🤷

LibreWolf is great ! Coming from ArkenFox, I found LibreWolf’s override cfg a bit easier.

They also have a pacdiff cfg to see what changes from version to version without the need to roam arkenfoxes github repo for hours to find what changed or what to change.

I installed it yesterday to see how it goes :) If it doesn’t fit, will go back to Arkenfox.

No sponsors, no ads, customizable and watch YouTube videos without a premium account?

Edit1: Lighter UI

Edit2: There’s a way to use a VPN and split tunneling but didn’t dug that far right now. So it’s still possible to have the privacy feature if that’s against your threat model/privacy concerns.

I think the best thing to do is selfhosting your own instance :/ piped is doing a great job with their script to install with docker ! Yes I know this takes away the privacy feature allowing google to get your public IP and other annoying metadata… However all the rest works as expected !

It has some quirks right now though… But they are very close in solving the issue (already done with LibreTube ).

Most of the telemetry can be disabled in the Firefox settings. Some of the web services depend on some Mozilla domains so blocking all Mozilla domains will probably break a few things here and there?

Other than that, with the current situation, I would already think to switch to a Firefox fork or other alternative.

Firefox is walking a very dark path right now and you can see/feel how they are slowly rolling the enshitification path :/

It was moderated :) Something illegal about drugs. I do get it when talking about synthetic drugs, but natures gift shouldn’t be treated the same !

It makes me kinda uneasy to see Google way down the list… :/ This seems suspicious as fuck ! Not about the person who made the list, but when something so evil makes something so easy to unlock, make my eyebrows twitch !

Yeaaah ! Counter-Strike 1.5/1.6 era with Day of Defeat and some Ricchochet for chilling off your nerves !

The best and only way for a 48 ride ! Although It can be the best ride ever, or the worst nightmare you will ever experience :/. Either way those experience are the two sides of the same coin !

After some fiddling arround my self I had some Audio sync/frame gone missing issues with ffmpeg, I would recommend to use mkvtoolnix to cut and merge your mkv files together.

EndeavourOS’ default XFCE theme looks very modern to me ! I mean sure it looks more like old school windows era, but that doesn’t bother me at all. I like simplicity and customizability.

What’s cool about XFCE, its only about config files to customize your whole DE.

I tried belenaEtcher once on my Mac… And it seemed to me more like a spyware than an actual software, I was a bit confused and never used it again.

You want FLOSS software that’s good? You want less burden on maintainers? You want a safer, saner, more human-centric technology base? You want a better tech world?

Eat. The. Rich.

☝️👍

The thing is…you can’t ! This is more or less a personal “enlightenment” ! You can forward your arguments, say what you know and why one is better than the other, but it always comes to personal experience ! If you’re not ready to change, you’re not ready, even with the best argument in the world, people tend to always change when they personally experience something.

Don’t push yourself or others, this will only cause frustration and anger. Do what you can but don’t expect others to change/think the same way you are…

I know this is very vague and doesn’t solve your actual issue, but that’s the best you can do :)

As another user said, Dark reader extension for your browser.

For programs, if you are on Linux, you can changes the theme depending if it’s GTK based or Qt apps. It’s very customizable ! (Linux FTW).

If you’re on Windows… You’re probably fucked !!

Welcome to the dark side ! Once you have seen it, you can’t unseen it ! White will always be to bright and your eyes will cry blood on every screen/webpage that doesn’t have a dark mode !

I have my eyes on openSUSE TW for a long time now, but I’m really not fond to learn again a new package management tool :/ (YasT).

Also, there are some packages I need that are easy to find in the Arch repo (things like av1an, vapourSynth scripts…) And dunno if yast is reliable enough when it comes to build from source.

I like my EndeavourOS system and just switched to linux LTS. Maybe if this time my system is failing I will give it a try… But I’m not so much of a distro Hopper.

One question though… Does OpenSUSE TW uses Calamares as their installation media? Because that’s going to be a no go… They drop LVM support rather than fixing the issue, that’s probably to stupidest thing to do :/ There is a Hacky trick to make it work (mount every directory and CD into every one with different shells) but that is not something that should be done when installing something critical as an OS… It feels wrong !

I know EOS does use calamares, but It’s configurable enough to work arround this issue…

I have a strange bug where RethinkDNS wireguard session keeps failling after a while if my phone is not used for a while.

I have to reconnect my wireguard session or it just doesn’t work. I need to ADB and check the logs to see what’s happening and write some kind of bug report to rethink’s DNS bug tracking support.

It’s not the first time they have some kind of misbehave with their firewall and wireguard tunnel. Other than that, RethinkDNS rocks !!