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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • the more traditional style of forums are still around too.

    They’re very rare these days though. It’s a whole lot easier to keep all your interests in one place rather than heading off to one forum for gaming chat and another for programming chat and another for gardening chat.

    Keeping it all in a single feed means your interest can be piqued at random times and you’ll be more likely to interact.










  • As a web developer the problem I have is there are issues with all the browsers that are available today:

    • Chrome and Edge are owned by big companies and report god-knows-what back to their motherships whilst constantly pushing their own services
    • Firefox uses its own rendering engine so it can have some Firefox specific bugs / differences that might be missed, plus doesn’t have support for some of the extensions that you want
    • Safari doesn’t have windows or extensions support
    • Opera is full of random features and promotional bumpf that I don’t care about and have to turn off
    • Vivaldi is a complicated beast that takes a bunch of work to set up, it also includes a mail client, calendar and feed reader in the browser which I don’t need.
    • DuckDuckGo doesn’t have any extension support at all
    • Arc is really fiddly and doesn’t always behave how I want it to (bookmarks behave like tabs for some reason)
    • Brave pulls things like this and is also full of crypto/wallet type stuff, plus you can’t even change your home page.

    I just want a simple Chromium browser that doesn’t require me to turn a bunch of shit off, is private by default and supports extensions, I don’t think it’s too much to ask!