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All day, every day. Sometimes I will just delete everything and just not reply at all. Which sucks when I actually want to make use of comments and engage in the communities more. So far all the folks on here and the other instances I am on tend to not turn the focus onto my excessive use of parenthesis, and stay on the topic.

I am sure there have been some random one-offs. The only ones I can think of have been more about how I didn't break things into paragraphs vs just one huge wall. Even then, it is obvious that they at least read most of it. And I try to take those the same as telling me I have something on my face vs not. Just depends on how they say it.

I am always getting to the end of comments or really anything I write to someone (especially if more than a few sentences). Then get frustrated to see that I just ended up inserting basically a paragraph's worth of shit inside one sentence. I have like a really hard time making simple and condensed information (or other times the complete opposite and say waaaay too little).

It is like a really strong need to try an provide all the information that could lead to being taken the wrong way. Or to convey that I considered obvious arguments to save people from bringing them up needlessly. And I think that using parenthesis looks less "bad" than the super long run-on sentences. I am the worst person in my friend-groups if someone wants a TL;DR of things fast.

Same here. I prefer to avoid Chromium-based browsers whenever I can. A lot of them are better than Chrome, and I do like to mess with them from time to time to stay aware of features and test things. But Firefox on my phone has access to uBlock Origin and all my other extensions, after activating the hidden debug menu/dev mode that you turn on in a similar way as activating Dev Mode for the Android OS. I only mention that last part because it seems a lot of FF Android users don't know about it and allows for installing xpi files just like you can with desktop. Freaking game changing for me. It really sucks that the main-line Chromium-based browsers don't support extensions, even in the limited options way FF used to before allowing more to officially work (even without the debug menu/dev mode trick.

For those that might want the instructions for the hidden debug menu/dev mode. Some extensions still might not work correctly as they might not play nice with the UI/layout of the Android version. I would imagine that some of these might be things like the third-party tab-tree extensions for example.

Open Firefox App

Go to the settings menu.

Enable Developer Settings: You need to tap on the Firefox logo five times. This action will unlock an additional debug menu.

Find “Install extension with a file” option in Settings

Look for the option to install an extension from your own storage. And pick the xpi file. Also will just work using the extensions page on the FF site.

True, I ended up listening to some tracks and bought two of their albums. Their response to being dropped from their agency and the attempts to smear them was awesome. Even if the "news" outlets want to focus on the video of the chant at the show. It means they have to show the footage with all the Palestine flags and the banner on the stage behind the group. Still isn't those outlets admitting that the genocide is happening. But still keeps Palestine in the "news" in even a small way. For their efforts to keep Palestine talked about at their own threat to gigs and being dropped from their agency. I hope that their music is listened to by more people than would have known about them otherwise.

No Zen-Browser (though I am not sure when this vid was made), and Pale Moon should be in the "Not ideal for a normal human" at best.

I was happy to see that it finally got them after so long (was kind of embarrassing that Edge got them officially before FF and even other Chromium browsers). But I started using Zen before FF got them. Just happy that they look nice and "feel" good to use. The extensions have more "power user" features but never "felt" cohesive with the browser. Though I hope that they can better integrate now that the base browser can render better. Possible "win-win" if so imo.

LibreWolf did a pretty good job on their end. I keep a portable version on my PC to mess with every so often. Too locked down for my daily uses, but that is kind of their thing (which I respect and support). It is awesome to see solid forks of FF that are extremely active.

That is awesome to hear that the pipes and the pads you added are keeping it solid. I always get frustrated when laptops that have R9/i9 with good GPUs are anything less than "thicc." Thin and sleek laptops are nice to have for portability, but have no business having anything above R7/i7 (really should be high bin R5/i5 for both heat and the poor batteries). I might look into those pads for when I get around to opening my PS3 and 4 that need to get a real cleaning.

I have been using Zen-Browser as my main desktop browser for around almost a year (I think). Initially just wanted to give it a try because it has nice vertical tabs that aren't clunky or just an extension. It also looks better (imo) than most of the other FF-forks that I have tried.

On Android I use FF since it isn't Chrome/Chromium and most importantly can turn on basically "Dev Mode" in a similar way that you enable Dev Mode in Android. This allows you to install all normal extensions that you can on desktop FF. Even if that wasn't an option, uBO is installable (unlike basically every Chromium-based option). Really really helps going to websites while on my phone or tablets not feel like a complete downgrade compared to just turning my desktop on.

There are some Chromium and FF forks for Android that do allow some extensions, just not a lot to pick from. And I don't want to use Chromium stuff since it further pushes sites to pull an IE and code sites to work only for Chrome/Chromium.

I wasn't ready to see that thing. Would have sprayed my drink out if I were drinking at the moment your link loaded. lol

I would love to have that just to show to co-workers and friends, just to see their reactions. I could see it being kind of nice to have if I really really needed multiple screens. But would never want to bring it anywhere unless it is staying in a hotel room for like a week and working (which I don't have a job that would even give that situation to happen anyway). Still nice to see mobile workstations still have room for wild-ass designs like that. Kind of like how more smart phones used to have really wild selling points.

How hot does it get under load of stuff like Cyberpunk or similar programs? I am always jazzed to see high-end laptops, but I am aware of heat being a given. We get a lot of normies (or gamers that dip their toes into PC gaming) that have more money than sense just demanding the most powerful laptop. And they bring them in for us to check-out due to how hot they get. Some of it comes down to them not knowing how to stop all the programs from starting up with it and causing it to heat up from the jump even before launching a game or whatever. lol

True, but if the option to start using it isn't there. Then it also won't have data to even get started. I remember when I first started using Waze back on my Galaxy S3, it wasn't super helpful (for both the traffic and in some cases the map data). This was mostly due to it not being used by many people in my state at the time (the friend that told me about it used it in a much larger city with more "tech" people around). So even if it doesn't help me directly right away, I am more than happy to start using it daily to report what I can.

I haven't heard of that one. Will look into it just to have options.