Thanks for your work! I have a question though. I just installed it and signed in and it authenticated via a browser link. That works for SSHing from a desktop, but the page mentions it being good "In environments where the graphical UI cannot be used". Is it planned to allow for entering a password and 2FA code when where there truly is no GUI available?
I don't like Brave's leadership or crypto, but the problem for me is that Brave ticks the most boxes
Adblocking
Privacy
Security
Multiplatform
Web Apps
There are browsers that do stuff better, like Vanadium and Trivalent, but those are locked to specific platforms, have poor built in ad blockers, and encourage you to never install extensions for security reasons.
And if I want to avoid the Chromium monopoly, there's Webkit which still manages to have good security and privacy, but there's no Webkit browser on Android and on Linux, Gnome Web feels slow to use and doesn't have a good adblocker.
That being said, I'm still on Firefox right now. Chromium has some weird quirks on the desktop that annoys me so much.
I wouldn't consider using IronFox since, from what I hear, Firefox's security is worst on Android. Even Linux has better sandboxing than it. While I'm sure IronFox is better, I'm not sure how much better it can be.
As for Librewolf, I'm considering it. I've actually had it installed for maybe two years at this point but never really used it. It's nice that it removes the annoying popups from Firefox and lacks the crypto of Brave. And it should be more secure due to the hardening and disabling of features. And while the security and sandboxing isn't as strong as it is on Windows/MacOS or Chromium's, at least it should be better than standard Firefox.
You can tinker for the most part, it's just done differently. In the Universal Blue world, that would be creating your own OCI container using their image template or blue build.
The nice thing is that it makes the OS much more reproducible than imperative commands and scripts.
In my experience, many Gnome apps make doing complex tasks pretty easy compared to third party apps. However, it is at the cost of customization and questions like "why can't I do this???"
But in general, Gnome's simple design works for me, most things feel clean and polished. I don't need the vast majority of features offered.
In the cases where Gnome's default aren't powerful enough, often times the KDE equivalent isn't good enough for me either despite offering more features and customization.
As an example, Gnome Text Editor vs Kwrite and Kate. GTS has the basics I need like line numbers (Apple's text editor does not have this...) and that fits 80% of my needs. But what about more advanced things? Well, no markdown support but I don't think Kate has that either. What about coding? I'd rather use a dedicated IDE than Kate or GTS.
I think car privacy isn't talked about amongst any privacy enthusiasts online ever, and it apparently is one of the biggest data collectors out there. For someone like me who values electric cars for there affordability and environmental reasons, but still want physical car buttons and control over my data, how would I go about ...
"It’s safe to say that the people who volunteered to “shape” the initiative want it dead and buried. Of the 52 responses at the time of writing, all rejected the idea and asked Mozilla to stop shoving AI features into Firefox."
That's also part of the reason I like Webkit. It's in a nice spot between Firefox and Chromium when it comes to security and performance. And importantly, is not from an ad company and often passes on browser specs that would be harmful to privacy and security.
I forget what the site is called, but I saw one that nicely layed out different browser specs and gives the explanation why one of the engine developers decided against supporting or implementing it.
I just wish there was a good Webkit browser on Linux. Unfortunately, Gnome Web just feels slow and unresponsive despite good benchmarks.
Sometimes, I can't find a login for something I'm pretty sure I recently saved into Proton Pass. It's possible that I also just didn't save the save button, but this has happened so many times to me on Proton Pass, but never when I was using Bitwarden. ...
I'm using the browser web page version, not extension. And it's not a case of waiting, it would be days or weeks after creating it that I would notice it's gone.
Also, if you're on Ubuntu, you can officially get the Proton apps from the Snap Store, no terminal necessary. And there's also unofficial repackages on Flathub.
I believe those warnings are old, I believe Proton recently begun maintaining those themselves. I read some sort of testimonial from Proton about how great the Snap Store is and blah blah blah, though I can't find the blog post for it.
The apps are from Proton AG on the Snap Store, which is a verified account. And the Proton Mail snap doesn't have that warning, while for some reason the other two still do.
Sideloading already existed, but only for ostree flatpaks. Flatpak also supports OCI flatpaks, but the support for those aren't as good, hence the previously missing side loading support.
Wayland as a protocol was designed around CSDs, protocols for SSDs came years later
Having the client control the CSDs simplifiies things for the compositor and apps
The compositor has less things to implement and test
Modern apps tend to prefer CSDs anyway since it provides more flexibility, very common on MacOS and Windows
It's difficult to coordinate things between the client and compositor.
Something that annoys me about KDE is that they do this headerbar look where the top part of the application will match the color of the the titlebar. However, the top part of the application is drawn by the application and the titlebar is drawn by the compositor. But when the color changes (such as going from unfocused to focused), they do not update at the same time, so for a frame or few the top part of the application is a different color than the titlebar. That wouldn't happen under CSDs.
“We do <thing > because we always did before <thing 2>” is not a good point
I didn't mean it in a "this is better way". I'm just saying that Wayland was designed around the idea of client side decorations, not server side decorations. Gnome has stuck to the more purist vision of Wayland, which makes sense since I believe they were its biggest proponent.
Unfortunate. Though I did find out that Minecraft can use Wayland natively, if you block its access to the X11 socket or don't have Xwayland installed.
The main reason I hear is that it maximizes screen usage and helps avoid/limit the tediousness of having to manage windows.
Not what you're asking for, but I'll give you my perspective as someone who's tried tiling on and off and overall don't like it.
Applications work best at certain aspect ratios, having them automatically tiled to different aspect ratios can be annoying
Some windows windows/pop-ups have no business being tiled. Like some Yes/No dialogs (not all windows specify a max size which would avoid triggering the tiling) or a simple calculator. And you can specify which ones to have floating, but it requires setup.
Sometimes it ends of causing more work than floating environements. Most of the time I only have a max of 2 windows open, but occasionally I'll quickly try to do something then end up with 4-5 windows, at which point that's too many windows and I need to reorganize stuff to continue working. But that usually wouldn't be an issue in a floating environment.
Worst of all, just setting up a tiling environment is a nightmare. You have to configure the actual compositor/WM, which tools you want to use with it (bar, launcher, screenshot tool, notifications, screenlocker, etc) and configure all those too, ideally with some basic theming to make them look coherent. But inevitably you end up with missing functionality especially in the modern area where an app might be sandboxed or expecting all xdg-portals to be implemented, which most compositors don't do.
Cosmic is exciting in this regard since it aims to be a fully-featured floating and tiling environment. You could just toggle between them as necessary (or have them on separate workplaces). You also get much better portal support.
Minecraft 1.21.11 Pre-Release 3 ( www.minecraft.net )
Minecraft 1.21.11 Pre-Release 2 ( www.minecraft.net )
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Proton Pass: Get more done with fast, secure access directly in the terminal.
from the team: ...
So Long, Firefox, Part One ( hackaday.com )
The ChromeOS of Linux: Basic use cases, impossible to break, ~1,000 happy(?) users, Nix based. Nixbook OS. ( trl.org )
This is extremely encouraging to me. I am not affiliated with the project but here is what I've gathered. Run by Mike. ...
A statement concerning the Fedora and Flathub relationship from the FPL – Fedora Community Blog ( communityblog.fedoraproject.org )
A statement concerning the Fedora and Flathub relationship from the FPL – Fedora Community Blog ( communityblog.fedoraproject.org )
GNOME Desktop top bar - waste of space?
Hi, ...
Most, if not all car companies collect and profile your data, how can I improve my privacy when buying a modern car? ( www.mozillafoundation.org )
I think car privacy isn't talked about amongst any privacy enthusiasts online ever, and it apparently is one of the biggest data collectors out there. For someone like me who values electric cars for there affordability and environmental reasons, but still want physical car buttons and control over my data, how would I go about ...
I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla ( manualdousuario.net )
"It’s safe to say that the people who volunteered to “shape” the initiative want it dead and buried. Of the 52 responses at the time of writing, all rejected the idea and asked Mozilla to stop shoving AI features into Firefox."
Minecraft Snapshot 25w46a ( www.minecraft.net )
Has anyone else experienced Proton Pass not saving passwords?
Sometimes, I can't find a login for something I'm pretty sure I recently saved into Proton Pass. It's possible that I also just didn't save the save button, but this has happened so many times to me on Proton Pass, but never when I was using Bitwarden. ...
Upgrading Proton Pass on Linux ( proton.me )
I had to ask this from the Proton support, but then found the anser now on my own, while waiting for their response. ...
swww renamed to awww, due to the author's guilt from obliviously naming it "final solution" ( www.lgfae.com )
Minecraft Snapshot 25w45a ( www.minecraft.net )
Flatpak Happenings ( blog.sebastianwick.net )
Flatpak Happenings ( blog.sebastianwick.net )
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What do you see as the arguments for and against adding Server Side Decorations in GNOME?
I'm currently writing an article on the subject, and want to properly represent people's views.
Introducing architecture variants: amd64v3 now available in Ubuntu 25.10 ( discourse.ubuntu.com )
UPDATE: ...
SimpleX goes NFT / Shitcoin ( mementomori.social )
It's really sad to see SimpleX goes the shitcoin route to try and fund their project, Ethereum is not ethical as I briefly explained in this post ...
Removing obfuscation in Java Edition ( www.minecraft.net )
Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS and COSMIC Epoch 1 will be release December 11th, 2025 ( fosstodon.org )
Rust Bug Broke Ubuntu 25.10 Automatic Update Checks - OMG! Ubuntu ( www.omgubuntu.co.uk )
just run: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade to fix the issue.
Minecraft Snapshot 25w44a ( www.minecraft.net )
Fedora Linux 43 is here! - Fedora Magazine ( fedoramagazine.org )
Fedora Linux 43 is here! - Fedora Magazine ( fedoramagazine.org )
my reason why you should use KDE+Krohnkite
Pros: ...
[Edit: Change Reverted] Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.11 will default to Wayland
Minecraft snapshot 25w34a introduces this change (not in release notes)
SVG in GTK ( blogs.gnome.org )
The road to Vibrant Visuals on Java ( www.minecraft.net )
Minecraft Snapshot 25w43a ( www.minecraft.net )