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Droppie @MsDropbear42@blahaj.zone · Aug 02, 2026
whilst i came up with an entirely different outcome [i would never ever choose the windoze of penguins, ugh, & i am not a gamer, so care nada about any of that associated crap], some of his thinking matches mine https://www.howtogeek.com/after-5-years-of-using-arch-linux-i-quit/ though i still have ​:archlinux:​ installed on my main pooter's sda, & whilst it is still very reliable for me, the friction from the routine maintenance [he listed some of the items / actions, but there's others too] has been a bit of a drag for me for some years now, plus the ongoing #AUR attacks necessitate a perpetually heightened defensive posture that's tiring, & to which i chose eventually to respond to by replacing most of my AUR pkgs with #flatpak or #distrobox ones, or in several cases nothing at all [ie, i chose to just abandon some apps altogether]. so for a couple of months now [after more than a year in various VMs], my delightful daily penguin is the immutable atomic alpha ​:kde:​ ​:linux:​, on sdc. it is really pleasant to use, albeit ofc i needed to adjust several of my workflows to accommodate its RO base. my sdb remains largely empty atm, but once it reaches Beta i hope to install ​:opensuse:​ kalpa here unfortunately my old 2011 Dell xps-15 lappy is "stuck" with Arch, coz it only has bios not uefi boot, which eliminates both of those atomics, alas #DropbearPooterising #Linux #LinuxWomen #FOSS:kde:​ ​:linux:#KDELinux | ​:archlinux:​ ​:kde:​ ​:plasma:#ArchLinux #KDEPlasma:opensuse:#Kalpa | ​:debian:#SparkyLinux | ​:fedora:#Kinoite:firefox_nightly:#FirefoxNightly #FirefoxSecondSidebar #NativeTreeTabs
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Droppie @MsDropbear42@blahaj.zone · Jul 25, 2026
tis evil shit like this that only reinforces my determination never to run an unhardened profile as my main browser, eg for years i have Service Workers disabled via my user.js, & javascript disabled globally in my uBlockOrigin advanced settings, allowed only on a per-site manual basis https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malicious-sites-use-javascript-to-build-malware-in-browser-memory/ sigh, so many bastards about 🥺 PS-1: all you chrome / chromium users, now without uBO; what on earth are you thinking? 🤷🙄🤦‍♀️ PS-2: i know this article pertains to attacks on silly crypto-shitheads, but i'm looking at the larger picture; the same attack vector could be applied more broadly, not just for those karmic victims, ha! #DropbearPooterising #LinuxWomen:firefox_nightly:#FirefoxNightly #browsers #userJS #uBlockOrigin
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Droppie @MsDropbear42@blahaj.zone · Jul 24, 2026
for mega-yonks i have avidly followed heapsa #linux hashtags [as a linux user & enjoyer] plus various #bsd tags [as someone somewhat bsd-curious but quite overwhelmed by it conceptually & practically]. am now thinking of unfollowing said bsd tags, coz seeing all the posts from all the clever peeps using it with all their incomprehensible commands & concepts, rather than inspiring me is kinda sorta more demoralising & overwhelming me also, there's just no point me ignoring the fact that i bloody well love using my various linux systems, & hafta be honest with myself that the chances of me ever seriously embarking on learning then using another paradigm now are pretty damn slender so, unfollowing said bsd tags seems logical & pragmatic and yet... ...it also feels cowardly & lazy ergo ever more i continue walking around in an endless circle on a cold distant planet, locked in a logic loop, the very robot of which asimov wrote #DropbearPooterising #Linux #LinuxWomen #FOSS:kde:​ ​:linux:#KDELinux | ​:archlinux:​ ​:kde:​ ​:plasma:#ArchLinux #KDEPlasma:debian:#SparkyLinux | ​:opensuse:#Kalpa | ​:fedora:#Kinoite
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Droppie @MsDropbear42@blahaj.zone · Jul 22, 2026
Replying to @linuxiac@mastodon.social
@linuxiac@mastodon.social @mozilla@mastodon.social you & many other tech sites are pushing this line, also Mozilla themselves, about the "new" native #Containers. it's totes blowing my mind. i have been using this already for the last year at least, sans AO, in my ​:firefox_nightly:​ and ​:firefox:​, & so simply cannot understand how anyone can now call it "new" 🤷😮🤯. user_pref("privacy.userContext.enabled", true); user_pref("privacy.userContext.newTabContainerOnLeftClick.enabled", true); user_pref("privacy.userContext.ui.enabled", true); These reports seem rather misleading afaict. cc: @firefoxnightly@mastodon.social #userJS #firefox #firefoxnightly #dropbearpooterising #linuxwomen
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Droppie @MsDropbear42@blahaj.zone · Jul 19, 2026
have set myself a little project to move away from #bookmarks [& thus all the mega-complex BM folder trees i have constructed over the decades to logically store them] to #tags in my ​:firefox_nightly:​. is quite tricky to conceive the logistics of managing this paradigm conversion. Atm: Bookmarks: 10837 Folders: 1627 Separators: 9 #firefoxnightly #dropbearpooterising #dropbearinterwebz #linuxwomen
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Droppie @MsDropbear42@blahaj.zone · Jul 18, 2026
Replying to @MsDropbear42@blahaj.zone
@Tooden@aus.social well, bummeris not she who died, but alas the usb port into which i had plugged her, that has died#lappy is a 2011 dell xps15, originally running win7. was my sole pooter when in dec 2013 i discovered linux, & began exploring it via several virtualbox VMs. fully converted her to linux a coupla years later. sadly a coupla years after that, i cleverly spilled my mugga hot green tea over her keyboard, & she's never been the same since... multiple keys malfunction, hdmi port died, now i find it's not just one of her usb ports that's died, it's actually two, so only one good one left... meaning to use my usb headset i have to unplug #mousie, & vice versa. seems afaict lappy is slowly, surely, doing a black knight at me... she's been only my secondary pooter since 2015, when i treated myself to a big fat tower for all my penguins. even so, it'd be quite nice if her bits would stop with this dying malarkey #dropbearpooterising #linuxwomen
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Droppie @MsDropbear42@blahaj.zone · Jul 17, 2026
question to strayan users of browsers with #DRM removed or disabled... how do you manage #streaming? do you, eg, never watch abc #iView or sbs #OnDemand? i use hardened profiles in my ​:firefox_nightly:​, as i value security & privacy, but otoh i always leave drm enabled, coz i am not interested in cutting off my nose to spite my face so, pls tell me how you manage streaminig, coz atm i just don't understand, ta #dropbearpooterising #dropbearinterwebz #linuxwomen
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Droppie @MsDropbear42@blahaj.zone · Jul 11, 2026
every now & then i curiously toggle privacy.resistFingerprinting on in about:config, then despairingly off again about 42 seconds later. though unhappy about it i could prolly make myself get used to it buggering my desired window size, & possibly even it buggering my indicated timezone [i do understand the privacy logic of both]. however i simply cannot abide it forcing all sites into light mode -- it is very uncomfy during days, but unbearably painful at nights. why oh why, mozilla, can't you consider this basic accessibility issue? #firefox #fingerprinting #accessibility #privacyresistFingerprinting #dropbearpooterising #dropbearinterwebz #linuxwomen
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Droppie @MsDropbear42@blahaj.zone · Jun 10, 2026
Replying to @oxy@social.bsdlab.au
@oxy@social.bsdlab.au oh noes, now you're dead to me 😱🤪 #DropbearPooterising #Linux #LinuxWomen #FOSS:kde:​ ​:linux:#KDELinux | ​:archlinux:​ ​:kde:​ ​:plasma:#ArchLinux #KDEPlasma:debian:#SparkyLinux | ​:opensuse:#Kalpa | ​:fedora:#Kinoite:firefox_nightly:#FirefoxNightly #FirefoxSecondSidebar #TreeStyleTab #Sidebery
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Droppie @MsDropbear42@blahaj.zone · May 05, 2026
for the whole life of the ​:firefox:​ fork ​:floorp:​ i have been intrigued by it & very frequently browser-hopped back & forth twixt ​:firefox_nightly:​ and ​:floorp:​ . today, with the advent of v12.13.0 i have done another hop, not only but primarily to enjoy the better #SplitView capability compared to ​:firefox_nightly:​ ... up to 4 tabs can be split, & we can choose vertical, horizontal, or grid split layout. #DropbearPooterising #LinuxWomen
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Droppie @MsDropbear42@blahaj.zone · Apr 29, 2026

sorry about this recent flurry of queries, iirc there's only one more up my sleeve after this, after which i hope not to disturb you again for a while. actually sod it, i'll ask all here in this one thread, then be done.

  1. my #sharkey #Lists & #Antennae [see the pics] seem to appear in random sequence, which though super trivial i know, i nonetheless am finding quite annoying. is there some auto-sorting option available i've so far overlooked? is there otherwise any way i can manually reorder them? ta.

  2. since recently returning to blahajzone from friendica, i'm now trying to finally iron out some of the matters in the sharkey GUI i've historically not understood. another of these is... i have enabled the option to keep a backup of my UI settings / arrangement, but atm i feel i need to play around more with various column & widget combos, both in the default & deck modes, to find something that fits me like a glove. however, i'd like to manually save each "iteration" for easy future return if needed, rather than have to manually repeat my settings tweaks each time. is there such an option pls, for me to save multiple versions, then later do on the fly reversions to one or other via just a click from a list? afaict the auto-backup only saves whatever is my current suite of settings, ie losing my historical versions.

  3. in the deck view, iirc, i can have multiple "windowlets" open at once, but in the default view the ... default ... seems to be not windowlets but complete pages, which then jumps me from whatever i was currently looking at, losing my place [the Back button iirc takes me back to that prior view, but only to the top of the timeline, thus losing my place]. opening items as windowlets seems available from the context menu, but can i make that my actual default action?

ta, & sorry for being a PITA

@blahaj@blahaj.zone @ada@blahaj.zone @supakaity@blahaj.zone

#dropbearpooterising #blahajzone #fedihopping #SharkeyHelp

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Droppie @MsDropbear42@blahaj.zone · Apr 28, 2026
so, huh, i seem to be back here... again again sigh, why do all the fedis have to have one+ fatal flaw/s? why can't i simply find that One Fedi To Rule Them All ? sassen frassen rassen #FediHopping #dropbearpooterising #blahajzone
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