Slimy lobbyist: Sure I’ll hold your robe and… whoops how did that big wad of cash get in there?

Firefox is alright, it served me adequately after Opera got sold off, but Vivaldi is so much better.

Even though it’s based on a fork of chromium Vivaldi has an extremely strong focus on innovation as well as privacy, they’ve commited themselves to working around Mv3 for instance and their in-built ad-blocker is absolutely top notch but you can also install uBlock Origin to work with it in tandem on their desktop browser if you want.

And even though it’s extremely feature rich, with speed dial, ad-blocker, password vault and side bar being some of their out of the box features all their power user functions are opt in through the settings where you can choose to stack your tabs vertically or enable mouse gestures (couldn’t live without these) and a whole bunch more, it really offers everything you could think of and probably a whole bunch more.

Vivaldi for instance. If you’re looking for innovation and an iron clad focus on privacy in a heavily modified chromium fork, you really can’t get any better.

Bonus points if you used Opera back in the day as it’s effectivley Opera 2.0.

Vivaldi is what you’re looking for, not sure about their ios support but I know it syncs between android and windows flawlessly and it has it’s own built in ad-blocker that you can also install ublock on top of on the desktop but I’ve never once gotten a popup on mobile just using their ad-blocker, and it blocks a bunch of ads too.

It is based on a chromium fork but they have an extremely strong focus on both privacy and innovation but it isn’t one of those browsers that have everything switched on from the get go, they have an amazing set of core features like speed dial (which I can’t live without), ad-blocker and a really handy sidebar that contains all the stuff that’s usually mooshed into the top bar, however their advanced settings are all opt in so make sure you have a good dig through the settings and turn stuff like mouse gestures on.

Except for Vivaldi, ever since the Mv3 news came out they’ve always said they’re going to go around it. Here for instance one of the developers talks about there intentions going forward.

Vivaldi too is technically Opera 2.0 as it was created by Jon von Tetzchner who was the co-creator of Opera, and Opera (until the chinese consortium sale that is, after von Tetzchner had left the company) was always synonymous with privacy and innovation.

So even though Vivaldi is a fork of Chromium I believe from everything I’ve read about the guy, Jon von Tetzchner is 100% commited to his principals. Like one of my favourite von Tetzchner stories is from when Opera 8 came out and he said if it got to a million downloads over a weekend he’d swim the Atlantic, so when Opera 8 smashed the million downloads instead of trying to welch out on the bet he followed through, didn’t make it very far but he still did it and I feel that says a lot about his character. Here’s the best article I could find about it as it was back in '05 and Opera seems to have nuked it’s old news articles.

The low cost of the subscription model can’t pay for all the content that is normally made by that industry

This is where economies of scale comes in though, especially in tech where you’re offering an ephemeral product. Even at say US$10 if you get a million subscribers (not too hard to do, netflix had many times that number at their peak) that’s US$10 million dollars. Which you would think should be more than enough to punch out a bunch of relatively low budget productions, pay your neccessaries and still leave you a good chunk of change I feel.

As you’re already familiar with chrome try Vivaldi, it’s built on a fork of the chrome engine so it will handle all Chrome’s bits and pieces but it was created by Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner, who was one of the guys that built and founded Opera back in the day but jumped ship before it got sold out to a Chinese consortium, so not only does it come from the gold standard of pushing the browser envelope from Opera but also von Tetzchner’s vehement stance on privacy which has always been a huge part of his ethos.

So if you’re after a browser that comes stacked with features like speed dial, mouse gestures, password vault, collapsible side bar (so everything isn’t mooshed into the top bar) to name just a few (I’d literally be typing all day otherwise), as well as an iron clad focus on privacy that isn’t just for show (have a look into von Tetzchner and read some of his blogs and you’ll see) then I highly recommend Vivaldi.

You’re a legend, cheers mate.

I like using imperial and metric interchangeably on small measurements, like saying an inch is way easier than 2.54 centimeters, same with foot and 30cm, and most people get what you’re saying especially when I was doing construction/engineering. Beyond that though it does get a bit silly and very arbitrary.

Me too bud, I was looking forward to Jordan’s masterpiece getting an adaptation to the small screen but I couldn’t even make it through one episode. It’s like the showrunner took The Witcher’s terrible adaptation as a personal challenge to fuck over the source material in the most fuck you way possible and went at it with both boots.

I’m new to this PT game, just installed Jellyfin then started digging into the arr-verse and installed Jackett and Sonarr to populate Jellyfin with all the old shows that aren’t shown anymore, found SG-1 and The Lost Room without too much trouble but Sonarr is having problems with Warehouse 13 at the moment.

So with r/opensignups gone, what’s another way to know when PT’s are offering sign ups?

No, no, it’s 198.162.0.1!

Just seems like companies are making short sighted choices for cost reduction over thinking about the potential long-term repercussions for putting their intellectual property and untimely their fates, in the hands of third party.

Welcome to late stage capitalism baby! It’ll only be a short stay though because these assholes are going to implode the planet looking for their next quick buck.

It’s a rabbit hole indeed, I’ve already started looking around the *arr-verse and I can definitely say several of them are looking mighty fine already. And they really aren’t particulary challenging setups either, unless you get into the whole self-hosted side with NAS’s and reverse proxies and what not.

Truly a golden age for FOSS at the moment.

I just installed Jackett (a tracker aggregator effectivley) yesterday, it was a super easy set up and now my qbittorrent can check all the torrent sites at the same time and find the highest seeded file from practically every public tracker on the internet.

So I’d highly recommend this route. I also set up Jellyfin on my WebOS TV yesterday too, which was a bit more of a challenge but it works flawlessly so I’d also highly recommend Jellyfin as well.

So sad EA axed Titanfall 3, Respawn started making it but EA bought them out and demanded they make it a battle royale which they didn’t want to do so EA just axed it instead. Iirc of course, don’t quote me on it but I’m pretty sure this is how it went down.

Try Vivaldi browser, it’s old school Opera with a Chrome dress on. So you get the benefits of Chrome with the focus on privacy and innovation of old school Opera.

(Replied to the wrong comment but you get the gist.)

I tried to play Deathloop not long after launch and I enjoyed it, the humor was a big selling point, but it was a buggy mess. I tried so many different iterations but no matter what I tried it always crashed near the end of the third area, I can’t think of any other game I’ve tried that has been so comprehensively bricked. In saying that if they’ve managed to patch the gaping holes I’d like to try it again.

I’m no “normie” but Linux is so damned ass backwards my brain just can’t cope, some of the times I was unsure if I was asking the OS to change directory or summon Moloch to bring a thousand years of darkness to the world.

Quite often only 27.