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A page that does not load any content with disabled JavaScript: hell no

I mean am I the only one that is browsing with completely disabled JS by default? :-D

More and more sites don't load anything withnout a JS and I'm not talking about advanced apps like Microsoft Office online...

Honestly I'd go for ~15" or similar, but that's not the option (yet).

My laptop is my primary and only work machine. I run a lot of VMs and operations on some bigg-ish datasets.

RAM disks are quite a good way to expedite these things - along with two SSDs.

I absolutely will be :-) And I really hope that it will have these features as I would really love to have Framework laptop and support RtR!

It absolutely can. I don't really need a laptop that is razor thin :-)

The questions I always ask:

- Does it have atlest two m.2 slots?

- Can I have WIFI and WWAN (5G)?

- Can this fit 4 RAM sticks? (96-128G RAM)

- Does it have a 4k display? (it's 2023, come on!)

Still not many computers do offer these parameters :-( I'd love to have Framework laptop if it would offer these parameters.

I don't want to be a killjoy here. Don't get me wrong, this is certainly a good thing but to me it seems like most major trackers are moving/has already moved to things like canvas fingerprinting, WebAssembly fingerprinting etc.

This seems to be like a typical cat-and-mouse game. And browsers will not get more privacy friendly as long as there will be a trend that moves applications and basically every aspect of our lives into the browser thus making it unbelieveably complex.

I suspect that we will soon have to choose to either live as a "digital hermit" (links/neomutt and other lightweight apps that do only the one thing) or give up and join everyone with Youtube/Facebook/Twitter.

Well, this is nice but in reality useless. You can run Linux on ancient Apple devices such as 2009 iMac but not really on anything newer.

I want to have modern peripherals and experience such as 4k display, USB-C, reasonably fast wifi/bluetooth. I don't really have a need for CD-ROM, firewire and IR port...

And believe me, I tried to run Linux on 2018/2019 MBP. Apple really really tries to makes that as painful as possible. Most of the things are behind T2 (including keyboard for example) and since there is virtually no documentation you have to rely on reverse engineering efforts of few talented individuals. Also there are things that just plain don't work such as resuming from sleep (the graphics MUX gets all confused and the driver will not re-configure it for some reason) etc... Basically nice for playing around, not good enough for running as a main device.

If you want to be sure, you have to pin your TLS certificates. That way someone either has to decompile your executable and replace that pinned cert (hard if you use SW signing), crack your signature (not likely) or steal your private key.

There are several other methods that I've seen but they are not bulletproof: - talking directly to hardcoded DNS such as 8.8.8.8 - hardcoding IP addresses into SW - Checking for some obscure header as a part of client/server identification

Yeah I don't understand why Apple does not force its developers to use such connection for day or two in work. I'm very sure that they would notice because even shell gets pretty unusable - and if you have Oh My ZSH with plugins such as git where it runs several commands every prompt... Oh boy are in for a ride.

And the most painful thing is that Macbooks don't have eSIM/cellular so you have to use iPhone with its small-ish antenna. So you have a MBP and your system is barely usable and next to you is your colleague, using DELL with built-in LTE and 4 large antennas behind its display doing over 70Mbps with a sh*t-eating grin asking you if you want to use his computer :-D

Not really but you can simulate this by either using iPhone as an AP and forcing 3G if possible or you can hide behind linux proxy and set up packet dropping (can be done with nftables) random packets.

That will result in almost unusable system.

The problem with online checks (gatekeeper) are when you have flaky internet connection.

It can handle no connection quite well, but unstable internet is really a PITA - commands and applications lag randomly when launching etc... It took me some time to troubleshoot why suddenly ma MacOS was almost unusable and this was the culprit.

I never said it is the same as open furnace. I just said that there is a distinct lack of health considerations around this idea. And your commend really underlines my statement. I mean, IR is not visible and if I can't see it, it can't hurt me, right? :-D

But seriously: She has 22 IR LEDs. Let's say 50mW each and you have over 1W of illumination in there. If you wore it while outside/at work, it could easily add up to 10 hours a day, 6 days a week. That's really not "nothing", even though the immediate intensity is not comparable to furnace, the overall dosage very well might be...

Yeah in "normal amounts" - basically what body expects from the sun. :)

I have not calculated the power output of those LEDs, I merely pointed out the fact that I don't think healt consequences should be completely overlooked by just saying "meh, it's like red, no worries"...

That is simply not true.

For example: There are, in fact, known risks to near-infrared radiation exposure. Erythema ab igne, for example, is a disorder characterized by a patchy discoloration of the skin and other clinical symptoms. It is caused by prolonged exposure to hearth fires, and it is an occupational hazard of glass blowers and bakers exposed to furnaces and hot ovens (e.g., Tsai and Hamblin 2017). It is not a risk to the general population, however, in that the irradiance is usually many times that of solar near-infrared irradiance.

I don't know - kinda seems unwise to blast yourself with IR. You may not feel it immediately but I would certainly not rule out any long-ish term healt consequences.

This looks quite nice - for some time I have been trying to list all tabs in Chromium window so I can stick it to proper workspace (I'm using i3) - one for general browsing and one for IM/socials.

If this can identify the window (PID or better WindowID like wmctrl -l lists) it will be perfect!

Yup - took me few minutes to figure out why my Portage package pcalc has quite a different TUI. Not the best move to name it like that I'd say.

Honestly I missed Calculator.app along with Mail.app on Linux quite a lot!

I settled with Qalculate - it can do some things as Spotlight (currency conversion) and also quite nice for programmer-related tasks. Although I miss few features here and there it is quite good.

Honestly I ran Mac for 3 years or so and i3 was one of the reasons I went back to the Linux.

That and the "war on hackers" that Apple seem to wage last few years also did not help (breaking uBlock in Safari, inability to permanently disable some system services without having to disable SIP and thus losing ApplePay+disk encryption to name a few)

I do too, but I find it distracting when for example something opens a popup menu and the original window dims/fades away.

Tried also transparency and it really does not work for me either.

I look at that thing most of the day.

I don't think it is that unbelievable that I'd like to look at something a little bit nicer than default i3. :shrug:

Thank you for your work on i3-gaps, Airblader.

I've been using it for years now. Started with plain i3 but quickly wanted something a bit more elegant and nicer to look at. I had 2 hi-res monitors so I was willing to sacrifice few pixels for an eye-candy. I spend most of my day looking at the thing after all :-)

Honestly it baffled me for a long time that i3 did not have such a "simple" thing as gaps. I could understand the anti-pattern theory in the good ol' era of 1024x768 but nowdays?

Anyway it is good to hear that it is merged. Thank you and Michael for the i3 experience, it is truly addictive. I was on MacOS for ~3 years and I missed it every single day there.

Unfortunately it does not load images (Vivaldi, Linux, adBlock). JS enabled/disabled makes no difference.

Pity :-(

Damn you, I just spit out my drink! :-D

I honestly don't care about that at all. Noone I know really cares about that so I would say the "majority" really depends on your social bubble :-)

Right now I care whether we will get nuked. Everything else is a worry for a later day.

The "fun" begins. I don't think that Ukrainians will stop so we'll have to see how Russia will react when they start taking it back.

Quite a time to be alive, eh?

Honestly I have uBlock set in a way that blocks most of this stuff by default. I have several "steps" of permissivity:

1) (default) block all JS completely

2) Block 3rd party js

3) Permit all js (rare)

If the web fails to render in (1) and I do not necessarily need anything on that web I can get elsewhere, I just leave the web. F that web and F that creator. If I have to (webshop etc) I usualy just enable (2) which works most of the time. (3) is basically only for special webs like banking etc which is just PITA to debug as you have to be logging in constantly etc.

Websites today are just full of unnecessary crap and are downright unusable when on slower connection like 3G. Most of the webs now require your browser to download 2M of JS to have "slide out menus" or some other stupid stuff. uBlock is a must, because without that you will run out of data plan almost instantly.

And to make things worse, Chromium-based browsers will make adblocking much harder with Manifest v3. As soon as this happens, I will go to Firefox. And after that probably Links (unironically).

Btw spinning up a docker to shrink 1 JS function to a oneliner is perfectly capturing the essence of what's wrong with web nowdays :-D

Yeah, but it does not make it worthless at all...

Even broken logic board is worth quite a lot so this argument is really more of a wishfull thinking than a reality.

Well, I can turn Find My off. I cannot reset this crap.

Also it makes zero difference in stealing an iPhone as even iCloud locked iPhone is easily useable for parts.

So no, it is not like that at all.