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merecactus··on Old Timey Code and Old Timey Mono Fonts
Thank you so much for making and sharing this. I'm especially grateful that you included the code variant. I'm not a programmer but love monospace fonts but the lack of a slashed zero in so many otherwise lovely fonts has been a deal breaker for me!
merecactus··on How to escape Honda's privacy hell
I wonder if there is enough market demand for dumb and basic products that follow the Unix philosophy of doing one thing well. This may just be nostalgia talking, but I miss pre-iPhone technology.

A TV with no connectivity features, a car UI with actual buttons and knobs, a phone with one-handed usability, laptops with ethernet ports, home appliances without Wi-Fi.

Yes, I'm in the minority or maybe I'm just getting old.

merecactus··on Why I use Firefox
In addition to all of the reasons so many have mentioned, my favorite reason is this setting which allows me to easily use my preferred fonts on all websites: Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above

De-selecting the box and specifying my preferred fonts is the absolute first setting I change on every Firefox installation.

merecactus··on Building a personal internet from Markdown files
Hey Rafi,

Both Codeberg and Github only seem to have two files - LICENSE and README.md. Shouldn't there be some more files for this to work?