When you're about to face a high risk, high reward situation, you should willfully, willingly start to hyperventilate, as this helps your brain ...
NEVER take any stranger's advice on the internet as credible without checking it with a specialist. This is especially true when said advice relates to your health and/or safety.
From the top of my head, I would name Okular. No other FOSS pdf reader is as complete and easy to use.
Sorry, please don't take this as an attack. It's just that I'm so tired of that lame joke.
I tried to present this as an observation. When filing a bug report (which I tried to emulate here), you have to take into account the distro, as it may influence the behavior of the software in question. Namely here Firefox.
Now, does that make you laugh? Good, laugh about it. But please think about it in this context. You are laughing about a personal choice. Prejudice is taking hold of your mind. You're turning someone's choice into a strawman, easy to be laughed at just because.
It's a bit like attacking vegans. Now it's not about this or that person and their choice. They're evened out, ridiculed, just because it's memetic to do so. The same with Arch users, so it seems.
I don't use Arch btw. There's no btw because I don't care about that. This just reminds me of how certain groups always have to hear the same old tired jokes about them, just because, individually, everyone telling those jokes feels it's so clever to do so.
Sorry. I think we can do better than this here at Lemmy. Again, this is not an attack. Perhaps just a reminder.
It's crazy to think that this level of intrusion is considered fair game. The way these behaviors are normalized is completely dystopian.
That's the thing, right? Those giant networks' admins surely know how inflated their userbase is. They surely know that a lot of the activity is bot faked/manipulated.
But since the end goal of those networks is generate traffic to sell something (ads, user data), they never purge the bots. They need fake engagement. They might even promote it. The human user is just being used (Cf. Stallman's use of this term).
I want to celebrate two things. 1. Your awareness of the potential dangers looming over the fediverse. 2. Your proactive attitude curtailing the problem at its root. From one human to another, thank you!
I'm so thrilled right now! I'm already typing this reply on OpenBoard and I'm loving it.
Gboard was also a big hurdle to my need to degoogle my phone. But not anymore!
Thank you so much. You've brighten my day. I'm both happy for knowing this and for finding about it on the fediverse.
I'm techie by gift, not by trade. I'm an MA in philosophy. Teaching is my main activity.
Well, I'm here. I'm loving the fediverse. And I'm kinda from outside tech, although being IT literate. So perhaps I should be counted as having a technical background.
The endgoal: Linux from scratch.
Lemmy, currently. This comment proves my point.
Howl's Moving Castle. I had an obsession with it at the time.
... without checking it. If that's your understanding, you're correct.
On the affirmative, ALWAYS check whatever advice you hear/read on the internet. Be ultra careful with your health and safety.