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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Here’s the thing, I don’t want Microslop to apologize. Apologies don’t mean shit from major corporations unless actual change happens. It’s appalling just how bad Windows is compared to Linux, despite the fact that Linux is free and Windows is a “premium” OS. There are so many things, both big and small, that Linux does better than Windows. Microslop is currently worth almost 3 trillion dollars, they have no excuse.

    In fact, something that I saw some time ago, was a video of Tiny 11 being booted into with just 184MB of ram. It didn’t run that well, as it was pretty much unusable for multiple reasons, but this proves that Microslop has plenty of room for improvements in Windows to match Linux in terms of performance.



  • I mainly use Firefox as it’s the best non-chromium browser I’m aware of for both Linux and android. But I also have Vivaldi installed on Linux for the rare cases where something doesn’t work in Firefox, Waterfox on some of my older android devices because Firefox no longer supports the versions of android they run, and I also have F-Droid’s Fennec on one of my phones because it used to be my primary browser on android and I just never got around to switching to Firefox on that phone.

    For anyone wondering why I stopped using F-Droid’s Fennec, it’s just because at some point (possibly a few years ago) they announced that their browser was outdated and missing several security features from Firefox. It’s possible that the browser is fully updated now, as it does seem to be receiving updates regularly, but I currently have no reason to switch back to using it as my primary browser on android. Now, if they were to revert the UI back to previous one, I’d have a reason to use it again. I really don’t care for the UI both Firefox and Fennec have currently on android.







  • The benefits of keeping old devices. Before we moved several years ago, I had several computers/laptops, storage devices and some other miscellaneous devices that I’d be able to use and actually benefit from if I had kept them.

    • I have games that I can’t get working on either Linux or newer versions of Windows.

    • Hard drives from old computers and laptops can be relatively cheaply converted into external hard drives and, while they wont be fast and possibly not reliable if used too much, they offer decent storage for the price.

    • I often use smaller storage devices (like SD cards and MP3 players) for transferring files from one computer to another and I also like to use them as temporary storage to preserve my hard drives when I don’t need fast storage.

    Another thing I wish I had known about, was just how quickly emulation would get good for older games. I’ve wasted so much money from buying older/retro consoles because I thought that emulation would stay as just a niche interest. Nowadays, while some games and systems are still iffy, you can emulate a wide variety of consoles and a lot of emulators even work well on some older and low end devices.