The template of this meme is that of the man who cheerfully points his hand at a butterfly, asking “Is this a pigeon”?. In this meme, the man has been covered with icons of the applications IntelliJ, VSCode, Chromium and Signal. The butterfly which he points to is overlaid with the caption “.config”. He asks “Is this a trash can?” At the bottom of the image, we see the command du -sh executed on the directories .config/chromium/ and .config/Code, yielding file sizes of 1016M and 83M respectively.
Well dont use chrom*
The signal community should band together and write a signal client that doesn’t use the waste of space called electron. There is a rust library for signal and slint for cross platform UIs. Slint is even working (slowly) on mobile targets
Anti Commercial-AI license
There already is one called Flare. It uses rust IIRC.
Thanks. I’ll have a look at this!
Anti Commercial-AI license
Non-flatpak🤮 link: https://gitlab.com/schmiddi-on-mobile/flare
What’s wrong with Flatpak? I like the separation of system packages with the system package manager, and user-level random apps on Flatpak.
If you like it then use it, but let’s not pretend everyone else likes it and link to Flathub instead if project site.
Yeah 100% agree you should link to the project site, not Flathub.
Well you do use files named chrome.css, as Firefox based browsers have their style css in that.
Yes ok my mistake, despite * I am of course not talking about files with e.g. .css extension but only the browsers with chrome* as name. :)
Edit: Above all, I don’t want to imply that Firefox and co don’t use system resources just as wastefully. But they are still the better choice.
Yep, obviously, was just a joke. But technically, eg. steam is also chromium-based (which explains why it’s shit)
It’s just a rat’s tail like so many other things.
I miss opera with own engine
Presto was nice. But I guess being quite strict about standards was just too much to handle for the chrome fanboy developers.
Valve has proven they will go to great lengths to utterly thwart would-be monopolies that threaten PC gaming (the real reason proton exists). We just need to find a way to convince them that Google is a threat too.
I just want better APIs. Users will do the rest. A native client, still steam-style, but made in QT. Maybe not the store etc., but display that via an external browser or inline firefox somehow.
Apropos
Fun fact: Unrelated to the browser of the same name, it’s the “window chrome” of the browser
The browser that manages to somehow get even more spyware than chrome?
Chrom, grant me my RAM…and if you do not listen, then the hell with you!
Firefox saves its config outside of .config/ as well, IIRC. Can’t check now, I have actually put that crappy browser in the trash bin long ago.
I will not take this bait
Yes. ~/.mozilla. Its annoying.
You can fix it with a hack by putting a shell script in your path (before the original firefox) that consist of:
#!/bin/sh HOME='/home/engywuck/.local/share/firefox' /usr/bin/firefoxCall that instead of the original firefox from now on. it will create the “librewolf” folder in ~/.local/share and chuck its junk in there.
Edit: This bug has been open for TWENTY YEARS.
Honestly ridiculous.
And what browser are you using?
Usually the shit-talkers use some fork of FF that would last about 5 minutes if FF ceased to exist.
Or fucking Brave, the cryptoscam browser.
Yea, not a huge fan of the push for crypto on brave
For what it is worth the Flatpak version doesn’t have this issue
Thats because flatpaks treat each apps directory as their own $HOME so instead of $HOME/.mozilla its $HOME/.var/app/{app_name}/.mozilla
Which is still fantastic dont get me wrong. But Mozilla hasn’t stopped hardcoding their Mozilla folder instead of the xdg dirs even throughf firefox issue tracker has had it on there for 20 years