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What is something you dislike but still begrudgingly use? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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This question was inspired by my hatred of Temporal Anti-Aliasing which, in many games nowadays, is poorly used as a performance bandaid. On lower resolutions it will smudge and blur the image and certain bad cases of TAA will cause visible ghosting.

Yet in spite of all this, certain games won't let you turn it off or have hair/fur/foliage look like dogshit without it so sometimes I still use it.

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[โ€“] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Browsers. Firefox hasnt given me reason to doubt. Yet. And I find that odd. Still uses it. Because every other big browser have given me reasons.

Generally "free" stuff from big companies is giving me more and more the heebie-jeebies. Even if they have good reputation. But there's NO WAY I could ever pay for everything I use. Nor donate to every deserving person who has given their free time to create and publish FOSS.

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  • [โ€“] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Mozilla really pushes Pocket through Firefox. I've gone through the about:config to get rid of it. Pocket gives me doubts.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    They also push their VPN a lot. Every week or two I open Firefox and they send me to their VPN page on their website telling me to try it.

    Like no. I'm not interested in paying for a rebranded mullvad.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 years ago

    I recommend Librewolf. It's a privacy focused fork of firefox. They apply their own patches to every new firefox release so you always have the newest features of firefox minus the bloat.

    Comes preinstalled with ublock-origin, no Telemetry, no Mozilla VPN, no pocket, no prompts to create a mozilla account, no ads on the start page, default search engine is ddg and deletes all cookies (exept for whitelisted sites) on launch.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Should look into the ladybug browser firefox while the only "decent" browser isn't great nether and ladybug looks really promising

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 7 months ago

    ladybug

    Not ladybird?

    ...as in the one from the developers of SerenityOS.

    It'll still be a while before it's reliable as a daily driver.

    There are forks of firefox that do not require an hour reconfiguring for security. Like LibreWolf.

    Similarly some decent forks from chromium, like brave or qutebrowser, depending on what you're looking for.

    And there's still seamonkey, dillo, and others. ... vimb, nyxt, luakit, surf, ... I miss uzbl, it was the best.

    Browsh even, if links2, lynx, w3m or eww are insufficient for your needs in non graphical environments.

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