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Great stuff, but I’m hoping for a blog post version soon. (Anyone else find Twitter threads annoying to read? Is this “old man shouts at cloud” territory?)
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Already on his blog
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https://xato.net/windows-spying-and-a-twitter-rant-19203babb2e7
Maybe the story should point at that instead.
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Reading about tech (as you could guess from my submissions), powerlifting, and video games (Invisible, Inc., Shattered Pixel Dungeon, and Crypt of the Necrodancer recently).
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Can I recommend using Vultr instead, featuring native support for OpenBSD install ISOs?
They recently tweeted a $50 credit, which is nice:
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Any KVM-based provider should work as well. My issue with Linode is their reliability and their dishonesty. I can’t imagine using them for business anytime soon. They’re probably okay for personal use.
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Can I recommend using Vultr instead, featuring native support for OpenBSD install ISOs?
Installing from an ISO worked nicely but I had to send three support requests over several days to get my account limit raised enough to try out their 24 core instance, even when I said that’s what I wanted in my first ticket.
I’ll update this thread with any new info.
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While it’s amazingly fast, the inability to run nearly all existing plugins makes it unworkable for me.
Out of curiosity what plugins do you use that are not compatible with Web Extensions?
For me, it’s gotta be fxgestures. Every gesture extension that I’ve tried on chrome doesn’t run on new tab/error pages nor do they run properly when viewing PDFs using the built in reader. Also IIRC sites like Twitter mess with the extensions styling somehow.
For me, the major plugins I’ll lose is self-destructing cookies (SDC), firegestures, tree-style tabs, and vimfx. I know that the VimFX author has referred folks to vimium, and there look to be webex alternatives to SDC. However, the webex APIs available at this time don’t appear to allow for modifying the browser in order for tree-style tabs or firegestures to be possible.
Tree style tabs have similar extensions available now https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-tabs/ , and it itself will be able to move to them at some point https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/issues/1224