

FreeCAD: Pros: free, open source. Cons: workflow as rough as sandpaper, constantly crashes.
It has a learning curve (like all software), yes. But I cannot confirm the crashes.
Somewhere between Linux woes, gaming, open source, 3D printing, recreational coding, and occasional ranting.
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FreeCAD: Pros: free, open source. Cons: workflow as rough as sandpaper, constantly crashes.
It has a learning curve (like all software), yes. But I cannot confirm the crashes.
Thanks! I just prefer simple UIs.
(Screenshots resized due to not wasting too much space.
Here’s a small one of how a website would look like.
Here’s a larger one of how my new tab page looks like (including multiple tabs to show how the tab bar looks like).
// Enable userChrome.css
user_pref('toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets', true);
// Warnings
user_pref('browser.aboutConfig.showWarning', false);
// Style
user_pref('browser.tabs.inTitlebar', 0);
user_pref('browser.theme.content-theme', 1);
user_pref('browser.theme.toolbar-theme', 1);
// Extensions
user_pref('extensions.activeThemeID', '[email protected]');
user_pref('extensions.pocket.enabled', false);
user_pref('extensions.screenshots.disabled', true);
user_pref('extensions.getAddons.showPane', false);
user_pref('extensions.htmlaboutaddons.recommendations.enabled', false);
// Zoom
user_pref('toolkit.zoomManager.zoomValues', '.5,.3,1,1.2,1.3,1.5');
user_pref('devtools.toolbox.zoomValue', '1.4');
user_pref('browser.zoom.siteSpecific', false);
// Privacy
//
// Basically do not leak URLs, IPs, etc. to external services
user_pref('browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled', false);
user_pref('browser.safebrowsing.phishing.enabled', false);
user_pref('security.OCSP.enabled', 0);
user_pref('browser.contentblocking.category', 'custom');
user_pref('app.shield.optoutstudies.enabled', false);
user_pref('browser.urlbar.trending.featureGate', false);
// DoH explicitly off
user_pref('network.trr.mode', 5);
user_pref('network.trr.default_provider_uri', '');
// Cookies
user_pref('network.cookie.cookieBehavior', 2);
// AdBlock
user_pref('browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsoredTopSites', false);
user_pref('browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.section.topstories', false);
user_pref('browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.topsites', false);
// Remove weird URLS
user_pref('toolkit.shopping.ohttpConfigURL', '');
user_pref('toolkit.shopping.ohttpRelayURL', '');
user_pref('browser.partnerlink.attributionURL', '');
user_pref('browser.privatebrowsing.vpnpromourl', '');
// Do not track
user_pref('privacy.trackingprotection.enabled', false);
user_pref('privacy.trackingprotection.emailtracking.enabled', false);
user_pref('privacy.trackingprotection.socialtracking.enabled', false);
user_pref('privacy.trackingprotection.cryptomining.enabled', false);
user_pref('privacy.trackingprotection.fingerprinting.enabled', false);
user_pref('privacy.donottrackheader.enabled', true);
// Beahvior
user_pref('general.smoothScroll', false);
user_pref('signon.autofillForms', true);
user_pref('signon.firefoxRelay.feature', 'disabled');
user_pref('browser.download.manager.addToRecentDocs', false);
user_pref('security.tls.version.min', 1);
user_pref('browser.profiles.enabled', false);
// UI features
//
// https://github.com/yokoffing/Betterfox/blob/main/user.js
user_pref('browser.discovery.enabled', false);
user_pref('browser.shell.checkDefaultBrowser', false);
user_pref('browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.asrouter.userprefs.cfr.addons', false);
user_pref('browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.asrouter.userprefs.cfr.features', false);
user_pref('browser.preferences.moreFromMozilla', false);
user_pref('browser.tabs.tabmanager.enabled', false);
user_pref('browser.aboutConfig.showWarning', false);
user_pref('browser.aboutwelcome.enabled', false);
user_pref('browser.uidensity', 0);
user_pref('browser.urlbar.trimURLs', false);
user_pref('browser.urlbar.showSearchTerms.enabled', false);
// Telemetry
//
// https://github.com/yokoffing/Betterfox/blob/main/user.js
user_pref('datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionEnabled', false);
user_pref('datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled', false);
user_pref('toolkit.telemetry.unified', false);
user_pref('toolkit.telemetry.enabled', false);
user_pref('toolkit.telemetry.server', 'data:,');
user_pref('toolkit.telemetry.archive.enabled', false);
user_pref('toolkit.telemetry.newProfilePing.enabled', false);
user_pref('toolkit.telemetry.shutdownPingSender.enabled', false);
user_pref('toolkit.telemetry.updatePing.enabled', false);
user_pref('toolkit.telemetry.bhrPing.enabled', false);
user_pref('toolkit.telemetry.firstShutdownPing.enabled', false);
user_pref('toolkit.telemetry.coverage.opt-out', true);
user_pref('toolkit.coverage.opt-out', true);
user_pref('toolkit.coverage.endpoint.base', '');
user_pref('browser.ping-centre.telemetry', false);
user_pref('browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.telemetry', false);
user_pref('browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.telemetry', false);
user_pref('breakpad.reportURL', '');
user_pref('browser.tabs.crashReporting.sendReport', false);
user_pref('browser.crashReports.unsubmittedCheck.autoSubmit2', false);
user_pref('app.shield.optoutstudies.enabled', false);
user_pref('app.normandy.enabled', false);
user_pref('app.normandy.api_url', '');
// Disable AI bullshit
//
user_pref('browser.ml.enable', false);
user_pref('browser.ml.chat.enabled', false);
user_pref('browser.ml.chat.shortcuts', false);
user_pref('browser.ml.chat.sidebar', false);
user_pref('pdfjs.enableAltText', false);
user_pref('pdfjs.enableUpdatedAddImage', false);
and
@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul");
/* Tabs styling */
#TabsToolbar {
background-color: #cccccc !important;
--toolbarbutton-inner-padding: 0 !important;
}
.tabbrowser-tab {
padding: 0 !important;
}
.tab-background {
margin: 0 !important;
border-radius: 0 !important;
background-color: var(--toolbar-bgcolor) !important;
box-shadow: none !important;
}
#alltabs-button {
display: none !important;
}
#tabbrowser-tabs {
min-height: unset !important;
}
/* secondary label indicators */
@font-face {
/* copy font file to same directory as this CSS file */
font-family: 'SymbolsNerdFont';
src: url('SymbolsNerdFont.ttf') format('truetype');
}
.tab-secondary-label {
display: none;
}
.tab-text::before {
font-family: SymbolsNerdFont;
padding-right: 0.25em;
}
.tabbrowser-tab[soundplaying] .tab-text::before { content: ''; }
.tabbrowser-tab[muted] .tab-text::before { content: ''; }
.tabbrowser-tab[activemedia-blocked] .tab-text::before { content: ''; }
/* unselected tabs */
.tab-background:not([selected]),
.tab-icon-image:not([selected]) {
opacity: 0.4 !important;
}
.tab-text:not([selected]) {
color: #555753 !important;
}
#tabbrowser-arrowscrollbox {
min-height: var(--tab-min-height) !important;
max-height: var(--tab-min-height) !important;
}
scrollbox[part="scrollbox"] {
gap: 2px;
}
and
/* Style about:home and about:newtab */
@-moz-document url-prefix(about:home), url-prefix(about:newtab) {
.logo-and-wordmark {
background-image: url(REPLACE_ME_WITH_YOUR_FAVORITE_IMAGE.jpg);
background-size: cover;
background-position: center;
aspect-ratio: 16/9;
border-radius: 1em;
position: relative;
width: auto;
height: auto;
max-width: 80%;
max-height: 60vh;
margin: 0 auto;
}
.logo-and-wordmark .logo {
display: none !important;
}
.logo-and-wordmark .wordmark {
position: absolute;
right: 2em;
bottom: 0.5em;
--newtab-wordmark-color: #eb8819;
}
}
So … Basically just another preconfigured Firefox with extensions?
Getting a burner phone and account and only tun it on when you want to check the messages is a good start. Do not use any of your real information.
When I left FB a decade ago they didn’t force a phone number for the messenger, thy basically just requested all possible permissions.
Even after years of being used as a meme template, this stock photo is still as aesthetically pleasing as a Renaissance painting.
They would lose likely 98% of their player base.
I’m going to voluntarily read other people’s AI slop.
Came here to say that.
Here’s trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bgrNm7rdeo
Or just yolo it, if you have some money to burn.
Stop eating.
tldr:
“Small, itchy, blister-like bumps caused by the varicella-zoster virus,” the dish description from Sikar’s Royal Roll Express restaurant reads. “Common in childhood.”
A misreading of the dish name in question — “Chicken Pops” — could well explain why an AI may have spat out a description for what sounds an awful lot like chicken pox, a common childhood virus that causes the exact kind of nasty “blister-like bumps” detailed on the menu.
Files on your own hardware are equally good as physical media.
This made me vomit a little in my mouth.
I am with you on physical media, and it is sad. Physical media is the only media you really own.
“No honey, the shirt isn’t the problem here.”
Let me introduce you to UY Scuti.