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@pabloernesto said:

I don't get it :(

every browser except firefox runs on chromium. they are just chrome reskins. firefox is the only good browser. install firefox

ms-demeanor

• How to install Firefox
• How to import data from a different browser to Firefox
• How to install Extensions
• Link to Ublock Origin Extension

Firefox does a ton of cool shit but just out of the box, fresh install it does less tracking and dataharvesting than Chrome (in that it does essentially none while chrome's goal is to crawl all the way into your asshole and monetize the data of the unique features of your intestinal lining) and does not contribute to the chromium near-monopoly (Firefox and Safari are the only non-chromium browsers with any notable market share).

Also you know how Adobe fucking sucks and is really annoying and it's frustrating to have to use their PDF reader? Firefox now comes with a built-in PDF reader AND editor. Check this shit out:

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Firefox also has a feature called Multi Account Containers that allows you to log in to accounts in different containers so that you don't have to open up an incognito window or log out of various services to use a different account. For instance, I have my Work container and my School container and I can log in to office 365 in either one of them without having to log out of the other, or I can have seven tabs logged in to seven different tumblr accounts (not sideblogs, separate accounts) in the same window if I want to do that for any reason.

Also fuck google.

ms-demeanor

So people in the comments are talking about tabs and while I am a tab goblin who simply has 100-200 totally unorganized tabs open in eight windows at all times, there are multiple ways of organizing tabs that work well for a lot of Firefox users:

• OneTab collects all of your tabs into a list like bookmarks so that you can go back to them later.
• Tree Style Tabs is for people who want to comprehensively organize and stack their tabs for different subjects/accounts/projects etc.

Now, the reason that I can have unholy amounts of tabs open is because the tab extension that I *do* use is Auto Tab Discard. "Discard" sounds scary, but it might be better described as "Auto Tab Sleep." This extension lets you set how long to keep tabs active before it snoozes them, which means that it doesn't keep loading or storing data for open-but-snoozed tabs and will refresh the tab the next time you click on it instead of letting it gobble up RAM. You can set it to not sleep tabs with media playing, or to not sleep tabs with incomplete forms so you can keep videos playing in the background and not worry that you're going to lose work open in other tabs while still sleeping stuff that you don't need to have open. It's a HUGE resource saver.

I also always like to remind people that it's a good idea to run multiple browsers; I have Opera installed for when I need to open a site that only runs on chrome browsers and Edge in case Microsoft gets pushy about using their browser when working on Microsoft licensing stuff. If Firefox doesn't run some pages you need, open those pages in a different browser and then use blissfully ad-free, account-contained, tab-slept Firefox for the things it works well with.

Also this comes up a lot in discussions of switching to Firefox: Gsuite (aka gmail, docs, forms, etc.) works just fine in Firefox. There are some limitations that might make them annoying for heavy users (the one that sticks out to me is that copy/pasting in sheets requires keyboard commands instead of right clicking), but Google products work fine in Firefox, and I fully recognize that you might need to use Google products (one of my classes is requiring us to keep a journal in a Gdoc we've shared with the professor, so I'm right there with you).

And here's your reminder that on android devices you can run Firefox mobile with extensions! There are comparatively limited extensions for the mobile application, but it allows you to run ublock origin on mobile which is, frankly, the only fucking way to use a mobile browser. If you're seeing ads in your mobile browser on Android please recognize that that is entirely voluntary. You could stop that today. It doesn't have to be that way.

For Apple device users, unfortunately it is impossible to run extensions on iOS browsers BUT Firefox Focus is available for both Android and iOS and may deliver a better mobile internet experience; it is privacy-focused, but not, unfortunately, ad-free.

Some people in the notes are asking about Ecosia - Ecosia is a search engine and mobile browser. I don't know what architecture the mobile browser uses, but either way it isn't a replacement for a desktop browser. Ecosia is fine to use if you like it, but if your goal is an ad-free browsing experience that's not what Ecosia is set up to provide. In terms of search engines, I use DuckDuckGo with google and bing as a backups, because you can toggle between search engines with one click in Firefox.

ms-demeanor

So, funny story, if you've experienced extreme slowness on FireFox while using a PC in the last five years there's a decent chance that it was related to a bug that Microsoft took five years to fix. So make sure your computer has the latest updates and patches and see if that fixes it.

ms-demeanor

Yes! In Firefox the "restore tabs every session" setting is the first option under general settings. Opera, which I also use, also does this and I believe it is an option for most browsers. This feature has made me a much worse tab hoarder if i'm being honest but it's also really really good for people to know if they haven't been closing their browsers because they don't want to lose their tabs. What this will NOT do is save your place in an infinite scroll or keep partially filled forms, so it doesn't keep your browser perfectly in-state, but yeah it'll reopen every tab.

slashrawr

Sometimes I wonder if the "childhood obesity" epidemic is more of an example of epigenetics in action than anything else.

Like, we know that people who have survived famines or enforced starvation not only have their own metabolism permanently slowed, but are also prone to having kids that retain fat more easily.

A great many mainstream diets recommend less caloric intake than was used to drive volunteers near-insane in the Minnesota Starvation Experiments (~1560 calories). This has been true for decades. And we also know diets have a 98% failure rate, with most participants' weight increasing over the previous baseline over five years. Kind of expected - diets are just artificial famines.

But as far as childhood obesity and epigenetics go...when's the last time you met an AFAB person who hadn't been on at least one crash diet?

My kingdom for the money to research this.

ms-demeanor

There is definitely research being done about this and maternal undernutrition is something that obesity researchers have noted as a possible precursor to childhood obesity (as well as exposure to endocrine disruptors, birth order, and maternal obesity). In this paper that discussion falls under "polygenic obesity," which is a consideration of many possible epigenetic contributors to obesity in an obesity-promoting environment. This explores epigenitic mechanisms as a contributor toward obesity and metabolic syndrome. This is a mouse study on fetal undernourishment that has findings of higher food intake in weaned mice and higher blood pressure as well as higher fasting insulin and plasma in mice in the undernourished fetal group.

However epigenetics are complicated because expression can vary significantly from individual to individual even within a controlled experimental population (as seen in animal studies) and with other genetic factors acting to enhance or ameliorate possible epigenetic causes (as seen in the Danish famine study).

So yes, there are people researching this but it remains really complicated (though yeah i also think that it's notable that VLCD and crash diets became hugely popular right as obesity rates really started to take off but also that's about the same time that plastics started becoming unbelievably ubiquitous and a wide variety of psychiatric medications became available and there are global obesity increases that seem out of step with the prevalence of crash dieting and weight cycling and there are just a whole bunch of possible causes and 'a high percentage of afab people in the US spend at least a portion of their lives on a starvation diet' certainly could be one of them)

depsidase

bondsmagii

had a dream last night where I took a uquiz called "what do you serve?" and at first the questions were standard but as the quiz progressed they became more and more highly specific to me personally and the answers became more and more similar and I realised the quiz Knew me and was forcing me into being honest by giving me no other option so I tried to click out but it just went to the next question which was "are you the spider? or are you the web?" and it had an option for each but I didn't click either so it then turned to a text box and I typed "I think I'm the fly" and the quiz paused for a while and then took me to a results page that said "you serve truth" and the description just read "what you know will kill you but you will die laughing" so like. good morning everyone I guess :/

mariaalenkoshepard

OP I think the devil visited you in your sleep

animentality

darkearthsuggestions

Every day I ask the sky, with hope stuffed into my pockets-- and what are we today? Are we the fanged smile, heat hovering above the asphalt, sweating out our clear summer coats? Are we the whisper-gleam, playful and promising over the shoulder of a cloud? I ask with my palms turned up. I would not ask the sky to change for me-- what arrogance! We both know how the frogs sing for rain. But forgive me if I turn my face towards the sun. Forgive me if I ask you often. Forgive me if I crane my neck and squint at the door, and linger longer in patches of light. I would not try to tame the sky-- but I would, winking, make my promises to the sun. And today?

threadtalk

A vision in blue! This 1865 gown is deep azure shot with glass beads for an extra bit of glitter.

The neckline on this is classic young Victoria, with those cap sleeves and the emphasized waist. I love the matching trim on the hem and sleeves, which really brings the whole ensemble together. Rather understated in comparison to some gowns from this era it's got a classic beauty to it.

People often ask why dresses were so big in this period. It's important to remember that fabric = wealth (and portable too!). Fabric, until fairly recently, was an ideal way to flaunt your status. Using miles and miles of cloth (see: the Rococo Period) is a societal short hand for $$$.

From the Cincinnati Art Museum.

modelsof-color

Kangkan Rabha at Études FW 20 Backstage

starlightacademia

“It's taboo to admit that you're lonely. You can make jokes about it, of course. You can tell people that you spend most of your time with Netflix or that you haven't left the house today and you might not even go outside tomorrow. But rarely do you ever tell people about the true depths of your loneliness, about how you feel more and more alienated from your friends each passing day and you're not sure how to fix it. It seems like everyone is just better at living than you are. A part of you knew this was going to happen. Growing up, you just had this feeling that you wouldn't transition well to adult life, that you'd fall right through the cracks. And look at you now, it's happening.”

anissapierce

Heres a link to Ryan O'Connell's original piece

For context hes a writer and actor who's gay and has cerebral palsy.

biancadavri

the ghost that appears before aeducan to encourage them in andraste’s temple looking like trian and endrin on his deathbed holding on to the hope that aeducan is still alive and begging gorim to give them the family shield and bhelen still putting much of orzammar’s limited resources into trying to locate aeducan ten years later when they seem to have vanished like uh oh there really was a family underneath it all