The Thunderbird team is actually looking to bring it back as part of their new (paid I believe) services along with Thundermail.

Can't be sure of course. But there are at least some forks of FF that devs of FF could keep doing work on if Mozilla just stopped FF. I have been daily driving Zen-browser for at least six or eight months. It is very good as far as FF forks go, and if folks that do the work for the core browser things that aren't UI/UX were to jump-in. It could be able to keep moving forward as far as standards and security updates are concerned.

The only major issue (aside from the above) would be setting up an extension "store" since Zen does just point to FF's "store." Which is an issue for basically all the Chromium-based forks that aren't Edge and Opera to my knowledge. I hate that those forks still lose things like uBO even if they still support it instead of the V3 stuff.

Those are very much not trivial things and are honestly what would kill all of FF and the forks if not able to happen. Funding would be the first thing needed for devs to keep going if their main income is from their work for Mozilla. It would be at least easier than completely starting from zero.

Thanks for the recommendation! I will give it a try sometime. My typing has gotten better over the years since that job. Mostly due to having co-workers at my current job being faster. Just depends on if I am typing out notes that are basically the same and needing to get things closed at the last minute. lol

Since you at least know the layout. Typing of the Dead can be fun for forcing you to start using more fingers as things come at you. I needed to force myself to get better in order to make sure I could pass a timed typing speed and accuracy test for a data entry job. Played it a little every night for at least a week before my interview. I was still kind of slow, but was much more accurate. Which got me into a position that corrected or found missing information from the main data entry folks. If arcade zombie games aren't your thing, there are some other good games mentioned in the other comments.

And I may or may not have used a cracked Photoshop

Installing cracked Photoshop is basically a rite of passage for many. My first cracked program was Photoshop 6 that my photography friend gave me back in high-school when I was stuck on dial-up and they had cable.

Good to know that you actually give options a try (every now and then I try Photoshop to see how it works and new things). So many people will just hate on things just because they just hear that they are bad. One of my friends does photography and hates how Photoshop being a subscription costs so much. But refuses to bother checking-in on GIMP or other options. Even Lightroom alts are deemed not worth it just from muscle memory it seems. Which I do at least understand, but even just checking on options can mean having fall-backs if suddenly needing them. I doubt Adobe will just go away, but they can always make costs higher and higher which price people out.

It would be good if more UI/UX minded folks that actually use Photoshop/Lightroom but hate Adobe's sub models were to help out. Even just giving good input and follow-up with why or how those things could work is a starting point. Devs and creatives need each other for making projects/products like GIMP into options that more people would use for real.

I don't do much editing (certainly not fancy stuff with heavy use of all the tools), but there is a pretty good mod/patch PhotoGIMP that makes it present similar to Photoshop. It isn't that old GIMP-shop one that might have malware. Doesn't fix the missing stuff that power-users need, so no go for many of them. But the UI is much better than the main version of GIMP. Just have to apply the mod/patch after installing GIMP.

I am okay with it so long as it is at least using the real/translated words, and would be best if it was possible to have like dual audio/visual options in the same file. Or al least have clickable links to source files. I think it can (and that is a big "can") be very useful for getting more people exposed to more things that they would likely not bother with because of not wanting to read. Or more specifically helpful for folks that can't read (like vision impaired) which a normal video doesn't have a good option for a screen reader program. Just really depends on how it is used or abused.

Open box might be tempting!

My Paperwhite is also the 2015 model. Not seeing individual pixels with a magnifying glass is awesome to hear. I certainly think that it would look good for manga or other black and white format comics.

It does say what was said in the original. Here is the original. https://x.com/upholdreality/status/1912954706739269991

It seems to just be one of those AI that makes foreign language sound and video seem as though it was actually done in English. So that is why it says it is dubbed and the visual lines up with the audio.

Nice to see options, I hadn't heard of them before. Looks like the SN 10.7in is basically the same price as the 10.3in RM2. The smaller SN's price does make it a nice option for giving it a try. I will bookmark both to see if any sales pop-up. Do ebooks and manga look better than a Kindle? Been thinking of getting something more open than my Paperwhite 2 without the need to jailbreak. I would imagine that tablets like SN or RM would look great since they can have precise fine-point note taking.

Good to know information, I haven't looked into it beyond installing it to see how similar it was. Still could be a starting point for some folks that have the option to self-host and more specifically have large friend groups that have issues with only liking the UI of Discord. A very specific scenario for sure, but still nice to have options if one like that were to happen.

Not federated, but Revolt can be self-hosted and is very similar to Discord in the look and feel from what I have seen (I have it installed, but haven't tried getting friends to install it and am not hosting). So it could be worth looking into for folks that are used to Discord.

And they at least let you keep any credits you have even if you cancel your sub. Such a simple thing makes them much nicer to even try out. Audible tosses them if they aren't spent before canceling. The only thing going against them is just the smaller library of books since they don't offer anything with DRM. Which I am completely fine with, and they do seem to be getting more titles.

I do wish that they wouldn't list books that they don't have. Always gets my hopes up just to see I can't get them. It is a similar issue with Google and even Amazon's various services. Will see books, shows, and movies pop-up when I am searching for something and see a result that is "Unavailable." It is weird though that it doesn't happen with everything I search on either service.

Why would having a provider covered by the DMCA be a good thing (not offhand aware of NTD but I am guessing it is similar to the DMCA)? I have also been interested in trying Usenet, so thanks for sharing three examples of what to look for!

That one is what I thought of too. But I wonder what extra issues it would cause. If they are profiting off people uploading things that they don't have the rights to (which I would imagine is still most of it), then it seems like it would be easier to go after reddit itself. Though I am only guessing and don't know actual laws. The other issue is that porn is the thing that main stream sites that like to act like they are "clean" go after first. Which would mean a possible second mass exodus of users/traffic. Just like Verizon found out real fast when they tried to "clean up" Tumblr. Though I would guess reddit does have enough non-NSFW users and content to weather it much better.

Being fully transparent, I really only ever spend time on reddit when looking for such content since it is much safer from malware ads and fake links. Also better categorized for really specific interests with 4chan levels of daily users posting. Aside from that, I imagine that I will also be impacted by so many old threads that happen to have randomly crucial answers to very specific tech or misc (non-NSFW) problems I am dealing with. It is already very frustrating to get hit with their "You look sus and IP will be banned unless you sign in" warning screen if I happen to be not signed in and having all the ad/tracking blocking extensions and a VPN turned on.

One thing that bothers me about high level devs just leaving because they realized what they created. Is that them leaving means one more possible road block is just gone. They will just be replaced with people that are more fresh faced and on the hype train of going harder and harder. Lots of folks I know that are finishing college are just leaning more and more into just using all of these AI to solve problems instead of learning to code (or just write things) themselves. Some are still trying and I support them in my little ways, but I can see how much like a drug things start small and can turn into just using it all the time. Comp Sci majors were already getting worse in their actual understanding of how things work before LLMs (just look at all the things that will never be optimized and just rely on higher spec PCs).

I will have to give that a try. Is this the correct git? https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy

The Italian national block list keeps causing lots of non-blocked sites from working at all. All because of Cloudflare being used by so many sites. It is basically an issue that is always in TorrentFreak's news feed every other day or so. lol

I am not sure if they are also being hit with orders. But Mullvad has some DNS options on their site. Doesn't require having their VPN either. I personally use either the Ad-block or Base ones. Even helps prevent in-app ads from loading in some games. Here is the relevant part of their site with the list of their options: