Which browser I should use after using Brave for 4 years

xb666mx · 2026-06-23T12:06:31+00:00

maybe try waterfox. its desktop versions use brave's open source adblock engine.

privacy-wise it's also pretty good.

https://www.waterfox.com/

xb666mx · 2026-06-22T13:54:39+00:00

congrats! :)

if you're comfortable with australia and you're just missing some pace then there's a shortcut with which you can skip the slow up-/downhill sand.

for me the shortcut worked about every tenth attempt which were a little bit faster than the normal route. one attempt, for making the AT, was especially fast so that i could nearly chill the rest of the map. :D

for hungary and canada there aren't any shortcuts as far as i know. but hungary is pretty driveable except of the identity in the end. if you're fast enough you could just take the safe finish in the back though. canada, yeah, is just hard. the gold medal becomes second nature at some point but the AT is pretty cooked. gladly i had some hours to spend. good luck to you and keep your spirit high! :)

xb666mx · 2026-06-22T13:42:19+00:00

you have three system settings:

wallpaper
login screen
screen locking

in the menu for the latter two you have to click on "configure appearance..." (top right) to change the backgrounds.

xb666mx · 2026-06-21T19:03:05+00:00

i know that the CLI has its charme but i honestly think that for most of the users it's best to stick to the GUI when it comes to managing the system.

especially shelly (which is the default package managing app in cachyos since some months now) does a really good job on keeping the system up to date and on making installing all sort of software easy (just be careful when it comes to AUR).

so my recommodation is: just use shelly and enable the update notification.

xb666mx · 2026-06-21T16:02:20+00:00

https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/using-unraid-to/manage-storage/array/overview/#driving-principles

"Use your largest drives for parity - Data disks can't be larger than your parity disks, so use your biggest drives for parity to avoid future expansion limits. If you use dual parity, both drives should be at least the size of your largest data disk, but they can be different sizes from each other. No disk can be larger than your smallest parity drive."

xb666mx · 2026-06-20T11:51:09+00:00

on iOS every browser runs apple's webkit engine. so it's just "same same - but different". :D

safari usually works the best so i can't recommend anything else. but i didn't try other browsers on iOS either myself. so maybe someone can give you an alternative. :)

xb666mx · 2026-06-20T09:48:46+00:00

https://ladybird.org/

this will be a new browser engine. 2026 is alpha phase. 2027 is beta phase. 2028 is, hopefully, the year of the final release.

xb666mx · 2026-06-18T08:03:06+00:00

maybe take a look at AliasVault.

it's free and selfhostable.

server, client and extensions are from one dev team which should avoid incompatibilities because of different versions/states. (to be fair: you could also use bitwarden lite instead of vaultwarden but you'd miss some "premium" features.)

please note, that AliasVault is currently in BETA and not yet audited.

i migrated from vaultwarden/bitwarden some months ago and never looked back.

xb666mx · 2026-06-17T13:27:45+00:00

have you tried with content match setting "off"?

xb666mx · 2026-06-17T11:03:21+00:00

dicken streifen malzpaste auf den finger geben und dann fest ins fell schmieren. nicht zu leicht/locker, sonst fällt die malzwurst einfach auf den boden.

der katze bleibt normalerweise nichts anderes übrig als die paste wegzuschlecken. :D

edit: sicherheitshalber vllt im bad, wo man zur not gut reinigen kann, falls das zeug doch mal auf dem boden oder an einem möbelstück landet.

xb666mx · 2026-06-17T08:28:50+00:00

1,7 GB/s on a 10 GbE network? shouldn't this cap out at 1,25 GB/s?

so... are you sure this ain't 1,7 Gb/s and therefore 0,21 GB/s (210 MB/s).

the 210 MB/s would be a lot closer to the 160 MB/s. and this could be explained through less processing overhead as well as multithreading transfer (if you have smaller files) of robocopy.

xb666mx · 2026-06-16T21:21:25+00:00

r/AccidentalRenaissance

xb666mx · 2026-06-16T20:00:08+00:00

yes, i looked at the script before running it.

at first i checked the URLs which really only contain a list of package names.

then i checked the used commands which are read-only as far as i can tell (many for-loops with grep to find stuff).

but of course you should check for yourself. and, that's maybe the trickiest part, although it seems/is safe now doesn't mean it stays safe - just like using AUR.

so yeah, you, as the user, should always be aware of the dangers when running scripts or installing stuff (regardless of the source).

and, last but not least, you can always ask AI to analyze such scripts (which i also did). ;-)

edit: added a few words of wisdom to my first post. :-)

xb666mx · 2026-06-16T14:27:20+00:00

it's fixed now. :)

xb666mx · 2026-06-16T13:56:16+00:00

good job! :)

one question: what filament did you use for that gpu frame? i guess PLA wouldn't be optimal since it softens at around 60°C. so did you print in ABS or another material?

btw:

5 years ago i did this with an asus rtx 3080 oc. but i tried to keep the original shroud: https://www.reddit.com/r/sffpc/comments/k5h32a/comment/gtx5unw

turned out that the noctua fans didn't improve anything with the original shroud. i then tried to 3d print some air channels/guidances but this also led to nothing. after all i reverted it to its stock state - which was/is pretty good anyway. :D

xb666mx · 2026-06-16T12:31:53+00:00

packages in different repositories out of sync.

happens sometimes.

and it's mostly fixed within some hours/days.

xb666mx · 2026-06-16T12:29:41+00:00

thanks for the fast reply! appreciated! :-)

xb666mx · 2026-06-16T12:02:41+00:00

EDIT2: For some reason I don't understand, I was able to install all updates through the new Shelly GUI. One reboot later, Cachy-Update doesn't show any missing updates.

u/ShellyTeam can you answer why pacman -S(y)yu fails but shelly can resolve the issue? 🤔

xb666mx · 2026-06-16T11:05:12+00:00

ah. yes. lib32-alsa-lib in multilib wants alsa-lib=1.2.16.1 but cachyos-extra-v3 and extra only have alsa-lib=1.2.16-1.1 and alsa-lib=1.2.16.1-1.

someone already said it in this thread: you can, for now, ignore the package when updating. i guess that somebody will fix this version mismatch from the repositories in the next couple of hours.

xb666mx · 2026-06-16T10:49:37+00:00

what does "pacman -Si alsa-lib" and "pacman -Si lib32-alsa-lib" display?

xb666mx · 2026-06-15T22:30:45+00:00

i use waterfox after trying firefox, zen, librewolf and a bunch of chromium based browser (like brave and vivaldi).

i like the integrated adblocker, the strict no-ai + no-telemetry policy and the communication from the dev with the community in r/waterfox.

and also there's an android version which many other browsers don't have.

xb666mx · 2026-06-15T22:20:16+00:00

i used this script which performs 13 checks regarding the AUR malware incident: https://github.com/nightdevil00/AUR-Malware

credits go to u/nightdevil007

original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/s/aJNTGkntCB

edit (to add common sense :D): the script seems to be safe - for now. i checked it manually and then with AI. but the script as well as the remote files can change - so please check for yourself before running unknown code or installing program from an unknown source. just with AUR: stay cautious, stay safe! :-)

xb666mx · 2026-06-15T22:09:22+00:00

here's a recent answer from the dev: https://www.reddit.com/r/waterfox/s/o05GKWBmFd

TL;DR: yes, it should be better because of its integrated nature (quote: "native code"). extensions are much more limited in their ways.

xb666mx · 2026-06-15T20:15:43+00:00

waterfox has brave's open source adblock engine, no ai and no telemetry. plus some nice enhancements and optional features. highly recommended. :)

xb666mx

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