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What is something you dislike but still begrudgingly use? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This question was inspired by my hatred of Temporal Anti-Aliasing which, in many games nowadays, is poorly used as a performance bandaid. On lower resolutions it will smudge and blur the image and certain bad cases of TAA will cause visible ghosting.

Yet in spite of all this, certain games won't let you turn it off or have hair/fur/foliage look like dogshit without it so sometimes I still use it.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Browsers. Firefox hasnt given me reason to doubt. Yet. And I find that odd. Still uses it. Because every other big browser have given me reasons.

Generally "free" stuff from big companies is giving me more and more the heebie-jeebies. Even if they have good reputation. But there's NO WAY I could ever pay for everything I use. Nor donate to every deserving person who has given their free time to create and publish FOSS.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Mozilla really pushes Pocket through Firefox. I've gone through the about:config to get rid of it. Pocket gives me doubts.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They also push their VPN a lot. Every week or two I open Firefox and they send me to their VPN page on their website telling me to try it.

Like no. I'm not interested in paying for a rebranded mullvad.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I can understand your frustration, but they need to generate revenue somehow, and presently I think it's the VPN, donations, and Google default search money.

At least the VPN aligns with their core values.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I recommend Librewolf. It's a privacy focused fork of firefox. They apply their own patches to every new firefox release so you always have the newest features of firefox minus the bloat.

Comes preinstalled with ublock-origin, no Telemetry, no Mozilla VPN, no pocket, no prompts to create a mozilla account, no ads on the start page, default search engine is ddg and deletes all cookies (exept for whitelisted sites) on launch.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I was a huge fan of Read It Later, which became Pocket.

I absolutely fucking refuse to use what it has turned into.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think I'd use Pocket more if I could export from into a selfhosted app.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Should look into the ladybug browser firefox while the only "decent" browser isn't great nether and ladybug looks really promising