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Xenia says that it's ok to use any browser!! (original meme) (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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the original Linux mascot says nice things too.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

*It's ok to use any non-chromium browser.

I don't say nice things.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Except IE. Or opera. Or whatever new scam brave tries next.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago

Those are all Chromium now.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I had to google a bit to find out if Edge is available for Linux.

It is.

Truly we are living in the weirdest timeline.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

And people actually use them.

https://old.lemmy.sdf.org/post/4334436

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linux/install

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Xenia is lying then.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Probably got eliminated due to lying behavior and appointed tux

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You have been banned from c/firefox.

[+] [email protected] -11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Being banned from circlejerks is not a bad thing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (3 children)

You‘re not wrong. I left firefox since you can’t say anything critical about firefox without being downvoted to hell even if it is just trying to improve it.

Wonderful how the people spoiling irl groups also spoil online groups.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

I left firefox since you can’t say anything critical about firefox without being downvoted to hell even if it is just trying to improve it.

That's one the reasons I left as well.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

Yeah I see things like that a lot on Lemmy.

I especially see it a lot around things I have deep interests in that a lot of people have light knowledge on, so it's probably the Dunning Krueger effect rearing its ugly head :(

I guess the main way to combat this is to join nicher communities, but that's not really possible on Lemmy right now because of its small size :/

[–] InstallGentoo -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The censorship on firefox forums is insane

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have no idea if it is censorship but the amount of jerks throwing shit at you for saying {insert critical question} is insane. I‘m not talking about „did you know mozilla sells kid slaves?“ idiocy but things like „I don’t like that google is the main financial contributor“ stuff.

[–] InstallGentoo -1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

A few days back someone posted this article on the firefox subreddit. It is a well written article with good points, but the hivemind ignored the content of the article and resorted to ad hominems and name calling because the author is a supposed right winger. It would not be surprising if the post was removed by now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Ah yes. Lunduke, a totally reputable person who always knows what he's talking about.

[–] InstallGentoo 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You're just proving my point. I haven't seen anyone point out anything wrong or misleading from that article. Only name calling and ad hominems. I do not care about the author. Why can't you just focus on the contents of the article?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

All he did was repeat shit that we've known for years in the most sensationalist way possible so he could get a fucking profit of a clickbait article.
He's a "journalist", wtf do you expect. This is his entire deal; repeat already well known shit, sprinkle in some sensational nonsense, do zero due diligence as a journalist and use the most clickbait title possible for profit.
I'm sorry, but his shit always reads like an AI wrote more than half of it, and when he won't even ask the people involved like he's supposed to as a journalist, he's bringing nothing new whatsoever, only speculation and sensationalism.
That's all there is to it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/nIfj0qFtb1Y

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

I have posted this exact article there some months ago I believe. Or at least one just like it.

I totally get your point. Instead of just saying „this is false for x reason“ they go after the people who post this.

I really hate that.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The only linux mascots that I trust are the Penguin, or the Gnu/Linux gnu.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

And konqi

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

❤ Konqi, freakin' cutest mascot I've ever seen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And Kandalf

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

...the grey and kandalf the white

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Xenia would never recommend Google Chrome.
Chromium maybe.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Xenia would not appreciate Google holding power over the entire internet

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

it's ok to use any browser, but i will juge you for your choice. -Xenia

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

Xenia wouldn't suggest that :c

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

So... Basically just tangentially linux-related. Also, Xenia wasn't the original mascot. Tux came first, and Xenia was proposed as an alternative, but never took off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

This, but replace Chrome and Edge with Palemoon and Lynx.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Much as I'd have enjoyed seeing it, it would have greatly hindered adoption when the general public started finding out about furries in the early 2000s and would have made Linux look like a toy not for serious use.