It was cool in 2010 when I was like 14 and had an iPod touch but didn't have wireless Internet access at home because my parents didn't understand the concept of a router and thought they would have to pay for it, plus christian concern over porn and corruption on the net. So I could go to like McDonalds or whatever, download all of these game review articles, web novels, and whatever else I was into at the time so that when I got back home I could still interact with the web.

Nowadays, yeah I don't really get the point. Everyone's permanently plugged in so a regular bookmark is fine. Also in case anyone was concerned, my buddy eventually gave me his old router and I secretly set up WiFi in my house so I was good for the rest of the time I lived at home 👍

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Also in case anyone was concerned, my buddy eventually gave me his old router and I secretly set up WiFi in my house so I was good for the rest of the time I lived at home 👍

Strict parents create sneaky teens. My mom’s way of grounding me from the computer was taking away my keyboard. She figured that without a keyboard, I couldn’t use it. I had a spare keyboard buried under my bed. I also quickly figured out how to use Windows’ accessibility options in case I was ever truly without a keyboard or mouse.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Point out something that could be improved

Be told to just download an extension to fix the issue

Understand why regular people don't use Firefox

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Chrome simps unite!

People don't use Firefox because of trends, not because it's somehow inferior. Yeah, no one gives a shit about your extremely weird tab preferences

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We don't use it on the computer we share because profiles work like crap, when I posted about it there were a couple of people saying "Yep, Chrome's implementation is much better" and a lot of people saying "Just use this extremely convoluted way of half fixing the issue you have with it"

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You think the profile feature is a popular reason to use chrome? I have been using the Internet since mid 90s and I never once used it on any browser until last year. No issues with it on FF btw

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

It's weird for me that an application should have profiles for different user, shouldn't we use profiles on OS side, it's also less problematic in my mind

[–] crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Gnome*

[–] RickAstleyfounddead@lemy.lol 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Haha gnome too

[–] michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I can't live without dash-to-dock extension.

[–] WereCat@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Same here. I like that Pop!_OS makes it default.

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 4 months ago

Pop!_OS will soon transition away from GNOME to their own desktop environment called Cosmic, because they realized that GNOME sucks.

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah at least firefox without extensions is good :P

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago

Without uBlock Origin? Not really. Not Firefox's fault, the internet just transformed into a massive ad-infested shithole, but still, it's unusable without an adblocker.