At this point, it's easier to start with a privacy-focused, AI-free fork, like LibreWolf, and turn some stuff on to stop it breaking sites that have privacy-hostile workings, like disabling that LibreWolf exclusive fingerprinting protection that many sites don't play nice with.

I wish they rely more on OS features, like the built-in, system-wide spell check. I know it's a bigger task for them, since Firefox runs on multiple OSes, but maybe it's worth it. It dreads me how “un-macOS” Firefox feels, and I guess this feeling extends to Windows, Linux and elsewhere.

In Windows-land everything is so inconsistent that it doesn’t really stand out like it does on MacOS.

97% of Windows users wouldn’t notice if it followed OS conventions and the remaining 3% would complain that it was following the current conventions instead of copying Word 2003 :)

Is it really that big of a task? More so than maintaining custom spellcheck dictionaries in every supported language? Even if they only implemented OS spellcheck compatibility on MacOS and Windows and just used the existing custom spellcheck on other OSes, that'd still be a huge improvement and they'd only have to do the work for two OSes rather than every OS that Firefox supports.

Firefox has always felt rather bad on Mac. Ages ago they made Camino, which was basically "aqua Firefox" and it was nice.

Chaotic neutral here.

fuckexcessiveborderradius.com (I'm looking at you, macOS 26)

Safari and Firefox as well. In any case, they are all resource hogs.

KDE is in a better shape than anything on its past. Whatever you feel about Nate, he cares — and that's a huge, almost unique quality today. Also, the nagging to donate doesn't bother at all — and has had a positive impact in increasing donations do KDE project.

>[…] allows you to use it completely on your own terms.

It doesn't. You use Facebook and Instagram on Meta's terms. I can't use them without viewing reels, for example, neither defaulting them to a chronological timeline.

My man, it's a blog post in a personal blog. Obviously their reading of DHH shit posts in opinionated (very funnily manifested as rewritten titles).

I wonder how does bewCloud[1] stack up against NextCloud, since it's meant to be a “modern and simpler alternative” to it. Has anyone tested it?

[1] https://bewcloud.com/

bewCloud creator here.

Hundreds of people are using it as a replacement. If you don't use/need more than the core Nextcloud apps (calendar, contacts, file/photo storage and sync, notes), it's a great replacement for it. If you want/need/use Nextcloud's extensibility (the multitude of apps), it's not really an option right now (maybe in the future I'll add some sort of external app system, but it's not in my near-term plan).