I am in the south region of the USA, so humidity is for sure something I need to be aware of. But I can bring it inside for periods of time if it gets bad enough before I print, and my filament is staying inside anyway. My dad also made sure I know where the propane heater is located for quickly getting the ambient temps well above good ranges for prints. Just have to make sure to be super aware of making sure to keep the side door cracked while I am inside and the other safety stuff. Won’t be an issue in a few months once we finish a big sorting out and purging of other things in the room it will eventually live in. So glad I won’t have to worry about summer humidity in addition to heat.

Thanks! I will definitely make sure to give it a chance to get warmed up slowly before my next print. Once the space frees-up in the house, the next step will be putting an enclosure together for fumes (and get a dryer/heater for filament).

Thanks for the reply! Would have been pissed if I bricked it thinking it would be okay without asking around.

All very valid things, but at least the parts that are people related can be reduced (I personally find that my friends and I are much worse about using phones when at a house). Going in the afternoon on a weekday (and not opening week) means fewer people in general. Also tends to mean older folks are more likely to be there based on my experience working at a cinema (albeit was over a decade ago so maybe boomers are also bad about phones these days). Could even luck-out and be mostly empty and help with the special extra loud candy packaging made for cinemas. Might save a few bucks of course, but doesn’t help with the pre-roll stuff.

I guess I lucked out when I bought my BD-R drive before I was aware that MakeMKV needed extra stuff like firmware. But my LG WH16NS60 is one that took the flash (never had to mess with firmware on an optical drive and was worried I would brick it). But the process was pretty easy and getting into ripping BR after so long meant that the easy option was around to handle the steps. Kind of considering getting a back-up drive to have around if/when the one I have dies (especially since big brands are dropping out or may do so in the coming years).

While not as easy as just using torrents or other P2P. I have found it kind of fun to get back into ripping CD/DVD/BD and learn/re-learn how things work these days. Also nice to have all the options I can to be able to have access to media in the event any of them are down. The only super frustrating thing is that so much of modern releases don’t get physical (or even purchasable digital) releases. And in some cases where a physical release is an option, they are DVD and not even a 720p BD. Digital options are even worse in a lot of random cases where a store might have just part of a show (or even episodes in a season not part of it).

Currently the only real issue that I have is that I really really need to build a new main PC and finally turn my current PC into only being for ripping and hosting what I have. And to get large HDDs to replace the 2TB and 4TB SSDs I currently have for it all of course. I really would like to have good copies of 4K stuff without having to worry about going with bad encodes that look worse than many 1080p releases that my TV upscales.

I wonder if more people in testing have had issues with it like you did. Might explain why it is default false. Though it is good that you noticed that it happened after a big system update. Did you happen to notice if your Nvidia drivers also got updated along with the other system stuff? I am not a dev, coder, or anything that would give me special knowledge (just curious). Maybe the GPU or X11/Wayland might be the cause (also could just be with how FF was calling resources).

I hope that if others run into the same issue (or similar) will share here and on any other places where the settings have been shared. Not that I expect Mozilla to see them, but could be helpful for folks to know that they might need to change it back. As it is very easy to not have issues for a while and not remember even flipping a setting if something breaks. Would also be interesting to see if issues are any more common depending on the GPU and/or the windowing systems (or OS if Windows, Mac, and BSD users also run into issues).

I mean 4Chan was possibly able to convince at least some amount of people that iOS 7 update somehow made their iPhone gain water resistance that would trip a hardware “smart switch” built into the phones. Just a numbers game that at least a small amount of people would believe something long enough to not really think about. Though the same can also be applied to convincing folks that other folks were dumb enough to be tricked. Which is still the same result. ¯\_ (ツ) _/¯

It isn’t just Linux, the same is in the user AppData on Windows (would also guess Mac OS). Both a gift and a curse as I find that when I need to make a backup of peoples’ data before restoring/clean installing Windows/Mac OS or moving stuff to a new PC. Those folders are pretty important to get, as you can have all their bookmarks, history, settings, and passwords just show up (though you need to sometimes have to change the profile if a new one still gets created). Same is true for Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers, but they tend to not bring passwords over the majority of the time (need to manually export and import if the PC is actually able to boot into normal/safe modes of whatever OS used).

FF is easier in the cases where the OS is broken or pulling the drive to copy (though very few people use it to begin with). But it does mean it is a curse if the passwords aren’t also locked (would imagine having a master password might help but haven’t tried to see). While it would make part of my job harder with regards to FF data, it is odd that Mozilla doesn’t break them most of the time when Chromium browsers are able to. Though I haven’t had to help someone with Linux in the same way, so maybe it is just a Windows (and maybe Mac OS been a while since I needed to worry about FF so idk) thing for passwords.

Last bit below is a general rant of a PC repair tech’s daily struggle with customers that freak out when something bad happens before bringing stuff in for repair/setting up a new PC. Just had to get it out, but not specific to FF and just data in general (just kept typing). lol

Would make my job easier if people at least signed into their browsers beforehand and remember their log-ins to get browser stuff working (which would at least give them other accounts/passwords back). But the folks that tend to freak out about their stuff tend to also not make their own backups or sign into their browsers (let alone even remember their passwords for crucial stuff) before anything happens. Password vaults would be the same issue even if they had them, but maybe less if they had to enter their master password daily at least once.

For Windows (and even Mac OS in some cases) cloud stuff like OneDrive being turned on by default for the Documents, Desktop, and Pictures (or the defaults for other services) folders don’t even help them. Because they literally don’t even remember the email used when setting up Windows/services, or for whatever reason lost access to that account and somehow think that just using a different account with a different email will still give them their shit. Claiming that I or my co-workers “lost their data” when it isn’t there due to just the stubs of files that were only in the cloud.

I understand why the did what they did with Edge. It is just wild to see the company that did everything it could to make sure the old internet was coded around themselves. Just to then let Google take over and do the same thing (or at least very similar). Their huge banners for Chrome results and inserted overlay on the actual Chrome site shows how much the ghost of IE still haunts them. They are just so desperate to be liked/used, that it is beyond sad (in a pathetic way).

The funny thing is that I did make a point for a while to use Edge for things that required Chromium-based browsers. But they just can’t seem to stop themselves from making Chrome seem better all over again. All the in your face stuff to push their obvious data mining and bloat the shit out of it is cringe. The only thing that they have going for them, is that they do host their own extension store and (more importantly) still have the full uBO.

I think that Mozilla (for all their own faults/shortcomings) having such a dramatically smaller team does show that it is possible to have real options. They get my respect for how much they really showed that the rigged leader of IE could be attacked. But Google being the Microsoft of the internet focused age is a harder fight. I have been really happy to see major forks of FF gain momentum over the past few years. As they give more options for folks that like the core of FF, but have various issues with Mozilla and still want to avoid Chromium.

Ladybird has the hardest struggle being that aside from being something fully new, the dev team is currently still microscopic even compared to Mozilla. It is still extremely cool to see that any teams are trying to make a browser that isn’t a fork of anything. I haven’t tried it yet (my daily PC is still Windows), but I do like to see when they make progress worth people writing about or commenting information.

Also agree that shits a mess.

Very true, I hate that so many sites will sometimes fully load on FF and start to work right before a fake error message telling me to “try updating FF to a newer version” (even though they know it is fully updated and just want to force opening a Chromium-based browser). It doesn’t help that basically all the browsers (aside from FF, forks of FF, and Safari) are all using Chromium.

While some of them are very good, and make some actual changes for the better. It still re-enforces Google to basically pull what Microsoft did with IE. IE would probably still be alive and fucking with the internet if Microsoft had done what Google has pulled off.

Even though original Edge was wonky, it kind of sucks that Microsoft didn’t keep their own shit. But only just because it would be one less major Chromium browser (only good thing currently is that they still allow full uBO).

Though I really hate their overlaid shit Edge puts on the Chrome download site, and the huge banner at the top of Bing search results page when searching for Chrome. I have to download Chrome on peoples’ PCs a lot at work, so that shit is mildly infuriating to constantly see.

I am not sure. Are you on Windows? Another comment mentioned that it seems to not be an option for Linux/BSD.

I am not sure, all my browsers have uBO. But the article didn’t mention anything about adblockers. Google has made YT slow for FF no matter if the user has one or not (which is a known thing). But it was pretty noticeable when I loaded.

It is more leeching than sharing, but if it is actually torrenting then it should also be uploading while the “stream” is playing. So kind of like PeerTube. Just really depends on both how it is setup, and how popular the video is at any time. Though it sucks that there isn’t a good way to make sure connections happen.

There are lots of times that I get torrents the regular way that I would like to have uploading to other peers at the same time. But will notice that I get few to zero peers for uploading with popular files. There are times that I will leave it seeding for weeks without any uploading. So I end up deleting the torrent so I can move files or free up space because I already made a second copy to sort. Not always the case, but frustrating to not even see a few MB go to anyone. With PeerTube I see my upload working more consistently, but main issue there is just not often that I am watching something that a lot of others (or any others) are also watching.

The article is interesting, but they really went hard with the title just to only talk about it for like two sentences. I was hoping for more since it seems like a pretty fun topic.

True, but if the option to start using it isn’t there. Then it also won’t have data to even get started. I remember when I first started using Waze back on my Galaxy S3, it wasn’t super helpful (for both the traffic and in some cases the map data). This was mostly due to it not being used by many people in my state at the time (the friend that told me about it used it in a much larger city with more “tech” people around). So even if it doesn’t help me directly right away, I am more than happy to start using it daily to report what I can.

I haven’t heard of that one. Will look into it just to have options.

Good to see devs willing to do the work needed in order to draw hard lines on the capitalist leeches that divert money away from the project. I am looking forward to the traffic system that they mentioned as a future option. Would allow users that are okay with turning on those features for adding crowdsourced traffic data and stuff like marking cops posting up to get their quotas.

Literally the only thing that keeps me on Waze is that stuff. I have to deal with a lot of interstate travel to and from work and knowing that a big crash happened so I can re-route before getting stuck is crucial. I will still make sure to have this installed just like I had Organic Maps as a good option. And to see what stuff I go to that needs to be updated on OSM and StreetComplete. Had to add all of the addresses on my street on OSM a while ago just to be able to correctly enter my address. One of those addresses that is listed as one town for mailing and is technically within the borders of a smaller one with regards to utilities and plots of land.

No problem!

Does it have support for the P2P part of playing the videos? I know it can cause issues for data caps if it does. But if it doesn’t have that part, would love to see it show up in the settings to turn on and off to help share if on WiFi or if not on a cap. Would be great at least if running it on an Android based TV box to be able to not be a complete leech.

You can add the instance URL on the Play Store version.