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  • The only time I ever had memory problems with Firefox was when I tried to run it on a potato. That complaint has always been bullshit.

    Edit to add: The aforementioned incident was in 2010, on a machine with only 512MB of RAM. Like I said, potato. Chrome back then was somewhat more memory-efficient than Firefox, and could support three open tabs on that machine before it started thrashing, whereas Firefox would thrash with just one. Both browsers performed abysmally under such a severe RAM shortage, but Chrome was slightly less abysmal. Slightly. I seriously doubt the current version of either browser would be usable on that machine, although I don’t have it (I gave it away soon after this incident) so I can’t check.



  • I’d rather have the climate crisis over the nuclear one

    Why? Either way, everybody dies.

    or either of the world wars

    Instead of dying from mustard gas, we’re all going to die from heat and starvation. Yay.

    or live under a feudal system where I’m owned by the local lord in his castle.

    Today, you get to choose which lord owns you, and change lords on occasion, but other than that it’s pretty much the same thing.



  • Debian. Several reasons:

    • It’s trustworthy.
    • It’s not going anywhere. Debian existed when I was a kid and it’ll probably still exist when I draw my last breath.
    • I know how to use it, since, once again, I’ve been using it since I was a kid.
    • It has all the desktop environments.
    • It fully supports systemd. I do not miss the unreliability, slowness, and complexity of what came before that. (Normally I wouldn’t mention this, but your former distro of choice exists solely for the purpose of not having systemd, so it’s relevant this time.)