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This is one of those comments where immediately after submitting I thought "welp, that was pretty stupid and probably nobody is going to interpret it the way I meant it" - but I still left it on because previously here in Lemmy I was pleasantly surprised to see people actually get most of my jokes even when I wasn't expecting them too land. This one was just way too bad tho.

I'm enjoying Zen browser in general but still facing several issues with it from time to time. Nothing major, just small nuisanses here and there.

I use it alongside Vivaldi since I often have to be logged in into two different sessions for the same site and it's just easier to have two browsers for that. Vivaldi is a lot more stable and so I use it as the main browser - but everytime it updates I need to modify a JS file to tweak something in the UI to make it the way I like it to be. When using vertical tabs + tab groups + two layers of tabs (one sidebar showing the tab groups and a second sidebar showing the tabs inside the selected group), the maximum tab width is applied to both sidebars together instead of individually, so I modify the JS file to double that max width. I've automated it by now but it still annoys me that I keep having to do this.

But I think Vivaldi is probably the only browser that even has the ability to show tabs in that way, so I can't complain that much.

Back in the early 2000s I met some guy who had once sold a copy of edit.exe to some store as if it were some software he had written for managing orders and inventory. The folks at the store used windows, but they would open up edit.exe and it looked just like the stuff that the larger store chains used to manage their own orders... The guy just made a sample file and instructed them how to input data in a specific format that made it all look like a table, but it was just a text file with no validation of any kind.

Element does it natively? As in, it's a feature of Element and not some integration with a different tool? I didn't even expect calls to be a part of the matrix protocol yet.

4kids animes replacing rice balls with donuts, sandwiches or cookies.

At best, I can read it as:

"Look, my job is to treat people, not clean them. I ain't wiping your ass unless it is a health hazard"

But that's not really any better.

Mint is often the most recommended distro, because whatever you may need to do in it, it tends to be easy-ish to figure out.

But these days I would strongly recommend in favor of some immutable distro like Bluefin/Aurora or Silverblue/kinoite. Instead of being easy to figure out how to do things on them, they make it so you won't need to, ever.

It's a complete paradigm shift and it might not be for everyone, but in the decades I've been using Linux for, I had never had such a smooth experience with any distro. Everything just works and you don't need to think about the OS anymore.

However it won't easily fit with some of the requirements you listed.

One day, out of the blue, I thought: "I should follow that guy who created Javascript". A few weeks go by and soon I'm wondering "why the hell are there so many antivax posts on my timeline?"

Was quite a surprise seeing that he was all in on the antivax stuff. I then unfollowed him and haven't used any of his products since.

For a moment there I interpreted the title wrong and thought people would start receiving TikTok content through amber alert systems.