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Or try using any form of desktop automation... which is a show-stopper and it doesn't look like Wayland plans to do anything about it any time soon.

There is no other Arch-based distro that strives to achieve a "rolling-stable" release.

Alternatives like Fedora have already been mentioned by other comments.

Debian testing is not a rolling release. Its package update strategy is focused on becoming the next stable so the frequency ebbs and flows around stable's release cycle.

manjaro since it manages to be less stable than Arch specifically because of their update policy

This is false. Their delayed updates mitigate issues in latest packages. Plasma 6 was released late but it was a lot more usable, for example.

I mean why even be on Arch if you can't use the AUR and have the latest packages?

Anybody who wants Arch should use Arch. Manjaro is not Arch.

Some of us don't want the latest packages the instant they release, we're fine with having them a week or a month late if it means extra stability.

There's nothing magical about what Manjaro is doing, it stands to reason that if you delay packages even a little some bugs will be fixed.

Also you can use AUR on Manjaro perfectly fine, I myself have over 100 AUR packages installed. But AUR is not supported even by Arch so it's impossible to offer any guarantees for it.

There's also Flatpak and some people may prefer that since it's more reliable.

It's been removed in most of the US.

On some phones you won't get anything when searching for "lockdown" but you most likely have it, it's typically under Display > Lock screen > Shown lockdown option.

The community has been making Winamp clones for as long as Winamp has existed. XMMS appeared the same year as Winamp, in 1997. Audacious is still around and still has a mode where it uses Winamp skins.

The thing about Winamp is that it had its time in the spotlight for a few years and then everybody moved on to the new types of media libraries like foobar2000. Today it's just a museum piece.

This was predicted back when they first announced it... what do you know, it was correct.

Why do you assume they haven't warned Mozilla in advance?

Also, Mozilla was fully aware that what they were doing is in breach of GDPR. I find it extremely hard to believe that the makers of Firefox are not fully familiarized with it by now.

Last but not least Mozilla is doing this for financial gain. It's selling pur data to advertisers. Why should we excuse it? It's a very hostile act.

If Mozilla has hit rock bottom and has been reduced to selling our data to survive then that's that. We'll find another way and another FOSS browser. Accepting it is not an option.

So what, are we giving Mozilla a free pass to do anything now? Is the new bar "not quite as shitty as Google"?

If you like this you may like Chrome too, because that's exactly how Google is trying to do things now.

Here's the thing. I don't want my browser to do things under the hood. It's either protecting my privacy or it's not. That means it's either sending cookies to the website I'm visiting or it's not.

When Firefox takes it upon itself to bypass cookies and collect information about me, that's surprising and unpredictable and may fail in ways unique to Firefox. It's one more thing to worry about.

If Mozilla wants to outright and overly protect me they can offer an "allow cookies" button like LibreWolf does, our how you can get with the CAD add-on (Cookie Auto Delete).

If they won't do that then stick to blocking third-party cookies and get out of the way.

I don't want Firefox to second-guess what I want to share with anybody, and assuming I want to share anything with advertisers, even anonimized data, is an abuse of my trust.

We don't owe advertisers anything, btw. They're a parasitic industry and the sooner it dies and we move on the better.

Exactly.

The reason most companies decide to contribute to FOSS is because it's a lot more efficient to fix bugs and add/influence features upstream than to do it at your end of the code independently of everybody else.