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>It is meant for persistent user configuration, possibly generated by the app - the type you might want to back up. You are not supposed to understand or be able to read every file…

I find it easier to exclude all .* from the rsync I do to synchronize documents/data etc, and exclusively manage the dotfiles through another program, homeshick, where instead of m…

> - ~/.config/foo -- only you write files here, so it's your detritus, not the program's :) That's not true. > ls ~/.config/cef_user_data/Dictionaries > en-US-9-0.bdic That's a dic…

I agree with you there. I don't remember which it was, but one of the runtimes managers (was it pyenv, rvm or nvm?) wrote to my .bashrc and .zshrc without asking for permission to …

I live in France, and WhatsApp has a pretty big presence. Not a monopoly style one though, there's plenty of other apps used: Facebook Messenger, Skype, Snapchat, Discord.. I have …

I didn't have websites outright breaking on FF like solardev, but I had other issues with it, like cloudflare getting me into an infinite loop of asking me if I'm human and not let…

I find it amazing how people forget that being a monopolistic power doesn't help if your product sucks: Google has, time and time again, failed to gain traction in the messaging ap…

> so Firefox is faster than chrome Faster on sunspider. In practice, on real web pages, as someone who occasionally browses the web using a low end tablet PC (Surface Go 2 with lin…

I can tell you from doing testing on Edge back when it represented a potential third engine to support: that browser crashed a lot. It was very unreliable prior to switching to bec…

Gnome always had this problem of spreading thin instead of focusing. Lots of little tiny irrelevant apps just to have something to stamp a Gnome branding on. But even people who ar…