serious question. i know how to chattr but wonder what is the easiest way to stop worrying the next worse decision from moz. probably some AI shit. I just want to stick with my old moz trash because there has not been a single update in 5 years that made anything better - i always lose functions. this applies to ff (slower, dumber, bloated) and thundeturd (have a plugin you like? WE WILL KILL IT!).

so how to keep a state of software from when it was OK and not follow up on ANYTHING the greedy corpo puts out? I am sure moz will keep releasing horrible updates even when they reached less that 0.05% market share just because they can and are sick people.

  • sramder@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    4 months ago

    A: Find the back of your computer. Locate and remove the ethernet cable.

    This solution is hardware based (so nothing Mozella does to try and pay its staff will have any effect). Completely open source, so you and others can easily observe how it functions and potentially implement improvements. 100% effective at achieving your stated goal (provided you don’t have WiFi). And lastly: Has the added benefit of protecting you from any security risks introduced by running a 5 year old web browser.

  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    22·
    4 months ago

    You can set your package manager to not update it. In Debian you would run apt-mark hold package_name to stop a package from updating. In Arch, you would add the package to the IgnorePkg list in /etc/pacman.conf.

    I would not recommend doing that, especially with a web browser. That will leave you vulnerable to any security issues that come up.

  • rdyoung@lemmy.world
    14·
    4 months ago

    To echo others here. Why the F would you do that? I’ve been running the nightly build of FF for years and have never had any issues. I am on windows for what that matters but still.

  • pop@lemmy.ml
    71·
    4 months ago

    Lemmy seems to be overrun with too many entitled opensource users.

    there has not been a single update in 5 years that made anything better

    Have you tried coding and submitting a feature that makes it better?

  • loki@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    4 months ago

    • Fork it, Learn to build it, Forget it.

    • P̶r̶o̶f̶i̶t̶

    • Blame Firefox when a security exploit passes through