Oh I get it! It’s certainly not easy. Haha. I struggle with it myself, but I’ve noticed that my mental health improves the more uncluttered my external life is, and my browser is a part of the latter.

“A tidy room is a tidy mind” and all that… It’s not 100% accurate, but it’s got a ring of truth to it, I’ve found, at least for me.

You know, I’ve been trying Zen and although I still prefer horizontal to vertical, I can see I was actually somewhat wrong about what I said.

The sidebar is actually expandable (they don’t make that clear) and if you do expand it beyond its default, you can actually see more of each tab’s titles. It actually helps a lot if you have a shitload of tabs.

If you are like me however and typically try to have only a smaller number of tabs pinned (or consistently open), typically no more than like a third of your screen width at most, then there really is not much of a difference unless you’re already used to vertical over horizontal tab bars.

Oh that’s funny x3

Exactly!

It is totally valid that you are not. We all have our preferences. :)

With that being said, I don’t get the “BÄÄM” reference. Hehe.

Lol, I love me some James May saying “cheese”, but I was more referring to the old Futurama episode where Bender goes back to Mars University. One of his signature catchphrases in that episode is “Cheese it!”

I will say as nice as Zen seems (I agree that it’s not bad), I don’t really like the whole “vertical tabs” shtick. I mean, I can see why some people would like that, but personally I never got into it. It just looks weird to me and I like seeing more of my tab names (weirdly enough that’s exactly what a lot of pro-vertical users claim is good about them lol).

Also, from a privacy standpoint, not a huge fan personally of the fact that unlike LibreWolf, Zen Browser doesn’t have ResistFingerprinting enabled by default (not sure if it’s even in there tbh).

As @erotador@lemmy.blahaj.zone said, default Firefox is still more private than Chrome. Also, if you want security (and more privacy) on top of that, you should look into LibreWolf. I’ve been using it for a few years now and it’s fantastic!

Cheese it!

Awesome TUIs FTW!

First, I appreciate you taking the time to provide your thoughts on this even though the post is 2 years old. :)

Second, no worries. I’ve found an option. I just use MakeMKV. I even bought a paid license! It’s that good! ;)

This is true, though I figured I’d mention it. ^^

I definitely have backups. And this explains it very well. Thank you. :)

Speaking as someone who doesn’t encrypt their desktop but is thinking about it:

you can’t share (readable) data over one’s home network if the sending PC is disk-encrypted?

For example, are you saying that if I send a video file from my PC, which is disk-encrypted, over LAN to my NAS, then the NAS would not be able to read said file?

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Or just a pipe.

That is a good reason to backup

This is true.

but has nothing to do with encryption.

I disagree with this. If you forget the password for decrypting your drive, then you will have lost “anything on the drive that’s important”. I know because it happened to me long ago, and so now I too have been wary of disk encryption ever since then.

but my Googlefuu isn’t good enough.

To be fair, with how shit Google has become, it’s likely none of our Googlefuu would be enough.

It is by no means just you. I really hate how everything has to be so flat and shadow-less nowadays. I’m not at the point of shaking my fist at clouds yet or anything, but I really miss skeuomorphism in general!