This is incredible, I think this is my new favorite of mine

I don't remember if I already asked this but do you have a mastodon or pixelfed or anything where I could follow you? Your art is really beautiful

not the person you replied to, but I wish someone had told me that rather than just downvoting me, that's helpful to know about and I only found out cause I came to try dig though the thread to see if there were clues as to why folks were so unhappy with my mentioning it 😅

Not everyone knows or keeps up with every blemish on a project's record

I don't use or care that much about vertical tabs, and it seems complicated how big if a deal this actually is, but florp might be worth taking a look at if you're not already familiar with it

I don't know a ton about it but I think it has a similar kind of niche and is more vertical tab focused

I'm sad there are so few options for headphone jacks and/or small phones. I went with a zenfone 10 because it and xperia devices seemed like the only options, and the Zenfone seemed to suit my needs better, but it means I'll have to wait to try any custom ROMs.

And unfortunately, I'm still hoping to make this phone last a long time. We'll see how long I can keep it going

They recently announced terms of service that they (I think?) Partially walked back. But honestly it's a longer term issue-

Mozilla is dependent on Google giving them lots of money to be the default Firefox search engine, and anti-monopoly rulings in Europe may mean Google has to stop doing that, which would really jeopardize Mozilla's financial sustainability

The gecko engine is way behind on web standards, and while it generally gets the job done for average users, I've learned recently lots of devs don't test their sites with it or support it not just because it's a minority browser, but because it doesn't support a lot of stuff and is hard to work with.

Mozilla seems to believe their path forward financially is AI features. Which are very unpopular with a lot of the folks who follow Mozilla, even if implemented thoughtful, and seems like a dubious financial future given even huge companies like openai are struggling to make ai financially self sustaining.

Add to it the privacy preserving ad tracking stuff they wanted as an alternative to cookies a while back, and the picture doesn't really get better

All of these are small things. The compatibility with web standards isn't the end of the world for most users. A big bug was/is that firefox rendered gradients horrendously for like 12 years or something with the bug reports just sitting there, but most Foss nerds who use firefox don't super care if a website's gradient looks crappy. The features that chrome has but Firefox doesn't aren't dealbreakers for most users. The privacy preserving trackers or whatever they were called seemed at least relatively thoughtfully implemented from a privacy standpoint. AI could hypothetically be done in a way that isn't totally shitty, and maybe possibly they could build a financial future out of it. The terms of service debacle could stop here and not devolve into actual enshitification.

But it all culminates together in feeling like mozilla is out of touch with their core audience and has no real viable plan for staying afloat, sans google paying them shitloads of money to be the default browser engine. :/

True, but I'm not one to let perfect be the enemy of good.

I definitely agree. They feel deeply confused about their audience and like they perpetually flounder trying to find a sustainable direction or future :/

Aw, fuck yeah! I'm glad you mentioned it :)

Is that in the video or just your hope? If that's the case I missed it, and that would be super exciting!

Lemme know what you think, especially about servo! I don't know much about them!

The part with the progress graph compared to other browsers over time is especially cool!

The part with the progress graph compared to other browsers over time is especially cool!