Mozilla foundation kills Firefox with Quantum

As if it was not enough to kill AdBlock Plus, then AdBlock Edge, then Cookie Monster plugins for ad kickbacks, Mozilla made another quantum leap and released their totally new, revamped and re-designed Firefox Quantum.

With every new "giant leap" I always look for broken things, and this time it was DownThemAll add-on. It's dead in water. The developer is not doing anything to keep up anymore, as this is an uphill battle in a war of attrition. The substitute add-ons do not cut it: the best of them downloads corrupted files using multiple streams. Boo-hoo.

Annoyances of Quantum continue beyond killing add-ons. The UI is nauseous, it sucks and the sound of sucking is deafening. Forced addition of every visited site to the blank tab's Top Sites, and having to dismiss them multiple time from the same slot is, like, wow! You've outdone every open source developer scumbag ever born!

And the most laughable part of this is that with all that hoopla and sock puppet bots claiming how they moved from Chrome to Quantum for it being so awesome, some sites do not even work in Quantum. All I see is a blank page. But Chrome opens them no problemo.

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Genius degenerates rule this world

No one argues that Linux developers are genius. They did tons of work and gave us a complete OS bundled with thousands of programs for all walks of life and tasks. Genius!

But at the same time those geniuses are degenerates, because they do all this fabulous work without considering the needs of their user, and end up releasing junk OSs not good for any serious application.

It pisses me off that when Fedora is installed using LVM with full disk LUKS encryption, every bloody Fedora version names the volume group just that: fedora. It should have occurred to those geniuses, that they just crossed over any possibility for a version upgrade for everyone using LUKS, as there can be no two volume groups active at the same time with the same name! I.e. if we cave in to constant pressure to stay at the bleeding edge and continue upgrading the OS major version every year, we would need to move our files from the old system to the new one (as in Linux upgrades never work - a new install is required). But moving files is not possible, as while LUKS volume is open, no other volume can be open if it lives on the volume group with the same name!!!

So the upgrade turns into a nightmare of entering dozens of commands with GUID parameters, bearing high risk of irreparably damaging both old and new system (as in Linux every command may have catastrophic results).

One of the critical commands is vgs and it is used to determine the GUID of the volume group to rename. Guess what: it does not tell you which group is which in its output! If you are looking at two records named 'fedora' and your drives happen to be the same size (as it often happens at organizations), making a mistake is very easy.

Genius? Most certainly. Degenerates? Damn right! Name the [expletive] volume groups at least after the Fedora version: fedora25, fedora26... Too hard? You are already using those stupid GUIDs, why making a U turn at the same time?

So now for something completely different: steps to make your new Fedora installation the tiny bit usable... more...

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Windows 10 and Office 365 are two major obstacles to my productivity

Seriously, what was wrong with Windows 7 Start menu? It was highly configurable, compact, intuitive and unobtrusive. Compare that with the monstrous, counter-intuitive, obnoxious Start menu in 10, where every default is wrong!

Seriously, what was wrong with the Save dialog of the previous Office? And it was replaced with this horrible chunk of filth in Office 365, where creating a new folder is not possible while saving.

Microsoft, why do you insist on weeding out every good feature from the current software in every new release? Are you intentionally bullying your users, just for fun, to see how much torture is tolerable?

You are despicable monsters!

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