Shame they opted for Apache.

Croc can be especially good for this.

Weirdly, I do have a “special permissions” section in my phone (Fairphone 4, which basically runs stock Android 15), but there’s nothing about adding links to the homescreen in there, just:

• device admin apps
• Display over other apps
• Do not disturb access
• Media management apps
• Modify system settings
• Notification read, reply, and control
• Change media output
• Picture-in-picture
• Premium SMS
• Unrestricted mobile data
• Install unknown apps (Firefox has this permission now, still no joy)
• Alarms and reminders
• Usage access
• VR helper services
• Wi-Fi control
• Screen turn-on control
• Full-screen notifications
• Launch via NFC

I actually went through all of these, enabling Firefox’s permissions wherever it came up, but still nothing. I’m starting to think that this might be an Android (b)locking rather than a Firefox shortcoming.

It doesn’t appear on any site. Note that I’m not looking for an “Open with the app” button, but rather one that creates an “app” that just opens Firefox at a particular URL. This used to exist, but doesn’t seem to happen for me anymore.

Well it’s good to know it hasn’t been removed, but I don’t have that. Did you install from the Play store or from F-Droid, or somewhere else?

Here’s my build info:

146.0.1 (Build #2016132551), 86bb7f6af6312ba3c0161085f854bcdff68f1a91
GV: 146.0.1-20251217121356
AS: 146.0.2
OS: Android 15

Back in May, Adam Something posted a brilliant video called “Why Centrism Won’t Survive 2025” and he made a very convincing case. Toward the end, he lays into Starmer’s Labour specifically, though he doesn’t predict the rise of the Greens here.

Sadly, no. That game is definitely keyboard-only. Though I have played successfully with a goals Bluetooth keyboard and mouse in the past.

Some games just don’t lend themselves well to a controllers based input.

“Earn” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that headline.

The dominance of MIT and Apache over FSF licences like the GPL is really disheartening…

Don’t think too hard on it. Just use git. For example, I have a repo called handy-scripts that hosts all my dotfiles. I just check that out into ${HOME}/projects/handy-scipts and then symlink everything from where it’s expected to its corresponding place in the repo.

As you make modifications, remember to occasionally do a git pull --rebase && git commit -m WIP && git push so that all your devices are synced up.

While the Deck is capable of running some big AAA games, I personally find that it shines in the low-power, “chill” games that you can play for a while, put down, and come back to when you’ve got some more time.

I’m a big fan of RPGs, so my #1 recommendation is Sea of Stars. Dragon Quest: Builders is also good, along with it’s sequel, which is arguably better.

A good multiplayer game with endless hordes of monsters vs. your magic is The Spell Brigade.

You may not know this, but the Deck can also be plugged into a TV or monitor, and with the help of a USB-C hub, can support a keyboard and mouse too! If you go that route, then I can’t recommend Dyson Sphere Program enough. Ooh! and Timberborn! It’s both adorable and beautifully designed.

If you’re more of a 3rd-person shooter type, Mass Effect: Legendary Edition is fan-fucking-tastic (my favourite series of all time) and it’s currently on sale for £5. There are 3 games in the series, and make sure you start with the first one! You don’t regret it.

Finally, note that you’re not bound to the Steam store if you don’t want to be. If you install the Heroic Launcher for example, you can get DRM-Free games from GOG for example. Sometimes you’ll find that games are available on both platforms, but cheaper on one of the other, and GOG games don’t come with controls on how many people can be playing it at the same time.

If she’s “bleeding money” she can sell one of the seven units she owns.

Ooh! Has anyone managed to do this with Majel Barrett’s (the Enterprise computer) voice yet?

I see this meme a lot, but no one seems to point out that this “communist architecture” was built this way less out of ideology and more through necessity. They needed a lot of housing quickly, so that’s what was done.

Capitalists build what’s cheap and will fetch the highest profit, but a state can (and often does) choose to prioritise beauty and community benefit.

As an example, I often point to what the (leftist) government of British Columbia did when financing the construction of the SkyTrain expansion in Vancouver. Rather than build a series of generic, near-identical stations, they hired different architects for various stations, a decision that netted considerable criticism from the opposition.

But they did it anyway, and the results are gorgeous. Here’s a spread of four of them designed by two firms.

He lost me at “the most transformative technologies in the history of humanity”.

I get it, (some) AI tools can be useful, but a printing press or electricity they are not.

This has to be the standard response to these sorts of claims. I would love to see a Labour MP try to respond to this on Question Time for example.

It sounds like they’re trying to be as transparent as possible while leaving lots of flexibility and freedom for users. I honestly don’t understand all the butthurt and hate.

You get a whole browser for Free (in both senses of the word) FFS. All this contempt is unjustified.

It’s been roughly a decade since Firefox began shipping with DRM available. The kill switch is still there.

Basically the IP stops responding to any traffic. At one point I set up a constant ping, and every once in a while I got something like “destination host unreachable”. It doesn’t happen often enough for me to move the service onto a physical device though. That’s work and I’m tired like, a lot.