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Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox

From The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>
Newsgroups alt.comp.software.firefox
Subject Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox
Date 2025-04-17 09:59 -0700
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On 4/16/25 8:43 AM, John wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 08:03:33 -0700, The Real Bev
> <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>On 4/14/25 4:21 AM, VanguardLH wrote:
>>> Winston <wbe@UBEBLOCK.psr.com.invalid> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> WROTE:
>>>>
>>>>> In a command shell, you still use 'dir', not 'fol[der]'.
>>>> 
>>>> No, I usually use "ls".  :-P  :)  [Well, except on MSFT Windows.]
>>> 
>>> For file system objects that hold files, are they called directories or
>>> folders on your Linux computer?  The description of 'ls' is to list
>>> files and *directories*.
>>> 
>>> https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/ls.1.html
>>> 
>>> On Linux, directories hold files, not folders.  For Windows, directories
>>> were also first used, but Microsoft changed to using folders.
>>
>>The most annoying thing M$ did (well, one of them) was call 
>>subdirectories "MY photos", "MY documents", "MY steaming pile of crap"... 
> 
>     ... my addition of quotey-marks ... sorry. I just find that easier
> to read.

No problem.  I like them too, but I have to look at my keyboard to find 
them.  People who learned to type on blacked-out manual keyboards and 
who never actually finger-automated the number row are at a definite 
disadvantage.

Moreover, some of the punctuation etc. characters have moved around, and 
new ones have been added.  I should spend time teaching my brain about 
the "new" arrangement, but I won't.

>>Pandering to the idiots who believe that the junk mail with their name 
>>on it was written to them PERSONALLY.
> 
>   I've never really tried to find out but why didn't Microsoft use a
> little API or Macro or something to call those things "Jane's Videos"
> when the User in play is "Jane" instead of using the generic "My"?

What's wrong with plain old 'Documents'?  This is MY fucking computer, 
who else would they belong to?

>   Yes, it would mean a couple of lines more of bloat but considering
> how huge Windows is that wouldn't even be noticed.
> 
>   Or would that not be possible?
> 
>   The main reason I'd have preferred that scheme is that I, too,
> *detest* all of those "My Junk" dire.... sorry, *folders*. I don't
> think that I have *ever* used them, though some installed programs do
> if I can't find a way of stopping them from doing so. It would also
> have made PC's *look* a little more "personal", a little less
> clinical, industrial and mass-produced.

I really despise faux cordiality.  I especially despise it in junk mail 
because the bastards sprinkle it over the contents as well as the 
envelope.  If I had a shredder next to my chair I wouldn't mind, but I 
refuse to recycle anything with my unaltered name/address (a friend 
throws it in the trash and dumps the cat litter box as the final step) 
and tear identity-stuff up by hand.  I approve of recycling paper 
(assuming it actually gets recycled) and resent the stupidity of the 
companies' fake personalization.

>   Could it be that no-one thought of it?

I believe they think of everything, especially if it seems profitable. 
That's fine, but it doesn't excuse stuff I find annoying.


-- 
Cheers,Bev
    Never argue with idiots. They drag you down to their level
    and beat you with experience!

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Harder to keep loving Firefox VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-04-05 21:41 -0500
  Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox Frank Miller <miller@posteo.ee> - 2025-04-06 05:20 +0200
    Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-04-06 04:32 -0500
      Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-04-06 04:36 -0500
  Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox John Diamond <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-06 04:24 +0100
    Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2025-04-07 11:59 +0200
  Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-04-06 09:44 -0400
    Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-04-06 17:48 -0500
      Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-04-07 08:10 -0400
        Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-04-07 13:32 -0500
          Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-04-07 15:31 -0400
            Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-04-07 19:01 -0500
        Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox Jeff Barnett <jbb@notatt.com> - 2025-04-07 13:49 -0600
          Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox (PS) Jeff Barnett <jbb@notatt.com> - 2025-04-07 13:52 -0600
          Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-04-07 17:29 -0400
            Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-04-07 19:57 -0500
              Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-04-07 22:25 -0400
                Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-04-07 22:54 -0500
                Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-04-08 06:58 +0100
                Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-04-08 08:37 -0400
            Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-04-08 06:55 +0100
              Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-04-08 08:47 -0400
                Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox fredl@invalid.com - 2025-04-08 14:50 -0500
                Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox Schugo <schugo@schugo.de> - 2025-04-08 22:18 +0200
                Harder to keep loving Firefox News <dnews@triffid.co.uk> - 2025-04-09 10:20 +0100
                Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox Schugo <schugo@schugo.de> - 2025-04-09 20:50 +0200
                Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-04-09 17:06 -0400
                Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-04-08 17:19 -0400
                Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox Frank Miller <miller@posteo.ee> - 2025-04-08 23:55 +0200
                Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-04-08 20:12 -0400
                Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-04-09 15:10 +0000
                Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-04-09 16:27 +0100
      Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox Schugo <schugo@schugo.de> - 2025-04-07 19:27 +0200
      Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2025-04-11 11:50 -0700
        Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-04-11 16:45 -0500
          Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2025-04-13 09:29 -0700
            Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2025-04-13 17:15 +0000
              Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2025-04-13 12:36 -0700
              Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-04-13 16:54 -0500
                Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox Nobody <jock@soccer.com> - 2025-04-13 16:05 -0700
                Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox Winston <wbe@UBEBLOCK.psr.com.invalid> - 2025-04-14 03:11 -0400
                Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-04-14 06:21 -0500
                Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2025-04-16 08:03 -0700
                Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox Nobody <jock@soccer.com> - 2025-04-16 08:17 -0700
                Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2025-04-16 08:49 -0700
                Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2025-04-16 16:43 +0100
                Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2025-04-17 09:59 -0700
                Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2025-04-16 16:40 +0000
                Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-04-16 14:22 -0500
                Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox Schugo <schugo@schugo.de> - 2025-04-16 21:42 +0200
                Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-04-16 19:33 -0500
                Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2025-04-16 07:59 -0700
              Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-04-13 23:46 -0500
                Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2025-04-13 23:22 -0700
                Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com> - 2025-04-14 08:07 +0100
              Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-04-14 17:40 +0000
    Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-04-09 02:17 -0500
  Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com> - 2025-04-07 08:36 +0100
    Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-04-07 05:52 -0500
      Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com> - 2025-04-07 13:05 +0100
        Re: Harder to keep loving Firefox VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-04-07 13:54 -0500

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