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#DuckDuckGo is normally great. But when I searched for "minium" it actually wasn't a typo. I did not mean "minimum".

I had to do a test, because that's how my brain works. But DDG, AstianGo and Bing all placed "minimum" above "minium" for the result. Ggl got it right, but of course shoved it's AI reply first, when the simple Wikipedia link would have been fine.

In case you're wondering, the minimum wage in the UK, if you're 21+ is £12.71/hr.

I know you weren't wondering.

#DuckDuckGo is normally great. But when I searched for "minium" it actually wasn't a typo. I did not mean "minimum".

I had to do a test, because that's how my brain works. But DDG, AstianGo and Bing all placed "minimum" above "minium" for the result. Ggl got it right, but of course shoved it's AI reply first, when the simple Wikipedia link would have been fine.

In case you're wondering, the minimum wage in the UK, if you're 21+ is £12.71/hr.

I know you weren't wondering.

#DuckDuckGo is normally great. But when I searched for "minium" it actually wasn't a typo. I did not mean "minimum".

I had to do a test, because that's how my brain works. But DDG, AstianGo and Bing all placed "minimum" above "minium" for the result. Ggl got it right, but of course shoved it's AI reply first, when the simple Wikipedia link would have been fine.

In case you're wondering, the minimum wage in the UK, if you're 21+ is £12.71/hr.

I know you weren't wondering.

#DuckDuckGo is normally great. But when I searched for "minium" it actually wasn't a typo. I did not mean "minimum".

I had to do a test, because that's how my brain works. But DDG, AstianGo and Bing all placed "minimum" above "minium" for the result. Ggl got it right, but of course shoved it's AI reply first, when the simple Wikipedia link would have been fine.

In case you're wondering, the minimum wage in the UK, if you're 21+ is £12.71/hr.

I know you weren't wondering.

#DuckDuckGo is normally great. But when I searched for "minium" it actually wasn't a typo. I did not mean "minimum".

I had to do a test, because that's how my brain works. But DDG, AstianGo and Bing all placed "minimum" above "minium" for the result. Ggl got it right, but of course shoved it's AI reply first, when the simple Wikipedia link would have been fine.

In case you're wondering, the minimum wage in the UK, if you're 21+ is £12.71/hr.

I know you weren't wondering.

When surfing with a privacy VPN, …

#Google: gives you search results

#DuckDuckGo: gives you the wrong search results (as usual)

#Startpage: verifies your request … and verifies … and still verifies …

When surfing with a privacy VPN, …

#Google: gives you search results

#DuckDuckGo: gives you the wrong search results (as usual)

#Startpage: verifies your request … and verifies … and still verifies …

When surfing with a privacy VPN, …

#Google: gives you search results

#DuckDuckGo: gives you the wrong search results (as usual)

#Startpage: verifies your request … and verifies … and still verifies …

When surfing with a privacy VPN, …

#Google: gives you search results

#DuckDuckGo: gives you the wrong search results (as usual)

#Startpage: verifies your request … and verifies … and still verifies …

When surfing with a privacy VPN, …

#Google: gives you search results

#DuckDuckGo: gives you the wrong search results (as usual)

#Startpage: verifies your request … and verifies … and still verifies …

Well, I felt rather badly when I got a post in my stream from the official Fediverse account for dillo.

You see, I hadn't included it in my recent HowTo, a cookbook style tutorial on Browsers in Linux, or rather, how to install a boatload of them, and all kinds of them. I even went so far to include one produced and maintained by a company that I literally loathe (and even taught their official MCSE curriculum for them starting back in the mid 90's)...

But I left out dillo. I was tired, and truth be told, it really isn't easy authoring these types of technical publications - you literally need to go through each item on a VM you spin up and take it step by step to make sure that when a neophyte comes around and wants ot simply copypasta your instructions - they can do that, and it will work.

So anyway, the devs over at the dillo project posted on the Fediverse and I immediately was guilt-ridden for not including them. So I went and started to edit my earlier HowTo; I came out about 5k characters over count (and I think my server's already configured for 12K chars).

Anyway, long story short, here's one of my latest contributions to the #FOSS community, specifically, one that's published in the #Fediverse first and foremost. It includes almost every browser you've probably ever used, and certainly, many you probably haven't.

I had to Quote-Post my original so it's kinda kewl with an entry point starting with dillo. I think that's pretty awesome, and it quotes the original (part I if you will) that starts with Vivaldi.

I don't usually ask, but especially with respect to this HowTo/Tutorial, the more people that boost it, the further it will reach, and the more people it can benefit. Give it a gander and if you think others will find portions of it advantageous... well, feel free to boost it.

So without further ado, Here's the link to the Linux Browser HowTo

I hope you find it useful, and Enjoy! 🤗

#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #Browsers #dillo #Microsoft_Edge #Firefox #Vivaldi #Brave_Browser #DuckDuckGo #Chromium #Opera #Chawan #Lagrange #Tor #Lynx #Elinks #Links #Nyxt #Epiphany #Falkon #Konqueror

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And now for dillo

## dillo browser (the honorable mention):

Now, this tutorial wouldn't be complete without one of the most determined browser projects of all to be included. Unfortunately for the user (and by user I mean the common, everyday n00b, joeuser), very little effort has been put into a one & done download/install procedure.

To be honest, dillo is a bit of a pain in the butt, because even though a lot of effort has been put into rescue of the intellectual property after the main author of the engine passed away and the original domain registration expired (to be picked up by a cybersquatter), rebuilding the forward facing public assets still leaves much to be desired for a simple joeuser - the folks we are all trying to ultimately serve and make things simple.

For example, Where you would almost universally expect to see a "Download dillo" link or button, you will indeed find a link, but it leads to their cgit repo. Even junior devs cringe when they first come across cgit, even though it really is arguably far superior to GitHub style facilities like Gitea, Forgejo (Codeberg), and SourceHut.

Although it's really only a matter of appearance, cgit was written by Jason A. Donenfeld, who also created Wireguard and Pass - the standard UNIX password manager, popular on Androids too (via F-Droid, requires installing OpenKeyChain too on Android).

But back to #dillo! You may be wondering why I placed it so far down the list, and the reason is twofold:

1. ) I brainfarted. Yup, I was really tired and literally forgot when initially publishing this first edition of the Browsers on Linux HowTo, and for that, especially to the dillo dev team, I apologize.
2. ) It may seem a bit complicated - but I assure you it is not, especially when compared to the #Tor_Browser, which immediately precedes the instructions for installing dillo.

I know that a lot of folks went through and endured the process of installing the Tor Browser, because it's such a popular utility in today's world, and since I'm figuring that you got through that okay, we can now turn our attention to dillo, without all of the hunting around on various git repo servers out there and web pages - just the bare bones simple cut and paste for you here...

So let's get to it, shall we?

NOTE: You should know by now that commands prefaced with ~$ are to be administered by you, the regular, unpriviliged user account; while commands prefaced with ~# mean that those commands are issued by "root". You have a choice in your terminal. The first is just to prepend the root commands with sudo, while the other option is to issue su - to root, then go into the directory the user was in and issue those commands. You may find it easier to just open a fresh tab in your terminal app so you have one user ($) shell and then in the other tab or window you have the root user's (#) shell.

The first thing we need to do is make sure that we have resolved all dependencies (prerequisites) for compiling dillo. We do that as root (or via sudo as I just mentioned above) like so:

~# apt install gcc g++ git git-all autoconf automake make zlib1g-dev libfltk1.3-dev libssl-dev libc6-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev libwebp-dev libbrotli-dev

Don't worry if some, or even most or all of those packages aren't installed, because some, many, or all of them may already be installed on your system, and invoking the install won't overwrite anything already installed.

Next, let's git (pundit there), er... get the source for dillo, and yes, we're going to use git. A mention now that doing it this way means that in the future your updates will be relatively simple and brainless. More on that later. We'll start by creating a directory (folder) to work from, a place where you can use in the future that doesn't clutter up your home directory with needless entries; then we'll download the source code, build it locally, and install it...

All you have to do is cut and paste each line, one by one, and wait for each step to finish before pasting the next line into your terminal.

~$ cd; mkdir -pv dev; cd dev
~$ git clone https://git.dillo-browser.org/dillo
~$ cd dillo
~$ ./autogen.sh
~$ mkdir build
~$ cd build
~$ ../configure --prefix=/usr/local
~$ make
~$ sudo make install
root@mylaptop:/home/joeuser/dev/dillo/build# make install

That's it! dillo has been installed!

Now, and because we're at the very end. I want to explain the $ and # stuff so it's clear. Notice that the dillo installation steps is the only place in this HowTo that I included a sudo command. The reason is that I believe that in most cases, sudo is a bad way to administer a machine. In classic, traditional UNIX administration, you su to root (the Superuser), do what you need to with thos elevated privs and then exit out of the root shell and back to your unprivileged user account.

So ~# is merely a shorthand in most Bash shells. typically, you're going to see something like username@hostname:/path/to/directory$ for a non-priviliged user, or for root, it will generally read as root@hostname:/path/to/directory#

Generally speaking when you issue a command from a particular directory as a non-privileged user, followed by a command by the superuser (root), you probably want to be in that same directory. So the final command above which was make install, would have been performed by the non-privileged user ($) using the sudo utility (or, doas on some OSes) or as root - but as root, you would have wanted to be in that same directory to run the make command to install the compiled binary in /usr/local on your machine. This is what it would look like had you decided (I recommend this practice in most cases) to 'su -' to root instead of using sudo:

joeuser@mylaptop:~/dev/dillo/build$ su - 
root@mylaptop:~# cd /home/joeuser/dev/dillo/build
root@mylaptop:/home/joeuser/dev/dillo/build# make install
root@mylaptop:/home/joeuser/dev/dillo/build# exit
joeuser@mylaptop:~/dev/dillo/build$ cd
joeuser@mylaptop:~$ which dillo
/usr/local/bin/dillo
joeuser@mylaptop:~$ dillo &

If you followed along with that last block of code, you'll see that we asked where our program (dillo) is, by using the which command. It told us that it's located /user/local/bin/dillo, in our default "path", so all we need to do (from anywhere) is just type in dillo & - the ampersand will release our shell so the process can run in the background. Just hit your "return" or "enter" key and you'll get your prompt back.

Have fun running dillo!

Well, I went into a lot of explantions that normally aren't covered, because basic navigation and what your prompts are going to look like are just assumed in most HowTo's and Tutorials, including mine. But it should be covered somewhere and this was a logical place.

There is just one more (optional) task to complete. Adding dillo to your menu panel - I'm going to leave that task up to you, it's worth learning, and honestly, I don't want to have to cover how to do this in KDE Plasma, Xfce, GNOME, Cinnamon, Mate, etc.... you get the idea; I have no idea what desktop environment you're running but it's an excercise that is worthwhile so you can configure your menus and desktop anyway, so do give it a go :)

There's really just one last thing folks....

Here's just a taste of what to expect with future updates to this HowTO:

~# sqg -p dillo && sbopkg -i dillo.sqf

"What?" You say? Yup! That's Slackware. Installing pretty much every single Browser in this article is as simple as doing a copypasta of that one liner with sbopkg...

But you'll have to wait for all of that funstuff :p

And remember: You can haz #Cheezburgerz! 🍔🍟

I hope that helps!

#tallship #FOSS #browsers #dillo #Microsoft_Edge #Firefox #Vivaldi #Brave_Browser #DuckDuckGo #Chromium #Opera #Chawan #Lagrange #Tor #Lynx #Elinks #Links #Nyxt #Epiphany #Falcon #Konqueror

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RE: https://public.mitra.social/objects/019f49aa-b5c6-7372-b92d-68821dcad285

#AI is playing us for a sucker all the time.

I wanted to know which type the grounded yellow plane from the #intro video of #fs2024 is.

As I could not find otherwise for some time I asked #DuckDuckGo AI (a,b,c) and #Startpage Assist (d). Not only did the Artificial Idiot come up with different airplanes every single time - all four answers are wrong.

a) Piper J-3 Cub - nope
b) De Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver -nope
c) Boeing Stearman Model 75 - nope
d) Gee Bee Model Z - nope

In fact it is a #Cubcrafter X Cub (by Asobo). Found out myself yesterday in the sim as I did not choose a #Zlin or the #Wilga as usual for a bush or outdoor flight.*

And it is a fantastic aircraft BTW, albeit not so easy to land - like all taildraggers. 🛩️

* Ceterum censeo: I want the old hangar from #fs2020 back.

#flightsim #outdoor #stol #bushflight #dirtflight #cubcrafter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_s5wdxXU9E

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