Desktop browsers, ranked
Note: This is my testing on MacOS on Apple Silicon. May not be applicable for other OSes or platforms.
Chrome: Everyone’s default
+ Pros: Everything is tested in Chrome, so sites always work. Lots of extensions.
- Cons: Uses SO MUCH RAM. Mid developer tools. Chromium is kinda mid in general.
Arc: Basically reskinned Chrome
+ Pros: Well designed, having tabs on the side is so much smarter.
- Cons: Some features are hard to understand and not really needed. Chromium based, so see the cons of Chrome
Firefox: The dark horse
+ Pros: Haven’t tried it much but anything is better than Chromium. Made by a nonprofit. Good dev tools. Lots of extensions. Generally one of the best browsers.
- Cons: I don’t really know.
Opera GX: The weird kid
+ Pros: High performance (got over 400 in speedometer). Cool design. Ram limiter.
- Cons: Bloat. Also, it’s Chromium.
Safari: Overly hated on
+ Pros: Uses almost no energy on Apple silicon Macs. Simple design, no bloat. High performance. The best dev tools of any browser.
- Cons: Sites aren’t always tested for desktop safari (they are tested for mobile though). Not very many extensions (it supports chrome extensions with a rename but you need to have an Apple developer account to publish them).
My final ranking:
Safari (for Mac users)
Firefox (#1 if not using a Mac)
Arc
Chrome
Opera GX
Week 2/52
No update
Ran 44.6 miles so far this year (31 miles this week)
No update
I’m actually further ahead in school than I thought, which is good.
I added walls to the wasteof app, hoping to do a beta or something soon
No update
I’ve been reading every day
No update
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Happy New Year everyone!
I spend too much time on wasteof. But of all the places on the internet, this is the only one that is worth coming back to multiple times a day.
Now, I present my goals for 2024. The goals are all specific and quantifiable, so I can measure if I complete them. Here they are:
Run a 5k in under 20 mins by March, under 18 mins by August, and under 16 mins by November
Run over 1500 miles in total
Run a race every month - except January because I can’t find a single convenient race that month.
Finish school early - I’m on track to finish 1-2 weeks early, so I want to keep, if not improve, that lead
Bring the wasteof iOS app to feature parity with wasteof2 by July, and to parity with wasteof4 by November
Do some other big coding project
Read the book of John, taking it slowly through the book - Goal is 3-4 verses per day, John has 879 verses so it should take up the majority of the year
Become (at least) friends with my crush. “Becoming friends” is defined as getting her phone number. I won’t see her until August, though and I barely know her. And I’m the most awkward person ever. We’ll see.
Buy an iPhone 16 Pro Max and Apple Watch Series 10 when they come out.
Get a driver’s license by August - I need 60 hours of driving practice in total, I have about 10 so far. I haven’t been trying though.
Get a job.
Repost this weekly with progress updates on what I’ve done to keep myself accountable.
2023 was the greatest year of my life. 2024 will be even better. Let’s get it.
I know a lot of people out there scared they're gon' die
A couple of them thinking they'll be livin' in the sky
But while I'm here livin' man I gotta ask why, what am here fo' I gotta figure out
Waste my life no I gotta make it count
If Christ is real then what am I gonna do about
Everything in Luke 12: 15 down to 21; You've really gotta go and check it out
Paul said if Christ ain't resurrected we've wasted our lives; Well that implies that our life's built around Jesus being alive
Everyday I'm living tryin' to show the world why Christ is more than everything you'll ever try
Better than pretty women and sinning and living To get a minute of any women and men that you admire It ain't no lie
We're created for Him
Outta the dust he made us for Him
Elects us and he saves us for Him
Jesus comes and he raises for Him
Magnify the Father, why bother with something lesser; He made us so we could bless Him
To the world we confess Him, resurrects Him
So I know I got life; Matter fact better man I know I got Christ
If you don't see His ways in my days and nights: You can hit my brakes you can stop my life
Then I lost my rights I lost my life; Forget the money cars and toss that ice
The cost is Christ And they could never offer me anything on the planet that would cost that price.
You're trying to figure what to do with your life
If you make a lot of money hope you're doing it right
Because the money is God's you better steward it right
And stay focused, you ain't got no ride
Your life ain't wrapped up in what you drive
The clothes you wear, the job you work
The colour your skin, naw you're a Christian first
People get to living for a job
Make a little money start living for a car
Get 'em a wife a house kids and a dog
Then they retire they're living high on the hog
But guess what they didn't ever really live at all
To live is Christ and that's Paul I recall
To die is gain so for Christ we give it all
He's the treasure you'll never find in a mall
Your money your singleness marriage talent your time
They were loaned to you to show the world that Christ is Divine
That's why it's Christ in my rhymes
That's why it's Christ all the time
See my whole world is built around Him; He's the life in my lines
I refused to waste my life; He's too true to chase that ice
Here's my gifts and time 'cause I'm constantly trying to be used to praise the Christ
If he's truly raised to life
Then this news should change your life
And by his grace you can put your faith in place that rules your days and nights
You're trying to figure what to do with your life
If you make a lot of money hope you're doing it right
Because the money is God's you better steward it right
And stay focused, you ain't got no ride
Your life ain't wrapped up in what you drive
The clothes you wear, the job you work
The colour your skin, naw you're a Christian first
People get to living for a job
Make a little money start living for a car
Get 'em a wife a house kids and a dog
Then they retire they're living high on the hog
But guess what they didn't ever really live at all
To live is Christ and that's Paul I recall
To die is gain so for Christ we give it all
He's the treasure you'll never find in a mall
Your money your singleness marriage talent your time
They were loaned to you to show the world that Christ is Divine
That's why it's Christ in my rhymes
That's why it's Christ all the time
See my whole world is built around Him; He's the life in my lines
I refused to waste my life; He's too true to chase that ice
Here's my gifts and time 'cause I'm constantly trying to be used to praise the Christ
If he's truly raised to life
Then this news should change your life
And by his grace you can put your faith in place that rules your days and nights
We had an internal IRC (this was before Slack) and nobody thought about it. One day it went down, and traceroute had indicated it was in our server room; after checking every single server we could not find it, until someone noticed an ethernet cable that went through a run into the floor but didn't come back out. After opening the suspended floor we noticed a laptop running Solaris. That was our IRCd and the OS had an uptime of close to 8 years.
Join this if you haven’t already!
CHANGELOG:
Game Changes:
-New Empire Slots: 10 new empire slots have been made for new players to join.
-Border Expansion: The world borders have been expanded to include: Africa, Mongolia, Central Asia and half of Siberia.
-Policy Changes:
All policies have been deleted. From now on when expanding you may either conquer one province at a time that is 30,000-75,000 miles, and lose 7,000 troops each time you do so. Or you may conquer multiple provinces that total to 30,000 miles total and gain 3,000 troops.
-Major War Changes: A new feature has been added to help wars become more strategic as well as more balanced. Feature is:
Generals, for the cost of 20,000 manpower each. A general is completely randomized and can either give a hefty multiplication bonus to your army in offesne and defense. A generals ranging bonuses are between 1x and 1.5x. Meaning, if your general had a defense bonus of 1.5x, a defending battalion of 100 troops could take on a battalion of 150 enemy troops, contrary to that, if your general has a decrease bonus of just 1x, a defending battalion of 100 troops would be equal to an enemy battalion of 100 troops. You cannot reroll generals, a general has a 1/15 chance of dying per day.
New Borders:
Week 1/52
Updates:
5k time: Haven’t run any 5ks yet
Miles: ran 13 miles so far (a little behind, but it’s week 1, we’ll survive)
Run a race every month: no races so far (but I said there weren’t any in Jan so we’re good)
Finish school early: On break from school this week
wasteof app: No more progress so far but I have until July
Some other project: Decided I want to make a blog/personal site
Book of John: Been reading it every day
Crush: not going to see her until August
iPhone and Apple Watch: They aren’t out until September
Driver’s license: No progress
Get a job: Haven’t done this yet, I’m lazy
This week was a bit lazy, but I was on break from school. I’ll ramp things up in the couple next weeks.
Happy New Year everyone!
I spend too much time on wasteof. But of all the places on the internet, this is the only one that is worth coming back to multiple times a day.
Now, I present my goals for 2024. The goals are all specific and quantifiable, so I can measure if I complete them. Here they are:
Run a 5k in under 20 mins by March, under 18 mins by August, and under 16 mins by November
Run over 1500 miles in total
Run a race every month - except January because I can’t find a single convenient race that month.
Finish school early - I’m on track to finish 1-2 weeks early, so I want to keep, if not improve, that lead
Bring the wasteof iOS app to feature parity with wasteof2 by July, and to parity with wasteof4 by November
Do some other big coding project
Read the book of John, taking it slowly through the book - Goal is 3-4 verses per day, John has 879 verses so it should take up the majority of the year
Become (at least) friends with my crush. “Becoming friends” is defined as getting her phone number. I won’t see her until August, though and I barely know her. And I’m the most awkward person ever. We’ll see.
Buy an iPhone 16 Pro Max and Apple Watch Series 10 when they come out.
Get a driver’s license by August - I need 60 hours of driving practice in total, I have about 10 so far. I haven’t been trying though.
Get a job.
Repost this weekly with progress updates on what I’ve done to keep myself accountable.
2023 was the greatest year of my life. 2024 will be even better. Let’s get it.
One thing I haven’t said that I want to do this year is get a branding identity, and redesign my personal site (lindsey.studio). It’s garbage on mobile and not really good for anything other than looking pretty. (I am proud of it though, I’ve seen many other OS-homescreen style sites and none are as functional as mine.) I want to make it a more normal site, with a blog.
Fast Food ranked
S: Chick-Fil-A, Five Guys, Cinnabon, Moe’s, Culver’s
A: Marco’s Pizza, Chipotle, Pizza Hut, Jersey Mike’s, IHOP
B: Popeyes, Domino’s, Dunkin’, Bojangles, Freddy’s, In-N-Out (only been there once), MOD Pizza, Sonic
C: McDonalds (but only their nuggets), Hardees (aka Carl’s Jr), Dairy Queen, Arby’s
D: Taco Bell, McDonalds, Subway, Wendy’s
E: Burger King
Happy New Year everyone!
I spend too much time on wasteof. But of all the places on the internet, this is the only one that is worth coming back to multiple times a day.
Now, I present my goals for 2024. The goals are all specific and quantifiable, so I can measure if I complete them. Here they are:
Run a 5k in under 20 mins by March, under 18 mins by August, and under 16 mins by November
Run over 1500 miles in total
Run a race every month - except January because I can’t find a single convenient race that month.
Finish school early - I’m on track to finish 1-2 weeks early, so I want to keep, if not improve, that lead
Bring the wasteof iOS app to feature parity with wasteof2 by July, and to parity with wasteof4 by November
Do some other big coding project
Read the book of John, taking it slowly through the book - Goal is 3-4 verses per day, John has 879 verses so it should take up the majority of the year
Become (at least) friends with my crush. “Becoming friends” is defined as getting her phone number. I won’t see her until August, though and I barely know her. And I’m the most awkward person ever. We’ll see.
Buy an iPhone 16 Pro Max and Apple Watch Series 10 when they come out.
Get a driver’s license by August - I need 60 hours of driving practice in total, I have about 10 so far. I haven’t been trying though.
Get a job.
Repost this weekly with progress updates on what I’ve done to keep myself accountable.
2023 was the greatest year of my life. 2024 will be even better. Let’s get it.
I am proud to say I’ve made a lot of progress on the wasteof iOS app (still don’t have a unique name)
I added posting and profile pages, as well as pinning posts, reposting, following, deleting posts, and more. Very soon I will be sending out a beta version. If you use an iPhone, let me know if you want to try it.
Checklist:
Completed:
Login
Feed
Post pages, and liking and commenting
Explore
Messages
Posting and reposting
Profile pages
Pinning posts (not unpinning however)
Deleting posts
To-do:
Editing posts
Deleting and reporting comments, reporting posts (reporting is implemented but doesn’t work for some goofy reason)
Walls
Editing your own profile
Chat
Widgets
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There’s no way to argue that AI is not going to take over humanity after reading this.
What’s the best thing y’all got for Christmas? I got some Heydudes, a couple gift cards, and polarized sunglasses.