From 2455ca6e1db7cb363050d96abf2f78e9ca256312 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: nathansmith <nathansmith@posteo.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2025 07:15:08 -0600
Subject: Linux room stuff

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 linux_room.html | 126 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
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diff --git a/linux_room.html b/linux_room.html
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--- a/linux_room.html
+++ b/linux_room.html
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ table {
                         <li>
                             <a href="#gui">GUI apps</a>
                             <ul>
-                                <li>Web browser: <a href="#icecat">icecat</a></li>
                                 <li>Mail client: <a href="#claws">claws</a></li>
                                 <li>Editor: <a href="#emacs">emacs</a></li>
                                 <li>Media player: <a href="#mpv">mpv</a></li>
@@ -54,6 +53,13 @@ table {
                                 <li>PDF viewer: <a href="#epdfviewer">ePDFViewer</a></li>
                             </ul>
                         </li>
+                        <li>
+                            <a href="#browsers">Web browsers</a>
+                            <ul>
+                                <li><a href="#icecat">Icecat</a></li>
+                                <li><a href="#librewolf">Librewolf</a></li>
+                            </ul>
+                        </li>
                         <li>
                             <a href="#commandline">Command line</a>
                             <ul>
@@ -67,7 +73,6 @@ table {
                             <ul>
                                 <li><a href="#lite-xl">lite-xl</a></li>
                                 <li><a href="#vlc">vlc</a></li>
-                                <li><a href="#librewolf">librewolf</a></li>
                                 <li><a href="#evolution">Evolution</a></li>
                             </ul>
                         </li>
@@ -148,42 +153,6 @@ table {
                     </p>
                 </td>
             </tr>
-            
-            <tr>
-                <td>
-                    <h2 id="icecat">icecat</h2>
-                    <p>
-                        I use to use firefox but switched to librewolf because 
-                        <a href="https://digdeeper.club/articles/mozilla.xhtml" target="_blank">mozilla is evil as fuck</a>.
-                        If you don't know librewolf it its the ungoogled-chromium of firefox. Than I switched from librewolf to icecat.
-                        <br/><br/>
-                        <s>The builtin plugins are decent. Librejs and its other contend blocking plugins are way more annoying
-                        than something like umatrix but I am giving them a fair chance knowing that umatrix might not have
-                        much of a future even if its still quite functional still. I still like to install ublock even with
-                            everything that comes builtin.</s><br/>
-                        So I got annoyed of librejs and other builtin plugins in icecat. Now I just disable them because umatrix
-                        and ublock can do way more, except jshelter: It is a api spoofer which is different from the others which
-                        are contend blockers. Its useful for when you have to use javascript heavy websites but still want to
-                        prevent alot of information from being leaked. I set ublock to disable javascript by default and I set
-                        jshelter to strict mode by default.
-                        <br/><br/>
-                        Fun little trick: If video playback/youtube frame breaks on a website just throw it into mpv to stream
-                        it from there. Sometimes to find the media you can hit ctrl+i to pull up page info and use the media
-                        section or in some cases you might have to dig around in the inspector.
-                    </p>
-                    <h3>Settings</h3>
-                    <p>
-                        The clipboard doesn't work in icecat by default so go into <code>about:config</code> and change
-                        <code>dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled</code> to true.
-                    </p>
-                    <h3>Search engines</h3>
-                    <p>
-                        The best search engine is <a href="https://searx.space" target="_blank">searx</a>.
-                        Finding instances can be annoying because a lot of time the engine you want to use
-                        gets blocked.
-                    </p>
-                </td>
-            </tr>
 
              <tr>
                 <td>
@@ -283,6 +252,73 @@ table {
                 </td>
             </tr>
         </table>
+
+        <table border="1" width="60%">
+            <tr>
+                <td>
+                    <h1 id="browsers">Web browsers</h1>
+                    <p>
+                        Modern browsers are some of the worse things to every happen.
+                        These are some of the better options out there.
+                        <br/><br/>
+                        For some resources on browsers check out <a href="https://spyware.neocities.org/articles" target="_blank">
+                            spyware watch dog</a> and <a href="https://digdeeper.club" target="_blank">dig deeper</a>.
+                        <br/><br/>
+                        For addons stay away from the mozilla bullshit and instead use something like
+                        <a href="https://gnuzilla.gnu.org" target="_blank">the gnuzilla thingy</a>.
+                    </p>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
+            
+            <tr>
+                <td>
+                    <h2 id="icecat">Icecat</h2>
+                    <p>
+                        I use to use firefox but switched to librewolf because 
+                        <a href="https://digdeeper.club/articles/mozilla.xhtml" target="_blank">mozilla is evil as fuck</a>.
+                        If you don't know librewolf it its the ungoogled-chromium of firefox. Than I switched from librewolf to icecat.
+                        <br/><br/>
+                        <s>The builtin plugins are decent. Librejs and its other contend blocking plugins are way more annoying
+                        than something like umatrix but I am giving them a fair chance knowing that umatrix might not have
+                        much of a future even if its still quite functional still. I still like to install ublock even with
+                            everything that comes builtin.</s><br/>
+                        So I got annoyed of librejs and other builtin plugins in icecat. Now I just disable them because umatrix
+                        and ublock can do way more, except jshelter: It is a api spoofer which is different from the others which
+                        are contend blockers. Its useful for when you have to use javascript heavy websites but still want to
+                        prevent alot of information from being leaked. I set ublock to disable javascript by default and I set
+                        jshelter to strict mode by default.
+                        <br/><br/>
+                        Fun little trick: If video playback/youtube frame breaks on a website just throw it into mpv to stream
+                        it from there. Sometimes to find the media you can hit ctrl+i to pull up page info and use the media
+                        section or in some cases you might have to dig around in the inspector.
+                    </p>
+
+                    <h3>Installing</h3>
+                    <p>
+                        You can find some newer builds <a href="https://icecatbrowser.org" target="_blank">here</a>.
+                        The offical version can be found <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla" target="_blank">
+                            here</a>.
+                    </p>
+                    
+                    <h3>Hardening</h3>
+                    <p>
+                        The magic of icecat is it makes zero requests to mozilla but its not too hardened
+                        so you might wanta use a user.js. Check out <a href="https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js"
+                                                                       target="_blank">pyllyukko user.js</a>.
+                    </p>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
+
+            <tr>
+                <td>
+                    <h2 id="librewolf">librewolf</h2>
+                    <p>
+                        Librewolf is about the easiest way to get a decent hardened browser setup. It still makes some requests to mozilla
+                        which kind of sucks.
+                    </p>
+                </td>
+            </tr>
+        </table>
         
         <table border="1" width="60%">
             <tr>
@@ -399,20 +435,6 @@ table {
                 </td>
             </tr>
 
-            <tr>
-                <td>
-                    <h2 id="librewolf">librewolf</h2>
-                    <p>
-                        Icecat is much more hardened overall, makes zero requests to mozilla and has many features used for
-                        spying disabled at the source level. Librewolf is still one of the best options for hardened firefox
-                        based webbrowsers still. Its updated much more often than icecat and is less likely to break shitty
-                        websites. It was even my daily driver for a while. Unlike icecat librewolf still makes some requests
-                        to mozilla and can leak information through webrtc so best not to use librewolf unless your school
-                        or work is throwing some shitty sites at you.
-                    </p>
-                </td>
-            </tr>
-
             <tr>
                 <td>
                     <h2 id="evolution">Evolution</h2>
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