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Look at it! What is that? It looks kind of like a cross section of a human, kind of, except the eyes are pools of blackened fire and the brain is sending electrical pulses out to... are those Jupiters? Why? Why??? This is absolute nightmare shit lol

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The first thing I do on a fresh install of firefox is disable pocket.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

anyone know good alternative to pocket?

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Having a purse allows even more storage

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Would not recommend. That's how you end up with lopsided shoulders and a bad back.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If only that was the only way to end up this way... (for the back at least).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A backpack solves both problems!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't confirm, now I have two lopsided shoulders.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

A frontpack and a backpack!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, but a good option that still works:

  • Disable pocket from the FF home page.
  • Get your personalised RSS link from your pocket profile
  • Add it to RSS reader of choice
  • Click pocket button on article
  • Read in RSS reader
  • Never see sponsored crap
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone who has never used an RSS reader, any suggestions?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Realistically probably feedly. I don't use it but it's a reasonably good service.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is actually amazing!

I use RSS so this will integrate fantastically

Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I haven't tried it yet but I've heard good things about omnivore

I also just found shiori

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I tried omnivore for a bit because it’s pretty clean and seems to integrate well with other apps like Obsidian, Logseq, etc. but I found it to be a little too sparse. I’m currently using raindrop.ion and that’s hitting the sweet spot for me. I think a big part of it is that omnivore is geared strongly toward heavy readers, so as a designer I save a lot of things for viewing more than reading, and more of an archive for projects and thoughts than something to catch up with. And I’ve got my reading list, movie list, software list, and all sorts of others in there that it’s closer to a personal Pinterest than a read it later app.

It is a really nice app though so if someone’s in the market for a reading-first definitely check it out! I’m personally really digging my personal knowledge archive with raindrop.ion and think it’s worth checking out too!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I love Umibo, turns your new tab screen into a persistent full tab bookmark manager with a pretty background

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Assuming you mean the save-to-read-later functionality, I hear good things about Wallabag. You can even self-host it if you want.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

how do you disable pocket? its so annoying

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This link from Mozilla's docs should cover it!