Pi Prep

Just set up the Raspberry Pi 4 I received today.

I’ve been using RISC OS since 1992 (A3000) and the Beeb before. When my Risc PC could no longer cope with the world’s latest I adopted macOS as the nearest user interface to ROS. I’ve engaged with Windows but only to write up patients notes when I was working. Sinclair BASIC in 1980 and that’s it.

Raspian is weird, at least at the desktop level. Probably that I’ve only been experiencing it for a couple of hours but it reminds me of whatever version of Windows ran on the RPC’s second processor (three point thingy?). Obviously that doesn’t apply to the useability but the feel…

Now looking forward to RISC OS for Pi 4.

This drivel brought to you via Mousepad and Firefox (rapidly replaced Googly Chromium), testing my ability to cope.

Firefox (rapidly replaced Googly Chromium)

Replacing Chrome is always a good thing.

For Firefox, check out these add-ons:

• Cookie Autodelete
• Cookie Manager (useful for logging into this site! ;-) )
• Don’t track me Google
• Ghostery
• uBlock Origin

And for desktop machines (doesn’t work on mobile, sadly), I’d add in:

• NoScript

Makes the internet shockingly fast, not having all that rubbish pulled from several dozen domains for every visit you make…

Raspian is weird, at least at the desktop level. Probably that I’ve only been experiencing it for a couple of hours but it reminds me of whatever version of Windows ran on the RPC’s second processor (three point thingy?).

Win3.1x or Win95

For Firefox, check out these add-ons:

Google search fix – handy if you want to search without the deliberate tracking redirects and useful if you want to save out the real URL rather than the tracking diversion sh** Google offers up.

For Firefox, check out these add-ons:

Handy list. Thank you.

Cookie Manager

Hmm, seem to be several with that title.

It’s the one by Rob Wu.

Google search fix – handy if you want to search without the deliberate tracking redirects and useful if you want to save out the real URL rather than the tracking diversion sh** Google offers up.

Is this it.

The ability in Chrome to translate an active web page is very useful, I’ve not found a way to do that on FireFox

Re cookie manager using FF’s built in option of ‘Click on the padlock’ is so simple to use I can’t see how anything else could be easier! Am I missing something?

Is this it.

Look for “Don’t track me Google” (also by Rob Wu), as specified above.

The ability in Chrome to translate an active web page is very useful

How do you mean “translate an active web page”? Do you mean the “simplified view”?

built in option of ‘Click on the padlock’ is so simple to use I can’t see how anything else could be easier! Am I missing something?

For me, I only have an option to accept or block cookies. Going further brings up the page info, but for prior visits, cookies, and passwords it just says “unknown”. Arguably a bug.

However, I mostly use Firefox on mobile these days. Tapping on the padlock only allows me to choose whether or not logins are saved. Accessing cookies needs an extension. Luckily Firefox is rather handy in that respect…

I think he means “translate from one language to another”. If you access a web page in a foreign language, Chrome will offer to translate it for you.