Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC
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I would not choose to use a product made by people I disagree with but leaving that aside:
Is it the least bad? Why not degoogled chrome? Or chromium? Even vivaldi seems like a better choice.
Ad blocking mostly. That's literally all I need in a chromium browser, because I only use it on a handful of sites that don't work properly in Firefox.
Chromium is also okay, but no ad blocker. I have that installed as well in the really unlikely case that the ad blocker gets in the way.
99% of my browsing is on a Firefox browser, and 99% of the rest is on Brave. I use it so infrequently the "time saved" metric is a merely seconds.
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Mac hardware is a fucking atrocity. $2k for a "pro" laptop with 8GB RAM and 256GB storage and no i/o except 4 USBC ports, that's completely and intentionally irreparable and unupgradeable? SSDs and RAM that are marked up 3000%? That's what you call "excellent"? If they were cheap I might not completely object to them being disposable but it's the opposite. It's fucking gaslighting. You'll never convince me it's anything other than a cult.
I will give you the RAM and SSD capacities are atrociously priced. USBC is perfectly acceptable for the people apple is targeting. Nobody is trying to use a MacBook as a server. Ignore the âproâ name in any consumer electronic device. It has nothing to do with anything other than marketing, and thatâs not exclusive to apple. Apple did give up on the 8GB bullshit already though.
You need to take a closer look at how the M-series chips work and why they work they way they do. There are design considerations in how PC does things and Apple does things and they are not 1 to 1. What makes sense the PC world doesnât always make sense int he Mac world.
Apple does a lot of anti-consumer bullshit which we should absolutely club them over the head for, but many of the things they pulled off with the M-series Macs were NOT possible with traditional PC methodologies. One thingâs for sure though, the hardware performs and it does so with very little energy. Itâs so great a difference the entire industry is changing course to try to outdo Apple. They eventually will too, but they havenât yet. They are just cheaper.
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70% but yeh.
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The situation is much different for gamers. They might have been thinking of the Steam survey where Windows does in fact have 95% adoption:
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What does that have to do with the browser? Last I checked, browsers aren't transphobic.
You do you, but I personally refuse to make product choices based on the person who makes it. Brave is the least bad chromium browser, so I use it as a backup to my main Gecko-based browser. I'm not a fan of Mozilla either, but that's irrelevant since I pick my software based on what it does, not based on the management of the company that builds it.
Actually, I consider Brave the best (or the least bed...) browser on the market. Period. The fact that it isn't made by Mozilla is a plus for me.
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He invented JavaScript, so definitely don't use that either. For real. JavaScript sucks.
Does he run/have power over JavaScript right now?
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I will give you the RAM and SSD capacities are atrociously priced. USBC is perfectly acceptable for the people apple is targeting. Nobody is trying to use a MacBook as a server. Ignore the âproâ name in any consumer electronic device. It has nothing to do with anything other than marketing, and thatâs not exclusive to apple. Apple did give up on the 8GB bullshit already though.
You need to take a closer look at how the M-series chips work and why they work they way they do. There are design considerations in how PC does things and Apple does things and they are not 1 to 1. What makes sense the PC world doesnât always make sense int he Mac world.
Apple does a lot of anti-consumer bullshit which we should absolutely club them over the head for, but many of the things they pulled off with the M-series Macs were NOT possible with traditional PC methodologies. One thingâs for sure though, the hardware performs and it does so with very little energy. Itâs so great a difference the entire industry is changing course to try to outdo Apple. They eventually will too, but they havenât yet. They are just cheaper.
USBC is perfectly acceptable for the people apple is targeting.
It's literally called a "pro", who do you think they're targeting?
Ignore the âproâ name in any consumer electronic device.
I do, thanks to Apple. It doesn't make it any less shameful or ridiculous.
You need to take a closer look at how the M-series chips work and why they work they way they do
You're going to have to elaborate because I already have and I don't understand what bearing that has on this discussion.
Apple does a lot of anti-consumer bullshit which we should absolutely club them over the head for,
You shouldn't "club them over the head", you should just stop buying their trash. That's literally the only thing that will work.
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Does he run/have power over JavaScript right now?
No, not directly. Not any more than your average tech leader who goes to conferences and discusses it.
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No, not directly. Not any more than your average tech leader who goes to conferences and discusses it.
Oh wait hey you're on my instance. Cool! We're such small one lol
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I've used this for years and have never interacted with any crypto feature
It's okay, it's never too late to switch.
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"feature" đ€ź
Truffle Shuffle đ€ź
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What's amazing is they proved themselves wrong in their own post, thinking they proved themselves right. It's actually impressive.
You don't see it everyday that's for sure.
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Iâm in a similar boat, windows for work, linux for personal.
But since Iâm freelance, itâs annoying juggling 2 computers. Just waiting for a single app to either work in wine or get a Linux port.
My home PC is purely for personal entertainment, so less of an issue, but there's little to no Linux support for my simrig hardware.
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USBC is perfectly acceptable for the people apple is targeting.
It's literally called a "pro", who do you think they're targeting?
Ignore the âproâ name in any consumer electronic device.
I do, thanks to Apple. It doesn't make it any less shameful or ridiculous.
You need to take a closer look at how the M-series chips work and why they work they way they do
You're going to have to elaborate because I already have and I don't understand what bearing that has on this discussion.
Apple does a lot of anti-consumer bullshit which we should absolutely club them over the head for,
You shouldn't "club them over the head", you should just stop buying their trash. That's literally the only thing that will work.
Daves garage actually had a good video on the shared memory architecture recently that gives some insights on why apple designed this way they did. Donât dismiss âdifferentâ as âtrash.â You sound like an idiot when you do and it makes it difficult for adults to take you seriously. PC and Mac are designed with different goals in mind, so they tend to make different choices in their engineering, and you arenât going to like every decision either side makes.
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The dev behind Brave isn't part of Brave anymore.
Did you even read the text you shared? It just says he left mozilla.
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What does that have to do with the browser? Last I checked, browsers aren't transphobic.
You do you, but I personally refuse to make product choices based on the person who makes it. Brave is the least bad chromium browser, so I use it as a backup to my main Gecko-based browser. I'm not a fan of Mozilla either, but that's irrelevant since I pick my software based on what it does, not based on the management of the company that builds it.
Brave is the least bad chromium browser
It's pretty sleazy. Ungoogled Chromium or Vivaldi are probably less sleazy, if at all.
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Interestingly, the percent of Windows goes down if you look at just the United States, where it's only 63% of OSes. And it also goes down similarly when you set it to the UK, or North America, or almost any other region. But it goes up to around 73% when you limit it to Europe or Asia. Weird, why is it higher in those areas?
(Click "edit chart" to pick a different region)
Desktop Operating System Market Share United States Of America | Statcounter Global Stats
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Because it's mainly a measure of how much people use Macs. Apple products were always significantly more popular and "hype" in the Anglo world than anywhere else. 5,5% global vs 16% in USA, for example
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Very brave of them.
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Because it's mainly a measure of how much people use Macs. Apple products were always significantly more popular and "hype" in the Anglo world than anywhere else. 5,5% global vs 16% in USA, for example
Interesting hypothesis
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What a title. Made me think installing the browser blocked the feature machine-wide.
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Interesting hypothesis
Unless you're tech-savvy and actively change your OS, people just use whatever is shipped with their computer and, yea, Apple isn't nearly as popular outside of the English-speaking world as it is within it, at least when it comes to laptops. The share of Linux, and other smaller systems, is probably roughly the same.
