• wigsinator@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1502·
    2 years ago

    Brave being listed alongside Firefox

    Bestie Brave is literally just Chromium again. Not to mention the fact that their CEO is someone who got ousted from Firefox for being a tremendous bigot. It’s not a better alternative to Chrome, it’s just the same thing again. It you must use a chromium browser, use ungoogled.

    • Y2K38@lemmy.oneEnglish
      181·
      2 years ago

      I personally use Librewolf. Its just a hardened version of Firefox so you don’t have to do it yourself.

      • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 years ago

        I tried it but didn’t care to find out if there was a way to stop it from deleting all my tabs and logins, and I’m not relogging into everything just because I needed to close my browser.

        • Y2K38@lemmy.oneEnglish
          41·
          2 years ago

          It doesn’t delete your stuff it just doesn’t save your history and cookies as a save browser should do. For me that little inconvenience is fine because I get a big privacy benefit out of it IMO.

        • Ádám@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          You can set exceptions to the cookie deletion in the security settings. I personally have everything I use frequently (invidious and stuff) to keep the login cookies. Or you can just completely disable that feature.

    • shourtugal@lemmy.ml
      31·
      2 years ago

      I think the vanilla Brave Settings are better than Vanilla Firefox. Though something like Firefox with a custom user.js or Librewolf is a lot better than Brave

  • LennethAegis@kbin.social
    1123·
    2 years ago

    I fall under Tech Conservative mostly, but I would like to edit the last 2 points to this for myself:

    “Believe every publicly traded company is inherently evil”
    “Doesn’t morally support big tech, but uses some anyway”

  • Yote.zipEnglish
    962·
    2 years ago

    Grats on Arch Linux install, S-tier distro for what it attempts to accomplish.

    It feels like there needs to be a category in between conservative and paranoid. I’m probably 90% of the way over to tech paranoid but using Tor Browser and Tails is a little much.

    • KindredAffiliate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      2 years ago

      Grats on Arch Linux install, S-tier distro for what it attempts to accomplish.

      For some reason, the best word to describe it in my mind is “fun”. Just fun to learn and play with, fun to install, fun to configure and customize, and fun to daily drive. Definitely not fun when a random package update breaks your system (looking at you grub), but that hardly ever happens anymore provided you don’t enable the testing repo.

      Also pacman is the fastest package manager I’ve ever used.

      • Yote.zipEnglish
        11·
        2 years ago

        Apt is very quick as well (with the nala frontend), no complaints there. I’ve been running Arch for the past 5 years and recently switched to Debian Stable. The “grub event” was certainly notable, but otherwise I don’t think Arch is really that unstable or gimmicky. Arch itself is a very solid and dependable platform - the reason I decided to move is because I really don’t need the bleeding edge packages from other projects anymore. With Flatpaks and all the rest of the /home-based package managers that are around now, I can keep a stable base system and install a couple bleeding edge packages that I want, instead of being forced to run my entire system as bleeding edge (do my printer drivers really need to make me bleed?).

        Overall, I’d say the Arch experience is as high quality as the Debian experience, they just target different usecases. Neither of them is better, it’s just up to the user how bloody they want their system to be.

          • SgtThunderC_nt@lemmy.zipEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            I just lost a raid 0 array for what seems like no reason, all I even had to do was reformat and both drives are working again. It’s fortunate I only use them for my steam library.

            That being said I have an Ubuntu machine that’s been running 4 drives in RAID 5 for like 5 years so… Your mileage may vary?

      • SpicyTofuSoup@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Somehow mkinitcpio broke my initramfs the other day when I installed the latest microcode updates. Took me like an hour to debug the issue and boot from the fallback 😑. That’s the first time I’ve had an issue like that though. I’ve been using arch for a few years now.

    • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
      91·
      2 years ago

      Also the middle should be called Tech Centrist or Tech Social Democrat, daring to use the projects from philosophical minorities is not conservative at all.

      • Corgana@startrek.website
        41·
        2 years ago

        Conservatives are always trying to make themselves seem “cool and different” like the middle guy in the meme. Being anticonsumerist, pro-privacy and pro individual liberty is far from actual conservative policy goals but they obviously have to pretend otherwise.

        • a_statistician@lemmy.ml
          5·
          2 years ago

          Words can have multiple meanings - it might be best to find one that doesn’t have the same baggage that conservative has, such as “risk-averse”

        • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
          4·
          2 years ago

          Not extreme is rather moderate. Conservative estimate means there’s a tendency to not change what was estimated in the past. Moderate would mean that a small change would be accepted.

  • bloodfart@lemmy.mlEnglish
    677·
    2 years ago

    🏳️‍⚧️ Congratulations on coming out and I wish you a successful transition. 🏳️‍⚧️

  • dsemy@lemm.eeEnglish
    58·
    2 years ago

    For fellow paranoids:

    Mullvad browser is a fairly new Firefox fork which aims to reduce fingerprinting potential while also having sane (paranoid) defaults. Developed with the Tor project. Basically the Tor browser but without connecting to the Tor network. Passes coveryourtracks.eff.org.

    SimpleX Chat is a fairly new privacy oriented IM platform which seems to address many issues current ones have. Development is very active. E2E, video and voice calls, decentralized, doesn’t have user ID of any kind.

      • toastal@lemmy.mlEnglish
        6·
        2 years ago

        Tor/Mullvad are better for anonymity use cases, but when you go tweaking it (settings, add-ons) you are no longer blending in with the pack. LibreWolf suits a more privacy-oriented use case I think since it’s not aiming to mimic Tor, but just have privacy settings mostly maxed out & you opt into everything you are comfortable with, such as cookies—whereas base Fx you have to opt into more privacy.

      • dsemy@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Honestly, I can’t remember specifics but I read some bad stuff about Librewolf a few months ago (nothing nefarious, just seems the developers didn’t necessarily really know what they were doing and made some weird design choices).

        I trust the Tor project somewhat, so I tend to trust Mullvad browser more.

        Edit: here’s some good information: https://github.com/mullvad/mullvad-browser/issues/1

      • dsemy@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Honestly, I can’t remember specifics but I read some bad stuff about Librewolf a few months ago (nothing nefarious, just seems the developers didn’t necessarily really know what they were doing and made some weird design choices).

        I trust the Tor project somewhat, so I tend to trust Mullvad browser more.

  • _danny@lemmy.mlEnglish
    636·
    2 years ago

    What does MKBHD have to do with this? He’s just a tech reviewer who kinda fits between tech normie and tech conservative