Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC
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Do you know all the personal histories of all the people related to all the services you use?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Of course that's not possible, the issue here is being aware and not caring and in some cases supporting it for convenience and selfishness.
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Shared memory is different to unified memory, AMD's got an implementation of the later with their "Ryzen AI MAX+" (ugh) systems, does quite well in benchmarks.
It also doesn't hurt that Apple puts the RAM on the SoC and gives it a truckload of bandwidth. DDR5 is about 70GB/s, meanwhile the M4 Max is around 540GB/s.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I didn't know AMD had managed to switch over to unified memory too. Managing that while remaining x86 compatible is quite an achievement!
I think the next big thing will be when storage becomes as fast as ram and they unify that too, getting rid of separate RAM. Working with data directly in place could have massive efficiency boosts. But the industry has been trying to get it that fast for many years and still not succeeded. And once they do, separate SSDs wouldn't be possible, at least not as a primary storage, so it wont be an advance that makes sense for every use case.
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Ah. I see. That’s very informative.
I can install apps well enough, but I'm very techie, the general population isn't gonna be able to do it reasonably
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yeah, no, i'm not using your shitty browser.
But it’s funded by an unrepentant homophobe! How can you pass on that?!
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Sometimes bad people do good things.
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I need a better option then. What can yall suggest?
Thorium.
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Existent**
It's fine as a browser and it does a good job at syncing across devices. Still my chrome based browser of choice.
How mich actual difference (minus the crypto) is there to base-chromium?
Afaik chromium is capable pf being a browser. Does that also have syncing or is it not capable of that? -
"Bug" also means "listening device."
wrote last edited by [email protected]If it was intentional double entendre then I retract my comment, but used in the context of "bugs and features" there's a contextual implication.
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How mich actual difference (minus the crypto) is there to base-chromium?
Afaik chromium is capable pf being a browser. Does that also have syncing or is it not capable of that?Honestly not sure. I haven't done a side by side with plain old chromium in years.
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Brave is the least bad chromium browser
It's pretty sleazy. Ungoogled Chromium or Vivaldi are probably less sleazy, if at all.
The only two there that bother me are the affiliate code thing (reminds me of the Honey drama) and installing extra software without consent. The first was a bad call and probably related with how their ad replacement stuff works (if anything, they should merely axe affiliate links; Firefox has that as an option), and this"solution" to the latter is pretty odd to me:
reinstall the browser without admin rights
Why would a browser need admin rights in the first place? I haven't used Windows in well over a decade, so I don't think that particular one would be an issue for me.
The rest can be grouped as:
- bugs - bug fixes generally don't get prioritized until enough users complain; I would be very picky if I was an at risk person (activist or whatever) and would probably only use Tor browser
- opt-in services
- their marketing department
My options for chromium browsers are:
- something with ineffective ad blocking
- Opera - I used it before it became a chromium browser, then it went downhill; not FOSS
- Brave, with all its warts
Since ad blocking and FOSS are my prerequisites, Brave basically wins by default.
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Delete only the boot partition? Doug kick him off the tour!
I only use Linux and I want Windows to just stay out of my way or it'll pay, listen to what I say.
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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.
I don't like Mozilla either, but here are my priorities in a web browser:
- FOSS
- Privacy tools - includes ad blocking; I'd actually be okay with ads if they didn't track me
- Promotes open web standards - rendering engine diversity is critical here, I don't want a repeat of the IE era
- Security
- Performance
Firefox ticks all of them, and my issues with Mozilla as an org don't really come into play. I use a fork on my phone, but I use Firefox on my laptop and desktop because I trust the binaries coming from my Linux distribution maintainers (part of 4).
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Oh wait hey you're on my instance. Cool! We're such small one lol
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They haven't blocked the windows feature, they're using DRM to interfere with it. Microsoft could easily change how the DRM works any time they want, rendering all these hacks useless.
Exactly, how do you even fight with the OS except just making it bit hard for them lol. You have to tell the OS what pixels to put in the screen, there's literally no way you can hide things from the OS if they want to know.
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Linux blocks that "feature" too...
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If fascism was a passive philosophy that didn't hurt anyone then you might have a point. But as you can see recently it's extremely dangerous and ruins lives.
You may not want to mingle with politics, but it doesn't have the same view.
Yep, everything is politics whether we like it or not.
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Of course that's not possible, the issue here is being aware and not caring and in some cases supporting it for convenience and selfishness.
How does me using brave browser supports fascism?
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If it was intentional double entendre then I retract my comment, but used in the context of "bugs and features" there's a contextual implication.
It was wordplay, yes.
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It was wordplay, yes.
I retract.
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I still have literally thousands of clients that use Windows and want support... for these kinds of things. Firefox has recently stopped working on a few things and Brave works better for me right now. It's not convenience when FF doesn't work...
But I digress, Win 11 here and Brave. My choices, for lots of reasons. Lots of linux boxes as well though. Each to their own and all that
