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Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC

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  • O [email protected]

    "I'll support fascism as long as it's convenient for me"

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    No. "I will support a good service and not mingle with politics"

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    • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksM [email protected]

      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. Don’t dismiss “different” as “trash.” 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 aren’t going to like every decision either side makes.

      https://youtu.be/Cn_nKxl8KE4

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      This is not "different" this is "anti consumer non-sense" and you sound like a chud when you recite corporate propaganda.

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      • technohippie@slrpnk.netT [email protected]

        That's the logic of as long as it benefits ME I don't care and I support them no matter what they do. This same logic has been applied to all the shitty things done in history like slavery, war and so forth, and the reason the world is the way it is.

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        Do you know all the personal histories of all the people related to all the services you use?

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          I said “usually”, and I’m talking about mainstream distros.

          Also the original comment says “the whole OS is not ready for the general public”, which is also vague. I don’t expect the “general public” to install Gentoo and suffer from this issue.

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          I said “usually”, and I’m talking about mainstream distros.

          They don't all have that either

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          • M [email protected]

            No. "I will support a good service and not mingle with politics"

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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.

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            • M [email protected]

              Do you know all the personal histories of all the people related to all the services you use?

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              #148

              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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              • the_decryptor@aussie.zoneT [email protected]

                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.

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                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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                • V [email protected]

                  Ah. I see. That’s very informative.

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                  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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                  • R [email protected]

                    yeah, no, i'm not using your shitty browser.

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                    But it’s funded by an unrepentant homophobe! How can you pass on that?!

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                    • moe90@feddit.nlM [email protected]
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                      #152

                      Sometimes bad people do good things.

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                      • H [email protected]

                        I need a better option then. What can yall suggest?

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                        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.

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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?

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                            "Bug" also means "listening device."

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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.

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                            • appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comA [email protected]

                              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?

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                              Honestly not sure. I haven't done a side by side with plain old chromium in years.

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                              • frellwit@lemmy.worldF [email protected]

                                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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                                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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                                • A [email protected]

                                  Delete only the boot partition? Doug kick him off the tour!

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                                  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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                                  • engywuck@lemmy.zipE [email protected]

                                    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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                                    I don't like Mozilla either, but here are my priorities in a web browser:

                                    1. FOSS
                                    2. Privacy tools - includes ad blocking; I'd actually be okay with ads if they didn't track me
                                    3. Promotes open web standards - rendering engine diversity is critical here, I don't want a repeat of the IE era
                                    4. Security
                                    5. 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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                                    • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubB [email protected]

                                      Oh wait hey you're on my instance. Cool! We're such small one lol

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                                      😁 It's an elite club.

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                                      • S [email protected]

                                        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.

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                                        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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