You put that a bit abrasively, but yeah.

Don’t forget human civilization’s light horizon being a tiny blip, even within our own galaxy. We have about 24,000 years until the galactic core sees Jesus.

No Linux client for that either, though it seems to be planned.

Eh. Firefox is fine.

The only FF fork I’ve ever used for some time is Cachy Browser, as it shipped with my distro and was ostensibly amore optimized. But even they depreciated it in lieu of vanilla Firefox.

And Firefox gets faster security patches anyway.

I’m more interested in Chrome forks because it’s Google spyware. And, as much as I don’t like it, I find Chromium-based browsers to be faster. That doesn’t matter so much on desktop, but the difference is pretty dramatic on Android.

Ungoogled Chromium does not support full uBlock Origin. Last I checked, it wont auto-update itself on Windows without a 3rd party tool, and I remember it having some other “quirks” from the stuff it strips out. The delay for security updates seems pretty minimal, too.

And personally, I like the bangs feature, now that I’m using Orion on iOS anyway.

But its based on ungoogled-chromium, so if you prefer to use upstream, that makes a lot of sense. Helium’s main pitch seems to be an “easier to install” ungoogled chromium anyway.

Orion syncs cross platform, DuckDuckGo does as well. And I believe you can sync with extensions.

Orion is mobile. So is Cromite.

DDG is pretty good too. I like its approach, with a UI that encourages whitelisting sites.

To those asking “which browser other than Firefox”

https://helium.computer/

It’s fantastic. It’s Chrome, stripped of junk, with full (not lite) Ublock Origin natively supported and shipped. What more could you want?

And it can coexist alongside Firefox.

Cromite is also great, but its antifingerprinting is so hardcore it breaks some sites. That’s perfect for shopping/private browsing, but a bit much for daily driving unless tracking resistance is your #1 priority.

On iOS and OSX, Orion (from Kagi) is sublime. It’s Safari based (which you want for Apple stuff), but heavily modified with a native blocker, and supports extensions if you really need them. There aren’t many Safari “forks” like it.

I say this because I’ve been through a gauntlet of trying a bunch. Bromite, ungoogled chromium, waterfox, pale moon, Thorium, Vivaldi, all sorts of iOS apps and Firefox/Chromium forks. And these feel like endgame to me. Helium is just about perfect (as long as its development isn’t dropped), and Orion is close aside from some UI quirks.

Orion is great.

So is DuckDuckGo.

It would depends on how much infrastructure they can pass to receive them.

Ideally it would be “unlimited.”

Immigration is just good for the US economy because they tend to skew young and (to be blunt) low wage when they get here, and just look at how far immigrants go here. In most countries, it’s supposed to be a cornerstone of US culture, and the country is freaking huge.

Integration? America was originally a hodgepodge of homesteads; that’s the idea.

The limiting factor is housing, schooling, occupation, just having somewhere for them to go and live.

TL;DR: As many as possible as long as they aren’t forced into poverty.

…Hence, I find it incredible that we, as a country, collectively decided to squander that massive strategic advantage for… what?

It just doesn’t make any sense, even if you set morality aside. Or truly believe in the propaganda that they’re responsible for most crime, which is nonsense.

Go to the Arctic or Antarctic in their respective summers, and it’s always day. And you can time the flight between to stay in day.

Alternatively, rocket to the L1 Lagrange point between the Earth and Sun and just stay there. The orbit is metastable, so that’s practical.

Flying in a circle around the Earth in the vicinity of the Arctic or Antarctic circles (cutting through Norway, Finland such) would require flying at about the Concorde’s top speed.

Yeah, Cromite is definitely a “second browser” to keep around for shopping and such, not my primary one. Its opinionated development is exactly why is so good in that niche, but it also breaks a few sites and features.

In that spirit… why only use only one browser? You can keep Brave installed.

Also, in addition to what others said, Brave has been involved in some shady stuff like ad substitution/injection. See:

https://thelibre.news/no-really-dont-use-brave/

Similarly enough, Brendan Eich’s feed also contains some worrying content, in my opinion. Ranging from, again, retweeting right-wing activists, to weird Republican propaganda. He claims to be independent and not a Republican, but this does not make me any less worried about the type of ideas he follows.

But yeah, if you are a big fan of AI and crypto, and are okay with having advertisements in the user interface out of the box, are okay with past attempts to steal money from websites and collect donations towards people who wouldn’t necessarily even receive it, plus you can put up with occasional privacy mistakes… use Brave!

Why use Brave when you can use Helium or Cromite?

Helium has full (not lite) ublock origin built in, and no junk. That’s the gold standard of Adblock.

Cromite has rather obsessive antifingerprinting, making it extremely difficult to track you compared to Brave.

Basically, people use Brave because it’s got SEO; it’s the first result when people type in “Adblock browser” unfortunately.

The real answer is because it’s default.

People use what’s the default. It’s that simple. Any knowledge of how images are encoded is kind of unnecessary information for most folks.

There are a ton of technical and usage-based arguments around image formats, and political complications, but ultimately jpeg’s eternal dominance comes down to people using their app defaults, and wanting stuff to just work. And PNGs are big enough to create technical issues or incompatibilities, sometimes.

There is no movie in Ba Sing Se.

Here, we are safe. Here, we are free.

When I migrate from this account, it will be to piefed. It just seems to be the future and have more features.

It’s got attention from hosters too. FYI there is a lemmy.world piefed instance now.

This happens to any fandom over time. The folks engaged enough to stick around so long tend to obsess over whatever the “original” is. They peel apart every little blemish of a new release under a microscope, before it comes out.

Toxicity breeds.

Compared to old forums, I think the structure of places like Reddit/Discord inflames it. It’s cultish.

So do YouTubers and such, as video algorithms likes punchy ragebait more than (say) nerdy lore analysis.

I first experienced this in the Avatar community, and seeing so much hate breed makes me sad.

See: the Korra/NATLA hate videos. The Reddit groupthink that parrots the same points, including straight up misinformation. Breathless worship of ATLA these days, waning interest in deeper lore like the novels and longfics. Even the idea of an upscale/touch up is shot down, because the video artifacts in the original are “perfect.”

And a lot of that history is archived. For instance, read through the comments in the Korra episode premiere threads, and it’s nothing like the fandom now.

But the pattern seems to be everywhere.

And I think it’s partially a mirage. I suspect a lot of fans (like me) are just not engaged with fandom social media. And many more are “dormant” and will come back whenever something big and new drops.

But with sports clubs, that a feature, not a bug.

https://github.com/vladmandic/sdnext

• For LLM hosting, ik_llama.cpp. You can really gigantic models at acceptable speeds with its hybrid CPU/GPU focus, at higher quality/speed than mainline llama.cpp, and it has several built in UIs.

• LanguageTool, for self run grammar/spelling/style checking.