At this point there is a pretty solid list of reasons to avoid Brave and use another FOSS privacy focused option.
Personally, everything I've read about Brave makes me trust them even less than Microsoft, and Google.
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Thats fair. I haven't really noticed any of those issues. For my use case of just organizing and streaming my desktop's media library to my TV, its fantastic.
The most infuriating thing about Plex for me was when they shifted to force you to start with their BS streaming service at open. I only used Plex for my personal media collection. So having to jump through a bunch of menus to get to the only thing I want to use in their app was the biggest reason to switch for me. Maybe there is a way to fix that, but I could never find one.
Jellyfin just does your personal media library and opens right up into it when the app starts. Its simpler, faster, and FOSS.
Jellyfin is so much better anyway. I used plex for years and it has steadily enshitified.
I remember what a game changer Trillian was 20 years ago. Having AIM, MSN, and ICQ all in one app was so nice. I have yet to find anything modern like that. I just checked and Trillian still exists but it appears to just be its own stand alone chat app now.
Just wait till the "AI" bubble bursts.
Just a couple fascist corps squabbling over AI slop. I hope they both lose.
You are talking about tankies. Who are so far left they made a lap back to authoritarianism. In no way do they represent most leftists.
That's fair. I usually turn it off for FPS games. But if it's mild, I leave it on for third person games where I am playing as a camera.
I don't mind a bit of lens flare, and I like depth of field in dialog interactions. But motion blur and chromatic aberration can fuck right off.
I have a lot of fond nostalgia for Digg, and Kevin Rose, especially from the Tech TV days.
But reading this article doesn't exactly spark much excitement for me. In the end, it's just another centralized capitalist venture (now with AI slop from the start) that will end up enshitified in the pursuit of shareholder profits.
We are already using the alternative. Lemmy is the way forward for this format.
Nah it's usually a RAM Cummins turbo diesel with an "I'd rather be cummin than stroking" sticker across the back window.