Last time I looked, any other Chromium alternative had me making negative feature tradeoffs.
I may circle back and look again, as it's been a bit since I cut over to Brave.
Have you used those and can vouch for them having inter-device history sync? Cause not having that is a hard blocker for me.
Looks pretty good. I may give it a shot.
Being in beta worries me, and I'll have to investigate if it has cross browser sync, though I assume it does through Google accounts or something.
Doesn't hurt to give it a spin though. Thanks for the rec.
It looks like the first pipelined release was in August, so I'm not surprised I hadn't heard of it, lol.
I'd be happy to switch away the moment someone recommends me a better chromium based option.
Firefox just doesn't work for my use case. I know it's pithy, but their dev tools suck, and the history menu is dogshit. And since my main use case is pulling up recently used pages, that's a huge impediment for me.
I'd switch to vanilla Chromium, but it's (reasonably because of what it is) super feature poor. Not having a good way to device sync on Linux basically makes it a non-starter for me.
So what's my alternative? What browser should I use? It's a genuine question, as I've tried several, and Brave is the only one that's remotely usable for my use case.
Compare it to China then, which does state sponsor.
Or, hell, South Dakota can state sponsor their Patriot Games athletes if they want, to try to give them an edge. Make it a point of state pride or whatever to pull better competitors than a state that's bigger but doesn't care.
Alabama does better at college football nationally (historically) than much bigger states because of a culture difference. The idea that California would outperform them just because they're bigger does not in fact bear out in reality.
Yes, I agree the Trump administration has been disgusting with regards to immigration. Absolutely a stain on American history.
It seems a stretch to tie this to that though.
I'm glad that's not a thing anyone has said in real life then.
Look, no one involved in coming up with this idea tied it to the hunger games, and no one thinks that you'll actually have a "I volunteer as tribute" type thing going. And, not to put to fine a point on it, but "volunteering as tribute" loses a lot of it's negative connotation when it's not literally volunteering to go die in a gladiator pit.
Trump has done innumerable things to be upset about. We don't need to make up fake rage bait. Just look at the actual bad things he's doing.
I mean, "the Nazis glorified youth sports" feels like an empty argument to me. Hitler liked dogs. That doesn't make me morally obligated to hate dogs.
And yeah, Trump has abhorrent policies in other areas that could taint this. That doesn't mean this idea in particular is bad.
I mean, you could say the same about the Olympics. There's no way a small country like Jamaica could possibly beat a huge country like the US.
But sometimes they do. That's what makes it so exciting.
And what are you on about a 50 lane track? Does the Olympics have a 200 lane track for all the countries? You do it in heats. Have you ever watched a track and field event? And practically every state has a facility that would support a track and field event with around 120 people. That's not absurdly large.
I assume it'd general track and field, though it's a little odd if you just have 2 competitors per state to do all the events. Though I think that actually makes it a little more interesting. Kind of triathalon-y.
I don't think this is as hard to organize as you seem to think it is. Yes, it requires coordination and stuff, and is more than just a snap of the fingers, but if you assigned a qualified and well funded planning group to it, I'm confident you could get it put together by summer.
I mean, I assume that the states would be able to nominate their competitors themselves.
I think this sounds fun? Would make for a fun "state pride" thing and would be fun to watch. Kind of like a mini Olympics.
Calling it "the hunger games without the killing," is a lot like saying "the Boston Marathon bombing but without the bomb." Just a fairly normal athletic event.
I don't understand why people are up in arms over this. Is it maybe a silly thing for the president to be pushing for? Sure. But I'd rather him work on this than almost anything else he's prone to work on.
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Is it accurate?
I do think that any time you hire an intern, the only thing you can judge them on is vibes.
I used to be in charge of an intern program, and the thing is that you can't really select based on experience or anything, because they don't really have that. Instead, you end up asking a bunch of personality questions and trying to get a feel for if they'd be a good fit on your team.
Now, do I think "answers the phone" is a good test of that? Probably not. But then again, we used to ask people if they'd rather be a blade of grass or a doorknob, just to see what they'd say.
I guess my point is, if this was for a "real job," I'd be a little more judgy, but for an internship, I've selected people based on wilder things than "did they answer the phone."
Never? Rockefeller literally bailed the entire US government out of debt.
I'll not put too fine a point on it and assume you meant "in the modern US," as it's trivial to point out how many times we've had a greater wealth disparity historically and globally.
But even then, we used to literally have company towns that amounted to debtors prisons and any attempts to organize were met with firebombings.
It's not good now for sure, but it's far from the worst it's ever been.
Before I even looked I said, "I bet it's Russell Moore." He's been vocally anti-Trump since before his first term. Even got fired from the SBC ERLC for it.
So he's been there the whole time, basically. This isn't a reversal for him.
Edit: I hadn't actually read the article yet. That quote is David Brody. I just assumed the whole article would be about Russell Moore.
Hooking a whole desktop to a TV is intrusive with most desktop form factors.
Most people who want a console don't care about upgradability or repairability, and that's certainly not the main thing that "makes PCs so great."
Most people gaming on PC are equally "trapped in an ecosystem." This has a desktop mode if need be, but hardly anyone does games outside of Steam.
"It has Linux but most users won't notice or care" is a double positive.
"It won't push the player base, only the devs" is a double positive.
The point of a console isn't to make people into more technical proponents of open source projects. It's to play games.
And if it's competing in the console market, especially for people who aren't terribly interested in the "Call of Duty" type AAA titles of today, it seems like a perfect fit.
Oh, I was just quoting: https://youtu.be/xC03hmS1Brk?t=40
Guns don't kill people
☝️ Uh uh ☝️
Gunn kills people
With guns
In addition to what everyone else said, property damage is a big part of it as well.
Let's say you run into a building and knock out a load bearing wall. Or plough through a business or government office. It's not impossible to rack up a couple million in damages if you crash bad enough.
The biggest thing with auto insurance isn't covering your car, it's covering the cost of whatever you hit sueing you.
Your car may only be worth $3,000, but if you hit a pedestrian and they require a dozen surgeries and are wheelchair bound for life, you bet you're ass you're getting sued for a few million in medical costs.
In a reasonable country, those medical costs would be free, but since they're not you need some sort of protection against once accident bankrupting you in civil suits.
Sure, notionally. I could also write my own browser from scratch and make it to my exact specifications.
I've lived in "cobble together everything I want using a combination of half a dozen browser extensions and bash scripts" land before, and I'm old enough now to realize that maintaining systems like that is almost never worth the time or effort.
It's worth it if that's your hobby, but I have more interesting projects to work on than getting a baseline Chromium or whatever up to a usable state.
So when there's a 95% answer for my use case, it's a hard sell to get me to switch to an 80% solution where I need to jury rig the last 15% to just break even with the out-of-the-box option.