Cars have garbage software running on even more garbage hardware, Android Auto and Apple Carplay offload the processing to your phone which is orders of magnitude faster

There’s a big chunk of the Linux community that will always want to gatekeep it and push out anything that makes it easier for the layman to use

Which is how they are now

Long press the homescreen, wallpaper and style, themed icons

Let me just write down my appointments on this cartoon old-timey video camera

Yeah these icons are all distinctive

Union busting and child labour and still can’t get prices down. If that’s not a terrible CEO I don’t know what is.

Capitalism fanboys will read these posts and think to themselves “boy I sure am glad we’re not like the soviet union where a small cabal of elite deprived everyone else of a good life for their own benefit”

Brave randomizes the output of fingerprinting techniques like canvas rendering, system fonts, installed devices, etc in a way that makes you look like a real, consistent user providing real data that still allows the site to work, while still changing the output from one session to the next enough that sites can’t tell you’re the same person.

Firefox claims to block all this but if you check their site they explain how it actually works:

Firefox protects users against fingerprinting by blocking all third-party requests to companies that are known to participate in fingerprinting

We’ve partnered with Disconnect to provide this protection. Disconnect maintains a list of companies that participate in cross-site tracking, as well a list as those that fingerprint users.

This does nothing to actually disguise you. It’s the equivalent of putting a paper bag over your head when you think there’s a security camera. You stand out because of the bag and you don’t know where all the cameras are so you’re still being tracked when you don’t know it.

I hate the idea of Brave because Chromium’s dominance will ruin the web but Firefox does not protect us.

I would be more okay with this if Firefox did more to block the tracking techniques that advertisers are currently using. They block third party cookies and compartmentalize social media cookies which is fine but they do almost nothing to stop the more insidious tracking techniques like device fingerprinting.

Mozilla really wants to push me to Brave

It’s perfectly safe to take them at the same time and was the exact advice given to me after having my wisdom teeth extracted. You can even buy medication that has both ingredients, like Excedrin. One is metabolized by the kidneys and the other by the liver.

This combination is actually shown to work better than opiates for dental pain

“Look up what this is later”

It just links to the overall Google privacy policy, in accordance with Play Store rules mandating privacy policy being easily accessible to users.

The calculator app doesn’t request any permissions which you can check in settings

If only there was a building children could attend where they do things like teach how clocks work

Out of curiosity, do you know if these containers also obfuscate browser and device fingerprinting? Separating cookies is important but unless it also blocks fingerprinters (in a different way for each container) the site will instantly know the same person is using both accounts.

The only way for the site to know to not show the pop-up again is ironically by saving that information in a cookie

Even if you turn it off the radio is still powered on and scanning in the background (wifi too), unless you specifically disable that as well. The battery drain is negligible

It’s weaker but Windows is so astonishingly terrible on handhelds that it ends up being a far better experience

Tastes like the smell of pizza

Logitech G devices with the Lightspeed dongle still work with no pairing software (the dongle is pre-paired). You’ll need the G software to change things like DPI though.