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Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser
  • Personal anecdote:

    When I initially decided to drop Chrome, I moved to Brave because - as a chromium-based browser - it supported the same set of extensions I’d grown accustomed to.

    That being said, the crypto stuff weirded me out enough that, once I’d weaned myself off the extensions, I switched to Firefox.

  • Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser
  • Personal anecdote:

    When I initially decided to drop Chrome, I moved to Brave because - as a chromium-based browser - it supported the same set of extensions I’d grown accustomed to.

    That being said, the crypto stuff weirded me out enough that, once I’d weaned myself off the extensions, I switched to Firefox.

  • ‘Incredibly suspicious’: A union is accusing Google of violating labor law by retaliating against workers for organizing
  • Eh, you’re both right.

    You’re both saying the same thing, but your message was sarcastic/cynical and to an extent, self-defeatist.

    I don’t have a horse in this race, but I also observe that comments like the one you made generally result in zero subsequent conversation of the root post’s content.

  • Researchers jailbreak a Tesla to get free in-car feature upgrades
  • Maybe my opinion is dated/anecdotal.

    My belief re: critics comes from early days of Tesla, when the concept of a fast ev was very foreign to most auto journalists. So, most of the reviews were something along the lines of “I wanted to hate this car, but goddamn if it isn’t faster than insert critic’s favorite sports car and way more useful too. I’m converted.”

    Re: people in general, I’m basing it off of people I know who own them. That’s admittedly a very small sample size (~a dozen), but their opinions are the polar opposite of what you’ll find on random Internet forums. There’s definitely selection bias going on in both directions.

    For what it’s worth, I’m very aware of the QA issues and no I don’t own a Tesla myself.

  • Researchers jailbreak a Tesla to get free in-car feature upgrades
  • I’m not defending this practice (it’s gross), but people and critics almost universally love many people and critics who actually own/drive Teslas love them.

    So, you’re kind of mischaracterizing them as “worse than other cars.”

    edit: it’s unsurprising that this comment is downvoted in a thread hellbent on shitting on Tesla. I don’t know what I expected.

  • Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best
  • They moderate rigorously.

    Participating in one of their threads is like attending a university course.

    Most people don’t have the context to actually participate in the discussions, but the quality is on a completely different level.

  • Amazon faces potential break-up as FTC finalizes antitrust lawsuit | The FTC is getting ready for the big one
  • Damn this thread is negative as hell.

    I’m one of the most cynical, pessimistic people I know, but not in here.

    Kinda wish people’s first reaction were “good,” not “yeah right, remember Bell in the 80’s?”

    Maybe I’m naive, but this seems like good news to me. Even if it doesn’t actually result in Amazon being broken up, at least it indicates someone is doing something.

    “Don’t let perfection be the enemy of progress” or something like that.

  • Spotify’s first US price hike for Premium is coming next week
  • I wouldn’t group doordash in with the others.

    They barely provide a service; leach off of restaurants, forcing them to raise their prices to maintain razor thin margins; and lobby for shitty legislation to not pay or give people benefits.

    I agree with the general point, though.

  • DeAndre Hopkins holds out hope another team will enter the mix, increasing his value
  • This seems like kind of a big leap to me.

    He probably has a couple offers in hand and is in no rush to sign. I really doubt he foregoes a salary in the hopes that a top receiver goes down mid season on a team that’s willing to pay up.

    Time will tell I suppose.

  • finally got medicated, part of what got me to finally get around to scheduling a psychiatry
  • Everyone’s different, but for me, it’s a matter of (1) being medicated and (2) making an active effort to do “the thing,” whatever that may be.

    That initial hump doesn’t go away and can actually be worse with medication if you get distracted.

    E.g. my day-to-day is very productive if I make the active choices to get out of bed at hh:mm1, be online for work at hh:mm2, and actually follow through. If I fuck around or am unmotivated (nebulous concept I know), I can easily waste 4 hours doing absolutely nothing at my kitchen table.

    The effort part gets easier with routine, in my experience.

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