This summary seemed pretty good though.

Doing the lord’s work, thank you.

Yeah, I realise a comment like this is mostly unhelpful (switching distros is a pain, of course - even just the hassle of moving over your data), but it does remind me how glad I am that I did it at some point. Painless upgrades are amazing.

(That said, it’s not entirely risk-free; although I never got an unworkable system, at some point upgrades were blocked until I did some manual work. Universal Blue had similar issues.)

Especially if it’s just another alpha release. They could have 20 more of those, for all I know.

Ah, gotcha.

Gnome itself is actually not bad. It has a full screen menu and arrangeable application icons and folders, but I cannot group them the way I want, let alone resize them.

I don’t think resizing is an option, but isn’t it possible to drag one app’s icon on top of another app’s icon to create a group?

Now there’s a meme I haven’t seen in a while.

And most old Flash content is basically gone now.

And where did you find that they will do that?

You tell me how it will result in it happening. Who even has the power to force people to learn Rust?

Then just not use it? You could even ask for a refund, I’m sure they’ll give it to you.

That person in the audience was really grinding my gears. Just let the folks you’re talking to answer you; no need to keep going on your diatribe when it’s based on a false assumption and waste the whole room’s time.

This sounds exactly like the type of nontechnical nonsense they’re complaining about: attacking a strawman (“they’re trying to prevent people from refactoring C code and making them rewrite everything in the current fancy language”) even after explicitly calling out that that was not going to happen (“and to reiterate, no one is trying force anyone else to learn Rust nor prevent refactorings of C code”).

It’s also not clear how long they’d be able to keep that up anyway, given… https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/28/brave-lays-off-27-employees/

Desktop web apps are being looked at though, so there’s that!

They’ve committed to not changing any displayed text (“strings”), so that translators have time to translate everything.

Advertisers can already easily get this data without this setting, and any measures you take to block ads also by definition affect this setting.

Meanwhile, if this works and becomes widely available, regulators will be able to take measures against user surveillance without having to succumb to the ad industry’s argument that they won’t know whether their ads work.

And yes, this provides data to advertisers, but it’s data about their ads, not about users.

That’s the thing. It would be pretty much fine if they’d said that you’re supporting the development of the mobile software ecosystem, and get a toy device to play with, but their marketing can be pretty misleading.

The question, of course, is whether it would work any other way. But it still leaves a bit of a sour taste in my mouth.

(Then again, they’re expensive enough that I hope anyone buying them has done enough research beforehand to know what things are really like, or doesn’t care about the money that much.)

That one apparently is legit: https://floss.social/@sonny/111966204515001155

Then why do you think most business are already writing a separate Android app rather than just optimising their mobile website?

But “make the mobile version not take up as much screen-space” is not as simple as simply zooming out and just hiding some icon labels. And just the fact that people interact by touch rather than with a mouse and keyboard is already a major adjustment.

Anyway, I’ll leave it at this, since I feel like there’s not much to gain here for me from the discussion anymore :) Cheers!