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[–] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 79 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world -3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

can't we make them publicly account for their decision to choose an anti LGBTQ+ browser?

[–] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Rather more of a crpyto bro shit browser with lack of privacy implementations and bad history. No different than Apple saying they love Privacy

[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago

they disabled that by configuration and they still thought it was the best browser, odd

[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

you have to look a long way back in time to find out, oddly enough as if you had a vendetta against a certain person

[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why are you talking in riddles

[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

do you like Brave browser?

[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Never used it, but given my aversion to crypto, no.

[–] finalaccountforreal@lemm.ee 58 points 2 weeks ago

First I hear about them, and since Brave is the default browser I know I don't want to know more. Smooth!

[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 49 points 2 weeks ago
[–] yesman@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] data1701d@startrek.website 8 points 2 weeks ago

Stares in Debian Testing/Sid.

[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

well, at least they provided some rationale for switching browsers. still, it's good thing we have bazzite.

[–] Matty_r@programming.dev 21 points 2 weeks ago

Damn, not sure I'm a fan of any of this. I left Arch because I didn't want to be on Rolling release any more, and really liked what Nobara was offering for the out of the box experience.

Brave is super sketchy, and not sure about putting in yet another thing to handle updates (replacing plasma-discover and gnome-software).

I'm wondering if its worth forking it to remove some of these changes.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago

At least they disable the monetization features of Brave but making stupid Google Meet such a hard requirement to compromise of all ethics? WTF?

[–] tooLikeTheNope@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 weeks ago

Brave? Yeah...nope

[–] Vitaly@feddit.uk 17 points 2 weeks ago

Don't know about brave, but rolling release is much better

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 11 points 2 weeks ago

The rolling release thing isn't for me, but I get why that model might appeal. Brave, though? Why?

[–] stormio@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Does the rolling release model mean Nobara is based on Fedora Rawhide now?

Edit: I found the answer from the developer on Reddit.

the VERSION updates are rolling. (N41->N42->N43+)

nothing is changing in the update process. we still do a monthly snapshot of fedora and provide that to users. we are -not- using rawhide.

the "rolling" simply means when its time to go 42->43 you'll receive those updates as standard package updates without needing to do any specific commands/changes.

[–] qweertz@programming.dev 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The partial unannounced update broke my installation, which is why I finally ditched Nobara for Bluefin

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 5 points 2 weeks ago

I'll definitely uninstall brave but it makes sense why they chose it. People crying over it are being dumb. Hopefully when Firefox fixes its crashing issue it can go back to the default.

[–] Kristof12@lemmy.ml -4 points 2 weeks ago

Rolling release? Not expecting this lol noice with brave by default