Brendan Eich is Palantir CEO and Jeffrey Epstein associate Peter Thiel's friend and business partner.
Even ignoring the shady/questionable stuff Brave has done on its own wrt to crypto and advertising, you gotta be a special kind of stupid to know about the Thiel connection and believe Brave is a trustworthy browser.
Switch to Fennec, LibreWolf, or any of the dozens of Firefox forks out there.
Is this AI? Wtf am I looking at
That's not even true. If you install an app through adb, the command is adb install <path/to/app.apk>
adb sideload is for installing OTA packages
What is this a solution to? You're going to pay high prices even if you don't buy from Amazon, due to Amazon's illegal price fixing. That's what the OP is about.
Things are at a point where the only solution is in the courts.
Please explain yourself. I'm not going to judge you, I'm genuinely curious where you got this perception of Phil Spencer from?
From my perspective, he was in charge during the fall of Xbox. There may have been a few good decisions he made, like backwards compat or whatever, but on the whole he destroyed Xbox. I don't understand how some people can simultaneously be pissed at all the terrible decisions that company has been making for over a decade while also glazing the guy in charge of making those decisions.
If Xbox wasn't part of the monopolist that is Microsoft, they would've gone out of business after the Xbox One. Instead, as is usually the case for orgs/people like this, they've been able to fail upwards all while dragging the entire gaming industry through the dirt (eg the horrible Activision acquisition, among many others). It's actually incredible how, despite not even needing to worry about competitive pressures, Xbox still failed so badly.
So again, what circumstances have lead you to see Phil Spencer as anything other than an incompetent moron?
Linux isn’t a replacement for Windows. It’s its own thing, with its own issues but also advantages.
Linux isn't a replacement because Linux isn't an operating system. The "battle" isn't between Linux and Windows, it's between Windows and specific distros, like Ubuntu or Fedora. Mainstream Linux will require one of those to up their game when it comes to hardware partnerships and customer/end user support. Doing so will require competing against Microsoft along those same business areas, not just from an engineering perspective.
Unfortunately, I don't think that will be easy. Microsoft is incompetent at a lot of things (incl business most of the time), but they have unlimited money and leverage, and their relationship with the US govt means they're unlikely to see any antitrust scrutiny when they do illegal shit to suppress competitors.
Found the incel
If there are, none have managed to make a strong case for themselves yet. Systemd has proven itself to be a huge boon for sysadmins, especially at scale. These kind of anti-systemd efforts usually come from stubborn old timers who probably aren't even employed in a capacity where they'd have to work with an init system at all (maybe they were fired for having obsolete skills?).
Yes I'm being a dick, but these people are also usually dicks, so fuck em.
While they do not leak memory like crazy, they hog a lot and people accept it.
They do not leak memory at all. Using a lot of memory is not the same as leaking memory. And from a practical perspective, it doesn't really matter if a calculator app on iOS uses a gigabyte or three of RAM, as the amount of multi-tasking a user can do on a phone is severely limited, and the operating system kills background apps when it needs to reclaim memory for the foreground.
The bigger problem are many “smol” programs are written without performance in mind at all
Do you have specific examples of this? The iOS calculator sucks, but it does not have performance problems. People who think every piece of software needs to be hyper-optimized are either unemployed (or should be) as they don't get any work done, or they just don't practice what they preach. IME, it's usually beginners/novices who discovered what a "native" language is, like C++ or Rust, and are going through a phase. None of those people know how to actually optimize a program, haven't even heard of Compiler Explorer, think "MESI" is a soccer player, and probably know more about TUI frameworks than profiling ones.
It depends. Spend enough time on bug trackers and forums for open source software, and you're bound to encounter hostile assholes shitting on devs when they make decisions to drop support for ancient hardware like the OP. It's particularly egregious IMO because they usually are willing and happy to use an ancient build of some proprietary software without complaining, but feel entitled to demand more from open source maintainers for some reason.
If you're doing it for your own fun, not making demands of devs/maintainers, and accepting that you're not going to get support for a lot of software, then it's all good.
Don't knock it till you've tried it. History has shown that a system package manager is a very poor solution for distributing software. Anyone who disagrees has never been involved in shipping and/or supporting software on Linux. Nix tries to solve this one way, immutable distros solve it another (IMO much simpler) way.
You can still install software using a traditional package manager via podman or docker. Toolbox and Distrobox streamline this for the common shell use-case by automatically doing things like mounting your home directory, using host networking, etc so it looks/acts like a regular shell. Anything you install in the container works exactly as it would on the host, except you can completely wreck it without breaking your host (just don't rm -rf your home directory, or anything shared)
Immutability is the future of the Linux desktop.
Do you work for Zed or something? Why are you against this?
If you're just a user, then when (not if) the project fully enshittifies, you'll be happy Gram exists.