I totally understand the desire to own physical media and agree that WB is doing the right thing here, but optical media is terrible means of preserving media. If your discs are suffering from disc rot, you really shouldn't lose sleep over making or "sourcing" your own local digital copies.

In the same boat. It's been very freeing

I use fedilab, in part because it's the best app for peertube that I've found. But it's got great support for Mastodon and Pixelfed as well.

My one year of German from high school translated that into "I am (Joe) Biden"

You make yourself a danger to officers

Hell yeah

I mean, I fault Mozilla for that, and a lot of other things especially in light of recent developments. But Brave still fosters user dependency on a google project, ceding browser engine market dominance toward google. I might be bale to give Brave a pass for its faults if it was making strong moves in creating a truly free and open internet, but as-is they've basically taken an open-source project, applied their own branding, and baked in functionality that on a better engine can be replicated with more granular control by extensions.

Yeah but i don't want to recommend a browser to someone just for them to have some cryptocurrency, AI chatbot, and Ad reward program shoved in their face.

And then telling them that they Can get rid of it, they just have to go make some file they don't understand in a location on their hard drive they've never been to.

Because being real, if Brave's bloat was bundled into an antivirus software, it would rightfully raise red flags for anyone with standard computer literacy.

A 3d printer comes to mind

Man too bad all I've got to eat is this cyanide. Those cookies over there? Don't you know how unhealthy those are?

Something something all you have is a hammer