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Then you haven't been listening, because it's been widely discussed and well publicised. My personal two favourite piece on Brave are these... 2023: « Stop using Brave Browser Seriously. Corbin Davenport 07 Aug 2023 » https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/ And from a couple of years later, with a very apt URL... 2025: « Why I recommend against Brave Luca Bramè March 24, 2025 » https://thelibre.news/no-really-dont-use-brave/

> If you read down in the thread, there's a good discussion about how this simply isn't true about Mozilla. Yeah, I'm not searching 500 posts for this.. > Of the fads Christophe Henry mentioned top of thread Who is Christophe Henry? Is this some namecalling? > Mozilla flat out didn't invest any resources in some of them, That doesn't make it better, being somewhat selective is also normal. Most companies don't have the resources to follow literally every fad. > So the feeling about Mozilla being tech-ADHD comes more from folks reading their social media posts than the people who work there or watch the codebase. That's the point. Communication of Mozilla is so awful, their whole public picture is how wasteful they are with money, throwing it at pointless dead on arrival-projects. Here are two lists with them [1], [2], this is not a small number of failed projects. They are not even including the small changes in the browser itself. [1] https://www.spacebar.news/the-mozilla-graveyard/ [2] https://killedbymozilla.com/

I wonder if Linux/ARM (or specifically System76) has figured out how to do hybrid sleep-suspend out of the box. “closed laptop” performance in AMD/Intel land seems to have regressed substantially in the last 15 years; Microsoft is even encouraging vendors to drop support for regular S3 sleep https://www.spacebar.news/windows-pc-sleep-broken/ and my Steam Deck AMD machine makes no attempt to hibernate and will drain the battery in sleep in about a day and a half. I personally had an okay time with Linux sleep in 2019 but for the life of me couldn’t get sleep-to-hibernate working and a quick google does not instill confidence in the current state of the world here. At least the process to set it up in 2024 is more straightforward on PopOS compared to my 2019 Ubuntu experience https://www.adlrocha.com/til/2024-02-13-linux-hibernate/ Power management is the one area Apple’s nanny state is a substantial advantage. Android took a long time to get good at battery compared to iOS (on my Nexus in 2013 I remember doing a LOT of fiddling to make sure random apps weren’t waking the CPU too much) but it seems great today. Hopefully mainline Linux laptops get there too. Until then I’ll keep updating my mac-setup.sh script with ever more work-arounds…

There are some good reasons to consider not using Brave: https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/

Interesting link from this article https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-opera-browser/

Developers that fill those informations.. So then saying over there that they do not collect does not mean they are not collecting something.. Also, Brave has already broken trust multiple times.. https://www.coindesk.com/business/2020/06/08/brave-browsers-affiliate-… https://www.searchenginejournal.com/brave-browser-under-fire-for-alleg… https://www.xda-developers.com/brave-browser-installs-vpn-windows/ https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/ I do not trust Brave in a million years and would never replace Firefox with it.. Also, i bet that most people do not even know or look at those privacy information at the store.. although i agree they should..

That, and the predatory short-term loans part of their business. https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-opera-browser/

It's foolish to trust Brave. https://www.spacebar.news/p/stop-using-brave-browser

The ISA is, according to people far more knowledgable than myself [0], not a significant factor in regards to performance and/or power efficiency on modern CPUs. That's also why both AMD and Intel haven't done a bad job keeping up with Apple on the efficiency front, AMD since the 4x00u series and Intel now with Luna Lake. Nowadays, the OS not having downright broken sleep [1] is what keeps Macbooks slightly ahead, though then again, MacOS makes up for that with other bugs. Cause of that, if one is willing and able to go for a well supported Linux distro, they can in my experience get good battery life regardless of ISA. Essentially, whether on a Macbook with Asahi or a modern x86 notebook with either Linux or an aggressively managed/fixed Windows install, you'll do well. Personally lack the skill for the latter though, my Surface remains scolding hot whilst sleeping even after a fresh install, but c'est la vie... [0] https://chipsandcheese.com/2021/07/13/arm-or-x86-isa-doesnt-matter/ [1] https://www.spacebar.news/windows-pc-sleep-broken/