Self-host Navidrome. Choose any of the clients that you like. Pirate stuff from big bands, buy stuff from smaller bands.

Cons: You’d have to deal with storage and hosting and access from outside your house e.g. with Tailscale. You’d also have to tag incorrectly tagged songs (surprisingly common issue, sometimes pirates tag stuff better than the bands themselves)

why did you decide to post this without making even the most basic cursory check to see if what you’re posting is even remotely true?

1. they have not failed yet.
2. they have never asked to keep servers up.

have you considered fucking not?

The script in the top post of this thread does a better job, since it actually checks when you have upgraded the affected packages: https://discuss.cachyos.org/t/aur-compromised-1500-packages-affected-20260611/31040

There’s also an even more thorough https://github.com/lenucksi/aur-malware-check

Been using fastmail for ~8 years now. No complaints

It’s not. And its not supposed to be. Its to fund the development of the browser.

“Deal with worse UX or pay us to develop more crap” is not a good way to entice “voluntary” donations. Though I guess they know their audience is full of copium anyway, maybe it is an effective way at least, we’ll see.

Would you like to know or were just just wanting to be contrarian?

Funny you should say that, usually when I check tech threads - somehow you’re always there being downvoted to all hell for writing something edgy in a very pedantic (i.e. obnoxious) way. Including this thread. You could have just listed the damn features twice already when prompted about them, but you’re actively choosing to continue bullshitting as though you’re on twitter and farming for clout. I think I’ll just block you now.

I did not say otherwise.

I think everyone should be held to the same standard. We can yell at Firefox a bit less. We should yell at Brave a lot more.

I don’t know what you’re on about. There is no keylogger and I don’t have any issues with the engine unless it’s some weird ass “chrome experiments” style website which I couldn’t care less about.

Most browsers don’t allow you to easily toggle on and off certain privacy features on a per-site basis

I don’t know what “certain features” are. LibreWolf lets me easily enable WebGL on per-site basis and uBlock could always do that anyway. I don’t need to touch anything else.

Origin is free on Linux.

Yes, and you can also toggle everything off via config. That does not matter, it’s still a scummy move that should be ridiculed. How, exactly, is a dashboard that toggles some settings on or off is worth 60 dollars? It’s not “paying for convenience” it’s a tax on tech incompetency.

No, talking about semicolons and tabs and spaces for the umpteenth time is not how we build real skills, and you shouldn’t waste your time “thinking” about it. You should run a linter that will format it for you and you should choose formatting rules that everyone working on the codebase in the future would be mostly OK with. Splitting hairs about when to insert a semicolon ain’t it.

Yet people keep recommending products by this scummy company and pile on Firefox for slightest missteps.

This is quite literally not how it works. That’s why reviewbombing is a term that exists. Not to mention that both games have won multiple awards and are generally universally acclaimed.

The first one is 83% positive on Steam, second one 92% positive. Who’s “most people” here?

someone will probably make a replacer mod eventually

I played https://www.urbanterror.info/ (kinda like Counter-Strike with more movement tech) and http://sauerbraten.org/ (closer to Quake) a lot back in the day. Both still seem to have some players kicking around. Both free.

If you don’t trust the guy who “literally invented rsync in 1996” to do right by his project which he has been doing quite all right with for the past 28 years, then I don’t know how to help you. I’d like to put forward an insane idea that he might know what he’s doing and is not vibecoding with a blindfold on and a beer in his hand.

yes

You literally can keep everything local, encrypted and air-gapped, without it ever seeing outside world.

OK, but I cannot trust the gov to not make it illegal for the average person to use real encryption (even on one’s own hardware)

A law like that would be unenforceable. Nobody knows what’s running in your closet save for police raiding your house (at which time they would also gain access to your physical photos)

Immich on my self-hosted server at home + backups to https://filen.io/