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Comment on Brave Origin (Nightly), a paid, bloat-free version of Brave in ~tech
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Comment on Brave Origin (Nightly), a paid, bloat-free version of Brave in ~tech
whs Link ParentThey can't really fix the first one, but Origin directly address the second issue.They can't really fix the first one, but Origin directly address the second issue.
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Comment on Brave Origin (Nightly), a paid, bloat-free version of Brave in ~tech
whs LinkAt the start of the year, Brave announced that they're looking to make Brave Origin available. It'll be Brave, except with all the crapware features removed. Brave Origin now have launched in the...At the start of the year, Brave announced that they're looking to make Brave Origin available. It'll be Brave, except with all the crapware features removed.
Brave Origin now have launched in the nightly version, with the release version scheduled to launch in early June. It has one-time purchase price of $60, with 10 activation limit that they have said you can contact support to reset. (The activation system is not tied to an account, so they need to limit it to prevent abuse)
Alternatively, Linux users can activate Brave Origin for free and users can use group policies to disable features in the same way Origin did it.
Origin will have two variants:
- Standalone: Separate installer. Bloatware features are permanently compiled out (not available on mobile)
- Upgrade: Activate the Origin key in your existing Brave to get a page that you can selectively disable bloatware, with all features disabled by default and future features will be opt-in. (available on all platforms)
The features disabled by Origin currently are: Telemetry, Leo, News, Playlist (iOS), Rewards, Speedreader, Talk, Tor, VPN, Wallet, Wayback Machine, Web Discovery Project. Some of those features can already be disabled in the interface, but the menu option will remains. Origin should entirely remove the menu.
I think at some point I've saw on the checkout page that Brave Search Premium is also included, as the browser will block the ads. However, it is not on the page now and current Brave policy is that the default blocking level do not block first party content so sponsored ads in Brave Search still remains.
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Brave Origin (Nightly), a paid, bloat-free version of Brave
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Comment on Framework reveals 13 Pro laptop with 20-hour battery in ~tech
whs LinkI wish they sell it in Thailand. I went to their booth at Computex two years ago, and the answer I got was "you have to get it here while you're in Taiwan". Which is probably not an easy option -...I wish they sell it in Thailand. I went to their booth at Computex two years ago, and the answer I got was "you have to get it here while you're in Taiwan". Which is probably not an easy option - they are not selling in retailers and online ordering might not arrive until you've left. I heard that they also actively banning re-shipper and the use of credit cards from other countries (your order may get canceled, or if you admit that you did those your forum account banned and warranty void).
The only asian countries that Framework ships to are Taiwan, Singapore.
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Comment on Anyone else enjoying OSRS leagues? in ~games
whs Link ParentI wasn't there when they moved to sixth age (I returned around the launch of archeology, my favorite skill). Personally I'm not a fan that you can go talk to Saradomin. They could've make the god...I wasn't there when they moved to sixth age (I returned around the launch of archeology, my favorite skill). Personally I'm not a fan that you can go talk to Saradomin. They could've make the god more human (which they are - none of them are perfect being) but with how lighthearted the story is they can't really emphasis this other than for comedy.
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Comment on Anyone else enjoying OSRS leagues? in ~games
whs Link ParentI did 75 easy clues already. With Larcenist you can pickpocket 100 clues from wealthy citizen, go stand at Aldarin bank, pull clue and if it's not your position you just re-pull - clues progress...I did 75 easy clues already. With Larcenist you can pickpocket 100 clues from wealthy citizen, go stand at Aldarin bank, pull clue and if it's not your position you just re-pull - clues progress do persists across clues in league. I did it with only Karamja unlocked and I got exactly 20 boxes from 100 easy clues.
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Comment on Anyone else enjoying OSRS leagues? in ~games
whs LinkI'm having fun. I got the 4th region unlocked even before I unlocked my 3rd (which is the first free choice) following Faelkrane's guide. I haven't play OSRS for quite a while. After I got quest...I'm having fun. I got the 4th region unlocked even before I unlocked my 3rd (which is the first free choice) following Faelkrane's guide.
I haven't play OSRS for quite a while. After I got quest cape in 2018 I switched to RS3 and got a quest cape in 2019. I was surprised how fun skilling in RS3 was, compared to OSRS. But the game is showing its age, and EoC doesn't get much better. Still, free death week and PvM hub make it much more fun to experiment compared to OSRS where I am mostly a skiller, which make me poor as my job has been replaced by automations (and noted drops) for years.
This time I'm playing on HDOS, another lesser-known but legal client. Unlike RuneLite, it is completely closed source and has less plugins. (RuneLite is not completely open source either - Jagex made all the open source client illegal). It tries to adapt RuneScape HD client and graphical style to OSRS, and playing it feel like this is exactly what I wanted OSRS to be. If you want to try HDOS it is on Bolt launcher, or you have to install it manually then it will show up on Jagex Launcher.
Anyway back on to league. I'm playing water mage, and once I got that overheal I don't know why but that makes me able to face tank Huey easily. Still, I did tried the fight caves and with how I am unfamiliar with the models on HDOS I got the prayer swapped at Jad and died in two hits after 80 mins of effort. Maybe I'll try after I get the faster attack speed.
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Comment on Keychron Hardware Design — hardware design files for Keychron keyboards and mice in ~tech
whs (edited )Link ParentI have the same mouse in white since February. The product felt cheap, but I suppose because it is very light (compared to MX Master 2s I used) and the plastic is of different kind. It hasn't get...I have the same mouse in white since February. The product felt cheap, but I suppose because it is very light (compared to MX Master 2s I used) and the plastic is of different kind. It hasn't get a shine from all grease on my hand though.
I always keep it wired. The configurator is web-based at launcher.keychron.com so you don't need a software and it is usable in Linux (you can see a demo UI i n there without a mouse). There's a tons of features like firmware update, profiles, remapping, macros and lift distance (FPS gamers flick mouse fast to turn that they run out of room on mousepad. They have to recenter by physically lifting the mouse, and the mouse should detect that it is being lifted and stop giving inputs) that you only see in high end gaming mouse and not ergonomic mouses.
edit: I forgot to write that the biggest issue for using Ergo mouse for gaming is that pulling the mouse down use considerable more effort than other axis, as you need to tighten your grip and pull compared to just pushing it away or to the side on other axis. On regular mouse you always grip the mouse so movement in any axis use similar effort. I also feel that pushing the mouse upwards is also not straight (not because of hardware issues). While playing Hitman 3 I found that for the first hour at least, I no longer try for headshots when the target are on the stairs.
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Comment on Denuvo DRM has been cirmumvented using hypervisor based bypass in ~games
whs Link ParentI suppose this is a promise that, unlike when cheats goes into/under the kernel and anticheats has to become kernel mode, Denovo will not become kernel mode anti tamper.I suppose this is a promise that, unlike when cheats goes into/under the kernel and anticheats has to become kernel mode, Denovo will not become kernel mode anti tamper.
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Comment on Can we talk about rice cookers? in ~food
whs Link ParentAdam Ragusea did a video on this. I watched it long ago and what I remembered was that in some cultures rice is not safe to eat without washing it first. Also the fat in the rice grains will go...Adam Ragusea did a video on this. I watched it long ago and what I remembered was that in some cultures rice is not safe to eat without washing it first. Also the fat in the rice grains will go stale after exposure to air, so if you buy a small amount of rice and it is vacuum sealed your rice is of higher quality, while in places that buy large amount of rice that are not vacuum sealed will want to wash the smell off. (In Thailand the most common size for rice is 5kg non vacuum packed, while rice I found in a supermarket in Taiwan comes in 1kg bag vacuum sealed)
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Comment on I'm glad Hideo Kojima went into games instead of directing movies in ~games
whs Link ParentI'd second the social strand feature is very important to the game's experience. In DS1 there's delivery to the wind farm early on in the game. The forest in front of the wind farm is infested...I'd second the social strand feature is very important to the game's experience.
In DS1 there's delivery to the wind farm early on in the game. The forest in front of the wind farm is infested with BTs and you'll need to sneak around. Once you connected the wind farm to the chiral network now you'll see people putting 👻 signs around BT dense area making the return trip easier to plot around.
Then there's a quest that asks you to go over the mountain to deliver to the next city. The mountain is also BT infested so you can't really use a vehicle. Once you're there I think the next quest would be a chilling one, instead it just throws you into a boss fight with no warning. I'm not equipped for a boss fight but you'll have ghosts of other players throwing gears at you (if you're offline they just unnamed ghosts) after that fight I went back to the boss area and throw down two loads of gear just for the next poor soul even though it looked like I'm just litterring the ground
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Comment on Android to debut "advanced flow" for sideloading unverified applications in ~tech
whs Link ParentApple also does that for installing profiles. If you aren't at your usual location (eg. Home) you'll need to wait 4 hours. The attacks they're trying to prevent are real and prevalent in Thailand....Apple also does that for installing profiles. If you aren't at your usual location (eg. Home) you'll need to wait 4 hours.
The attacks they're trying to prevent are real and prevalent in Thailand. Either it will be a malicious phishing link sent via SMS (eg. There's something wrong with your account, tax refund, etc.) or a phone call from authority that tells you to contact the authority using a specific app which of course is a fake app.
Personally, I wish it's like Nintendo DS custom firmware. Open the battery tray, there's an electrical contact in one of the screw hole with warranty sticker. While flashing CFW you need to keep the contact bridged with a flathead screwdriver. I heard ChromeOS machines also require unscrewing something inside the machine. No need to wait for arbitrary time yet nobody will accidentally do it
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Comment on What are people using instead of VS Code? in ~comp
whs Link ParentI find VS Code's AI internal implementation quite interesting even if the UI push it in your face. The Copilot UI is actually not that coupled with GitHub Copilot (although parts of it still is -...I find VS Code's AI internal implementation quite interesting even if the UI push it in your face.
The Copilot UI is actually not that coupled with GitHub Copilot (although parts of it still is - they often said in the docs that they will work on remove that). Internally, VSCode has a "Language Model Chat Provider API" which Copilot is one of them. Many other providers do provide alternative provider implementation (and Copilot allow for custom API key as well), so you can switch to your chosen provider.
There is also a Language Model API, which allow extensions to submit request to the provider, so that any extension you install in VSCode can utilize your LLM provider without providing API keys to every extensions. Of course, there are people who built an OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible API server in VSCode so that you can use in any LLM tools. I tried and it seems that you do get the Copilot billing for it (eg. GPT 4o is unlimited even when using the emulated API outside of VSCode).
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Comment on Leon S. Kennedy is a car salesman now in ~games
whs LinkMy favorite YouTuber remarked that almost every single vehicle (before RE9) that Leon has ridden on didn't end well. And then they just want him to be a car salesman...My favorite YouTuber remarked that almost every single vehicle (before RE9) that Leon has ridden on didn't end well. And then they just want him to be a car salesman...
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Comment on Is it worthwhile to run local LLMs for coding today? in ~comp
whs Link ParentI'd like to say I don't know much about running models locally. I'm just recently got past the Ollama stage. A tips I'd recommend is that you can add your hardware to HuggingFace which on GGUF...I'd like to say I don't know much about running models locally. I'm just recently got past the Ollama stage.
A tips I'd recommend is that you can add your hardware to HuggingFace which on GGUF model pages it will show whether you can load that specific model. Although loading is just the first step and running it with cache & context window & other workloads (eg. desktop GUI) you'd need to add your own safety margin.
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Comment on Is it worthwhile to run local LLMs for coding today? in ~comp
whs LinkI went on this route, and even buying a RTX 5090, and I'd say I'm nowhere near usable if you don't have the budget for two of them and probably 128GB memory, all that in in one machine. That being...I went on this route, and even buying a RTX 5090, and I'd say I'm nowhere near usable if you don't have the budget for two of them and probably 128GB memory, all that in in one machine. That being said, people reported some success on Mac Studio's unified memory but due to the slower memory bandwidth it will be slower than proper NVIDIA setup.
The reason this doesn't work is:
- You can test a lot of open weight models on OpenRouter. I'd say Qwen3.5 9B is quite good for getting non-coding tasks done (like querying), for coding Qwen Coder is probably the best model you can run with a single RTX 3090 but it is nowhere near GLM-4.7 (you could point Claude Code to Qwen Coder but it's not as agentic as it should be).
- You need a LOT of VRAM to get the model to load. The top open weight models today, GLM-4.7, Kimi K2.5, MiniMax M2.5, etc. are not possible to be loaded on a single gaming GPU at all.
- I think there are tricks about MoE models that you'd only load specific experts to the GPU, but you still need enough RAM for it (or you can tolerate if it loads from your SSD - I tried HDD and it takes over 5 min to load Gemma3), and it requires some tuning with your LLM runtime.
- There are quantized models that may fit in to consumer GPU, but it will be significantly watered down. Q4, the common variant to run most models on consumer GPUs is about 10% loss.
- Not only you need the VRAM to load model, but you also need RAM to support large context window. I'm not sure if you need VRAM or RAM, because at this point I already have exhausted both of them on my gaming PC. I was planning to get 128GB RAM, but with XMP and doubling memory cost I don't think I'd be doing that any time soon. Currently I think my max context window with Gemma3 27B is about 50-60k compared to Claude and Qwen3.5's max context window of ~200k.
That being said, that one time I used Qwen Coder locally it was the 2nd fastest coding model I've ever seen, only beaten by Copilot's GPT4o (which I suspect that Microsoft probably bought provisioned throughput).
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Comment on Motorola and GrapheneOS Foundation partnership announced in ~tech
whs LinkI wonder how Google Play certifications process will this phone needs, and also which apps (including Google's) will be preloaded. This could be the first bloatware-free phone with optional Google...I wonder how Google Play certifications process will this phone needs, and also which apps (including Google's) will be preloaded.
This could be the first bloatware-free phone with optional Google Play, zero other Google Apps and no Meta (Facebook) apps. From a previous court case in Europe, Google says they will provide Google Play for a premium if the OEM doesn't want other preloaded Google Apps, but I don't think there is any takers. (Also since you don't preload Google's Chrome, perhaps revenue sharing from ads may be impacted). I suppose Motorola could just push most of the OS development cost to GrapheneOS Foundation to offset the cost.
I would not be surprised if the phone is sold at a premium on top of the Google Play version of the phone, which you could say is the price you pay for privacy. But the vocal group in /r/android would only want a mid/budget range phone without this premium...
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
whs LinkAbout to finish Trails Beyond the Horizon. I'd say after Act 2 this is one of the best Trails in a long while, easily better than CS4. Hitman is on sale currently on Steam, I think there was a...About to finish Trails Beyond the Horizon. I'd say after Act 2 this is one of the best Trails in a long while, easily better than CS4.
Hitman is on sale currently on Steam, I think there was a recent thread saying that this game is easily one of the best game this decade. A Tildes member recommended me that since last month, cross save is in and I can now restore progress from the original game. I don't know why I miss some map achievements though, and I was grinding the first two maps back before the sale.
Finally I've found StarCraft 2 coop relaxing and I try to get a game in daily. I can manage brutal fine and probably can solo it on some commanders, but nowadays I play on casual which give you damage/tank bonus so you can yolo more. If you get matched with a partner playing on hard it's like smurfing.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
whs LinkI'm playing Trails Beyond the Horizon. I'd say its prologue and Chapter 1 is not good, especially that they want me to patrol all of Edith several times. I'd say the story start picking up at...I'm playing Trails Beyond the Horizon. I'd say its prologue and Chapter 1 is not good, especially that they want me to patrol all of Edith several times. I'd say the story start picking up at Rean/Kevin's route at the end of Chapter 2 and then it only get more interesting from there.
I'm curious. What do you propose browsers make money from?