I think many people don’t like it conceptually because the advertising for Brave is:

Built in Privacy + Crypto + Ad Blocking

Firefox + uBlock Origin suffices well enough for most people. It’s stable, suits the purpose, and separates them from a company entangled with crypto.

Everyone is just trying to do their best to balance convenience with the social impacts of their actions. People make change because they care, either altruistically or personally, but it always comes with some sort of personal cost. Putting your neck out there and trying to make a change is more important than any specific browser choice

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Do you know of any Nix projects which are basically nix-but-as-if-was-brew?

I get that this violates the Nix philosophy, but it’s hard convincing collabs to install a root package manager, which has install commands like:

nix profile install nixpkgs/nixos-24.11#hello

I get that it’s flexible, but I would like something more like:

nix install hello

I want three things:

1. rootless
2. can manage “casks”
3. global cli with support for per-project flakes

Do you know if this exists / is being developed?

You probably already know this, but for those who don’t, git can globally ignore patterns. It’s the first thing I set up after logging in. Honestly wish git just shipped this way out of the box (maybe match .DS_Store by name and some magic bytes?) with a way to disable it. Just for the sake of easier onboarding