does anyone know if the Anker SoundCore Q20's are any good? I was wanting to get the Wyze Labs headphones the are on preorder right now since I've heard positive things about, but they found the Ankers and they seem an even better deal if they are actually as good

the only thing the Wyze ones have over them is a bit more noise cancelling, at least that's advertized

otherwise Ankers have 2x the battery, 2x the speed of the quick charge feature, and are about the same price, maybe $10 more depending on where you find them

There is a computer virus going around called
"System32" virus
It has infected nearly all windows computers
So you need to delete it asap
Or your files may be compromised

🤦

my guess would be that if it was a virus it would already have infected my pc before I found it, and thus would not do any good deleting it

Oh no my pc is hacked ahhhhh

I don't know if this is the right place for it, but I recently switched my default browser to Brave, and external links in other apps (including Discord) no longer work. I've restarted Discord, Brave, and even my entire computer. Brave is my default browser, but external links that used to open in Chrome now do *nothing*.

It's definitely an issue with Brave, because when I switch my default browser to literally anything else, links in external apps work seamlessly.

could just be a configuration issue with the browser

I'm not sure about Brave, but most "Secure" or security based browsers require a decent amount of configuration to make things livable.

since brave allows for Chrome Extensions I'm assuming altered form of Chromium

and Google started Chromium to kill Mozilla & other browsers

so I'm not sure how I feel about an "Open Source" project by a tech giant that could easily flip the switch and kill the competition once everything is based around it's project

Being open source, no one actually owns chromium and anyone can fork it and modify it at will.

that's wrong.. being open anyone is allowed to mess with and use it, but you can easily still have privatized licenses on the code that allow the originator of the code to rescind approval.

I mean one only needs to look at the history of Linux for that :/

Yes, there are different levels of open source but the licensing for chromium are some of the broadest including having MIT license which has very few limitations.

MIT license even let's you relicense into a proprietary software.

google kills anything that is a possible threat or competition to google, the only reason they don't kill apple is because for legal reasons they need to show they have competition, that doesn't stop them from drastically limiting competition.

Also, Google doesn't even dominant every field it tries. For instance, Google Cloud is a distant third in the cloud world behind Microsoft Azure and the real giant in the field, AWS.

the fields it does dominate in it does everything in it's power to keep dominance in, I mean it's had a noose around Mozilla's neck for over a decade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELCq63652ig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AbwBBbk2JI

This is the stats for the US, while Chrome is the winner, Safari does still hold a fairly significant percentage.

what's Safari's Core?

Webkit which is an Apple tech

mmk

microsoft gave up not that long ago. so they're chromium now

The diagram also shows that Firefox and edge do keep trading blows which is suprising when you have to seek out Firefox and edge comes pre installed and really tries to make people use it.

edge isn't edge anymore tho :/

Clarify, Edge is chromium, Safari is not.

eh there's no need to Clarify Safari is Apple, Microsoft is Edge

so when you say Microsoft gave up.

I wouldn't say Microsoft completly gave up, they still try to push Edge hard so people don't install other browsers. They just don't want to manage the source for it over using a large community maintained base like Chromium.

it's not even that. it's not compliant with their new business strategy.

I haven't used Windows full time in years, I'm pure Linux, but I would think Edge is still important way to get people to use Bing and stay in the tracking ecosystem.

eh Microsoft has a History of producing great pieces of software that are often ahead of their time that unfortunately result in Failure because people either don't use the features or have the hardware to make use of them.

That seems to describe Windows 8, people wanted a computer not the tablet thing they tried to force on people.

Maybe it would have worked if everyone used a touch screen but not everyone does.

well take Microsoft Media Player right? It could not only function as a decrypter for Cable & satellite Signals, it could even broadcast to your Xbox 360 so you could watch tv where ever you had one hooked up.