Proudly not paying Caesar's due!

I'm aware of that, and it's part of the reason I haven't gone far in using Brave as a main browser last time.

But I figure that nowadays pretty much all tech bros have skeletons in their closet, so I guess it's back to picking products on its merits.

it can be used with all the same lists as uBlock origin

Can it really? I mean, you already mentioned there's "no decent UI", which I take it to mean there's no way to customize the lists in Firefox, but can it be customized in Brave? Also, can it handle the blocking of Youtube Ads as effectively as uBO does?

It's been ages since I've last tried Brave, so I really want to know. I may actually try and use it as backup chromium-based browser if that's the case.

What's different about X?

Well, you kind of said it yourself: The fact that, since it's sadly still one of the largest social outlets, there's a whole economy around it. If Europe banned X tomorrow, a lot of people and companies would take a non-negligible hit to their revenue. We can argue that probably these people are not a majority of the other half of people in Europe that don't want X gone, but in the end, politicians and lawmakers care about money and (in a very distant second place) what the majority of their constituents say.

Same here, and unfortunately there is no digital wallet providers in my country other than Google Pay, Samsung Pay and Apple Pay.

I did scroll down all the way to the comments section, and nothing.

Disabled uBlock, and sure enough, more of the article showed up.

Does GrapheneOS support Google Pay?

Where, pray tell? Out of curiosity I went there to check it out, and the "article" is just 3 paragraphs that just barely expand on the title. Maybe uBlock is triggering some invisible paywall there for me?

Yeah, that's what I remember too, at least for the original SMB. I think OP is either misremembering or haven't really played the original.

SMB3 did have that though.

Maybe not Javascript as a language, but the framework it requires to get applications written with it running, which is a lot. And in a roundabout way, it kinda has a little to do with the language itself, as the reason electron got so popular in the first place is because it catered to web developers who either couldn't be bothered or couldn't figure out proper desktop app devlopment, so they went with the easy short-term path. And Javascript kinda is an easy language to pick up and write simple.projects in - now, maintaining more complex applications with it is another story.,.

I'm comfortable with the terminal and messing around with config files.

I still rolled my eyes at how the user seem to have no understanding of what's the actual convenience that Plex/jellyfin provides. Hint: playing/streaming videos is the least of them.

You're being obtuse. The nuance here is that Bill Gates being.a bad person and his charity org having done some good in the world are facts that are not necessarily dependent or correlated with each other. That's all. The fact that Gates might be using his org to prop his image is also a consequence of his character, and doesn't take away from the good the charity has done. Or would you rather the charity didn't exist at all just so your thirst for consistency would be appeased, all the while people would be dying?