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Thank you for mentioning that! I had dismissed it due to alleged shortcomings of its security features. While the allegations are (still) there, I've never heard any rebuttal or anything else of that matter. Would you happen to know anything in this regard?

doesn’t do anything better than Firefox or Librewolf.

Besides the fact that some sites misbehave on Firefox(-based browsers), it does if you're actually security sensitive; Chromium's sandbox is simply superior to Firefox'.

I didn’t even mention the CEO, you must have confused my reply. It’s the product being X and doing Y which I don’t like.

It's true that you didn't mention anything regarding its CEO, but I assumed your comment might be related to it. It seems not to be the case; my bad for assuming and mentioning it and thank you for clearing yourself from that 'allegation'!

Would it be fair to assume that your primary gripe with Brave is its (at best) controversial stance regarding the 'open' source nature of their product?

but when it comes to linux hardware vendors like those, for me at least, it’s hard to know which ones are good and which ones are bad or unknowns.

You hit the nail on the head with that remark. Because, quite frankly, it's hard for all of us; I would love to read reviews done by Notebookcheck (or similarly high-profile reviewers), unfortunately that's simply not the case. In this case, you would have to scrape whatever knowledge you can find about these specific devices (and their vendors) before judging for yourself if it's worth taking the risk.

The reason, why I'm personally fond of NovaCustom and Star Labs, is because they're known to contribute back significantly to the open-source community; same applies to System76, Purism and Tuxedo. I didn't name any these in my previous post, because none of them seemed to be sufficiently affordable.

i did look into the lower grade star labs and there was something about the processors they used… i did a little reading and they got poor marks for being uber slow or something. i could have misinterpreted things though.

If it's about the processor being slow, then I'm not surprised. It's from Intel's N-series, which is somewhat of a spiritual successor to Intel's Celeron and Pentium lines. Both of which are known to be not powerful. And for that price you shouldn't expect a lot more, but I agree that an i3 (or something else with similar processing power) should have been possible at that price-range.

Star Labs' take on the matter.

Furthermore, if one is sensitive regarding their cybersecurity, then one is likely to adhere to the zero trust security model and thus choose to simply not trust; which would include the closed source BIOS. coreboot, on the other hand, at least allows one to audit it themselves. As Linus Torvalds has been approached for implementing backdoors, it should surprise nobody that (some) of the vendors we buy our devices from have been as well and thus our BIOSes might not have been as safe as one would like to believe. Qubes OS, the most secure OS on desktop, shares the view that coreboot is preferred over closed source BIOSes due to reasons related to trust.

Thanks for the correction!

Besides the already mentioned Star Labs and System76, there's also Insurgo, Nitropad and NovaCustom.

As for an exhaustive list on the matter, unfortunately, I don't think something like that is out there. Though both Canoeboot (formerly known as Libreboot) and Dasharo do have their own respective lists.

Nice, their marketing works.

You can't deny its merits. At best you can question their integrity based on bad business-practices in the past. Their CEO being "X" and doing "Y" does not inherently make the software bad.

If you really cared about privacy you’d probably use something like Librewolf, which is not proprietary.

From OP: "at times I have to rely on a Chromium-based browser if a website decides to misbehave on a Firefox-based browser"

You basically already know the drill; buy it from a Linux-first vendor that offers devices that you can afford. A list of vendors can be found here. Personally, I'm quite fond of NovaCustom and Star Labs. Fortunately, both have 'cheaper' offerings with their NJ50 Series and StarLite respectively.

The master branch is updated to the 1.59.124

Brain fart on my side, thanks for correcting me so respectfully 😊!

Hmm.., maintaining it myself is an interesting thought. Perhaps I should take a look at that, thanks a lot for your input. Much appreciated!

Their business-practices sure do leave a lot to desire, which actually does hurt their trustworthiness; arguably their most valuable asset as a privacy-first browser. Hmm..., good food for thought, thank you!

Use Firefox.

I mostly do already 😅, from OP: "at times I have to rely on a Chromium-based browser if a website decides to misbehave on a Firefox-based browser".

I feel a bit lazy at the moment, but Brodie does IMO an excellent job at explaining what a package manager is within the context of Linux. I'd recommend you to watch that instead over here; it's already set to play at the correct time*.

There are like a gazillion questions one might ask to better derive what keyboard would suit you best. As so far you haven't given us much to work with, I'll just post my personal favorites:

• Dygma Raise
• Ultimate Hacking Keyboard

Obviously, I'm a sucker for splittable keyboards that adhere to traditional layouts. With both of these being the current endgame-models within that space; tilt, wrist support, excellent software, good add-ons, name it and it's probably found between the two.