Post #2052065

RE: https://mefi.social/@MissConstrue/116523441894038331 If you like Chrome but don’t like the way Google lards your computer with unwanted files, check out Chromium (https://www.chromium.org/), which is just Chrome without all the Google-specific stuff. It is updated every few days (no doubt to deal with security exploits). While Chrome will silently install updates (which is convenient but the way it does this is very intrusive), Chromium on the Mac requires you to download a disk image, open it, copy the Chromium file, unmount the disk image, and trash it. That’s kind of a PITA. Which brings me to my second tip: if you use a Mac, use Homebrew (https://brew.sh). You can kind of think of this as a command-line app store, although it’s for pretty much everything *but* App Store apps. There’s a little bit of rigamarole in the initial setup, but after that, you install an app by typing “brew install appname” into the Terminal (to install Chromium specifically, you’d type “brew install ungoogled-chromium”; you can search the Homebrew website to see what apps it can install), and you can update *all* the apps you installed via Homebrew at once by simply typing “brew upgrade” into the Terminal. Originally Homebrew was intended for command-line software, but it handles many regular desktop apps too. There is a desktop interface for Homebrew called Cakebrew (https://www.cakebrew.com), but inexplicably, it doesn’t let you search for desktop apps that can be installed using Homebrew. #MacOS