Gnome 46? And they won’t update it for at least another year?

Jeez, we’re almost at Gnome 50…

Because the US seems to be supportive of it. They lashed out at governments who’ve said to resolve it or face site bans.

Even if Mozilla goes closed source the already existing forks can continue

Theoretically yes, practically no. Maintaining a secure modern web engine that’s up to date with - and a part of - setting web standards is something that costs tens of millions per year. Sometimes this even spills into the hundreds of millions.

Random fork projects don’t have the resources to do that.

I get a lot of hate for it but some AI inclusions are genuinely good.

Firefox’s (local, FOSS) AI translation is infinitely better than scraping all the info and sending it to Google Translate servers, and nobody will convince me otherwise.

The screen reader improvements that use AI are good as well. Has anybody here used screen readers for web pages? They are awful. It’s good that someone is willing to improve them. My sister is blind so this matters a lot to me.

The (locally generated) AI assisted link previews aren’t for me as I imagine they’re unnecessarily taxing on older PCs, but they’re not exactly an evil inclusion. I can see it being a useful feature.

I’m not a fan of the LLM sidebar, but it’s opt-in and you can at least choose open models or even host your own. Plus there’s the unfortunate truth that many people that Firefox is trying to win over (“normies”) now expect features like that.

The hate is so overblown. Everyone is so negative and absolutist about everything all of the time. It’s exhausting.

Kid Starver doesn’t really make sense, he’s expanded free school meals, greatly raised minimum wages, increased free childcare, brought about the biggest increase in workers rights in a generation (parents tend to work), removed the two child benefit cap, etc.

Queer Harmer probably has more legitimacy to it, I suppose? The high court (not appointed by government or Starmer, btw) had a controversial ruling on gendered toilets, saying that premises are free to exclude trans women from women’s toilets if they so choose. So far the government has made no attempt to alter the law to amend that, so it can perhaps be taken as silent support of that ruling.

FYI, Two Tier Kier is a conspiracy theorist term pushed by people who say Kier is against white people and doesn’t punish non-whites for crime.

Let’s not adopt white supremacist slogans…

Yeah, why wouldn’t it be? Lol

It’s also unclear if they’re comparing it to the cost of the index with or without the Lighthouses.

We’ll just have to wait and see.

• Laptop OEMs seem to go with fingerprint readers that have no Linux support.

• A number of distros out of the box have some IMO dumb things you need to change.

E.g. Fedora insisting on having their own Flatpak repository that isn’t as well-stocked or updated as Flathub, and missing audio/video codecs (I realise this is due to licensing concerns, but other distros get around it).

• I’d like Linux to feel more like an ecosystem. If I could sync my DE’s settings, installed apps, etc as trivially as I can sync my Firefox bookmarks/settings/extensions then I’d be happy. Frankly I’m amazed that Gnome and KDE haven’t attempted this.

Yes, I know I can manually and painstakingly do a lot of this with Syncthing. It’s not the same. It’s a lot more time/effort and you need the knowledge to set it up.

Even calling it side loading is an attempt to delegitimise the practice. To make it sound like you’re doing something dodgy by the side.

It’s just installing an app.

Nobody calls installing an app from outside the Microsoft store on their Windows PC “side loading”.

Likewise for Macs regarding their app store, or installing an app from outside your distro’s repository on Linux.

Least insane .ml tankie

That’s a shame. I’ve had very good experiences with Sony upper mid range/lower high end TVs. Their image processing is second to none IMO, they seem to use more powerful CPUs than a lot of other android TV makers, and their use of AndroidTV means I can trivially customise my TV in a way that I can’t with lots of other brands (strip out ads, basically).

Shit, my oldest daughter moved into a flat with friends when she started uni not long ago, and took my old 2007 42" 1080p Bravia that I bought all those years ago. She hadn’t even been born yet, and it still looks shockingly good.

This is sad news.

They bring a lot of “exclusives” to PC too.

Do you think the only thing TVs are used for is watching traditional terrestrial TV? Lol

Right? That leaves no TVs. I can’t really think of any TVs that are ad-free, or are guaranteed to be ad free in future.

Personally I’ve been getting android TV boxes and installing a custom (and free) launcher on it, and using SmartTube for ad-free YouTube.

Smart glasses with a rebrand.

I’d be wary of smart glasses though, they’re the holy grail of data harvesting. Companies will be able to see exactly what holds people’s attention, what they look at most, what tempts them most, as well as see any personal information you look at, what physical goods you own and interact with, etc.

There’s a reason Google chased it so hard, and why companies like Meta are trying to do it now.

Because it’s more testing, more work, more resources spent, all for something that package maintainers will usually do for free anyway.

Generally unsupported means “we will not provide support for this, you’re on your own if something goes wrong”

Rather than “this will not work at all, we have ensured that”

Unfortunately most of the GPUs aren’t usable by gamers. We aren’t talking mining booms where miners buy up gaming GPU stock, then sell cheap when the bubble bursts.

We’re talking companies buying huge GPUs that don’t have video outputs and have an altered software stack to what’s used for gaming, missing all kinds of features and game specific patches.

Granted, many 4090/5090s were also used, and those will be usable by gamers, but even with a significant price drop on those, only richer gamers will find that to be viable.

Somewhat similar story for memory - a lot of it is tied up in HBM, or as GDDR on enterprise graphics cards.

Look, if I were in a privileged position in life, you can bet I’d also do whatever I could to make the same true for my daughters. 100%. I care for them and want them to be prosperous, and if they have kids I’d like them to be in a good position too.

But what really fucks me off is when these people who’ve benefitted from that then go on to act like they’re self-made and didn’t get the help.

Just own it. Say “yeah, my family runs a businesses, and because of that I’m in this good position. I’m really thankful of my parents for doing that for me, I’ve been really fortunate, and I work hard every day in order to show my appreciation for the opportunities that have been made available to me.”

I’d respect the hell out of that, even though there’s still the degree of nepotism there.