Yes it’s quiet a paradox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

They keep making changes I don't like, I'm not paying for them to make it worse. If I could pay only for them to make it better somehow I would do that. The performance is fine, the memory use is fine, the reliability is fine, but I really hate everything they are doing around them. If they would sell me the browser I want without all that crap done to it then I would pay for that. Otherwise it's a hard hell no.

Instead, the evangelicals ran roughshod over democracy.

Plutocracy is just a wealth-based oligarchy, but I don't believe in a pure anything. There are lots of kinds of power.

There's also coercion, plenty of software insists you update once an OS goes out of primary support. It's one less OS version they have to support, even if there's no other reasons. That's been a major driver of OS and therefore sometimes hardware updates on both Windows PCs and Macs.

I had to dick around with config files again with the recent driver "improvements" to make suspend work (I had to fiddle with persistenced) so yeah, I agree that Nvidia drivers for Linux do suck, but I don't think that's the primary thing keeping Windows going. I would lean on the following two words: Inertia, and Anticompetitive. Write your own story, it's pretty obvious by now.

I don't want to poop on Nouveau, but it's just not useful. It's not their fault, as they are mostly pooped on by Nvidia. IME closed Nvidia drivers are better than closed AMD drivers, but the open AMD drivers are very good.

In fact I now have my 4060 Ti working very well with Devuan with root on ZFS and kernel 7.1.8... but it's been a PITA. I've heard something about Steam going fully 64 bit but I might still be using non-WOW Wine, so I might still need 32 bit libraries for other things. I mention this because I do not use packages for Nvidia drivers, I install them (and CUDA) from the runfile. This works flawlessly on Debian et al, and also solves the problem of the driver packages conflicting with multiarch.

(If anyone is curious, putting options nvidia NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1 NVreg_TemporaryFilePath=/someplace/persistent into /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf fixed my sleep problem. There were some other steps, but they were system-specific.)

This is the first time I have regretted getting Nvidia graphics. CUDA is still great, though.

The rounded parts waste space. They create more visual space which can be helpful for some people who are not using very many tabs. Seriously what we want is better ad blocking, better performance and lower memory use which frankly I am pretty happy about these days anyway so thanks for that Firefox devs, and oh yeah less stuff forced on us! Let us keep a theme. Don't shove AI or Pocket or any other thing in there, make it an extension! Let us just set the scrollbar width with a goddamn slider!

None of this is a lot to ask, in fact we're asking mostly for less which should be easy. Instead they have to prove that they're important by fucking with Firefox. I don't want them to leave their dickprint on the browser. What I would be thankful for, what I would literally pay for, is a light lean browser like it used to be. Take out every damn thing that isn't necessary to the mission of web browsing and make it an addon. And I am not a zealot about it, I'm not talking Javascript here or whatever, I'm talking stuff like Web Developer. I need it on this browser on this machine, it's only just an fkey I might accidentally hit on others, there's no reason to even have it on the machine. Why is it mandatory? That kind of functionality used to be an addon.

TL;DR: Firefox used to be a browser and a platform that you could build on but didn't have to carry around what you weren't using, and I believe it should be again. Is that wrong?

It's clear from screenshots on this page that is not what I am talking about here. I know that nobody RTFAs, but RTFA before you come at me bro

We don't know how the mind works, so they can't do that and never could. Neural networks are superficially similar to how the brain is organized, but the similarity stops there. We know exactly what's happening inside every cell of a neural network. We only have approximations of what happens inside an actual neuron.

It's naive to believe otherwise. We don't know how neural networks achieve what they do, and LLMs are built on neural networks, QED we don't know how they work. We know how parts of the system function, but we don't know the most important parts.

That depends on what you mean. You can't use the model without software that knows what to do with it, but you can use it without adding additional admonitions and tampering with the user's token input... if you're in control of it. That's a good reason not to use AI services, as if anyone needed another one besides stealing all your info.

Someone needs to justify their existence.

You go there for one of three things. First consistency. If you're in an unfamiliar place you at least know what you're going to get. Second speed. Stopping for breakfast or dinner at a McDonald's is going to take 5 minutes. Going home and cooking all the food for yourself save some money but you lose sleep. I just threw together a pizza using dough I had already made and that was half an hour of work. Add another 20 minutes for making the dough. I keep saying this but Americans work more hours than the Japanese for fuck's sake. You give up enough sleep so that you can cook a little food here and there and you keep doing that long enough and it's going to catch up to you health-wise just as much or more as the shitty food at McDonald's.

Basically we put people in bad situations and when they make bad choices in a bad situation because they have no good choices we blame them for that. But man is it fun to get outraged isn't it? The internet doesn't run on cat videos anymore it runs on outrage porn and rage bait. I miss the old internet.

On Mobile? Try Brave. It's the only browser that for me blocks the most resilient ads here.

I'd pay for a subscription like slashdot used to have if it came with the feature it used to come with (access to full history) but it doesn't even exist any more. But ads are just pissing on your brain.

No one asserted that it didn't still dominate gaming, have fun with your straw man

These clowns keep finding new ways to waste screen real estate.

The problem I'm seeing with produce is rotting from the inside. And I'm seeing it with all kinds of produce that I'm not used to seeing it happen in.

You seem to be in denial. It's understandable but not helpful.