I don’t think pushing users from one platform you own to another platform you own is a great way to avoid the ban lol

Seems to me this is just a way them to have a second round of headlines about how the evil west is blocking their social media – first for banning TikTok, then for Lemon8, as if they aren’t in fact being banned at the same time.

I’m not the above user, but I also went from Endeavour to Fedora.

I had a couple of issues with Grub after updates - this was an Arch bug that was quickly resolved, but it was still an annoyance that highlights that the bleeding edge isn’t without risk.

Fedora pretty aggressively pushes modern tech into their distro. They’re kind of the main driver that paves the way for other distros to join the modern world, IMO. Wayland, Flatpaks, Portals, PipeWire, they push all of that.

Last time I tried Endeavour, despite the packages being new, it still defaulted to a lot of older technologies (that may have changed now, it’s been 2 years since I used it). Fedora doesn’t, and it plays a part in shaping those technologies. Some people may not like that, but personally I love it.

Like I said in an earlier comment, though, I do love EndeavourOS. If I went back to Arch-based distros I’d use it without a doubt.

I do have annoyances with Fedora. Stuff like having to enable proprietary media codecs via a command is utterly brain-dead and not intuitive for new users.

That famous Linux distro…

I’m not going to pretend that people won’t have a good time gaming on Windows, but this is like someone asking for Italian food recommendations and you recommending sushi.

Presumably this person knows Windows exists. They don’t need to be told about Windows.

By that logic, Mozilla could as well stop developing their browser.

They shouldn’t stop developing their browser, and I’d never advocate for that. I’d have to go to Chromium, yuck.

It has dropped to a marketshare to like 2.5% […], maybe about 5% if we’re generous. That’s less than the ratio of Linux users. So I’d argue it’s for tinkerers, too.

I never said it wasn’t for tinkerers, just that they need to attract people that aren’t. And how does this move harm tinkerers? Not only can you tinker with this extension (such as by pointing it towards a local Ollama instance), but it’s optional. You don’t have to install it. What’s anti-power user about developing this extension?

I’d also disagree massively with the idea of “well, they have a low market share, so they should forget about attracting more people and focus on tinkerers”.

When you have a low userbase, you should seek to grow it, not simply double down on a small amount of people that already use your software anyway – especially not when, let’s be honest, the tinkerer crowd on Lemmy and niche Reddit subs are the most fickle and hard to please bunch in the world. Mozilla could do everything they ask and that crowd would still complain.

Doubling down on a tiny amount of people is fine when you’re Rolls Royce or Bugatti, and you can charge any amount of money to a small amount of people, but that strategy won’t work for Mozilla. They need broad appeal, and they won’t get that if they’re lacking things that average people have come to expect.

Linux in the 90s and very early 2000s was impossible to use for any normie. Distros started focussing more on the average person rather than simply appeasing tinkerers who already use their software, and they’ve benefitted from that approach greatly – desktop Linux has never been in a better state! Why shouldn’t Mozilla do the same?

I’d stay away from Manjaro, personally. They’ve had a number of organisational and security fuck-ups that in my opinion makes it hard to take them seriously. Once is forgivable, but when they make the same mistake 3+ times it’s just completely unforgivable and unprofessional.

Plus there’s the whole “we hold Arch packages back two weeks but not AUR packages” - which means there could be dependency issues if you like installing stuff from AUR. In fairness though, they do request that users do not install AUR software on their site, so people do get warned about that.

Endeavour is good. If I was to go back to an Arch distro, it’s what I’d use hands-down. Fundamentally just Arch with a better installer and a nice theme.

I’d also consider something Fedora based, like Fedora (duh), or Bazzite (if you want an atomic/immutable OS). Up-to-date, extensively tested. Bazzite even allows you to install it with out-of-the-box Gamescope support (in simple terms, you get some of the performance options and performance overlays that the steam deck has).

Yes, you could research local LLM tools, find Ollama, see if it’s trustworthy, install it, configure it, research which model to use, download that, then run it. Or you could let Mozilla do the hard part for you.

The typical browser user does not go searching for GitHub projects.

Don’t get me wrong, lots of tinkerers will do the above, and they still can. But this is a more user-friendly way for the average person.

I use an Ollama-based program on my PC called Alpaca (available on Flathub for any Linux users reading this), and it’s pretty great and straightforward, but even that is more fiddly than simply installing a Mozilla extension.

And yeah I’ve tried Mozilla’s offline translation, it’s pretty great, I’m sure they’ll expand the language list in time.

There’s loads. Several Anbernic devices, Miyoo Mini (I have a couple and they’re great), etc.

Most of them support custom firmwares, themes, etc.

I genuinely don’t know what people expect from Mozilla.

People simultaneously want them to give up their search engine payments, but also get angry at them for trying to make revenue any other way.

Web engine development costs hundreds of millions per year. It’s a phenomenally complex and expensive endeavour, with no obvious path to revenue unless you hoover up user data, which Mozilla doesn’t want to do.

Thank you. At least someone lives in the real world.

Whether Lemmy users like it or not, this is becoming an expected feature now, and Firefox shouldn’t be exclusively chasing people on Lemmy who already use Firefox.

And I’d rather have it be implemented in a way that’s pretty private, with the option of tying in a locally installed LLM (although it’s a bit convoluted to do right now by the looks of it), and the entire thing be an optional extension, than it forced upon me.

I mean it’s not like China was open and allowed competition from western companies.

I don’t know which company you’re referring to, but I think it’s pretty damn likely that China also classifies them as a military company too.

I fail to see the hypocrisy that you appear to be implying.

Not just Google. There was a performance “bug” in Windows Defender a while back that specifically harmed Firefox. It had been reported but Microsoft took 5+ years to fix, and Mozilla did the bulk of the sleuthing and proposing fixes themselves.

Now, whether MS were intentionally crippling a competitor’s browser in the beginning when the bug surfaced (which coincidentally was around the time Edge was relaunched as a chromium browser), there’s no way to know.

But after a certain point, a software company with a market cap in the trillions loses any benefit of doubt I’d give them in scenarios like this where it benefits them not to find a solution. And 5 years is far beyond that point.

Unfortunately for Firefox, they didn’t really have the money for a lawsuit against a juggernaut like Microsoft.

It would be more simple to call some things basic, but it’ll never happen for the same reason food and drinks places have started drifting away from calling things “small, medium, large” and towards the much more stupid “Regular, Large, Extra-Large”. Starbucks goes even more pretentious with it.

You’d be more likely to have something extremely dumb like Premium (shit-tier), Premium Pro (midrange), Premium Ultra (actually premium).

Well I use Arch Fedora btw

You see they’re bots if you open their profile and read some subtext.

Do you see it clearly marked in your feed if one of the bots posts something, shares something, or comments something?

That’s a genuine question - I don’t actually know. But it should be marked very clearly without having to open the profile, because people generally don’t do that.

Americans seem get really weird with the whole ancestry thing. There appears to be a desire to look into your family history and find something “exotic”, which basically seems to mean non-English - I imagine because that’s perceived as the ‘default’ ancestry, so-to-speak.

Honestly, who the fuck cares? What difference does it make? Nationalities aren’t Skyrim races. You don’t get special abilities. It makes no difference whether your ancestors were British/Irish/Spanish/French/whatever.

E: This is obviously not intended as a hateful statement, people. You have to understand that the rest of the world doesn’t care about this, so we’re confused when we look to the US and see them take it so seriously. We’re especially puzzled when Americans say “I’m Irish” because their great great great uncle bought a pint of Guiness in the 1870s. It’s an alien concept to the rest of the planet.

The insecure parts of Linux is mostly on the DE side opposed to the core OS part that servers use. We absolutely will see more vulnerabilities in the future as Linux grows.

The number was not small. It was 10+ SKUs… which also happened to be most of the most popular ones.

Intel claimed multiple times to have fixed the issue, only for it to have not been fixed. Maybe it really is fixed this time, but who knows?

Also, stuff is often in warehouses for months. You could very easily still get an affected CPU. And intel has been very clear that they will not replace faulty CPUs. If you get a faulty CPU, you’re on your own.

It’s not worth the risk.

This is all on top of Intel having worse CPUs on a worse platform with zero upgrade path even if you ignore a lot of them being faulty, which you obviously shouldn’t.

I am so tired of people, especially people who pretend to be computer experts online, completely failing to understand what Moore’s Law is.

Moore’s Law != “Technology improves over time”

It’s an observation that semiconductor transistor density roughly doubles every ~2 years. That’s it. It doesn’t apply to anything else.

And also for the record, Moore’s Law has been dead for a long time now. Getting large transistor density improvements is hard.

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