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His great hair is just too iconic, I would never have recognized him.

Someone should pass this on to valve.

That's the reason why ai search engines like bing are so bad, it's based on top results that are the same crap.

At that time there were some addons that worked to translate web (not just selected text), and at least one of them was even recommended by mozilla.

The problem is that to translate from google they used a remote code execution method, I'm not sure but I seem to remember that mozilla changed their policy to not allow that and didn't warn the devs (if mozilla simply didn't notice for years it would be even more worrying).
In any case someone reported them all and they were immediately banned, some of the devs tried to reason with mozilla and look for workarounds but to no avail.

Until alternatives appeared (after a couple of years?) it was necessary to install blacklisted or unsigned addons, which is a bit tedious.

I suppose that I can be leaving some other (like disabling webgl), but in principle yes. The bad thing is that this setting can be annoying, it does things like change the time zone, force the light theme, always start in window, among many others.

I know I should be happy and grateful for this, but unfortunately I'm going to be the grumpy one on duty to say a resounding and exasperating: It's about time.

I've been waiting for this for over a decade full of ups and downs with few and bad options, for a while they even deliberately broke all the web translation addons without offering any alternatives.

In fact, it is only recently that there are two very good addons: TWP and linguist (which also has local translation). I hope mozilla will do more than just integrate the addon they released a year ago, because that one is inferior in everything and very pitiful.

Note that this is targeted to arkenfox users, who by default use privacy.resistfingerprinting (unlike most users); without it, canvasblocker is also recommended.

It is pretty, but far inferior to rssguard in features.

The arguments about data loss today are simply ridiculous and fallacious. They made sense in the beginning (or for raid5/6 until recently), but those who lost data were solely at fault for ignoring the warnings; yet instead of taking responsibility for their actions, they joined the horde of haters.

For images there are foss options that you can run locally, like stable diffusion which is so good that it rivals its proprietary counterparts.
But for text it's a horror, there are some you can try (see gpt4all), but in general chatgpt has no real competition; the foss options are currently very bad, and even the proprietary options from big corporations like bard or llama are pitiful.

but I can’t help but see the fact that there is no alternative to Bing GPT

Regarding this, there are other services that also use GPT for search, here a couple:

https://www.perplexity.ai/

https://www.phind.com/

You're right about the second one, but don't worry boy, the internet can help you with that!

https://fosspost.org/mozilla-go-unfck-yourself/

https://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html

I wouldn't rate it as a favorite at all, but I tend to use torrentz2.nz

It’s called not being a toxic reply guy. You should try it.

Sweet irony

Bonus for the privacy-conscious; It has better privacy and cryptography.

This is highly questionable, but it should be mentioned that it is radically worse if you don't use "secret chats" (less convenient), the normal ones don't even have end-to-end encryption.

PS: It's quite bizarre to answer directly to someone to discredit, but without giving the opportunity to refute...

Not really, wayland still has quite a few incompatibilities, lacks and bugs. X11 is still useful for many and indispensable for some.

Wayland is the future and X11 will have to die sooner rather than later, but not today.

I have some links saved about purism dramas, in case you are interested:

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zlatan-Todoric-Interview

https://old.reddit.com/r/Purism/comments/dmhfcz/purismthenandnow/

https://web.archive.org/web/20191123172506/https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/cje7vg/dontusepureosorthelibrem5/

https://old.reddit.com/r/Purism/comments/my8u2l/psalibrem14unitsappeartohavebeenmodified/

https://old.reddit.com/r/Purism/comments/owahb4/librem5usareadbeforeordering/

For a data disk? Absolutely, even if you're not going to configure anything, you can copy inside the partition instantly and detect the bitrot.
If you're willing to step it up a notch, there's also cool stuff like transparent compression, deduplication and incremental send/receive of entire subvolumes.

Is it really possible to own them properly? If in almost all cases we lack the source code and there are even proprietary requirements for both software and hardware, what chance do they have of working halfway well in a few decades?

Sometimes there is a trick that allows to play offline (I guess to bypass tags and restrictions), things like adding a line of text to a file, always a hassle and poorly documented.

Btw, I feel like telling that I deleted my rockstar account quite a while ago, they asked and re-asked nonsense, waiting from weeks to over a month between email and email, and the worst thing is that sometimes they were in chinese. It took me more than half a year to delete that crap.

I guess so, as it's fine to leave a game in the gog/steam library for a long time, but several games taking up tens or hundreds of GB on disk is a hassle.

On the other hand, I also notice that I have much less commitment, I discard them easily and often without giving them a real chance.