You’re not alone. This is pretty much a universal struggle.

“Cool while it lasts” is still better than “terrible now and forever”. Hopefully Waterfox survives long enough for Ladybird to get off the ground.

Exactly my case as well. There are several Firefox-based browsers better than Firefox itself without the bullshit: Zen, Mercury, LibreWolf, Floorp… All are good options. But the dev behind Waterfox made a public commitment to keep this AI crap out of the browser. That sealed the deal for me.

Now if only I knew the best Android replacement for Firefox…

Wasn’t this widely known already?

For context, his alleged violent bouts of hiccups have mysteriously gone away since his arrest.

Thank you! Yes, that’s what I meant.

It’s called shortsighted management.

Valve has had success with Steam because they ask themselves “What do gamers want, and how can we turn a profit by giving it to them?” For example, many of us want to mod our games. Enter the Steam Workshop. It’s free, convenient and exclusive so it fidelizes (is that a word in English?) customers and indirectly makes them money while improving their image in the market.

Epic’s management instead asks themselves “How can we make money off of gamers?” without trying to understand the market. They see that there are many free games on Steam, and many console exclusives, and their tiny MBA brains decide that the only way forward is with free games to lock us to their platform (that’s what Valve did, right?) and exclusives so we have no choice. And they have no idea why Valve waste their time with Workshop, Community forums for each game, Proton (Linux and Mac are such a tiny share of the market!) or any of that not-obviously-profitable filler that is in fact what sets Steam apart as a service rather than just a storefront.

And what say you of the preliminary evidence suggesting that using AI is making people less capable of thinking for themselves, or people becoming emotionally attached to AI girlfriends/boyfriends, or people who killed themselves either intentionally or accidentally by following LLM advice, or the fact that an overwhelmibg majority of companies who made AI a crucial part of their functioning are losing money or going bankrupt? These are part of the social cost and they all point quite strongly towards it being a very bad idea to rely on AI for anything.

The social and environmental impact of AI training and use is what I’m referring to.

Plugins exist. There is no excuse for bloat8ng the browser with these seldom used niche features by default, espexially when they represent 5% if what the AI component is doing and the other 95% are harmful to literally every living thing on the planet.

OP, what do the names for Brazil and Peru mean?

That’s cute.

Except LLMs are probably at the level of a flatworm when it comes to intelligence: they learn by eating each other and have a very hard time solving simple mazes.

This is such a shortsighted take. After the initial hurdle of migration, you’re free of licenses forever. It won’t take long for the savings to match the initial costs, and after that it’s more money in the bank until the Sun explodes.

Not to mention the tiny insignificant issue of a foreign private company having backdoors into your government’s IT infrastructure. A foreign private company headquartered in Trumpistan of all places.

I just hope the alternative doesn’t take too long to materialize

For context, this is the son who called Bolsonaro Senior an “ungrateful son of a whore” in a leaked audio he had sent to Bolsonaro Senior.

I actually like this idea. It provides more girth for when I make pro-Google threads on Lemmy, set notifications to vibrate and shove the phone in my asshole.

Shitass touch

I think your question comes from thinking that anybody involved in this grift cares about anything other than short-term results. They would sell both their own kidneys as long as they only had to deliver after the next quarterly earnings report.

Thank you!