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.

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.

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

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

An unfortunate aspect of Pakistani culture that has carried over to the UK.

Families would marry within the family to keep their wealth within the family.

Unfortunately after successive generations, this can cause serious problems.

Config files and terminals? Huh? Why would you need any of that

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.

Fucking hate how these shitheads take words from Tolkien’s works and bastardise them. Palantir, Anduril.

What’s next, a social credit system named “Silmaril”? An organisation that harvests the organs of homeless called “Rivendell”?

Just fucking stop.

Because of the link to Anduril, seemingly.

I really fucking hate these tech bros taking stuff from Tolkien’s mythos to name their products. Tolkien would fucking hate these people and these companies.

I gave it a little test 2 days ago. It’s lacking polish and a few options you’d expect to see.

The auto tiling works very well.

The PopOS theming often doesn’t work on apps you download, often they don’t even respect your dark/light mode preference.

I had one crash, but it was fine upon reboot.

Padding and visual consistency is a bit hit and miss.

Personally I’d say it’s not quite ready for my tastes, but it’s certainly usable. I can definitely see the complaints I have being rectified in pretty short order.

Good. Workers rights is something they actually seem to be doing a pretty fantastic job on. Probably due to the union funding lol.

No, it isn’t.

Some parts are open source. Much of it isn’t. And it’s certainly not limited to just UX.

ChromeOS isn’t successful.

I use the flatpak so it makes no difference to me, but nice. That used to frustrated me.

That’s hard to do given the driver issues, how locked down phones are, and the fact you’re completely reliant on the benevolence of another faceless multi-billion (or trillion) dollar company.

It’s proprietary with some open source components.

They’ve said they aim to be fully open source some day

Blame the HDMI consortium. Bastards.

That said, I’m not sure why it’d be a deal-breaker. In 2026 this will be a low-end PC. It’s using a 2 year old laptop GPU that Valve has dumped more power into.

Because TV OEMs are the ones in the HDMI consortium.