It depends. If it’s just for the sake of plugging AI because it’s cool and trendy, fuck no.

If it’s to improve privacy, accessibility and minimize our dependency on big tech, then I think it’s a good idea.

A good example of AI in Firefox is the Translate feature (Project Bergamot). It works entirely locally, but relies on trained models to provide translation on-demand, without having Google, etc as the middle-man, and Mozilla has no idea what you translates, just which language model(s) you downloaded.

Another example is local alt-text generation for images, which also requires a trained model. Again, works entirely locally, and provide some accessibility to users with a vision impairment when an image doesn’t provide caption.

Aka the GabeCube.

Hopefully the people behind GOG can figure out a way to bring these back in a legal manner :)

I’ve always been interested in Linux, and for my home server it’s been my OS for the last decade, but for the workstation I found myself dual-booting. With the advent of atomic distributions such as Fedora Kinoite, Universal Blue, Fedora CoreOS etc using the concept of OS images through OSTree / bootc, combined with containerization through flatpak and podman is a great step forward stability and reproducibility.

My desktop has been switched to Aurora (Universal Blue) for more than a year and I couldn’t be happier.

Basically a nothingburger…

• Gadgetbridge
• Tubular
• Seal
• TIDY
• Breezy Weather
• Open Link With…

Some of my favorite apps are on F-Droid and nowhere else.

These apps are for the privacy-minded people, by privacy-minded people who will absolutely refuse to be tied by name (or digital signature with an identity verification process) to their apps.

And then there’s the problem of making legally gray apps (emulators), now someone needs to be tied to that app, which makes then easier to find, or if an app starts to irritate a government or corporation, then they can find who published it pretty easily (likely without proper the proper legal oversight/subpoena) even outside of the Play Store.

What the fuck Google.

Your best bet for quality dubbed content is to find the raw blu-ray torrent (check for the included audio tracks), and retranscode to x264, x265 or AV1 with Handbrake and the audio tracks you want to keep. No need to tinker with a/v sync from there.

You either have

• Easy to use
• Will eventually lose support
• May remain unpatched

or

• Require more maintenance
• You can run the OS of your choice
• It’s your responsibility to ensure it remains patched

I decided I wanted something long-term, and bought a NAS appliance I can boot my own OS onto it, so I went with the Ugreen DXP2800.

I’m running Ubuntu LTS, with Cockpit as the webUI to manage parts of it, and my web services are all running through podman containers (aka quadlets).

There’s a bit of a learning curve, which is the price I was willing to accept.

You may want to have a dead man’s switch so that the server shuts down without your intervention, or there’s the possibility that a forensic team could retrieve the encryption key in RAM through some physical attacks.

I host a couple of encrypted snapshots in the cloud (stuff that I can’t afford to lose), but it’s still vastly cheaper to host a massive amount of data locally.

The stuff I have locally is mostly stuff I can recover elsewhere (yarr), so redundancy without backup is good enough cost-wise.

Cloud computing I agree, at least until we figure out homomorphic encryption.

For cloud storage it’s not as bad, as long as you control the keys and the provider doesn’t see them then you can be fairly confident the data is safe.

But even then, they’re only liable if they distribute it themselves. Why go the extra mile of blocking the addon being sideloaded, as it’s solely done by the user?

I would have to do a one-for-one comparison, I haven’t checked that.

You can also use this filter list in uBlock Origin as an alternative

https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters/blob/raw?file=bpc-paywall-filter.txt

Maybe Nebula as a mirror? It’s subscription-based, but I rather put my money there and watch the content ad-free than giving Google my money or ad views.

Legal Eagle, Practical Engineering and some others are putting their video a bit early there compared to their YouTube channels as an incentive to subscribe, and you can often get the yearly subscription 50% off.

Under that rationale, you could be violating copyright law by changing the color balance on your monitor’s settings. 🥴

I use Bazzite on a different SSD in my desktop, and most of the game I play works as expected. I mostly play single-player and coop stuff, nothing competitive.

Try searching with the IMDB titleID instead (tt1707386)

Aren’t the current and past Presidents immune from their actions while in acting position, according to the Supreme Court?