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.

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Unfortunately most of the GPUs aren’t usable by gamers. We aren’t talking mining booms where miners buy up gaming GPU stock, then sell cheap when the bubble bursts.

We’re talking companies buying huge GPUs that don’t have video outputs and have an altered software stack to what’s used for gaming, missing all kinds of features and game specific patches.

Granted, many 4090/5090s were also used, and those will be usable by gamers, but even with a significant price drop on those, only richer gamers will find that to be viable.

Somewhat similar story for memory - a lot of it is tied up in HBM, or as GDDR on enterprise graphics cards.

No, they aren’t Marxist-leninist.

There’s no overthrowing of capitalism. China is capitalist as fuck.

Socialism is not “when the government does things”.

China is not Marxist-leninist lmao. They have a market economy.

State capitalism is not the same as Marxism.

This.

I’m really tired of people letting perfect behaviour the enemy of good in every single online discussion.

I’m very well aware that parental controls aren’t a 100% foolproof protection for my daughters, but that certainly doesn’t make them useless.

Based on that mentality we may as well not ban murder, because some people break the law anyway. We may as well not have vaccines, because no vaccine is 100% effective for all people. It’s so brain-dead.

Then why are you continuing? I’m not saying that you can’t disagree, you’re free to disagree.

I’m just saying it’s extremely low end, and it’s true.

It really isn’t. It’s extremely low end.

I’d say your definition is an odd one, then.

OP’s hardware is extremely low end.

It is off by default.

The alt-text tagging is pretty amazing according to my sister (blind), too.

That stuff is commonly included in the AI umbrella.

Does anyone even talk about what the “AI features” are?

The one I use the most is their offline translation. I don’t have to send my data to Google Translate.

My sister (blind) uses the new screen reader stuff a lot.

Mozilla is certainly adding good AI features, but the chatbot integration isn’t something I have much use for.

Not implementing any AI is stupid.

I for one appreciate having offline, private language translation. Sending it to a Google Translate server is a privacy nightmare.

My sister appreciates the better screen-reader functionality.

Plenty of people do want AI features.

This has been part of the news since the very beginning.

That’s literally not true, though? They’ve spoke about it for ages.

I work in IT and have since 2011… most people are buying $800+ phones for no reason

I do actually agree, but it’s funny you say this in a post where you’re glazing the Galaxy S4.

Adjusted for inflation that thing would cost $876 today.

But yeah, people spend way more than they need to on phones. Midrange or used is perfectly fine.

Unless the dataset, weighting, and every aspect is open source, it’s not truly open source, as the OSI defines it.

Oracle recently put out a ridiculously optimistic forecast that had them matching AWS within a handful of years. At first the market loved it.

Now I think people are beginning to realise that was a load of bollocks and that they were just overhyping the stock.

The UK has among the lowest road deaths in the world.

I’m not quite sure why that is (although anecdotally as a pedestrian, you seem to be treated like royalty in the UK in comparison to other places I’ve been - so much as glance at a zebra crossing and cars come to an immediate stop).

Given how UK drivers often use summer tyres year-round, the weather is dark and cool, and the roads are usually damp, you’d logically expect poor results, but we see the opposite.

Perhaps it’s due to the rather strict yearly MOT safety check? Who knows.