If by not linked you mean wholly owned by…

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/organizations/

The Mozilla Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, works with the community to develop software that advances Mozilla’s principles. This includes the Firefox browser, which is well recognized as a market leader in security, privacy and language localization. These features make the Internet safer and more accessible.

I suspect their financial position has changed. Perhaps Google’s being found as a monopoly has made them decide not to help fund Mozilla’s efforts as substantially.

Ashley Boyd lead the advocacy team, here’s the kind of stuff they were doing:

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-welcomes-ashley-boyd-vp-of-advocacy/

In fall of 2016, Mozilla fought for common-sense copyright reform in the EU, creating public education media that engaged over one million citizens and sending hundreds of rebellious selfies to EU Parliament. Earlier in 2016, Mozilla launched a public education campaign around encryption and emerged as a staunch ally of Apple in the company’s clash with the FBI. Mozilla has also fought for mass surveillance reform, net neutrality and data retention reform.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/05/mozilla-foundation-lays-off-30-staff-drops-advocacy-division/

“The Mozilla Foundation is reorganizing teams to increase agility and impact as we accelerate our work to ensure a more open and equitable technical future for us all. That unfortunately means ending some of the work we have historically pursued and eliminating associated roles to bring more focus going forward,” read the statement shared with TechCrunch.

Reading between the lines, I’d keep an eye on them collecting your data and consider one of the privacy-focused forks.

Searx is fancy about it though, It queries everybody and gives you the results that came back from multiple places. This effectively eliminates ads, AI, and unless they all missed it, spam.

Unless he thinks he’s going to serve all that from the die in the next 5 years.

Running Ubuntu on my 2015 air I struggle to get 2 hours out of it. I was able to get TLP to bring it close to 4, But it was at the cost of being borderline unusable.

Hell, even not having lidar The thing was pretty clearly a large road obstacle a second and a half out. They had a whole left lane open At least enough time to do a significant speed reduction.

An entire engine? That sounds like a marketing plot. But if you take smaller chunks let’s say the shape of a combustion chamber or the shape of a intake or exhaust manifold. It’s going to take white noise and just start pattern matching and monkeys on typewriter style start churning out horrible pieces through a simulator until it finds something that tests out as a viable component. It has a pretty good chance of turning out individual pieces that are either cheaper or more efficient than what we’ve dreamed up.

Ml is currently best used as a tool for helping a real human do work. It has to be managed and governed and checked after. It’s still capable of amplifying the amount of work we can do, But it’s kind of like having to have an architect look after engineering work, you can’t just pass the buck and pretend that it’s going to be fine.

I don’t think they’ll be able to do any type of direct competition for TikTok with a lack of advertising and payments You’re not going to draw quality creators. Decentralized algorithm sounds like a nightmare to manage.

However one place they will have some advantage is censorship. Anything that’s not explicitly illegal Will be a hell of a lot harder to stamp out. Moderation will probably be very light.

That’s not enough, let’s outlaw lobbying.

Wireless charging always generates more heat than wired charging but it’s not always a significant amount.

Wired charging ports get dirty, wear out

Batteries last longer with slower charges.

Batteries last longer with less charges

Batteries last longer If they never leave a moderate temperature.

Batteries last longer if they never drop below 20% and never go above 80%

Batteries last longer when stored if they are stored at 50% charge.

Putting that all in check you can take a couple year old phone to a fix it place and have the battery replaced. And they can also replace your wired charging port if necessary.

It’s about right for the price.

If they have $380 and what a $380 computer it will serve.

They made their own bed here by making it so ridiculously hard.

I was going to a gym and I moved to get out of that $20 a month contract I had to write a letter and deliver it to them by hand.

When I canceled my DirecTV service I was on the phone for over an hour. Half of that was spent waiting for someone.

If you want me to have to talk to somebody before exiting a contract I’m okay with that but I need to talk to them right then and I need them to take no for an answer.

Also the whole raising the rates until people terminate and then offering them lower rates is absolute bullshit

There are many at-will states that can fire you on demand (if done carefully) and there’s nothing you can do about it.

All that stuff together is probably only one salary per team, except for the Union. I think the Union is the winning idea.

Don’t clog the toilets. It’s not the c-suites who have to clean that up.

Nah, use cement, let the C-Staff pay for the plumbers/construction, they’d be more than happy to help out.

I’m fairly certain we could ask AI right now if that’s a good idea and it would tell us no

They keep buying up anything that’s an alternative. They need Monopoly sanctions.

try https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/history-master/

It seems to read all mine correctly.

I wasn’t even aware of the lawsuit I live under a rock.

For any other rock dwellers: here’s the background.

Stratasys, the company that invented FDM 3D printing, is currently suing China-based Bambu Lab for patent infringement in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The dispute is over ten U.S. patents covering technology now common place in desktop 3D printers, such as PEI coated build plates, purge towers and automatic bed leveling.