I use KDE. My configuration for the title bar includes a “keep on top” buttons (it’s one of my favourite little Linux things, along with middle click paste, which of course GNOME also wants to remove). On the left side near the application icon. CSDs, which I sometimes use (e.g. Firefox) never include this.

I also can’t just access the KWin menu by right clicking, as I would on a normal window, I have to right click the icon on the taskbar (I do use the windows grouping in the taskbar, and that means even more clicks) or I need to use Alt+F3. Which is not too hard, but it means needing two hands for something that should need one.

So there are applications that manage to make CSDs so useful that the drawbacks become acceptable, but it’s honestly not too often.

As far as I can tell, the paid one also loses then plenty of money (possibly more than the free one?)

I keep hitting my face on the fact that DKMS modules somehow don’t depend on the kernel headers and these have to be installed manually. This happened to me both in Arch and in Debian.

Why does everyone seem to think that this makes sense?

Why was the feature added if my browser is going to browse to the page anyway? […] it could be a privacy preserving feature.

It’s just supposed to save you time and effort.

If anyone has real concerns about having their IP leaked they should be using a VPN (I think Proton has a fairly generous free tier) or TOR. Relying on a link preview feature like that would be like wearing a condom against the rain. It will technically increase your protection, but you will still be really quite exposed.

Love that you ignore all of the people who are currently seeing the popups and not understanding why.

No, I just took his objection at face value.

They create an AI feature, they realise people don’t want it, and realise a minimal one they can turn on for everyone in a thin-end-of-the-wedge approach.

OR

They create a feature with AI, realise it’s controversial, so they figure out a minimal version, they split the parts with and without AI, and enable the non-controversial one by default.

The facts are the same, just a different narrative. Which is legitimate. Realizing that’s what it is is non optional.

Germans behave (in the overwhelming majority) way better than this. But their sense of humor is often… A little different.

“German humour is a serious thing, it is in no laughing matter”

And I have the suspicion you are an Italian living in Germany anyway.

From the linked article I learned that Firefox’s solution also doesn’t use AI, not by default at least.

And the Zen way of doing it has the exact same (imaginary) privacy issue for which the article blames Firefox.

Is this guy for real?

Mozilla says that key points are processed locally to protect your privacy in the release notes, but says nothing about leaking your privacy in showing the link preview (and enabling it by default).

As opposed to the case where you don’t have a link preview, and you click on a website to see what it contains, and they get your IP. The author seems to think Mozilla should have protected our privacy by having someone act as the proxy for the request. Because involving a thirds party that receives all these requests and does work for us for free is absolutely how we protect our privacy.

The user might also have mobility impairments that makes a fast click harder, resulting in a longer hold time.

Yes, a feature clearly designed for pushing onto that juicy “people with mobility impairments” userbase.

I don’t like the direction Firefox seems to be headed in, but damn people really enjoy getting outraged over everything they do. Around here they get ten times more shit than any other comparable project.

That’s what you call a joke? Are you German?

Bombtrack, obviously.

It’s still leagues ahead of LLMs. I’m not saying it’s entirely impossible to build a computer that surpasses the human brain in actual thinking. But LLMs ain’t it.

The feature set of the human brain is different, in a way that you can’t compensate for by just increasing scale. So you get something that works but not quite, by using several orders of magnitude more power.

We optimize and learn constantly. We have chunking, whereby a complex idea becomes simpler for our brain once it’s been processed a few times, and this allows us to progressively work on more and more complex ideas without an increase in our working memory. And a lot of other stuff.

If you spend enough time using LLMs you must notice how their working is different from your own.

Plenty of people have. Seems like she does a bit of escorting as well? Could make for a nice birthday gift.

For movies there are basically no real options to buy DRM free video. There are a few very minor sources like the VOD store of Vimeo, but catalog is limited.

The only functional option for most content is to buy a drive compatible with Libredrive, get a license for makemkv, and just rip blu-ray discs, but that comes with a high startup cost and is more involved.

Amazon used to be straight mp3 downloads for purchased tracks, but I’m not sure if that’s standard anymore.

Still there, though I’ll try just about anything else before going to Amazon, because Amazon bad.

It basically mostly already exists, but it’s in Java:

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/8251-power-mode-ii/

https://github.com/gileli121/GlassCode

I don’t think any car can ever have the acoustic qualities needed to tell the difference between FLAC 192/24 and a decent MP3. Assuming that’s possible at all, but that’s a different discussion.

I don’t think I’d care to go through the trouble of replacing the headunit (which already supports Android Auto) to optimize for codec selection. If anything I’d replace the speakers.

But I don’t use the car so much on local movement (german city, plenty of other options) and on the highway I think the noise is bit too loud to be worth it. I’ll probably just wait until the current ones age enough to annoy me, then buy a nicer set.

But why would you eat Mexican food in Spain, unless you live there. Your brain went “damn, all those people speaking Spanish are making crave tacos”?

I use, depending on mood or circumstances, a SD cars with a dozen GB of MP3, or use Finamp on my phone via Android Auto.

My collection is still made exclusively of MP3, mainly because it’s a large-ish collection of pretty high quality files (mostly LAME V0) with all the tags just right (Picard+beet and a ton of work).

I curated this over the years, it sounds more than good enough on my hardware, and I don’t feel like throwing the whole thing away because something a little fancier came along, especially if in this day and age it still means taking a loss in terms of compatibility.

Both with the car, and with my Yahama network receiver/amplifier. The car is relatively new (2020) the amplifier is a little more seasoned, but it can direct play mp3, while I’d have to transcode opus.

Someone shoot me the day I change HiFi hardware over codecs.

With this being said, I’m not sure I’d transcode Opus into MP3 on purpose.

Only if you think I’m here to screw you over.

It was a new car. A Skoda Fabia. Ordered in January, delivered in May after the first lockdown. The autoradio supports AAC, MP3, FLAC, WMA and vorbis.

And I do use the SD slot, with a dozen GB of MP3. Anything fancier does not make much sense in a car.

OPUS files can be played by practically any modern device

The radio of my car (bought in 2020) begs to differ.