I was 1, but my belly is now full of cheese toastie. 7 it is.

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.

Yeah, why wouldn’t it be? Lol

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

That’s a shame. I’ve had very good experiences with Sony upper mid range/lower high end TVs. Their image processing is second to none IMO, they seem to use more powerful CPUs than a lot of other android TV makers, and their use of AndroidTV means I can trivially customise my TV in a way that I can’t with lots of other brands (strip out ads, basically).

Shit, my oldest daughter moved into a flat with friends when she started uni not long ago, and took my old 2007 42" 1080p Bravia that I bought all those years ago. She hadn’t even been born yet, and it still looks shockingly good.

This is sad news.

They bring a lot of “exclusives” to PC too.

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

Right? That leaves no TVs. I can’t really think of any TVs that are ad-free, or are guaranteed to be ad free in future.

Personally I’ve been getting android TV boxes and installing a custom (and free) launcher on it, and using SmartTube for ad-free YouTube.

No it isn’t? I’ve tried again and just like before, it loads a page.

Obviously they have, it’s just very few and far between.

It’s a bit silly to bring up royal families and pretend their lifestyles are similar to that of the common man.

Look at this map and tell me the issue is European culture.

This is a problem with Pakistani culture in Britain when it comes to marrying family members.

There’s a reason why the hotspot of birth defects for all of Europe is in Bradford, an area of high Pakistani immigration where over 80% of married adult Pakistanis are married to cousins. That is an insane stat.

Brits have been doing this for literal hundreds to thousands of years.

No, some German-descended royals did it for a few hundred. And they are absolutely not representative of the average Briton. Most normal people aren’t continually marrying from the same royal families of other allied nations, like royals used to.

Do you think maps like this are mere coincidence?

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.

Brits actually have among the healthiest teeth in the world. A while ago they were joint first with Germany, but now they’re only joint 7th with Sweden, after the likes of Denmark, Finland, and others upped their game.

The cousin fucking is very much a Pakistani immigrant problem, so not really related to the unfounded American meme about British dental care.

It’s a big thing in the Pakistani and British-Pakistani communities. The biggest spot in all of Europe for incest is in Bradford, after all.

I highly doubt those demographics vote Reform. Reform voters hate these people.

If you’re seriously trying to compare the other allies to the Nazis or USSR then you are insane.

In general, I’m not at all against seeing our flags flown. There’s nothing wrong with it, and in fact I think it’s bizarre some people actually ashamed of it. The only other place I’ve seen people act in this manner is Germany. It’s an aspect of British culture I’m not keen on. It’s fine to have some pride about where you live. I have a Northumberland badge stitched onto my backpack, I think it’s neat.

That said, cable-tying some AliExpress polyester tat onto a lamppost and spray painting a wonky flag onto a roundabout just because you don’t like the forrins? Hardly a classy move. Even aside from the sinister motives behind it, it looks shit. Particularly now that they’re all stained, faded, and tattered.

Let’s leave flags to either people putting them up on their own property, and councils who are willing to do them properly.

Generally unsupported means “we will not provide support for this, you’re on your own if something goes wrong”

Rather than “this will not work at all, we have ensured that”

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.