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Quoting: hardpenguinHow about you disable them by default, Mozilla, and have people unleash AI at their own peril -_-

This is dumb. So dumb.

They're providing the controls to turn it off, or turn it back on. What does it matter whether AI is already enabled by default?

I'm sorry, this just sounds a little silly to me. People, myself included, wanted the option to turn the AI features off. Alright, that's what they're doing. Now you insist it's off by default. Let's say they did that too, would you just turn around and say, "Well, there shouldn't be any AI to begin with!"

Absolutely, it's absurd to suppose they are going to develop new features and then make them all disabled by default for everyone.

They are providing a feature for those who want to disable all current and future AI features to do so with one click. It ought to be welcomed. I'd be surprised if any other mainstream browser follows their lead on this. It shows they know AI is a divisive issue and want to accommodate all users.

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Quoting: hardpenguinHow about you disable them by default, Mozilla, and have people unleash AI at their own peril -_-

This is dumb. So dumb.

They're providing the controls to turn it off, or turn it back on. What does it matter whether AI is already enabled by default?

I'm sorry, this just sounds a little silly to me. People, myself included, wanted the option to turn the AI features off. Alright, that's what they're doing. Now you insist it's off by default. Let's say they did that too, would you just turn around and say, "Well, there shouldn't be any AI to begin with!"

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Surely all they need is new tab / pop-up on a browser update to say: " would you like new AI features enabled?" (yes or no)
Enabled by default is tone def and why I moved to Vivaldi years ago

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Quoting: Nic264What's dumb about translations and OCR?

Blind hatred for anything labeled with “AI” is as pointless as hatred for anything that uses linked lists.

...Until you are the one shopping for a pair of DIMMs.

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Quoting: grigiI would love to turn off "AI" features by default and then only turn the ones I need on manually.

I believe this will be possible with what they are offering. You can set the global AI toggle to off which will make all current and future AI features turned off and then you can manually override per AI feature the ones you want on.

If you don’t want to use AI features at all, the Block AI enhancements toggle disables current and future AI features and suppresses prompts. You can always re-enable individual features if you want.

Source: [https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/try-out-ai-controls-in-firefox-nightly/td-p/117177](https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/try-out-ai-controls-in-firefox-nightly/td-p/117177)

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Good deal, should have been like this from the beginning.

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ML translations have been around for a long time, and works. It however is not an LLM. Due to marketing "AI" is confused with "LLM". Due to corporations pushing this unethically and trying to not give us a choice, people are very anti "AI", hence long-standing "AI" like vector-spaces are now painted with the same brush.

Don't attack the person for getting the minutiae wrong, especially when corporations spend money to confuse and misdirect.

Did Mozilla do the right thing here? Arguably, yes. Is it perfect? No.

I would love to turn off "AI" features by default and then only turn the ones I need on manually. Instead it's either "all OFF", or "ON by default".
Can I live with it? Yes.

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This is great news. It may not look like, but there are so few good fallout1&2 like games out there... Encased was an hidden gem (unfortunately the company closed). ATOM was much lower in production value but it was ok (although the dialogues were most of the time boring and the English translation was wired).

Let's hope they nail the dialogue this time.

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Quoting: hardpenguinHow about you disable them by default, Mozilla, and have people unleash AI at their own peril -_-

This is dumb. So dumb.

What's dumb about translations and OCR?

Blind hatred for anything labeled with “AI” is as pointless as hatred for anything that uses linked lists.

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Install libreWolf, a privacy focused firefox fork, and leave all that bs behind.

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Great but late (at least for me, I'm writing from LibreWolf).

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This was always an amazing project to provide a 2D adventure game engine, but I genuinely don't understand what are they doing now with including separate engines for running a 3D game Penumbra. At this point what stops them from e.g. including OpenMW, including the Heroes 2 and Heroes 3 open source engines, etc.? What is the purpose of this project morphing into a bundle of their initial vision engine plus more and more unrelated random shit?

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I wish this stuff was just made available through extensions so people who don't want them don't have to deal with them, and people who do want them can still use them (even if I personally wish that Mozilla weren't investing into AI at all). But at least they're making good on this. As much as I'm critical of Mozilla's direction, Firefox remains the best browser for my own personal needs and use case.

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These are great additions. I like that it's easy to turn off them all, I also like that you can pick and chose. All except the chatbot (🤮) are on-device. Haters gonna hate but this is a good direction by Mozilla.

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How about you disable them by default, Mozilla, and have people unleash AI at their own peril -_-

This is dumb. So dumb.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI fear they will be getting massive government bailouts, like in 2008. "Risk" is for us little people.

https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakingviews/donald-trump-will-bail-out-crypto-holders-2026-2025-12-22/

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Bring back memories of another Road Rash remake a while ago called Road Redemption.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/300380/Road_Redemption/

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Quoting: lejimsterI can't remember if I read it here or elsewhere but the developers of CachyOS don't focus on or really consider it a gaming distro anyway..

I also think I've seen that, but it does not prevent it from being one of the very best distros for gaming anyway, (if that is what you are after). Cachyos proton, the low latency scheduler options, the LTO etc. It is really nice.

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Nice, waiting for Debian to rebase scummvm on SDL3.

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I just wanna complain that I bought a GPD XP Plus. It's still running Android 11. They should be fined and forced to update to the lastest along with every security patch and continue to do so.

That said, the Pocket 4 looks like the best 2-in-1 out there that'll run GNU/Linux. So long as the hardware is good and others are taking care of the software....

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Atom just didn't hit for me and I don't know why. I love tactical CRPGs. I love the old Fallout games. I love the first two Wasteland games (haven't gotten around to trying 3 yet). I played Atom for around 23 hours and then quit though, which is very rare for me. Usually I either abandon games within the first 3 hours or I play them all the way through barring game-breaking bugs.

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Obviously it's a cost and time savings measure. It's known that GOG is not very profittable, if at all. Now, one of the co-founders presumably paid off their debts and might not have much money leftover for himself.

LLM generated stuff can be useful as a tool for the first step. A director or some other non-artst person has an idea for promo materials can, within several minutes, realize them. The next step, however, needs to be to pass it along to a skilled artist, either on the payroll, contracted, or volunteer community member to make it genuine, original, and without the suckage. lol. Any necessary text can be added last minute as to not give away sales/et. al. ahead of time. That way, everyone wins.

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Quoting: d3Xt3rBut for a more serious (production) or install-it-and-forget-it type scenarios though, I'd recommend a lightweight immutable and atomic distro, such as uCore OS - because Arch/Cachy ocassionally breaks or needs manual intervention, and that might not be acceptable for some server scenarios.

The uCore transition is finished? Tbh I'm a bit wary of Universal Blue - there were a LOT of changes and deprecations a few months ago. Enough that I, admittedly emotionally, crashed out because I felt like my trust was being broken.

My laptop could probably use it tbh. All it needs to be is to run Resilio Sync, seed the um... Linux ISOs I have to help people, and be useful when I need to open a browser. On an i5 Broadwell Lenovo G40-80 from like 10 years ago (that I really need to repaste and swap fans at some point). It won't help much but I hope the memory management will be better (that poor 8+4GB mismatched memory...) and I'd need to reboot it less.

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Quoting: benstor214They no longer seem to sneak a newsletter subscription through the backdoor when claiming one of their giveaways. That’s refreshing.
I was always wondering in what world 'I want this free game' meant 'Yes, I DID change my mind: I now DO want to receive spam'.

ngl, I've never bought anything from gog, but I've gotten many free games from them over the years that are drm-free...particularly if i have that game in a locked down format from say steam or another game seller...i don't mind the getting the "spam" from them.

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Yeah yeah, when are we getting a REAL statement on the AI thing GOG?

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I already own CD-ROMs for the trilogy, which also includes Jack in the Dark. I wonder if that is included in GoG. PS: Yes, I can confirm Jack in the Dark is in the trilogy from GoG.

But this is great to own a digital download, so I don't have to climb up my closet top shelf to retrieve the CD-ROM in a taped box, deal with any bit rot, and whether my optical reader will function after years of disuse.

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I've already got it on GOG. Might've been another giveaway, I think. But your distractions away from crappy AI use won't work on me GOG! Hire an actual artist or two, you cheap fucks. 🎨

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Quoting: Linux_RocksRusty Cage by Soundgarden is a fitting song for the opening FMV too. lol

Ah, the cringey 90's live action intro! Will the developer deliver!?

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cool

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Road Rash versions vary widely. The Sega Saturn, Sega Genesis, and Sega CD versions are probably the most noteworthy. The Saturn release is the 3DO version, but vastly improved. They render their graphics in similar ways, with the Saturn being more powerful. While the Sega CD version is the Genesis version, but with the CD quality audio and FMVs from the "next-gen" versions. Rusty Cage by Soundgarden is a fitting song for the opening FMV too. lol

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