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Quoting: suchI think FF8R is the one version not to get out of the two - it looks atrocious, and it still has the same technical limitations the previous version had.

So, I maintain that if we're talking compromise (given we're discussing the PC ports, and modern FF8 ports in general) the emulated PSX version is the single best, easiest to obtain, set up and engage with... compromise. Popular games as well, so you can snag those discs easy off ebay. No Pocketstation support in software emulation AFAIK, but that's truly nothing to write home about - I own a couple, I know - and statistically not something someone interested in getting into FF8 in 2026 would be into, certainly not over the rest of the game not being... a sub-par, unresponsive experience relative to the smoothness you get on the PSX, emulated or otherwise.

Now, if we're not talking compromise there's the original hardware route or FPGA, which has the benefit of not requiring a scaler for HDMI output. Pocketstation support included.

I can't for the life of me decipher what you meant by the reading Japanese snarkiness, though :)

Without a PocketStation for Chocobo World you can't get various items (the Remastered version removed CW but added the items to the Angelo Search drop table). Also, a PSX version of FFVIII will set you back like 100 USD, which is 5 times what you'd pay for FFVIII on GOG outside of a sale, and that's before taking the costs for a PSX and PocketStation into account (of course that's even assuming you don't get scammed which used to be a real issue on e-bay). Not to mention the awful load times on PSX hardware (which could be mitigated by using a PS2 with fast disk loading instead).

I will have to admit being wrong about having to be able to read Japanese, though, I thought the PocketStation features were removed from the non-Japanese versions because the PocketStation was only available in Japan. Turns out I was wrong.

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A very small downtick from people that switched and ran away at the first sight of trouble or realized they couldn’t play battlefield 6 maybe?🤣 At least globally user count is up.

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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.

It shows they caved to an immediate and vocal response from a good chunk of their core audience, that is. From their own statements, it's clear they hadn't even considered that anyone would *want* to turn off the "AI" "features" they shoved in there for no good reason (Microsoft telling them they'd donate more if they did it is not a good reason).

A lot of people *have* been saying there shouldn't be any AI to begin with, by the way. It's a waste of resources and the very definition of bloat. Even if "AI" worked as heavily advertised (it doesn't), it's extra material stuffed into the browser for little practical purpose. At most, they could make a framework for "AI" extensions if people really want them, and leave it to the user to add if they really want it. I guarantee most wouldn't.

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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.

Well, as Nic264 and grigi mentioned, we've had ML features for a long time and they don't affect RAM prices. Our cameras being able to roughly detect where a face is and auto-focus on that region, is the same tech as the on-device features Firefox now has, and has been for about a decade.
I agree, the real issue is that (apart from the chat "feature" - which I will never understand the purpose of) everything is now labeled "AI", despite being different from the "AI" crap that's wrecking both the environment and the economy right now.
That it's not related to actual "Artificial Intelligence" also makes it a terrible buzzword to use in general.

What we should be rallying against, is the rise of "AI" data centres, the sudden artificial scarcity and caste system of hardware, off-site handling of data, and training on stolen data.

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Quoting: whizseI never had a problem with the newsletter. Give me free video games, I allow you to send me the occasional mail. Same rule applies to everyone, GOG, Fanatical, my moms...

How many moms do you have? 👀

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After ~20 years of using Firefox, this incessant AI bull$h¡t was the final straw for me. A couple months ago I moved to LibreWolf and I'm much happier with piece of mind while I keep waiting for Servo.

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Civ7 pre-production is going quite well, looks like.

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Quoting: CyborgZeta

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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