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Quoting: Kithop

Quoting: williamjcm25.3.0/1 had a bug that forced me to downgrade to 25.2.7 if I wanted to use SteamVR, so let's hope that one's fixed too.

Also had to do the same thing here. Not in 25.3.2 but it looks like there's a Merge Request open with a fix!

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamVR-for-Linux/issues/836#issuecomment-3665458999 -> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/38987

Yup, that's the issue I ran into. Well, I guess I'll keep my Mesa packages pinned a bit longer, even though Arch doesn't like partial upgrades.

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Quoting: Nezchan

Quoting: LoudTechieI don't think more chatbots and such will make Firefox better, but there is one recent AI feature of Firefox that although I don't use it I think is very good.

The build in translation capability. I had to download all kinds of sketchy extensions to get that to work right for my uncle and now I can just flip a setting.

As far as I'm aware, and I am no expert so I could easily be wrong, but translation is generally Machine Learning (ML), rather than Large Language Model (LLM), which the chatbots and generative AI are built on. It does fall under the "AI" umbrella, but doesn't have the same issues as LLMs such as rampant plagiarism, enormous energy use, black box processing that cannot be audited, generating misinformation, etc. So therefore not really a big issue despite both being under the same umbrella.

Machine learning is the base category. LLM is a subcategory of machine learning.

My understanding of the training methods of Mozilla are insufficient to classify it, it as a LLM, but it certainly is an LM(language model).
I would guess based on their github and budget that it's not(LLM requires self-reinforcement learning, which costs a lot).

Copyright wise all translation is the creation of derivative works although many nations tend to have personal use exceptions(in this case this matters, because I'm talking about the act of translating the webpage not the act of training the model).

Like all ML it's trained on data produced by people and thus at least subject to copyright.
Whether or not they've permission from the copyright holders to train their model with it I'm uncertain.
I would guess they've, because it's public which data they use and they've yet to be sued into oblivion.

[It's the most auditable model I've encountered in quite some time, but you still can't usefully attach a debugger to it](https://github.com/mozilla/translations)
It's translations certainly aren't perfect, does mistranslated information count as misinformation?

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Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy has just been released from early access and has a native Linux build.

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I bought The World Next Door (I played the demo and liked it) and Misericorde Volume Two (I loved the first part). Considering I have a large backlog to work through, I don't think I'll be buying anything else this year.

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I'm not sure what I expected, but I was in the beta of this one and really could not get into it. It was "just" a rather generic survival/crafting game for me, with respawning baddies in those caves, even if you built it your home. I mean, come on. Basic takeovers like that should be expected to work in todays survival games.

Also there was no story there that I could detect, just a huge desert and... That's about it?

Very, very underwhelming.

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Calling Firefox a product multiple times makes my soul cringe.

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Quoting: _wojtekIMHO the issue with Firefox "adopting AI" is way overblown. Yes, AI is not great (especially if it's done with speculative bubble and cash burning by big-tech) and it's questionable ethics wise but… sometimes it's usefull and people do use it…

Also what's the alternative? Crappy reskins of chromium? :/

Librewolf
Zen Browser
Waterfox

there you go, three alternatives that have no ai integrations whatsoever.

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I wound up getting five games last night.

for desktop:

• Ghostwire Tokyo


• The Forgotten City


• Underrail

for deck:

• Legend of Grimrock 2


• Caravan Sandwich

Probably most excited for Underrail on desktop. On Deck, last night I tried Grimrock, but unfortunately it's a victim of that god damned steam deck verified bullshit that I hate so much. It says its verified, but it most DEFINITELY IS NOT. Ragehate that shit so much. The controls are so bad it's unplayable. They basically didn't make any kind of control scheme at all.

So I quickly gave up, and will probably refund.

On the other hand, Caravan Sandwich is SUPER FUN! So glad I picked that up!

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Quoting: LoudTechieI don't think more chatbots and such will make Firefox better, but there is one recent AI feature of Firefox that although I don't use it I think is very good.

The build in translation capability. I had to download all kinds of sketchy extensions to get that to work right for my uncle and now I can just flip a setting.

As far as I'm aware, and I am no expert so I could easily be wrong, but translation is generally Machine Learning (ML), rather than Large Language Model (LLM), which the chatbots and generative AI are built on. It does fall under the "AI" umbrella, but doesn't have the same issues as LLMs such as rampant plagiarism, enormous energy use, black box processing that cannot be audited, generating misinformation, etc. So therefore not really a big issue despite both being under the same umbrella.

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I don't think more chatbots and such will make Firefox better, but there is one recent AI feature of Firefox that although I don't use it I think is very good.

The build in translation capability. I had to download all kinds of sketchy extensions to get that to work right for my uncle and now I can just flip a setting.

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Quoting: BrandonGeneIt's shocking to me that none of these big companies have made the realization of "Hey, you know what would go over really well? Committing to NOT adopting AI in our product." Out of anyone, it should've been Mozilla.

Mozzilla is mostly(80%) funded by google the one with the money decides.

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Quoting: suchOtherwise, I liked what I played of Hollow Knight and will get back to it someday, but I'm not that into the idea of a harder sequel so I have zero interest in Silksong. I do really like the devs, though, so if I do finish Hollow Knight and feel up for more...

I've 100 % Silksong and... yes! it is more difficult than Hollow Knight. But the standard end (end of act2) is not very difficult. If you want more then you start act 3 and it gets lot more difficult.

When you see an area is difficult or it could be a boss... better do another route if you are not prepared. Encourages exploration that is very good on this game.

Now in my second run I'm 90% and I continue enjoying it a lot.

Note in my first run some Act 3 bosses needed 20 tries... and now with 2-5 tries it is enough. In 2nd run I'm with Reaper crest that makes everything easier.

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Quoting: elmapulsome of those assets seems like they were draw on top of assets from pokémon or rpg maker...
or that they havent even changed anything on the original assets...
i wonder if this game is free from copyright violation or it might be taken down at any moment...

As Palword displayed.
Copyright isn't their largest threat.
It's patents.
They last shorter, but are much more thorough.

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Didn't get any new games last wintersale, but this time I actually bought a few, and all of them works perfectly fine for me with Cachy Proton.

• Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown


• Assassin's Creed: Mirage, Valhalla


• Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hell


• Men of War: Assault Squad 2


• Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands


• Company of Heroes 3

Those will hopefully keep me going next year !

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Quoting: BrandonGeneIt's shocking to me that none of these big companies have made the realization of "Hey, you know what would go over really well? Committing to NOT adopting AI in our product." Out of anyone, it should've been Mozilla.

Other companies: Lost in a dumpster fire,
Steam: Does nothing -- Win

Does this meme will ever be not true?

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the game is in the GOG Winter Sale so it's 75% off as well.

Pretty hefty base price for a game from 2019, though.

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Opt-out is always wrong, bad and the incorrect path to take, you clueless sack of wine overpaid CEO.

Mozilla just cannot stop themselves from making the worst choices at any given opportunity. Doubling down for bonus Torment Nexus points.

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Quoting: Cley_Faye

Quoting: doragasuToo late, today I switched to LibreWolf after literally DECADES of loyalty, and everything is working great, I'm not going back unless things change A LOT.

There is a fundamental problem with depending on a *Firefox* fork to alleviate potential Firefox issues.
If the upstream (Firefox) starts messing up with a lot of features that used to work fine but are now entangled with unwanted bloat, each fork have to do more work to untangle the mess. And, when the upstream codebase inevitably starts to deviate too much, maintaining the fork gets exponentially tedious. It's not like LibreWolf's devs said "I want no AI and tracking" and poof, it's done.

If the worst happen and the cleaned up Firefox forks have to completely separate from the upstream, then any future improvement (and that would include spec conformance and fixes) will have to be manually cleared again and backported from a source tree that's more and more distinct over time. I have no idea about the resources available to LibreWolf, but that would end up meaning maintaining the whole thing instead of a fork. That's a big task.

You are completely right, but currently I think it's my best option. I absolutely don't want a Chromium based browser. In an ideal world, Servo would be production ready and I could switch to that. But it's not there.

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Quoting: doragasuToo late, today I switched to LibreWolf after literally DECADES of loyalty, and everything is working great, I'm not going back unless things change A LOT.

There is a fundamental problem with depending on a *Firefox* fork to alleviate potential Firefox issues.
If the upstream (Firefox) starts messing up with a lot of features that used to work fine but are now entangled with unwanted bloat, each fork have to do more work to untangle the mess. And, when the upstream codebase inevitably starts to deviate too much, maintaining the fork gets exponentially tedious. It's not like LibreWolf's devs said "I want no AI and tracking" and poof, it's done.

If the worst happen and the cleaned up Firefox forks have to completely separate from the upstream, then any future improvement (and that would include spec conformance and fixes) will have to be manually cleared again and backported from a source tree that's more and more distinct over time. I have no idea about the resources available to LibreWolf, but that would end up meaning maintaining the whole thing instead of a fork. That's a big task.

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You know what, Mozilla? I will compromise with you. Since it is optional anyway then you can add AI if you really want as a part of another browser that will not be named "Firefox".

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I got The Drifter after @Eike's recommendation, Unavowed, and the Joe Richardson's trilogy; Four Last Things, The Procession to Calvary and Death of the Reprobate.

Expedition 33 and Indiana Jones will have to wait until I can play them on the desktop or when they release the Definitive Edition. Or if I win Christmas' lottery 😅

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I'd been tempted when it was on sale on Fanatical recently, so I couldn't resist Dead Island 2 Ultimate for $7.

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Quoting: Bumadar

Quoting: CentrisToo late. Already got rid of FF.

Maybe I am of an older generation, but why this on/off view?
Mozilla says they going to do AI in the future somewhere, it's not clear exactly how or what this exactly means or how it will be incorporated but you drop it like a hot potato and suddenly overnight they are evil.
The world is many shades of gray, not just black and white, see how it onfolds and then take a decision.

It's part of the zeitgeist. Everything is black and white. There is no middle-ground on anything from politics, conflicts, tech or weird celebrity comments.

Truth is there is no new information here compare to the previous statement from Mozilla. AI should be optional and easy to turn off.

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Okay, you got me, i'll buy it finally.
(Either this or i have to do the ashlands in Valheim solo, so... easy choice)

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Quoting: Bumadar

Quoting: CentrisToo late. Already got rid of FF.

Maybe I am of an older generation, but why this on/off view?
Mozilla says they going to do AI in the future somewhere, it's not clear exactly how or what this exactly means or how it will be incorporated but you drop it like a hot potato and suddenly overnight they are evil.
The world is many shades of gray, not just black and white, see how it onfolds and then take a decision.

It's not on/off. In my case, it started years ago when they decided to install an extension to serve Mr. Robot ads, and that snowball has been rolling until now, one bad decision after other. I have been seriously considering switching for months, this has been the tipping point for me.

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Thank goodness.

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Quoting: SlayerTheChikken

Quoting: no_information_hereb) Vivaldi has made a public no-AI statement. I prefer FF, but a good alternative is sitting there waiting.

I would be careful about Vivaldi as the CEO has made some weird political statements in the past - though I'm no longer able to find any of them at all potentially due to search being scrubbed, as for Proton (this being relevant because Vivaldi ships free Proton VPN) I'm not sure of it sometimes but personally I don't use their services except email.

I don't think so. The CEO of Vivaldi is Jon von Tetzchner, who was one of the original founders of Opera. I have never heard anything but positive comments from him.

You are probably thinking of the CEO of Brave, Brendan Eich. While he is skilled, he has been caught in a number of controversial positions.

Or, maybe you are thinking of the CEO of Proton, Andy Yen. Yes, he said some stupid things during covid, but I won't blame Vivaldi for that.

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It's sad because I'm pretty sure that Mozilla should have surveyed their users before going all-in on AI.

This way they might have seen that their users don't need these AI features.

Better yet, the surveys may have pointed what the users actually want, and might even have lead to a community-driven roadmap.

Instead of that, Mozilla is having as many bad ideas as they have new CEOs...

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Renzatic Gear

Quoting: Purple Library GuyI was not expecting Vivaldi.

No one ever does.

You saying the Spanish Inquisition use him as their sound track?

…would you expect it? Of course not!

Which makes you wonder, if you expect them to do something unexpected, does it mean they should do something you’d suspect, simply because you wouldn’t be expecting the expected?

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