Opt-in you say? How about RMB click with AI chatbot that you can disable by clicking “Disable AI bot” there? Wasn’t opt-in first. And, how is that in aboug:config .ml. list contains tons of entries set to True, rather than False? How in the fuck is it opt-in? It has been opt-out and in order to opt-out most of it, you would need an intermediate/advanced user. There was no toggle switch on a sidebar for normies to see and click. I call BS on this statement.

I begin to believe that we are here in our own bubble. Most lemmy users are against AI implementation. One can see tons of news articles that state that AI implementation failed in many businesses. According to many here, they either expect AI bubble to burst soon or believe that it will do so in near future. Literally everyone would say that putting AI in firefox is a terrible idea that will stray more users off the browser.

If they fear losing user base by not implementing AI, I doubt they are deaf to all the tiny community they have. That is 100% not the “fear” of missing out. That is very likely money grab that was paid by major AI company(ies). They cant be so much blind that they would destroy their community just to not to miss out on AI craze (that also likely already had passed).

This is money. But money hunger will ruin Mozilla

Oh, really? Then it’s my queue!

Just went quickly though their site and saw only big donations. Should’ve check deeper.

Minimum donation to Ladybird is 1k 😭

I really fail to se what Firefox is trying to do.

There is a sizeable amount of people who wish to stay off chromium and avoid AI entirely. Not like FF has a major % of userbase in the internet. They could’ve cater to those people by evading AI entirely and probably would gain much bigger user base by doing that. Spread of word and all. Why would they go the opposite way and stray even more people away from their already tiny core user amount? Doesn’t make sense to me. Did they pair with OpenAI or any other AI company who paid them monnies to be brainless idiots?

Not sure of statistics. But imo judging by the picture of media as of today, torrenting is either growing or changing into usenet.

Any articles can be a click bait. The reality is what matters.

I didnt turn on AI in Firefox myself. It just appeared there after an update and was turned on. It is not opt in but an opt out.

Yarr, maties! Me gonna pirate all them movies!

Arr stack is fully configured and is ready to go. In 2 weeks I will deploy RPi3b+ in a country where piracy is not punished yet. It will act as a proxy though Tailscale VPN. Got 12tb drive for my NAS and will order more later on. External UHD drive purchased and tested. I’m all set! LET THE HOARDING BEIGN!

I mean. Maybe after that their movies will be as good as pre-Endgame? One can hope for?

People born in the 90s:

At age 10: I want to move to USA to live there!

At age 30: Traveling to USA seems to be too dangerous. I’ll pass.

Feature is based on the same tech implementation as these SOS/Service call buttons almost every modern car has. It uses IoT sim.

People who have SOS/Service call button in their cars are also falling under this issue except it would only affect cars that has been outside of russian cellular towers for over 72h.

Also, maybe this is happening due to Porsche not willing to extend IoT sim subscriptions for russian citizens making their sims essentially to be disabled. But I am not sure how car manufacturer IoT sim contracts work. For a typical company/private person IoT sim contract is for 10 years with typically 1gb of data for the same timeframe. If car manufacturer contract is similar to that, this may be the reason why their cars are bricking.

Not only due (or probably not even because of) Satellite system failure.

In order to fight drones flying over the border from Ukraine, Russia implemented new restrictions to cellular connections. From like last 2 weeks they made so that when a sim card that enters russian border, it will be denied cellular connection for 24 hours. This also include russian sim cards that have been not connected to russian cellular network for over 72 hours.

Almost every modern car today has a sim that communicates with servers all the time. It is just that Porsche also has this feature that can track car remotely and immobilize on demand. It utilizes this type of sim card. Porsche itself has nothing to do with why they are bricked. It is a byproduct of russian attempts at preventing drone attacks which backfires spectacularly.

Say, if he got it because it was advertised as an offline device then why would he connect it to wifi anyway? The more I read this article, the more questionable this so called “IT specialist” is.

This is how it has been for a long time - robovacs do talk to a server. Should it? Not necessary. But they undeniably do.

That’s like a month old news article

No one should be outraged. That is how all robovacs are working - use LIDAR to map area -> send back to server -> server calculates optimal cleaning route -> sends back info to vac -> vac cleans. Vac cant ping back to server - server thinks vac is dead. No killswitch is needed.

Also, app is not a necessity except we are forced to use it. But many would not like to lose an ability to track progress or start and stop cleaning from their phone outside of the home network. For these features, app and external server is a must.

The only real issue with robo vacs is that it is an IoT device. We should make manufacturers and brands to let us choose if we want to selfhost their software. But that would never happen.

This article IMO is full of bs and ragebait.

4W rpi5 versus 7W n100 on idle is not a big of a difference. I admit that rpi5 would be around half as cheaper to run but even with really high electricity price, difference is minuscule. Your average wifi router would utilize around the same amount of energy as N100 minipc.

Not sure if this counts as SBC, but maybe you should try to find a used GMKtec G5. It is tiny and these usually have N97 and 12gb of DDR5. New one goes for 139 where I am at, so maybe it is fair to try to find used one for cheaper.

Alternatives: minis with N5059, N95, N100, N150 are all priced similarly.

I run Jellyfin but we have already seen 90% of it. I have managed to setup a fully automated Arr stack with Jellyseer but need to deploy rpi3 in my homeland that will act as a VPN so the country I am in wouldn’t bite my ass with a huge fine for torrenting stuff.

Other than that, we do use Myflixer a ton. She, in fact, is primary user. Thing is, Myflixer is English and Netflix is in local language which even I find it being better for both of us since we are foreigners. This is the reason I have set an Arr stack so I can download movies in local language. But I have to figure out how to get in local private torrent trackers.

Also, I am watching my Jellyfin instance as I type this comment :)

I know a person who has some Samsung foldable phone that is as of right now (2025.12.03) about a year old. According to them, everything was fine since February when the phone was bought. But last week we got below 0C weather, so the fold line on the screen got layers separated.

Z Fold 7 is 2000 euro. They might have Z Fold 6, I am not sure. Regardless, that is way too expensive of a phone to breaks under a mildly cold weather.

Which surprises me since South Korea is not well known for armed/unarmed break-ins.