I’ll bet they’re using dirty rounding tricks too to misrepresent the price. For all we know, it could be as high as 6600 Iranian rials. Outrageous.

Also tells me this is 100% a barely functioning piece of trash they whipped up with an LLM like a whiny, shit-smearing toddler.

How is the headline ragebait? Ragebait is the cynical production of content to increase clicks and engagement. The author clearly actually is that passionate about FOSS self-hosting over paid gatekeepers like Plex, and the tone of the article is adequately reflected in the headline.

An opinion author stating a strong opinion in the headline isn’t automatically “ragebait” just because you personally aren’t as passionate. And I say that as someone who isn’t as passionate as the author.

How the shit is this supposed to be “programmer humor”? Comms really do return to the lowest common denominator if they aren’t actively moderated for relevance; jesus christ.

“When I go to [do normal, totally uncontroversial thing]… and [nonsensical catastrophe that I made up in my head happens].”

Dude, do you realize how fucking long 5000 words is? That’s approximately 11 pages with 12-point font single-spaced – consisting, to emphasize, of just words. That would represent an overwhelming majority of pages that people are reading and is well beyond a “long page”. If this is your attempt to make fun of the feature’s limitations, you’ve actually instead surprised me that they allow this much.

Mind as well that your cited limitation is more to do with on-board processing power than “the LLM will probably fuck it up”. Which are connected, sure – more sophisticated, resource-intensive models tend to do better. But that’s not really apples-to-apples with what they were talking about.

They said, on Lemmy.

Yes, they said on Lemmy. I solidly understand what it is to be in many tiny, insulated ideological minorities from decades of experience, namely that my experience is often profoundly different from most peoples’. Corporations are obviously inducing demand for large AI models, but I do speak to many people outside my anti-LLM bubble and rub up against the reality that people fucking love to use LLMs to (as an example from the OP) summarize everything for them. So many people I speak to are so fucking brainrotted from using LLMs as a crutch that they’ll whine that like 300 words, for a thing they asked to have explained for them, is too long and needs a summary.

Chrome is literally worse than stock Firefox. You seem pretty out of touch with what we’re talking about rn.

Yeah, I’m not going to waste my time with this one.

Also non-generative translation has existed for years just fine, just saying lol.

I have no idea what the hell you mean by “non-generative”. Do you even know whay that word means? I see now that one was introduced in late 2023 and I was unaware of it. But what makes this one “generative” and that one “non-generative”? It’s all tokens to tokens, regardless of if it’s an LSTM (I don’t know if that’s what that one used) or a GPT (which I vaguely assume Firefox uses now, and is a generative pretrained transformer, but that’s not really the job it’s doing here; maybe a BERT? Maybe an LSTM still?)

I knew what you meant, to be clear. I was taking the piss.

driving people away from using stock firefox in the first place.

I cannot even express what a tiny, insulated minority that you’re in. A lack of these kinds of features is what would drive people away to Chrome. Like holy merciful hell, Firefox’s new LLM page translation is jank, but it’s something (this is the one feature I use; it’s local when you download the language pack, and my alternative would be using Argos locally – more accurate, but slow as hell and less convenient).

I cannot begin to tell you all the times I wished I had what Chrome had in the way of translation – just without the privacy concerns. I only didn’t switch because of a strong resolve; I read non-English articles all the time. It’s still not as good, but I’m so relieved to finally have a built-in, private translator. And I’m well on the “fuck the proliferation of LLMs” side of the spectrum.

And I can very well imagine those features I turn off because I don’t want them are to a lot of people what translation was to me.

lmao ok

I’m sorry the Block AI enhancements toggle is impossible for you to find. I hope you’ll find it easier once you sober up a bit.

This is something there’s an easy-to-find toggle for in the settings. A lot of people use LLM shit, and I’m in the minority – even, I’m sure, among Firefox users – so I’m not going to gripe that I have to switch it off to never be bugged about it again. (Most of these, by the way, are one-time prompts IIRC.)

Oh, I won’t block them because I moderate a community they spent weeks ruining and barely didn’t get banned from as an olive branch.

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I didn’t watch the second video, but assume it’s just: “Hey, let’s see if it’s any better now, since this is what I used last time, and it’s sold preinstalled on commercial hardware.” I don’t like Pop!, but I also think the people arguing he should be using something else – regarding a semi-popular, commercially-backed distro commonly advertised as noob-friendly – are hitting the copium too hard.

“But he wants to do gaming!” And I never had to install a special version of Windows because I wanted to do digital art. That’s not intentionally making Linux look bad; it’s just not going out of his way to doll it up like a burger in a fast food ad. Plenty of people will want to game but don’t treat it as their entire identity and therefore won’t be looking into “best linux gaming distro 2026 reddit”.

I liked JayzTwoCents’ video because he has an expert walk him through it and chooses Bazzite since he’s doing it specifically to evaluate gaming, not how good he is at using it. For a video where somebody is trying to assess the state of Linux for a normal user new to Linux, I don’t want an expert hovering over them the entire time, and within reason, I want them to pick what appeals to them.

I’m over here having a great time on Endeavour, but I got turned off of Linux for years after trying Ubuntu as a daily driver for several months and running into issues constantly. My actual Linux experience was eerily similar to Linus’ first video (it nuked my entire config twice), and I probably would’ve gone back to Ubuntu as a test if I were doing it for an audience and not for myself.

What happened on Pop! this time, by the way? COSMIC issues?

Huge props for that logo. They saw the slam dunk and took it.

Man, am I the only one who sees emojis used in place of bullet points (especially “✨”, whatever the shit that’s supposed to convey; polish?) and thinks “An LLM definitely wrote this”?

Your interpretation is wrong in a subtle way: this is 50 GB free of a “VPN” (seems more like a proxy) on Mozilla’s Fastly’s infra, whereas Mozilla VPN uses Mullvad’s infra (and is a real VPN).

Yeah, OP, watch your disgusting fucking mouth.

Dementia

Great, a Debian distro targeted at gamers. Just what we needed. 🙄