Notices by Ethan Black (golemwire@social.librem.one), page 2

Does anyone know how I can get my bookmarks and settings back? I didn't tell it to sync, I just signed in to a Mozilla website and Firefox just decided to overwrite everything 😡😡

Ugh, I signed in to a Mozilla website and it just deleted all my bookmarks and settings from my browser! I hate this so much.

#Mozilla #Firefox

@mike @s31bz One of my relatives who works from home had the same issue; battery swelling pushing the touchpad out. I removed the battery for him and he would just power it from the wall.

Is this an HP laptop by any chance? Bang & Olufsen IIRC?

@naiyer @arraybolt3 True of most technology 😧

@juanjimver I have to appreciate Cleik, that's pretty awesome

@rntz I like it! My brother makes music on BeepBox/derivatives. I'll send him this, I think he'll appreciate it :)

@arraybolt3 I just did this with Mozilla Thunderbird. Funny I see this just now. I typed out something and triggered some unknown actions. I hope something didn't get deleted or something....

After watching a bunch of YouTube vehicle hit-and-run videos, I'm beginning to like the idea of front license plates being mandatory, because of how many times they break off and get left behind 😆

@mike My philosophy is that the user does the thinking and the computer does the computing. The user is the intelligence, and the computer is the calculator.

I personally avoid AI, since if I'm doing what I do correctly it doesn't have much to offer me.

@mike My college upgraded ("upgraded" 🙂) their computers to Windows 11, and I remember seeing some sort of session token or something in the About window for Microsoft Paint, I think for AI....

I don't know what someone's doing with Notepad if it needs AI 😆 that seems more like something you might want with Word.

@mike I don't understand some of the antagonism against AI -- ML-based human language translators are nice for example. Though that's not technically "AI", is it.

Does Firefox's page translation feature use ML? They used the word "model" https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/translate/

@256 This is funny

@briankrebs This is one of those times I click the favorite button and feel weird because I don't like what was reported but I like the reporting 😆

@Shanoa I keep on hearing about it. I have to give it a try. What are your favorite things about Rivals, over Smash?

@tylnesh I guess you have a point; that's the power of open-source there!

@tylnesh That makes sense security-wise. But on principle I believe one should be able to add/remove software repositories. I could see a distro having a Snap repo to itself for distro-specific apps, for example. I've noticed that a lot of software repositories end up with distro-specific software. That's just an example, though, I'm thinking of the principle.
Nonetheless, Snap is a good idea in many ways; I just believe they should have the option for freedom's sake.

Unironically loving the granularity of setting in the #Ubuntu 's reimagining of Windows UAC. All the more reasons to prefer #snap over legacy .deb packages.

(Yess, hit the 500 limit exactly :)

@tylnesh I've tried both Flatpak and Snap, and I rejected #Snap because you couldn't really change your snap repository away from Canonical's repository; that's really bad and is strictly against the Unix and Linux way.

I don't remember Snap's containerization being very versatile anyway, but this is a big step up in that regard since I last tried it. If they fix the Canonical-repo-only flaw, I'd like to try it again actually. I have to use Flatseal to edit file access permissions with Flatpak.

@system76 Oh that's nice!