I installed Debian on a 2009 Toshiba netbook recently with an Intel Atom N280, KDE worked about the same (not well) in both the X and Wayland modes.
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A lot of games have anti-cheat...
Because sometimes Proton doesn't work? Like, it's good enough for most games, but there are always edge cases and games that randomly break one day.
I haven't noticed a website outright blocking Firefox in a while, in part because Firefox devs are staying on top of it with overriding a lot of site blocks. The issue I run into the most is reduced video quality in Google Meet in Firefox, so I switch to Safari or Chromium when I need to do calls there.
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Chromium builds don't have built-in automatic updates, and they're missing DRM and some other proprietary components that are important. I've seen some community-maintained builds with varying update methods, but they don't seem as well-supported as relying on Google/Microsoft/Vivaldi/whatever.
I used desktop Linux as my daily driver for years, I am aware it exists.
Yes, I suggested Vivaldi in the article.
LibreWolf doesn't help me with websites that refuse to work properly on Firefox's engine. I mentioned in the article that Firefox is already my daily web browser, but I've been looking for a good backup Chromium browser for that and other reasons.
I don’t think he is talking about specifically businesses, though, because he also talks about Gemini replacing Google Assistant, which only matters in consumer products (Assistant was never an enterprise product). It’s more like he’s moving the goalposts mid-statement.
If the models are more efficient, the tasks that still need a server will get the same result at a lower cost. OpenAI can also pivot to building more local models and license them to device makers, if it wants.
The finances of big tech companies isn't really relevant anyway, except to point out that Ed Zitron's arguments are not based in reality. Whether or not investors are getting stiffed, the bad outcomes of AI would still be bad, and the good outcomes would still be good.
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Yeah, this is just building a new engine for a car already at the junkyard. This will have no practical utility when, or if, it reaches parity with X11.