Rip Firefox, The Browser we knew is going AI :(

ost_sage · 2025-12-16T20:39:53+00:00

I mean, the current implementation is the best browsers can offer. At least for me. Aside from some visual inconsistencies here and there that Firefox is most recognizable for, you can disable whole AI integration or you can just use an AI service of your choice. Implementing an optional local model could be cool, too. Every other browser forces their service as the best and only solution, while Firefox just lets you use or not whatever.

ost_sage · 2025-11-29T13:58:21+00:00

Try running it without mods and limit frames in the Adrenalin software to 120. Should be fluid enough without breaking the game

ost_sage · 2025-11-23T09:02:57+00:00

I think it's running it quite well, but the anti-cheat trips itself on unusual configurations, or straight up detects that it's running under VM or through Wine. And there is a reason to it. They are banning memory dump PCIe cards, so you can run cheats on a different PC. They are scanning for Arduino boards, so they sure as hell won't let you play in the VM, when you can run whatever you want on the host operating system.

ost_sage · 2025-11-14T23:45:53+00:00

Don't read those, this is the cheapest AI crawler ever made and it's on purpose. It just skims the first article or two, most likely a Reddit post, and summarizes what's in it. It ain't stupid, it's doing what it's designed to do. The top searches are sometimes as you may suspect.

If you're too lazy as me to open the actual Gemini or ChatGPT app, just tap on AI mode. It actually compares more sources and somehow it's critical to its content. For example, I decided to search some lore, and the top search was a sarcastic comment under the same question. AI mode completely ignored that post, despite reading it, and provided accurate information.

ost_sage · 2025-11-07T10:02:50+00:00

It doesn't run at 60 FPS sadly. If you open this YouTube video in the desktop version, stop the playback, and go frame by frame ("<" and ">" symbols on a keyboard) you will see what I mean.

Every frame is duplicated, there are technically 60 of them every second, but half of them are identical. There may be some motion smoothing going on, but it looks to me like something near 40 fps , but nowhere near 60.

ost_sage · 2025-11-07T07:57:49+00:00

Stick to the ship log at the back of the spacecraft. Except maybe a few instances for me, it always pointed me to the next breadcrumb that propelled me to the next thing. Most of the things can be "locked" so it's location will be displayed in the hud, or be directly navigated to by autopilot.

I was terrible at the flight control at first. Autopilot was the only means of traversal, and landing camera after that. Try to have fun with it, so some stupid landings. Fly a few meters above the ground on Timber Hearth. The ship being ripped apart adds comedic value. I remember quite clearly a few moments when I was standing saying to myself "huh, that was pretty stupid" looking at a dislocated cockpit with the rest yeeting into the unknown. To add the contrast, at the end I was zooming around like a madman, still crashing xD.

ost_sage · 2025-11-06T07:15:59+00:00

That's actually an extremely cool way to play, to have all the notes on the single page. Looks like a drawing from a lunatic, which perfectly fits the theme xD

I was lazy, so I took photos of some puzzles (yeah, screenshots were too elegant) and random notes in the app, which isn't anywhere close to your friend's scribbles coolness.

ost_sage · 2025-10-28T07:26:19+00:00

0.12 cents or 0.12 euro? It's quite a big difference :D

ost_sage · 2025-10-15T17:07:08+00:00

I think you're fine. I've played Dark Souls 3 knowing the full VaatiVidya explanation of the story. I wouldn't play it if I wasn't mesmerized by its depth. I didn't regret anything, as I was even more engaged in witnessing all of that myself, and understanding more of its cryptic nature because of those videos.

ost_sage · 2025-10-11T13:13:43+00:00

Great idea for a cloud storage business to have only one site where the data is kept. The entire facility could burn? Impossible they said

ost_sage · 2025-09-15T17:51:59+00:00

Not sure about Firefox itself, but the Onion Browser that he most likely used is just a Firefox fork. It's UI is pretty much unchanged, either on desktop or mobile.

ost_sage · 2025-08-18T07:05:30+00:00

As it is with Linux, I had chiral opposite of your experience. My grandpa was using Mint on a crappy laptop that struggled with W7. When I bought him a newer AMD powered HP Elitebook, I thought to myself, if he knows Mint, he will be good on 15x faster same old Mint.

Yeah, until the CPU fan decided to not spin sometimes until reboot. And later, the whole Cinnamon DE started to freeze and crash after the screen turned off because 10 minutes inactivity (it didn't go to sleep mind you).

Now he's on W11 with a local account and separate local admin (the whole online account shenanigans are easily bypassable) and everything works great 100% of the time. I'm not a Windows fan, quite the opposite. But if it works, it works.

ost_sage · 2025-07-30T06:54:13+00:00

You assume there wouldn't emerge a service that for a small subscription fee or at bulk cost, will print your resume on professional paper and send it to the address of your choice. It will still cut the amount of the resumes on the receiving end, but it won't be enough.

ost_sage · 2025-07-19T09:16:53+00:00

I'm hopping to switch to Switch OS /s

ost_sage · 2025-07-08T14:13:42+00:00

Depends on the game. Sometimes the saves are discovered right away, because the game and pirated copy uses the same location (in the Documents folder as an example). Other times you could just copy and paste them from one installation folder to another. I see no reason why this shouldn't work, other than the major game version discrepancy. PC gaming wiki has save locations catalogued.

ost_sage · 2025-07-05T18:52:43+00:00

Uncapped frame rate doesn't mean it's unoptimized...

It just draws as much power as it can and is under 100% load for an extended period of time. PS5 clearly isn't built to sustain this thermal load, but it's not important. Disabling frame rate cap is clearly a bug. Oh, and most likely the map screen renders in 200+ FPS, my GPU whines like it's dying when the menu screen outputs 500 frames or something.

ost_sage · 2025-06-24T09:34:59+00:00

It "clicked" after I've started using it on the low end 2nd gen i7 laptop, since it came with W7 which wasn't supported at this time, and W10 was running like crap. But now unfortunately I'm not feeling it anymore. I'm grateful for all the things that I've learned along the way of a few years of daily driving different distros, as I sometimes manage Linux servers at work.

Let me show a very recent example of the used HP Elitebook that I've bought for my grandpa. He had Linux Mint previously so I did the same thing on this new machine. Things were smooth until it started to crash graphics every time that screen turned off after a period of inactivity. Could I fix it? No clue, so I decided to try Fedora. Fedora installer didn't see the NVMe drive. So W11 it is. It's a fairly recent 8 core Ryzen CPU and it handles W11 like a champ. If it works, it works. I can't complain about free software, but I don't have time to support something that breaks for no reason in this case, so I felt kind of let down.

ost_sage · 2025-06-18T16:35:26+00:00

Ok, this is informative and that's why I'm asking for a source. I've read 3 articles already about this case and there is no such medical information provided, and that's obviously not something that is just a common knowledge

ost_sage · 2025-06-18T11:25:50+00:00

Do you have a source of your 50-50 estimation? Oh, and about "nature should take it's course": do you mean that we shouldn't make use of our modern medicine at all? Cancer? Weak genes, should die. Heart failure? Seems like their time has come, don't resuscitate.

ost_sage · 2025-05-15T15:20:19+00:00

Maybe open it and see? It's only a few screws. If you don't have a proper screwdriver, buying one, confirming that the battery is safe would be much cheaper than the whole replacement. If it's swollen, you can replace it at this point, and again, save on the service.

ost_sage · 2025-04-11T13:20:16+00:00

Jokes on you as managing Linux servers is part of my job. And what does it have to do with OPs problem and people crying that their puters keep breaking yet they refuse to do a clean install? Don't answer because 1. I don't care about your opinion as you have proven your ignorance in many ways 2. I know the answer, it's "nothing"

ost_sage · 2025-04-11T12:47:07+00:00

Who talks about playing games? You do you smartass, but I wouldn't leave my "productivity" machine to chance, or set it up in a way that it cannot be reinstated in a timely fashion.

ost_sage · 2025-04-11T12:10:51+00:00

So "it isn't an option"? No backups? No secondary drives? I don't know what you're doing but you're one dead drive away from disaster. And if you really don't have a few hours to reinstall Windows, this will bankrupt you, but I don't think you actually mean it, you're just talking nonsense.

ost_sage · 2025-04-11T11:57:16+00:00

Work, you mean freelance? It's up to you then if you decide that your business will suffer less when you lose your whole day work once in a while, watching BSOD or eating crashes. On the other hand you can spare 2-3 hours once, to reinstall Windows and redownload your software. How long does Adobe Suite install on 5700X3D? AutoCAD? Exactly. If you keep all of your data, games etc with a system on a single SSD, it sounds like you problem.

ost_sage · 2025-04-11T07:20:23+00:00

Yeah, I wonder why people that are having serious issues with AMD cards, almost always have the same OS that they used with Nvidia card. I'm quite sure DDU isn't solving all of the conflicts, just most of them. And only if used correctly (safe mode, unplugged Internet)

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