• raldone01@lemmy.world
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    I just wish one could donate to firefox development specifically. Then they could rid it of all the advertisement and tracking stuff.

        • JonsJava@lemmy.world
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          Non-profit isn’t the same as not-for-profit

          Take American Red Cross

          They make bank on blood donations. Also, they take in way more than they put out.

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            1 year ago

            This smells like BS.

            Is mozilla non-profit, not-for-profit, or for-profit?

            You dont really know do you.

            “I dont like mozilla so ill just assume they must be profiteering assholes somehow”

            “Its the vibe of the thing”

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              I only use Firefox. I’ve only used Firefox since 2000.

              They, by their own statements, are a 501( C )3, which is a non-profit, not a not-for-profit.

              Sit down.

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                You seem to be able to google “mozilla non profit” but unable to elucidate whether it is in fact a non-profit and why that is so.

                Again, you’re offering hand wavy vibe based explanations as to why mozilla is “bad”. What exactly is the problem?

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                  I have worked for non-profits.

                  They are completely allowed to make a profit.

                  You are mistakenly under the impression that I’m against Mozilla.

                  If you go back to my original comment, I merely explained what I explained here. Mozilla is a non-profit, not a not-for-profit.

                  You decided to take that as an attack on Mozilla, for some strange reason, and attacked me. I just turned that same energy back on you.

                  Did I ever attack Mozilla? Did you attack me?

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    Now, several users have taken to the Firefox subreddit to complain about high CPU usage when using the feature, as well as express their disappointment in Mozilla for adding AI to the browser.

    I don’t think it even downloads the model if you never enable or use it.

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        Reminds me of how some people get upset when their OS uses up all their RAM, no matter how much they have. It’s like they want their PC to be sluggish and unresponsive. Unused RAM is wasted RAM.

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          Actually, I’m kinda sad that my laptop doesn’t get close to maxing my RAM cause I specifically bought another stick to make it 16GB. This was back when I was using Windows but now I’m bloat-free on Fedoora. I need to get into gaming on my laptop instead now lol.

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          Did a project several years where the customrr required that the server we delivered specifically for the project never use more than 50% CPU or RAM. No requirements about how fast it actually performs its intended function, just that it can only utilise half the available resources while doing it.

          • AFK BRB Chocolate (CA version)@lemmy.ca
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            Probably a bleed-over from the embedded side. Spent a lot of years working embedded control systems for NASA and DoD - bare metal systems, often interrupt driven - and it was common to have 50% margin requirements. They know those systems will grow over time, and they often have lifespans measured in decades.

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              That would make sense, i hadn’t put that together but they had a lot of embedded control systems. This was water treatment but entirely separate from the control systems but i can see them having that a standard requirement

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                So was it a government (state or federal) water treatment plant? If so, I can tell you how it happened. The government contracting agencies have boilerplate text they’re supposed to add to contracts to make sure salient requirements get flowed. They’re supposed to delete or tailor anything that doesn’t make sense, but the contracts people aren’t usually very technical. We had requirements flowed to us about password management and account monitoring, but no one logs into a rocket engine or a torpedo. When we’d point it out, they’d say “oops, we should have deleted that.”

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    Do you have to enable the feature first? Because I’m on v141 and I don’t see this feature. Complaining about a useless and draining feature that you yourself enabled is a special kind of stupid tbh.

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          There’s a lot of negativity from certain users/communities on software/services that are mostly good but have imperfections. I rarely if ever see any recommendations for alternatives that actually make sense when this happens.

          Firefox and Proton are two very common targets. Sure, they are both not perfect, but they are both offering a solution that does not enrich the current oppressive market leader and they do a pretty solid job at it.

          Yes, flaws deserve to be criticized, but there’s such a thing as too much.

          It’s tiring.