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Oh boy, the poor devs that will have to deal with all the nonsense this feature will no doubt produce.

But just think of the memes! It will be glorious!

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I'm using Zen myself, but was an avid Firefox user for years beforehand. I have no problem with them adding AI features, so long as you can turn them off (which, to my understanding, you can).

Open source fans love their software having options... up until the point where someone else uses an option they don't like.

I get having a problem with "full agentic AI mode redefining blah blah blah," like Google is seemingly pulling, but if it's togglable like any other feature, what's the issue?

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If that's another "feature" that firefox devs mindlessly copy from chrome, I'm going back to Konqueror.

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I am glad this movement got some mainstream visibility. The discussion about digital product ownership, the right to repair etc. should be loud and ongoing.

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Meanwhile Chrome and all Chromium based browsers have *just* had a major exploitable bug revealed, to do with the Javascript optimiser. All versions of Chromium based browsers are vulnerable, up to yesterday (and that includes Edge and Brave).

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vivaldi
Still clean of AI and they wrote a blogpost on their site about it
"Why Vivaldi won’t follow the current AI trend?"

even firefox added all the AI slop with 141.. so yeah every major browser on the planet has this crap.

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To be honest... This will come. It will be used. And it even will be practical, to some amount.

The question is how they're making you pay for it.

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Surprising nobody, the company that removed the motto "Don't be evil" has progressively gotten more evil. And also incompetent.

If anyone is still using Chrome in 2025, they deserve what they get. I'm still using Vivaldi. Not because it's great but because it's the least awful one I've seen, which is a good description for just about every other aspect of modern life.

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At this point I'm gonna just start using Netsurf and become a hermit.

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That is just sad.

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I don't like the pushing of constant AI features myself, but I plan to stay on Firefox. Firefox is FOSS, while Vivaldi is proprietary. I prefer to use FOSS whenever possible.

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Yiiiiiiiiiikes

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I loved CrossCode! It's a shame that it doesn't get any attention these days, but I'm hoping that Alabaster Dawn brings Radical Fish the love they deserve.

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Fingers crossed, lads!

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Currently it sadly doesn't work on Linux because the local server emulator cannot start on port 443. Fingers crossed the devs will manage to fix this.

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In the past I've made sure to WIRE up the gamepad to the Plasma KDE system which has a gamepad section in settings, and THEN all games detected just fine. If you rely on proton to do it all for you, then perhaps that's the issue.

Maybe you are right, but will this work in Gamescope on Steam Deck?

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NVIDIA have been wanting to do some proper CPUs

It would have been a lot more interesting if they bought VIA, improved on their designs, and released a proper x86 (or more precisely - amd64) competitor.

I won't trust Nvidia to play well with Linux and they'll poison any efforts Intel have there

Historically, Intel has been very open source friendly. But they have been shedding all that stuff in droves the last couple months. AMD went through a similar phase when they were hurting financially. Would Nvidia's "clutch all the toys" culture infect Intel? Probably not that much, but you never know.

I do wonder what's gonna happen with the whole Intel ARC graphics

Rumors of its demise have been swirling for a while. Which is unfortunate; competition is good for the consumer. Unfortunately, it's taking Intel a bit too long to get competitive.

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Nvidia and Intel will clash super hard

Nvidia tends to not play well with others (there's a reason AMD is the GPU of choice in most custom projects, including consoles), so it will be interesting to see how this pans out. Intel has tried the GPU chiplet thing before, with AMD graphics chips. That didn't seem to last long, but I don't think they ever said why...

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The thought of a Linux gaming device with Nvidia GPU sounds like wild goose..

Times change. First Steam Machines were using Nvidia GPUs since AMD graphics were crap back then, in 10 years from now, who knows?

As for the deal, I do wonder what's gonna happen with the whole Intel ARC graphics efforts.

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In the past I also tried Heroic Games Launcher, but the GOG games had so many issues (for example not finding gamepad, even when the game supported it) I just gave up on using it on Steam Deck.

In the past I've made sure to WIRE up the gamepad to the Plasma KDE system which has a gamepad section in settings, and THEN all games detected just fine. If you rely on proton to do it all for you, then perhaps that's the issue.

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lol

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Seems to work well so far. 30ish fps in the forest starter area with Quality upscaling. For some reason the game defaults to Performance taau with FSR Framegen which is strange. Nice to see a game that is well optimized and working on release day

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Thanks, but no, thanks. I won't trust Nvidia to play well with Linux and they'll poison any efforts Intel have there.

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The current i5-12400 in my desktop will probably be my last Intel purchase (although I did buy it secondhand). I do not like NVIDIA, and I refuse to buy any of their products. If they're getting involved with Intel, then I'll move to buying AMD products in the future.

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The thought of a Linux gaming device with Nvidia GPU sounds like wild goose..

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My stock portfolio just took a viagra.

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For the love of god please don't let Nvidia get their grubby hands on Intel

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If I remember correctly, some ten years ago it was speculated that Intel might buy Nvidia (to be able to fully compete with AMD who had CPUs and GPUs already). Things can turn around...

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Well, perish the thought that the few oligopolists left should actually compete with each other. Of course, cartel all the way, wonderful.

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