Oh, okay. I just know about the translating thing and the sidebar

Forcing bullshit genai stuff into their browser

It’s an opt-in feature that just opens whatever AI service you picked, their website in a sidebar. You can even use your own local AI if you want to. Or not use it at all. But the AI isn’t actually in your browser any more than it is in your browser when you open their website in a tab.

If the translation thing counts as AI then that’s actually a really cool and more private use of it compared to querying a server. It can do the translation completely locally. Works pretty well too in my experience, though it does think for a moment when you tell it to translate.

I don’t think Firefox has any AI that they need to run for you. The language thing (if that counts) is local thing.

Yeah

I’m not very concerned about looks

Hilarious if they are, they’d just be getting people to pay to use their own hardware

I’ve understood that “performance” in this sort of context mean how quickly a given task is done

I have hard time believing Plex’s software transcoding is more performant than Jellyfin’s hardware accelerated trandcoding

Hah, I used to

Of course it’s fairer. Before it meant that they’re all around idiots. Now it just says they’re idiots when it comes to computers. There might be aspects they’re not idiots in, but if they’re running random commands, computers isn’t one of them.

Seems like the only moron here is you.

Not when it comes to computers but in some other things for sure

You’ve got to remember that these are just simple computer users. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West.

Oh snap!

Perhaps it would’ve been fairer to say that they’re morons when it comes to computers

It’s not sneaky, it’s just people are morons and fall for the simplest shit

You’re probably sarcastic but

paste this random line in the run prompt (or what’s it called) and run it

sneaky

Hmm

worse transcoding performance

You have to pay on Plex to use hardware acceleration for transcoding. Lmao

It can do some neat stuff but to me it has been pretty disappointing. Some stuff it has explained with real clarity and made understanding some stuff really simple. Even explained things from a viewpoint I hadn’t considered before. But when I asked precise questions about things I know a lot about, it just outright confidently lied to me and told me I was wrong even though it had just moments before shared the hard facts it now contradicted fully. That kinda broke the spell and made me question everything the prompt returns to a degree that it’s hard to use it for anything serious.

It does good summaries though and can concisely explain some simple stuff that I don’t need to be verified. Shows promise but as a serious research tool wrangling it to reveal when it is lying and making it see that it’s contradicting itself, that’s just more work than doing the research myself.

I think some of them will just give more ammunition to the loonies since the chatbots happily give you wrong information

The prisoner in the plastic mask

Goddamn there it, couldn’t see it before