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Depends on how you’re viewing this. If you take something useful out of it, sure, it has some value, but if you just leave it running like that just for the lulz, it’s almost the same as leaving the heater on with the windows open.

I don’t care about LLM welfare, but I do mind needlessly wasting energy like this.

Ah, right. It’s still tagged as beta, maybe that’s why it doesn’t appear in other places (like in the news article on their site).

Thanks for the tip.

Edit: direct link to said beta version.

Could be, but consider even the simplest example: being logged in, searching for something, then with the same browser, same everything, you log out and repeat the search: you will most likely get slightly different results. That might overlap with what you described as well.

I don’t know, could be. I just tried downloading and I’m getting the 1.x version too.

… and are probably already happy with the factory installed apps.

Could be a gradual rollout.

Edit: saw it’s actually still a beta (and probably this is why it doesn’t show), here’s a link for the APK: https://f-droid.org/repo/org.fdroid.fdroid_2000050.apk

There’s also the profiling - serving different results depending on whether you’re logged in or not.

Yeah, in the end it depends on the use case. Some things are a simple search away, others need compiling of information (manually or with the help of an LLM).

LLMs have saved internet searching. For the first time in years, i am getting (usually) relevant information for my questions.

I tend to disagree on that part. LLMs in a web search should be opt in, not opt out. They do help, but not always. For many searches that I have the answer right in the first result (sometimes even in its preview along the link) there’s an LLM running and needlessly wasting resources, summarising very often what I already know.

I missed the old Google maybe 15 years ago when I switched away from it as a default search. It’s not the AI.

I’m hoping not only prosecution, but an actual outcome such that they (and other companies) are afraid to try this again.

If all they get is a small fine that’s just a business expense to them, then of course they’ll continue doing sh** like this.

Is there a Firefox fork already with mouse gestures built in (working globally)?

First time hearing of Helium, thanks for mentioning. Sounds interesting, will be keeping an eye on it.

Paid early access? I think I’ll pass…

Noted: if I ever get the chance to shop at Best Buy, I won’t.

That’s strange - I had some of the same symptoms and it ended up being a completely different thing - a dying (and then eventually completely dead) SSD (the Phison controller fiasco).

Other than that the CPU itself seems fine and it’s only shown very minor degradation over the 4-5 years I’ve had it - i.e. it used to boost up to 4975 or 4950 single core, now it only goes up to about 4900 (no PBO, no CO); and I’ve also had to fix the SoC voltage because of the memory - but I haven’t touched that in like 3 years, so not sure it’s even degradation.

I’m getting worried, 'cause I’ve got the same. What killed yours?

Data you only have one copy of is data you don’t mind losing.

Mine had Philips screws and was easy to open, but the switch that was broken proved impossible to find as a spare part. It’s a shame that I have to bin something that should’ve been easy to repair.