astro_ray

joined 5 months ago
[–] astro_ray@lemdro.id 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The experience varies depending what you are browsing, but for me, it is plenty good. I can use my misskey account, github/gitlab account, can watch YouTube and few other streaming services as well (although how well or if they run at all depends on what streamingservice you use). Webkit GTK has few issues with touch screen devices, like backspace key of on-screen keyboard not working properly or stylus not working properly etc. Also, the PDF view feels a bit janky.

[–] astro_ray@lemdro.id 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think KDE supports styling libadwaita yet

Technically, even Gnome doesn't officially support theaming libadwaita apps. The unofficial ways all amout to hacky methods at best (applying an user made css on top of the default style).

[–] astro_ray@lemdro.id 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lol, sorry, didn't realize that. Thanks for telling me.

[–] astro_ray@lemdro.id 0 points 1 month ago

Personally, I don't have a problem with ads. And if those ads can support further development on an open source product I get to use for free then that's even better. What I have problem with is privacy intrusive targeted ads. Even before the internet, newspaper, radio had ads. They sure were annoying, but not as bad of a situation as it is now.

[–] astro_ray@lemdro.id 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Exactly what I wanted to say. Anything on public domain; movies, books, pictures and paintings should be fair game. Including any databases that allows the uses of it in the given context.

[–] astro_ray@lemdro.id 14 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I feel like one of thr problem is LLMs hijacked the definition of AI. Like another comment said, the way they trained on copyrighted material, it's probably not possible. But imagine there was another model (not necessarily LLM) and it was trained with completely public domain material. For example maybe something trained to find genetic diseases from genetic samples of a person, or detecting asteroids from telescope images. Those could become open source. Now, I am not an expert, but do we consider those AI?

[–] astro_ray@lemdro.id 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They ship flatpak with their own repo for 5+ years.

The apparmour thing can get pretty annoying if an app you like breaks because of it.

[–] astro_ray@lemdro.id 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, webkit is for all those anarchist, anti-establishment people. On a serious note, Gnome Web (Epiphany) is pretty amazing. Other than a few stuff like, Netflix not working (thanks W3C for giving us DRM /s. Also, google and widevine are the worst thing in tech) I have not yet found any particular issue. A very limited number of firefox extensions also work on it.

[–] astro_ray@lemdro.id 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Which webkit based browser are you talking about?

[–] astro_ray@lemdro.id 12 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Isn't the only reason firefox gets google ad money is because google is afraid they would slapped with an anti-trust lawsuit? Firefox getting money from google doesn't seem like a valid criticism.

[–] astro_ray@lemdro.id 20 points 1 month ago

I couldn't help, so let me ask What about firefox stops you from using it for online shopping?

[–] astro_ray@lemdro.id 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't think it's embedded focused but have you checked out Vanilla OS?

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