Maybe you would. The vast vast majority wouldn’t.
Not many people care about privacy from big tech, and those that do probably know what FOSS is and would know that they can trivially get Firefox for free.
I also doubt that Mozilla could get the hundreds of millions per year that they need to maintain a modern web browser engine, keep up to date on security, etc.
A human also (hopefully anyway) wouldn’t drive if you put a cone over their head.
Like yeah, if you purposely block the car’s vision, it should refuse to drive.
Pocket is something that I think sounds super neat in theory, but I never actually personally found any use for it.
And while I don’t think it was wrong for Mozilla to try to find an avenue for a more diversified income, I feel like they overpaid for Pocket, and it was the wrong thing to try to make money from.
I think I will. Thanks for your input though.
Your mistake is thinking there’s some hive mind.
An absolutely tiny amount of people want fewer first party apps.
The vast majority would like all software to be available on all desktop OSes.
Nobody is paying a subscription to use a browser they can get for free.
You consider Win8 a refinement of Win7?
To me refinement means small changes to make something better. It doesn’t mean completely changing the entire UX.
I’m not looking at it through a modern lense. It was very insecure at the time, too. I worked in a PC repair shop and at the time that business was a money printer in terms of getting rid of endless malware.
Later versions of windows cleared up the horrendous security to such an extent that the shop was no longer economically viable, and we had to close.
XP was not the first consumer version based on NT, I don’t know why you think that.
Although yes, the DOS versions were even worse. Well, in theory anyway. In practice not, since most people at that time didn’t have PCs that old connected to the internet.
They did, it was called “Windows 8” and nobody liked it.
I would not consider Win8 a “refinement” of Win7 lol, they changed the entire UX, added an app store they tried to force people into, created a new executable format, etc.
Windows 8 is basically the polar opposite of a “refinement” release!
Idk, it was horrendously insecure, would freeze a lot, and missing creature comforts like window tiling.
Tbh I think you’re letting nostalgia blind you to XP’s flaws a little.
If they kept refining Win7 it would’ve been great.
Fallacy fallacy.
That absolutely won’t happen.
Everybody on Lemmy and Reddit were saying the same when they banned account sharing and price increases. In reality their subscriber numbers went through the roof and so did their profits.
Unfortunately, it’s quite difficult for AMD and Intel to make any big difference in the short term.
On the Intel GPU side, bluntly, they are far behind in tech, so they have to mitigate that with more aggressive pricing.
Don’t believe me? Look at the process node they use and the die size of their chips, now look at the performance and power efficiency they get compared to similar node/die size Radeon or Geforce cards. That means Intel has to spend a lot more on manufacturing but can’t charge anywhere near as much. In other words, they have to use more raw materials to make the same performance.
Intel doesn’t make money from their GPUs yet. They literally don’t want to sell too many cards because they generally lose money on each one sold. That’s why their launch was a paper launch. They’re spending right now to build expertise and expertise before doing a bigger push later.
On the AMD side, there’s some good news in that their latest generation is pretty great and has massively outsold their previous generations.
The bad news is that even if AMD has doubled sales or whatever, they were already such a small part of the overall pie that Nvidia (85%+ of the market) shitting the bed isn’t something AMD can suddenly fix.
It’d be like if all carmakers except Mazda shat the bed, Mazda can’t suddenly expand and fix the market. They could increase it a bit, probably, but filling the orders that the VW or Toyota group usually do? Impossible.
Also, whenever there’s excess demand for CPUs, AMD would prefer to service that market. It’s far higher margin.
Nope. I’d still say social media/social media algorithms.
Imagine if social media didn’t exist (beyond small, tight-knit communities like forums about [topic], or BBS communities), but all these AI tools still did.
Susan creates an AI generated image of illegal immigrants punching toddlers, then puts it on her “news” blog full of other AI content generated to push an agenda.
Who would see it? How would it spread? Maybe a few people she knows. It’d be pretty localised, and she’d be quickly known locally as a crank. She’d likely run out of steam and give up with the whole endeavour.
Add social media to the mix, and all of a sudden she has tens of thousands of eyes on her, which brings more and more. People argue against it, and that entrenches the other side even more. News media sees the amount of attention it gets and they feel they have to report, and the whole thing keeps growing. Wealthy people who can benefit from the bullshit start funding it and it continues to grow still.
You don’t need AI to do this, it just makes it even easier. You do need social media to do this. The whole model simply wouldn’t work without it.
This has been going on for a lot longer than we’ve had LLMs everywhere.
Ah yes, there’s famously never been fires in brick buildings.
You knew your actions could easily lead to a massive fire and loss of life, you said so yourself, and still you chose to do it repeatedly anyway.
Now you don’t seem to be showing much remorse, which is unfortunate. I guess I just hope you’re a bit less of a piece of shit.
The content of your reply to me was the weird thing, not the fact that you replied itself…
I never said he was a piece of shit.
John Lennon admitted to hitting an ex girlfriend. He came out, apologised for it, and said he was trying to better himself but he had a whole load of problems.
Bizarrely, his ex later came out and said John didn’t beat her and that she didn’t know what he was talking about.
Ringo has also admitted to hitting a girlfriend before.
You literally said you nearly burned the school down multiple times.
Wikipedia has a far wider reach, doesn’t have competitors in quite the same way Mozilla does, and needs far less money than Mozilla.
It takes hundreds of millions every year to maintain a modern web engine, have top-tier security, etc. It’s harder than maintaining an OS, even.
I just don’t see enough people getting in on that.
You mention Patreon. Alright, let’s go with that. The largest Patreon project by far earns less than $3m per year. Mozilla would need probably 150x that.