Peruvian_Skies

Why are you assuming that the infotainment center in a car can take over steering at all?

You're not alone. This is pretty much a universal struggle.

I have no words other than to say I am deeply sorry that this happened to you. What a truly atrocious story. I sincerely hope you can heal from this trauma.

"Cool while it lasts" is still better than "terrible now and forever". Hopefully Waterfox survives long enough for Ladybird to get off the ground.

Exactly my case as well. There are several Firefox-based browsers better than Firefox itself without the bullshit: Zen, Mercury, LibreWolf, Floorp... All are good options. But the dev behind Waterfox made a public commitment to keep this AI crap out of the browser. That sealed the deal for me.

Now if only I knew the best Android replacement for Firefox....

Wasn't this widely known already?

All of the times, apparently.

Thank you! Yes, that's what I meant.

It's called shortsighted management.

Valve has had success with Steam because they ask themselves "What do gamers want, and how can we turn a profit by giving it to them?" For example, many of us want to mod our games. Enter the Steam Workshop. It's free, convenient and exclusive so it fidelizes (is that a word in English?) customers and indirectly makes them money while improving their image in the market.

Epic's management instead asks themselves "How can we make money off of gamers?" without trying to understand the market. They see that there are many free games on Steam, and many console exclusives, and their tiny MBA brains decide that the only way forward is with free games to lock us to their platform (that's what Valve did, right?) and exclusives so we have no choice. And they have no idea why Valve waste their time with Workshop, Community forums for each game, Proton (Linux and Mac are such a tiny share of the market!) or any of that not-obviously-profitable filler that is in fact what sets Steam apart as a service rather than just a storefront.

They must have meant diet cocaine. As in not cut with sugar.

And what say you of the preliminary evidence suggesting that using AI is making people less capable of thinking for themselves, or people becoming emotionally attached to AI girlfriends/boyfriends, or people who killed themselves either intentionally or accidentally by following LLM advice, or the fact that an overwhelmibg majority of companies who made AI a crucial part of their functioning are losing money or going bankrupt? These are part of the social cost and they all point quite strongly towards it being a very bad idea to rely on AI for anything.

The social and environmental impact of AI training and use is what I'm referring to.