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Translation is already a part of Firefox and I don't see too many have complained about this. It is also completely offline, AFAIK. What people are afraid, myself included is agentic AI capable of autonomous web browsing. That is a privacy and security nightmare, as is already demonstrated by openai's browser, which was exploited the first day it was launched. Beyond translation, I personally am not interested in any other AI features. In fact, I don't use the translation feature more than a few times a year.

No, it's not. 1. Nobody wanted AI as a feature. 2. They didn't even completely backpedal, that would be not implementing AI. This sounds like it will be opt out maybe. They may remove it if they feel like it.

You are correct, but this is about Linglong factory in Zrenjanin. I am talking here about another issue, which is not forced labour per se, it is just untaxed labour jeopardizing local job market. Unfortunately, linglong issue has been active for a while now and noone is allowed to talk about it. The chinese seem to operate without Serbian authorities allowed in the factory circle.

This is the latest in Vučić's tyrannical rule, everyone is aware, but can't do anything about. Europe is keeping silent and turning a blind eye, I think because it is good for them. He has enabled the employees of foreigner workers to not have to pay taxes, damaging locals and the entire job market. This means locals will search for jobs in Austria, Germany, etc. But it's OK, that is exactly the plan, IMO. We can pass as a poor German, if we keep our mouth shut. But a brown or black guy not so much.

I tried a snapshot release a few weeks ago, there are new features, but nothing too significant for me. I'm mostly running a stable 1.0 release, but 1.1 should be released very soon, we'll see if it's a big jump, like 1.0 was. Still a long way to go tbh, especially in terms of QoL improvements. I'm talking - why is it so hard to just extrude some text. Why browse for a .ttf file in 2026? Things like that.

Freecad is my daily driver and it's pretty usable. Recently, it's improved a lot, to the point it is now just mildly annoying.

It is a complete shitshow. The building was under government protection which they illegally tried to remove and let Kushner build a hotel. Even the prosecution has reacted, and is prosecuting the minister that did it. Vučić preemptively said he is going to pardon said minister. But what's worse is that Kushner never even wanted that building in the first place, this was a sad attempt to try to suck up to Trump. Of course, it didn't work, so now they have broken the constitution, still await sanctions from USA and haven't even made a deal. Incompetence to the max.

In the past I mostly got to persuade them to allow me to use Linux. In one, however, they got me a macbook, so I resorted to living in the VM most of the time. I had to use xcode for some of the Mac development, but for the rest, I was masochistic enough to be able to withstand living in a VM. Though that mac was Intel based, now ARM ones would likely not perform as good to justify it. Asahi doesn't work on newer ARM Macs AFAIK.

I recently set up a Navidrome/Lidarr setup and I'm beyond thrilled. Works great. I also recommend Symfonium app on android, it's paid, but it's worth it for the quality. On desktop, I'm trying out strawberry, but I find it a bit clunky, so I will probably try out other players. Use beet to download and ebmbed lyrics, and my music has never been better. I immediately ditched Spotify and haven't looked back.

I bought my mom a pixel and installed graphene on it and gave her. She is by no means a power user. Never underestimate the will of nerds to go a step further :)

Beebop, to be precise.

They are getting more aggressive by the day it seems. Luckily I've been windows free for 10 years now. And recently, I switched almost my entire extended family to Linux mint to great success. Only my brother in law still uses win, cause of games, specifically anti cheat - the last hurdle for many people.