Banking?

Really? What gave you that vibe?

Because why is it time to uninstall Krita?
Krita is an excellent open source project.

WTF? Why is this shit post upvoted?

WTF? This is harassment pure and simple, there is no rational reason for this.
This is most likely contrary to human rights, and I sure hope it is illegal for any EU country to do this.

its all just bloat.

Here you go:
https://www.brow.sh/

If you want a lean no bloat Web Browser there are many that fit that label way better than Firefox.
Firefox was always a full featured browser with more features than most.

Another nice little browser would be Falkon:
https://www.falkon.org/

There are dozens of such browsers, Firefox is great because it’s complete, go get your incomplete browser with only aged features elsewhere, that doesn’t have the new features Firefox offer.
Some of us use for instance the page translation quite often. If you are not used to that, you are limiting your browsing to only sources in languages you understand. I understand 5 languages, but not for instance Chinese and French.

Most ordinary users never make a setting change,having it off by default, would make it so those users will never be aware the features are there, and having translation available on the address bar is a major feature.
Since they do no harm, I can honestly not see a reason why it should be opt in?
The people that want to turn it off are just contrarian, and possibly oppose AI as some sort of principle, disregarding that in this case it actually helps people that want to read articles in other languages, and blind people to have meaningful captions on pictures that aren’t properly captioned for the blind.

You do you, but this is not you doing you, you are being contrary at far greater cost to other people, regarding something that shouldn’t even be an inconvenience to you. You just choose to be difficult without having a real reason. Except you hate the word AI.

What AI feature is it exactly, that you think is detrimental to your normal use of Firefox?

I mean heck I would prefer to not even download the components

Why? And how many other features would you prefer not to download? The plugins interface maybe? Video and audio Codecs? Support for PNG? The theming capability? How many plugins do you have? What about AI features is it that is so especially horrible to you?

Yes and no, this is not about others being worse, it’s about being a total non issue in Firefox.
First is that if you don’t use them, the Firefox AI features do NOTHING. And on top of that you can disable them completely.

Oh for fucks sake, you don’t even have to turn it off, just don’t use the AI functions if you don’t want to. Like translate or Image Caption for the blind.
The AI functions don’t do shit unless you use them.
They don’t slow your browser down, and they don’t eat resources as is so often claimed.
Stop the fucking Mozilla hate.

It takes time to scale up production, CATL is already building factories for it:

https://www.catl.com/en/news/6401.html

On April 21, 2025, CATL unveiled three groundbreaking EV battery products at its inaugural Super Tech Day: The Freevoy Dual-Power Battery, Naxtra - the world’s first mass produced sodium-ion battery

This too is false, great progress has been made on for instance solid state batteries.

This man is completely bonkers! Arguing it’s OK to feed the machine with limited resources over a human!
Damned those American oligarchs are batshit crazy sociopaths.

I would say the problem also was a very high medical bill of $ 200k.

Which was the purpose of Elon Musk buying it all along.
The algorithms are fucking designed specifically for that purpose!

OK I’m not that well informed about current politics in India, but I have observed Modi is not exactly stellar, I began to notice because they have completely abstained from denouncing the Russian invasion and war crimes in Ukraine.

It may be far fetched regarding Canada, but we know from many other situations that a mix of culture is better than mono culture, especially from work places, where a mix of men and women generally create a better work environment than 100% men or 100% women.
So I’m not saying that the French are better, just that the fact that there are 2 groups, may help prevent exceptionalism by either group to get out of hand. Like it has done in USA and UK. But of course Canada doesn’t have the megalomaniac mindset of UK from being the former mightiest colonial power, or USA from being the global leading military power and economy for nearly a century.

I think such things may not be good for the national mentality. Too bad that USA didn’t focus on promoting human rights and democracy instead of military power and trying to benefit from it.

I mostly agree, but I think the reason Canada is staying saner than most is that they have a big French speaking population too. For some reason Canada is more politically European than even UK, and I think that reason may be the influence from French culture.

Regarding India I think they are doing reasonably well and better than most countries that were 100% colonized for so long. But there is certainly room for improvement.
But it is striking IMO how English speaking countries, where English is the main language, are often tending towards the politically extreme or irresponsible as in doing harm to themselves for no reason, where the better non harmful option is obvious.

I would recommend Linux also for people who can run Windows 10 or 11.

WTF Australia?
Are ALL English speaking countries going crazy?

all professional tasks” being done by AI. Most tasks that involve “sitting down at a computer” will be fully automated by AI within the next year or 18 months,

So does that include working in AI? In 18 months we will have the AI program itself?

Quite the blanket statement, and as always with blanket statements, they are probably false.
Of course it could be true to a lesser degree, like maybe 20%, but “ALL” is ridiculous.

But second, keep in mind that for a lot of people, most companies are still responsible members of society; “pillars of the community,” and generally worthy of trust. It’s not because they’re dumb, it’s because they’ve been propagandized into believing it.

Oh boy that is so true, I was laughing my ass off during the financial crisis about how people were shocked that banks are businesses trying to maximize profits like any other business.

They genuinely thought that banks were some sort of community institution that existed to help people with their finances, and not businesses that are selling products to make money.

Still even if people are so ignorant that they are unaware of privacy issues, they have chosen to be willfully ignorant, because this issue has been talked about non stop for decades. For nothing to sieve in at some point, you have to be a special kind of willfully ignorant.
Even people that are very low information on technology, know that the Internet is a source of potential surveillance, and having your info on the internet in any form is a potential for being surveilled. Everybody knows that all the big IT companies are trying to gather as much information as they can. And Amazon is right at the top among them.
So to claim they were ignorant of Amazon possibly collecting and sharing their data is a bit far fetched IMO.