You mean the website of your instance? You can use LeechblockNG (https://github.com/proginosko/LeechBlockNG, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/leechblock-ng/)

If your GrapheneOS build still includes Digital Wellbeing, you can use that to limit daily usage of specific apps. It is found in the system settings.

They are not, come on now.

Retro networking is a different community, and all is still done behind a modern router. They are a subset of the retro computing community, but they don’t run such systems as their daily driver.

Most of the legacy OS enthusiasts running on as their daily driver are not interested in matching their networking to be period correct, they just want it to work well and quickly like everybody else. For that you need basic modern equipment, that is often included into ISP plans.

That’s not how it works, especially since everyone doing this is behind a modern router.

Nothing will happen if you have a Windows 98 computer connected to the internet when the home internet router is on default settings. And modern internet browsers implement security in themselves on systems they still support.

Firefox still supports Windows 7 via the ESR channel, and every new install gets redirected to on automatically on Windows 7, 8 and 8.1.

Worry the unsupported systems behind pure internet or providing public internet services, or the users installing the free PDF editor Google advertised as first in search. Those are many more than older Windows enthusiasts.

Genuinely what I wished for when the Samsung Galaxy Fold 7 was announced as “The First AI Phone”.

Instead what was shown in the livestream was literally Gemini, a product of another company on a €2000 smartphone that doesn’t even use the hardware you pay for.

You are talking more about the term here being used everywhere out of context.

I definitely think that was such a major blunder, but also it was probably done to make it a struggle to compete for smaller or starting companies.

Investment is done really to train models for ever more miniscule gains. I feel like the current choices are enough to satisfy who is interested in such services, and what really is lacking is now more hardware dedicated to single user sessions to improve quality of output with the current models.

But I really want to see more development on offline services, as right now it is really done only by hobbyists and only occasionally large companies with a little dripfeed (Facebook Llama, original Deepseek model [latter being pretty much useless as no one has the hardware to run it]).

I remember seeing the Samsung Galaxy Fold 7 (“the first AI phone”, unironic cit.) presentation and listening to them talking about all the AI features instead of the real phone capabilities. “All of this is offline, right? A powerful smartphone… makes sense to have local models for tasks.” but it later became abundantly clear it was just repackaged always-online Gemini for the entire presentation on $2000 of hardware.

The corporate models are actually much better at it due to having heavy filtering built in. The fact that a model generally encourages self arm is just a lie that you can prove right now by pretending to be suicidal on ChatGPT. You will see it will adamantly push you to seek help.

The filters and safety nets can be bypassed no matter how hard you make them, and it is the reason why we got some unfortunate news.

Absolutely get the Brew and Port package managers. You are gonna feel much better and at home with them. Check company policies for third party software.

Have you used Windows past the 8.1 days?

Roblox doesn’t really lock down regions unless they are China. The game client can connect to any server they own. It naturally falls back to the server with the least issues without prompts and intervention. If for an even bigger example all US servers were to go offline, the client automatically redirects people to either Europe or Asia based on ping.

The video works only in Firefox because many moons ago video playback was done via software installed on the system.

Either via Windows Media Player

Apple Quicktime

or other video playback software that came with web plugins like Realvideo.

This of course created a mess of inconsistency, and so eventually Adobe Flash Player and Java (Applets) were used to create platform-independent video players that the website embedded.

As the video used the before-Flash way (likely to make MacOS users not have to forcefully install Adobe Flash Player), Firefox is able to extract the video URL and play it like a video playback plugin is present. Chromium simply didn’t implement this and decided to just error out for being deprecated.

This is literally just one extra search engine selection.

I am sure people use their AI service exclusively because they shoved it everywhere they can in their services. WhatsApp has a dedicated AI chat button too. This was absolutely obvious it would happen eventually, and I am surprised they are doing it only now.

Facebook is already doing this with Vibes

Are you sure you are not hitting swap too hard? Windows by default makes a bonkers massive page file, while most distributions try to limit wasting so much for swap.

If so, try installing SwapSpace

A workaround would be to cut off Windows Update and manually install major revisions when they get released. You will need to reconstruct grub less often and still remain on latest revisions

You can now enable a tabbed interface similar to Microsoft Office

I am more inclined to think they just want ragebait articles and AI is a current easy target

If the ad is under a filtered domain, it will simply not load. If the ad is under the same domain as the site you are using (ex. Youtube) they will load just fine.

When the primary DNS is down, the secondary DNS will be used. This is the same regardless if PiHole is used or not, but is how DNS works.