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I would guess that it isn't trespassing in the normal sense since they own the house/building. Since the contract sounds like it allows them access inside and outside based on the kitchen stuff. Still would be good to see what legal protections you have for privacy as a renter in your area. If they are closing the window from the outside, it might not be legally trespassing (again in the normal sense of the law) as they could argue it is a facilities issue or something.

Agreed, my mom uses spreadsheets for things. Eventually just ended up paying for Office Home and Student 2024 because Calc confused her. Though when I helped her install Office, I did notice that she hadn't updated LibreOffice in over two years. Wish I had noticed before she paid for Office to see if the updates for Calc might have fixed her issue. Also wish I had installed OnlyOffice to see if it might have matched the "feel" of Excel better before giving MS money.

I tend to find most of their larger changes to be fine as long as I can relatively quickly adjust to locating things. It for sure will get backlash like a lot of their efforts to evolve and try things out.

Nice to know it shouldn't need compiling. Still might be fun to eventually try doing that just to say I could follow instructions.

I hope the user agent does contribute something. We need as many statistics as possible to chip away at the Chromium engine monopoly (just like the old IE Trident). Really hate all the fake "please update you browser or try Chromium" messages for random sites that are basically hard coded.

Certainly don't want to spoof the Chrome agent and give reinforcing stats that Chromium is the only thing that should be coded for. I imagine in a lot of cases the issue is more about them using DRM which FF and forks don't add out of principle. Even when DRM is supported, they still nerf FF for basically no reason (Netflix being the longest well known example). Really wish there was a way to fully switch Android's Chromium Web-view to Gecko instead of all apps defaulting to Chromium inside them while I'm ranting about it. lol

I used to try "doing my part" by installing FF on PCs I was setting up for people as a second option (left Edge as default to not completely be an asshole) and just mention it could be helpful for seeing if a site was just not working or if there was an issue with Edge/Chrome. But out of all the stuff people just somehow not "notice" just installing out of nowhere (so many will just accept those scammy drive-by Chromium browsers like Swift or Web-Discover showing up). Saying they just though it was from Microsoft updates like they did with the screen filling IE toolbars. They really noticed Firefox and be like "is this malware?" or otherwise be weirded out. So I stopped though I still add uBlock Origin and the Lite version on all browsers, and show how to white list sites when needed. So I still get to "do my part" on that front.

Very true. I'm sure that the large amount of wealthy people that claim both parties do appreciate his rapid cycling of ever increasing shit.

I really need to catch-up on it. Only annoying thing (normally) with their major changes is muscle memory with the old UI. But using Zen with all the changes they have made more frequently reminded me of how excited I would get for big things FF did over time. I loved how much better the Quantum refresh made speed and memory usage noticeably better. Less excited about the trend of apps and other software making things "rounded" to look "modern" or whatever (though I do like the "floating" tab look from Proton refresh). Just feels like things are larger/taking up too much space, but I am guessing touchscreens are the reason. Aside from the block on unsigned extensions, I hope the functional changes lead to a decent successor to the gains Quantum brought.

He is trying to speed-run social amnesia/mental fatigue/apathy on everything. Try to use Iran to try and get people to forget the massive ICE raids, used the ICE raids and Venezuela raid to pull attention from Palestine, used Palestine to draw away from the dramatic show of "big business showmanship" of all the tariffs. Rinse and repeat a lot of major shit throwing at walls.

lol I'll take the vote of approval! Currently the topic gets boiled down to "everything AI is slop" automatically, but removes situations where it can be used as a tool in a more "correct" sense. I would be happy if devs/studios started using it on some level to help bring back real optimizations so some games would actually use hardware to the fullest. And not just rely on people just constantly buying new GPUs or feel like the high-end hardware is a requirement.

Just need to make sure to test and re-test the results, and maybe good devs would actually go back to see how the optimizations were done to try doing it themselves (and not just get lazy/dumb in their own code). The cash grab vibe-coded slop stuff should be called out at all times. Just like the pre-AI asset flipping shit that was already flooding stores. Would also be great if bad reviews call out specific issues and not just blanket say "AI crap" or something like that to help other people have a better picture of things.

I hadn't noticed, but cool that they already have something more transparent than just a vague "AI is used" stamp (and nice to have some tiny validation to my headspace not being a terrible idea lol). Then it for sure means the Epic Games guy is just reaching for weird hills to die on.

Could be useful to try that out to at least see how the process works. Thanks!

Awesome! I could always just change the icon if it bugged me for some reason. Would be helpful to know what stuff gets moved around before running into it when working on someone's PC. The latest layout change in settings really tripped me out when I first started seeing it on their PCs. They haven't done such a massive UI change for settings in a while.

Didn't think about that at all. I might play with that option at some point since I haven't tried compiling a browser before. Would just like to periodically contribute to the ever shrinking percent of FF share of the browser space (which I believe forks and would guess the unbranded version don't count towards). Really lame reasoning on my part, but do like to think their percentage needs to stop falling against the flood of Chrome/Chromium stuff. Maybe there is a extension that can spoof the specific telemetry used for that kind of statistic. Wouldn't mind sending that while benefiting from others that are removed in different forks.