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Spoken like a terrible human being.

The corrections to the paper literally ask for actual quotes lol

All the ads/suggestions can be easily disabled, as can the AI stuff. Perplexity only tracks you if you use it, and that blurb is about their browser, not FF. Everything FF is doing with AI is local models, which I still won't use but are vastly preferable to cloud models that are sending reams of data through third party servers.

At the end of the day Firefox needs to make some money for it to continue existing, that's the world we live in. So far they are still by far the least onerous big browser, and their continued existence makes all of their various forks possible.

What would a boycott look like? Librewolf is still downstream from FF, as is every other commonly suggested alternative, and as you say the other options are worse, the vast majority being Chrome-based. Frankly, unless the people doing the boycotting are regular donators to the project, I don't know why Mozilla would notice.

The backlash to the recent AI announcement is real and they're already reacting to it, but just like every time FF gets bad press it's overblown and irrational, and likely encouraged by Chrome and other big money interests that would love it to go away entirely.

They're designed to run constantly, and your GPU is designed to run with some heat. I highly doubt you're maxing out either like you would with a demanding game. Fans are much cheaper than a new separate device, and your GPU will become outdated long before it dies to wear and tear.

Literally all of the arguments in this post apply equally to people freshly out of high school, except that most of them won't have well-paying jobs already. But then again, if an adult has a well-paying job why are they thinking about going back to school?

Why will using your PC "run it into the ground"? Unless you're trying to use it for something else simultaneously, it seems like you've already got a solution there.

I mean space is the most common leader key, most people with customized/plugin-heavy vim/nvim setups are using space exactly like this.

Honestly your sketching is quite solid, you've obviously got a decent knowledge of anatomy. All you need is some color theory and some practice, which AI will rob you of.

Alternately you could pay a real artist to color and finish your sketches, this is how comics and many other works are traditionally done.

If you use AI, I would definitely disclose that in the description of the book, and as a consumer I would certainly be turned off by that fact. The fact that you're using it to enhance your own art absolutely makes it better, but the finished product still isn't really your art any more.

I discovered Shaun this year and binged most of his videos. The War On Science was this year and is great, though 4+ hours is a big commitment... Most of his other stuff is shorter.

That's fair I legitimately forgot Solo existed

They are THE MAIN CHARACTERS in the movie you're watching. I think that's a big enough reason to try to make them interesting.

What would make a character interesting? Motivations, conflict, maybe seeing someone change in any way as a result of things that happen in the story?

This is why I said people that enjoy the movie cannot have seen good movies, because some of the defenses are just absolutely ridiculous. "Why do characters need backstories to make them interesting?" Like do I really need to answer that?

Luke at the start of ANH is literally a farmboy with little direction in his life. That's much closer to the "just people" type of character you're describing than anyone in R1, again except for Jyn. Every supporting character in R1 feels like they were designed to be interesting, but everything interesting in their lives happened before the events of the film, and we just get to hear about it a little.

I also think the ending of the movie where we get a big fanservice Darth Vader scene gives the lie to this perception of the movie as a gritty, realistic look at the dark side of the franchise. The movie is pretty transparently just Disney pandering to the adults that grew up with Star Wars and wanted to feel like they could still enjoy it through more adult media. Andor does what Rogue One was trying to do much better, and it's telling that by doing so it barely feels like Star Wars any more.

I'm not talking about the whole movie, I'm saying that the opening 30 minutes of ANH have more character development than the entire movie of R1. We're not "getting to know the every man" in R1, we're told a one-line backstory for each character and they are basically static entities until the time comes for their death scene. Also, none of them are "standard soldiers" except for Jyn. Everyone else is clearly supposed to be an interesting character, they just don't do any of the supporting legwork to actually build the backstories or characterization, they just insist upon them.