That's my disclaimer that my research on the topic was less than exhaustive when I posted it at midnight, ~~smartass~~cool guy. I then when on to offer a legitimate, if simple answer with sources that I linked. I see now the error of my ways in trying to provider a sincere answer to a question instead of posting the same tired dunk as everyone else.
I have learned the error of my ways and will carry this lesson with me into the future as we build this Lemmy community.
All the downvotes here kinda got me legit angry. Incurious fools and jokers.
It's not a complete answer, but it's partially because the development of Chrome and Firefox have always been highly competitive resulting in them both adopting rapid release cycles around the same time in the early 2010's.
I haven't read too much into the topic, but I wouldn't be surprised if this was as much a marketing decision as well as a developer one. Similar to how Microsoft didn't want to release an XBox 2 in competition with a PlayStation 3.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_version_history https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome#Development
These are just the Wikipedia links, but there is interesting discussion of development history to be had, here.
I really hope this goes somewhere.
Not because I have any sympathy for the shareholders, mind you, fuck absolutely everyone involved. But I think it would be very funny to make Apple prove in court that AI is such dogshit it would've hurt the product more to implement it than not.
There's so many reasons this is a dumb, bad idea, but locally running models doesn't even build confidence that they won't exfiltrate the queries and other privacy invading telemetry. Just wait until you're online next.
I, like a lot of people, got briefly obsessed with the Voynich manuscript. It's just interesting is all. We love a good mystery.
At some point I had the thought, "I should make my own manuscript in the same fashion, just as a fun art project!" Followed almost immediately after by, "oh, this is just someone's fun art project, isn't it?"
That's fine, that's enough. It's still cool and has created it's own story in history now.
Oh shoot! I missed posting to this topic on my cakeday by 20 minutes, but me!
Came over after they killed third party apps because I couldn't use my beloved Sync, which is now never updated anyways.
I'm not ashamed to admit I moved to Reddit during the great Digg migration. Platforms come and go, you just keep on rolling.
In all seriousness, I do feel like content has got better here in that time and I enjoy the raw, early Internet vibes. There's still plenty of room to grow, but I feel very positive about it all.
Touch support really needs some love because OOF. I understand why it's maybe not a priority, but I have a nice little 2-in-1 and I'm tired of pretending like tablets don't at least deserve their niche.
Any good gesture support software I might be missing?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Touchscreen#Wayland/Weston
If I'm reading the wiki correctly, touch is just reduced to pointer input and yeah, that's exactly what it feels like
EDIT:
Yes, the writing is on the wall. X11’s upstream development has dropped off significantly in recent years, and X11 isn’t able to perform up to the standards of what people expect today with respect to support for multi-monitor setups, high DPI monitors, HDR, VRR, other fancy monitor features, multi-GPU setups, screen tearing, security, crash robustness, input handling, and more.
I glossed over it on first reading, but I guess there's a small nod to it there and that's something.
It's hard to pick what current AI application I hate the most, but music is right up there at the top.
It's absolutely ruined any sort of ambient/lo-fi/vaporwave/city pop mix on Youtube. And I think now it's coming for dungeonsynth too, AUGH!
Endless AI slop channels. You can tell it's AI because they all have AI generated logos, overly intricate but garbled album art, no individual track names or citations, and most tellingly usually seem to be pretty consistently 1 or 2 hours exact. I'm guessing this is a sort of limitation of whatever software or paid subscription they're using. You'll also notice them upload a new album at impossibly prolific rates; if not daily then usually at least 2-3 times a week.
Example: https://www.youtube.com/@ChillCityFM/videos
Most of them admit to using AI tools if you poke around the descriptions, I think they're obligated to if it weren't already apparent enough.
I feel your pain. I'm a big fan of the PS controller design as well. This isn't a serious recommendation as I haven't done it yet myself, but your best bet may just be to buy a PS5 controller with some HAL effect replacement sticks.
(Just using Amazon as an example, there are probably cheaper/better European options but it looks like a 2-pack would run you about $14USD / €12) https://www.amazon.com/PS5-Hall-Effect-Joystick-Replacement-2-Pack/dp/B0DN8T9KJW
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/DualSense+Joystick+Replacement/142488
Be warned as it looks like in order to do the replacement you'll need to desolder the old sticks and solder in the new ones.
This'll probably be my plan, one day, but I suck at soldering so I'm likely going to find a friend to do it for me and bribe them with some beer.
Social media, at it's heart, is inevitable. We will always find a way to share pictures, information, videos, etc. with each other. It's such basic functionality when you really think about it. We're social creatures and this is the most important thing we would do with technology.
The issue is specifically with platforms; how they consolidate power and who owns them.
I don't know what to do about it, it's one of the biggest problems we are going to continue to face in our time. I can't really armchair solutions for it now, but I think it's of the utmost importance that we recognize it and discuss it.
Social media is not inherently bad, it's the platforms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg5kB4UcAuA
If you've ever listened to Welcome to Nightvale this was one of the first weather reports. Was driving to work one day when it came on and just had to pull over and stare off into the distance for a few minutes.
I understand that, so then why change it?
This does not appear to be true.
That blog post has an aura of marketing speak around it.
Version numbering has no implication on development and doesn't even need to align internally and publicly, so somewhere a conscious decision was made to do it this way for "reasons". I conjecture those reasons are at least partially due to marketing. Is this not fair?