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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

For what it's worth I doubt the add-on is doing any translation or sending the youtube subtitles to any other servers. Youtube auto generates translations for videos in loads of languages and then offers subtitles only in the user's language, so the add-on will just be accessing those already existing .SRT files off of YouTube's servers which you can't normally see and displaying them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

*England, Wales and Northern Ireland. University education is free in Scotland.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

AI saves time. There are few use cases for which AI is qualitatively better, perhaps none at all, but there are a great many use cases for which it is much quicker and even at times more efficient.

I'm sure the efficiency argument is one that could be debated, but it makes sense to me in this way: for production-level outputs AI is rarely good enough, but creates really useful efficiency for rapid, imperfect prototyping. If you have 8 different UX ideas for your app which you'd like to test, then you could rapidly build prototype interfaces with AI. Likely once you've picked the best one you'll rewrite it from scratch to make sure it's robust, but without AI then building the other 7 would use up too many man-hours to make it worthwhile.

I'm sure others will put forward legitimate arguments about how AI will inevitably creep into production environments etc, but logistically then speed and efficiency are undeniably helpful use cases.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 weeks ago (17 children)

The vast majority of countries in Europe don't have military service, and it's no coincidence that the few countries which do, also border Russia.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Good OS-native cloud syncing. The Windows Cloud Sync Engine is so useful and is now adopted by virtually every cloud storage provider, and crucially lets you keep your entire cloud drive visible as unsynced files and pulls them on-demand (ie. what Dropbox call Smart Sync).

Thanks to being freelance and working for different companies I have different files I work on in Dropbox and Onedrive as well as my personal stuff being stored on Proton and my Synology NAS through Drive, and none of these have linux integrations that even come close to their Windows or macOS equivalents. Things like Syncthing and rclone will do selective sync, so you aren't forced to sync your entire cloud drive on to your laptop's tiny SSD, but that still means half your files are missing and have to be accessed through janky browser interfaces 🤢

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Agreed, and Musicbee is the only bit of software I've found which happily keeps a copy of your library as an iTunes library .mtl file, meaning it's compatible with other applications which want to link up to iTunes/Apple Music (like rekordbox, which is virtually the only software you can reliably use to load up your USBs if you're a DJ)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

It is nice! A couple of things kept me from committing to it though – mainly the lack of 1Password integration on Windows (I think this is 1Pasword's fault, not the Zen dev's), the ugly app icon (which is changing at some point in the future), but more than anything else it's just changing and experimenting with new features at the minute, with new updates posted almost every day and features shifting while you're using them. Which is fair enough for developing software, I'll just come back to it down the line.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

By extensions to you mean the tabs from other devices and history icons?

Otherwise that's really strange behaviour, which extensions are they? Maybe it's some other userchrome.css modifications you've made?

 

Vertical tabs made a lot of headlines when they hit nightly months ago and they were a bit jank, never quite feeling like they're part of the browser. After updating to 133.0 though, turning on the sidebar revamp (sidebar.revamp) and vertical tabs (sidebar.verticalTabs) in about:config now work so well!

There's no blank space hovering between the address bar and top of the window, tab previews work well on hover. Finally I can ditch Sidebery and it's pulled me back over from flirting with Zen and I'm using this setup full time now <3

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Sorry for devil's advocate here because I agree with you but hypothetically the answer would be verification. ie., Google already has your password, so why would they need to ask you for it when you log in?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Giving up eating meat. Not sure if it was cause or effect, but I got so much more interested in cooking food properly and looking after myself. Food and cooking became one of my favourite hobbies and 7 years later is still my go-to healthy wind-down activity that helps me relax after a long day at work. Knock-on effects have meant I'm happier and healthier than I ever had been in my life.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is an example of a tab group using Sidebery. If you click links on a page that open in new tabs, it creates a sort of folder from the original tab, with the group of links as children of the parent tab. You can also drag them into these groups manually.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Really like this, except that it breaks the Adaptive Tab Bar Colour extension. I've been using FF with edgy-arc-fr userchrome and Sidebery which is nearly perfect in terms of UI but definitely feels slower than Zen. I'd definitely switch to this if it had some native adaptive UI colour, I just think it's neat.

Is the sidebar here just the same as the new native Firefox vertical sidebar, or is it bespoke?

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