This summary seemed pretty good though.

Doing the lord’s work, thank you.

Yeah, I realise a comment like this is mostly unhelpful (switching distros is a pain, of course - even just the hassle of moving over your data), but it does remind me how glad I am that I did it at some point. Painless upgrades are amazing.

(That said, it’s not entirely risk-free; although I never got an unworkable system, at some point upgrades were blocked until I did some manual work. Universal Blue had similar issues.)

I think “the Fediverse” is generally understood to refer to ActivityPub-based projects, or even more narrowly, “things that can be seen from Mastodon”. At least I understood it as such, even if that’s not technically correct.

Especially if it’s just another alpha release. They could have 20 more of those, for all I know.

Yes: https://chat.mozilla.org

I think you might be overestimating how much code is contributed by unpaid volunteers…

I do, but it’s also a shame that mozilla.social is shutting down.

Ah, gotcha.

Gnome itself is actually not bad. It has a full screen menu and arrangeable application icons and folders, but I cannot group them the way I want, let alone resize them.

I don’t think resizing is an option, but isn’t it possible to drag one app’s icon on top of another app’s icon to create a group?

Who’d have thought!

I think a challenge is that lots of site show ads or links to other articles in the middle of the text, which is not what you want to end up in reader mode.

Funny how people were interpreting the survey itself as a way to pretend that everybody wanted AI even when they didn’t - yet somehow it was possible that it didn’t end up in the top 10 😅

(Also understandably, this won’t be 1:1 the roadmap, for the caveats they mentioned in the post. Still helpful!)

As expected, nobody cares about “reader mode”.

Whaaat? Reader mode is fantastic! I feel like everyone who knows about it, loves it, it’s just that few people know about it.

Edit: ah, it’s top 10, so actually one of the most popular features.

Yep, not something I’ve noticed.

Looking at the current status, it’s a matter of “not turning it on” rather than “turning it off”, even.

the Internet is embracing AI whether we like it or not

And if not, the feature gets removed again in a year or so. So far it doesn’t really seem like it’s in your face or anything, so 🤷

It’s a great start, but needs some tweaking. Which I’m hoping is possible; there are a lot of cases where it’s exactly what I need, and a bunch of cases where I don’t want it, but I’m not sure whether it’s possible to reliably distinguish those two cases. (e.g. I don’t need it for music videos on YouTube, but for NotJustBikes videos it’s great.)

Two realistic things that it really needs (and that I’m sure will come) are:

1. The ability to disable it for a single video (i.e. if it PiPs up, pop it back down without pausing the video), and
2. Activate when the window loses focus/gets covered by another window.

tl;dr Sounds like a feature I would sometimes want.

I don’t know if OP is talking about any specific measures, but in general, I know that Firefox is trying to strike a good balance with its defaults, making it as privacy-respecting as possible without causing half the web to break, or accidentally decreasing people’s privacy.

Nevertheless there are projects like Arkenfox, Librewolf, or people manually messing around in about:config flipping flags like privacy.resistFingerprinting (lots of breakage there!), claiming that they increase privacy.

And of course to some extent they do, it’s just that if, a month later, you try to modify a Google Doc and find out that everything is blurry, you’ll have forgotten that you flipped that pref, and switch to a less private browser.

No that was a different poll. This one asked “do you want ‘enhanced privacy’ or a chatbot in the sidebar” which, of course, is a false dichotomy.