Just to nerd out a bit: I think this is justified. He has nanomachines, son. His eyesight is probably perfect, but he adopts a different persona most of the time. He’s a puppeteer and a politician most of the time.

This is when he gets his actual boss theme lyrics too and he finally treats you as an actual fight. No more metal gear, no more speeches. You get the treatment of an equal rival.

Or: Rising Revengeance might like symbolism, but it prefers the subtlety of a giant boulder and memes, and him taking off his glasses just fits the rule of cool.

I’ll add my own anecdote since I installed CachyOS a few weeks ago and have used it daily since. Have some experience with Linux Mint from before, but in the past few years I’ve almost exclusively used Windows.

For me, everything worked with default settings out the box, but I did see the wiki specifically mention “use btrfs if it works, if not, use…”. I even got my *arr stack and Jellyfin up and running relatively painlessly. And some games and programs not made for Arch/Linux.

The thing is I say relatively painlessly, but some of them involved a day of tinkering, diving into the Cachy and Arch wiki pages, etc. I’m fine with that, I find it fun. It’s the price you pay for wanting the benefits of the distro (performance, customisability, etc). And I was very clearly warned going into it, which TBF almost made me not go with an Arch-based distro.

So yeah, they are made a bit painful to use on purpose. Or rather, it’s a side effect of the core philosophies. It’s not for everyone, but it does cater to specific groups, and I think that is good. Kinda like how not every fediverse instance is for everyone (see also: Mastodon vs Lemmy vs Piefed)

I would still without a doubt recommend Linux Mint if someone wants an easy and painless experience after Windows. Heck, because of apt it’s even easier than Windows a lot of the time. And for the stuff that doesn’t work, it’ll happen if Linux gets more traction. Sadly we’re just not there yet.

(Though apparently the main thing out of everything I use in work and outside of it, it’s damned Xbox controllers that I have yet to get around to making function)

Ok, I genuinely might be reading this wrong and the other guy won’t communicate, so:

The way I read that is “we will have a button that’s there that you can click to activate an AI feature” (though it’s unclear if that’s actually what it’ll be like when finalised). And yeah, I’d rather that was an extension or something I’d go and toggle on if I wanted. That said, I also don’t consider that to be “on by default”.

And before anyone misunderstands more, I hate the addition of AI in everything and don’t think Firefox should do this. That’s not the point I’m arguing.

I mean it seems to me the opt-in part is when they say it will be opt-in by it potentially being a button on the toolbar. Though the dev acknowledges not everyone will see that as opt-in.

Source: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740500373677782

I can understand why people have issues with that, but let’s at least keep criticisms to what they’ve actually said?

It’s only fair the logs (or Ewoks) also get the Warhammer treatment.

Some potential options:

• strap some propulsion on the ends of the logs
  • upgrade to warp drives to use them against space vessels
• the logs are tougher than any metal and heavier to boot
• warp fuckery means the logs ignore armour or directly affect the people inside in some way (feel free to add chaos god shenanigans)
• Ewoks believe the logs will work and they have the numbers to affect reality
• the logs just hold the walker for the split second it takes to get swarmed by Ewoks or otherwise dealt with
• the logs explode
• Ewoks are all force users now

Though let’s be honest: even with all that, the Ewoks probably would’ve been one of the countless species wiped out during the Great Crusade. 40k does have some argument for having only the most over the top shit existing.