Hmm, I was only aware of the ones that actually, accidentally made it into releases. Well, what’s to stop such devs from still getting targeted despite these safety checks (I mean, in their personal lives)? We’ve gotta find a way to protect these critical individuals…

Really? What software went from open-source to closed specifically because of vibe-coding? I’d also question how long they kept up their quality… What apps disabled contributions in favor of AI slop? I’ve never heard of this.

Stirling-PDF and Episteme Reader are solid examples of apps that went freemium, but I know of no product that entirely went paid-only because of vibe-coding. If anything, Stirling-PDF was originally vibe-coded and then added traditional programmers to its team upon seeing its popularity skyrocket, from what I remember reading. I’d be curious to see your examples on the other end.

Kdenlive is an old piece of software from over a decade ago. While we can’t be sure that all of the contributors stayed AI-free, I’m sure all of the code was vetted for quality since a lot of people are invested in this incredible video editor.

Even from an anti-AI view, I’m not sure of what to make of skepticism like yours; what if vibe coders simply lie and say they didn’t use AI? Then would you instantly give it a pass? Proof of AI-free work has become impossible due to offline FOSS models, so unless I’m missing something, all we can do is aim for quality and security by this point, I think.

Maybe they’re interested in finding exactly what the public’s critical breaking point is. Without gauging exactly what the demand (for distraction-free, private use) is, they cannot optimize their sales. They sure lost big with France, but we’ll see who else follows suit…

Why couldn’t they just have called it “crabinization?”

I don’t actually know if anything you try in the test state saves to the flash drive, sorry! But I know that if you try it, then shut down the PC and boot it with the drive removed, it will return to your copy of Windows like nothing happened since the last time you were on Windows.

I don’t understand what you mean by “Mint version” and “distro version”; they’re the same thing, I think.

Yes, you can try a copy of Linux from a USB flash drive and then shut down the computer, pull out the drive, and boot right back into Windows as if nothing had ever happened. The installation process is typically a desktop icon on the Linux distro; if you don’t touch that icon, then it’s all temporary. Glad to be of help!

Just checking: are you aware that you can try Linux on your machine without installing it? You can use Balena Etcher to write a disc image (.ISO) to any flash drive (that’s the one catch: you must own a flash drive), and plug it in, have the PC boot from the flash drive instead of its own internal parts, and test-drive Linux entirely in it.

Alternatively, you could run it in a virtual machine via Oracle VirtualBox, which is free, last I checked.

In theory hypothesis

To get pedantic, you’d have to test that out a whole bunch before even coming close to theory level, lol!

Path of exile

Which?

Shoot, really? Dang…

every time I talk to them it seems apple has marked another issue off the list with an update.

Like what? You can’t even Bluetooth a file on an iPhone over to anything.

Hey AI, you rock!

they will ensure they get their money’s worth.

You’ve never met me, who literally uses the headset for nothing other than Moon Rider, haha.

A friend stuck between a rock and a hard place managed to find housing, so I’d say pretty good as I’m about to help with the move-in!

True, there’s no way to do a clean merge like we can with multiple KeePass password databases… or can we?

By the way, I now use AdNauseam, which is a uBO fork, but I can’t find how to access the color grid in your screenshots. Would you happen to know how to get to it?

Are you willing to share what any of these “custom additions” means?

Interesting. Is there a way to port NoScript settings into uBO?

I’m too stupid impatient to understand complex coding concepts…

Interesting, then this is better than NoScript. I’m just a bit rattled by the uBO soft-takedown by Manifest v3 or whatever it was that had happened last year and am concerned about uBO, like, dying or something. What do you think is its future? If it still seems stable enough then I guess I’ll drop NoScript for it.

And then on that note, would you be willing to share your settings of the scripts you’ve deemed comfortable, as a shortcut for other newbs like me who are just getting on board with all this? It’d be much appreciated if so! Either way, thanks for sharing.