If someone wanted it, they could've installed the Firefox extension, but now for users who doesn't want this, they have an intrusive feature that is just a bloat. Also, even if I wanted it, it's fairly useless unless you live in western countries.

I couldn't help, so let me ask What about firefox stops you from using it for online shopping?

I was also looking into alternatives after all the fiasco and wanted to go with Floorp, but turns out floorp is also doing some shady stuff. Recently they made all their fork only part of the code source available from open source. I don't know about you, but that feels pretty shady to me.

Never heard of Assy Mcgee before. Those people must know how to have fun.

Seriously, DRM is the problem. There's no one benefitting from it except for large corporations who have a stranglehold on content.

Isn't the only reason firefox gets google ad money is because google is afraid they would slapped with an anti-trust lawsuit? Firefox getting money from google doesn't seem like a valid criticism.

The firefox users who dumped Firefox because of all this fiasco, how many of you are using safari?

For me, the bugs that I usually encounter in linux are way less annoying than the ones I had on Windows

There is a this app called upscale, that uses an ML model to upscale images. It's Quite good at what it does, it's useful. I use it frequently. So, there are AI stuff in linux. Just not your myopic view of AI (LLMs). And your analogy with printing press is extremely wrong. Other than human errors, printing press didn't have have remotely as many errors as LLMs. LLMs have not evolved to the point of causing a a revolution. So linux has plenty of time to see if the bandwagon sinks or sprints.

So... Arch makes sad people happy...?

How can I install non-free drivers on fedora like Debian and Ubuntu

My supervisor was an FOSS guy. He used Linux, Libreoffice everything but he still insisted on whatsapp for informal communication. I guess network effects is hard to avoid.

Pass keys has so many issues that they still haven't figured out. Unless it attains a bit of maturity I will not use it.

Personally what I have seen so far, Netflix and Disney+Hotstar (here a popular OTT platform Hotstar and Disney merged and this is the result) works pretty well and I can watch it HD (never tried 4K because I don'thave any 4K device). It's just Amazon Prime that doesn't just HD playback among all the OTT services I have used so far.

I don't think it's embedded focused but have you checked out Vanilla OS?

Huh, that is a surprising new revelation.

On Android I am using Waterfox. Still looking for alternatives on desktop.

What about XMPP or IRC?

Completely off-topic from the original post, but is updoot like the common alternative term for upvote in Lemmy like toot for Mastodon v. tweet for Twitter?

I think LF Energy published a report on how open source is more sustainable. Although, I don't quite remember the details of the report, it was more focused on sustainable projects not linux and such. If you are interested you can find more studies that explore the idea more quantitatively.