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Check your storage for a 4GB AI model if you use Chrome (thelemmy.club)
submitted 4 months ago* by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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Check your storage for a 4GB AI model if you use Chrome
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[–] 57 points 4 months ago (12 children)

The best part about chrome is that you don't have to have it

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Unless....

    You have to use a website that is absolutely necessary for your job or government paperwork, that only works on chromium browsers (and ungoogled chromium doesn't help)

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Renewing my car's registration in my state won't even work in Chrome for me. Same goes for Firefox, which I my current preferred browser. I have to use Edge. :|

    Although that may be due to the extensions I had running.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    I was just about to be like, "that's crazy, I've never hsd that happen" And then I remember having to do a online test on Chrome instead of Ungoolged Chromium because the anti-cheat extension refused to work...

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (6 children)

    None of the browser based COM port uploader tools work on Firefox yet. Like the WLED installer or the ESP32 flash tools.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    I have no idea what any of that means

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    I think Yucandu has (custom) hardware (like something based on an esp32 circuit board) that he wants to flash with new firmware, and you generally do that via a com-port (remnant of an old type of connector). Oversimplified: These days com-ports are simulated over usb, and (for now) only chrome-based browsers can actually send the firware over these simulated ports. An example is the flasher for Meshcore devices.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I... Don't even see why you would want a browser to be able to do that. Seems like really trying to increase browser security issues on purpose.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Neither did I, but they all started offering, so I started using those tools. Especially the all-in-one systems where it's like "just buy the hardware, go to this website, and it'll flash for you". Like that's more secure than "go to this website and download and run this weird exe" isn't it?

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