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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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[–] 107 points 4 months ago (14 children)

Who is still using chrome nowadays? You can't use ublock

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  • [–] 59 points 4 months ago* (5 children)

    Lots of people who aren't as sensitive as we are to capitalist propaganda (advertising) being constantly flung into our faces 🤮

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

    Ads send me into a fit of rage now. I will sustain a scream at the top of my lungs just to drowned out the audio if I have to. I'm so done.

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  • [–] 23 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Every New Years Eve, I spend about 15 minutes watching network television with my parents while the Times Square ball drops, and I literally ask them every time "how the fuck do you live like this?"

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago*

    I spend the first 15 minutes of every new year sending texts to all my family and friends in Wisconsin telling them to get registered on myvote.wi.gov for their absentee ballots for the year because we have to renew every single year and its my resolution to bug everyone about it until they send me “i voted” stickers (or excuses for why they haven't a sticker but have voted) in the spring election which is days from my birthday.

    Nobody buys me a gift, they send me pictures of stickers. Civic participation is my requested gift. Spring elections are shit for turnout.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Im watching YouTube with chromecast sometimes and its constant ads that just comes more and more often the more you watch a video. The entire service screams it wants me to stop watching. And I do, normally i just watch one or two videos and then the ads are too much. I get angry by the interruptions.

    On ads i turn the volume down to zero and intentionally stare at the counter so I dont even know what ad they are playing. I hate them.

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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

    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

    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 (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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    • [–] 29 points 4 months ago

    Solution: stop using chrome.

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

    Just did a quick look...

    Need to use Chrome for work (No, UserAgentString changes don't work for whatever fingerprinting nonsense they use). Trying to preempt this issue. Apparently when it downloads, it downloads into a folder called

    ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/OptGuideOnDeviceModel/

    OptGuideOnDeviceModel directory doesn't exist yet.

    I created it, made root the owner, and removed all its write permissions. Ought to do it.

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

    No, UserAgentString changes don't work for whatever fingerprinting nonsense they use

    Also block chromium? That's real crappy.

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    • [–] 8 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Settings->System->On Device AI to Off stops it from coming back.

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    • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Why would you ever use chrome? It has always sucked.

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    • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Anybody know if this only gets installed on windows 11 computers? At work we got low resources on windows 10 and legacy computers so idk if they install the AI weights on those

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    [–] 4 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    And then what?

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    ...Remove it.

    Install Helium browser, Ungoogled Chromium, Firefox or even Brave.

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  • [+] -11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I feel like this sounds easier than it is.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    It's actually genuinely that simple.

    Most browsers can automatically import from most other browsers.

    For example, let's say you install Firefox. It will give you the option to sync your bookmarks, credentials, saved autofill entries, extensions (if available on Firefox), and even your entire browsing history.

    If you switch to a chromium-based browser like Brave, it won't even have any trouble importing extensions, since unlike Firefox, it'll support every single chrome-supported extension by default instead of requiring a new Firefox version to also have been made by the developer.

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    • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    I thought this would convince my brother to degoogle. Guess what he said?

    "scoff I ain't a gigabite hoarder, let them have my 4 gigas."

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    [+] -6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    laughs in Brave

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