COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY

[Big Kev]

Same here, it's either carry on using it free, with ads, or pay £3 a month to subscribe without add. I've chosen for free but if the ads are too intrusive it's in the bin.

[Gloria]

I’ve opted for free. I couldn’t get out of it without carrying on, and didn’t want to do that if I’d got into something fishy. Thanks to the help on this site I am back happily on Facebook.

[Stanley]

Like Peter, none of this applies to me, I ditched Facebook many years ago when I realised how they were running the site. I wish you all a good experience....

[Tizer]

When Facebook launched about 20 years ago I thought about trying it out but they wanted too much personal information so I never joined.

[Stanley]

That was what drove me out Peter and the fact that they wanted 100% ownership and control of everything that was posted. Too high a price for the utility of the app.

[Stanley]

Ubuntu update this morning was almost 450Mb. No problems and very fast. Thanks to Canonical for looking after us for free like this.

[Big Kev]

I'm sure the Firefox users on here will be making use of this feature to turn off AI

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[Stanley]

I would if I knew where to find it! Remember, I am digitally illiterate!

[Tizer]

You have to be on Firefox v.148 to have the option and I'm on v.147 at present. I'm glad they're offering the option and I'll be trying it out when available. The present AI I find useful when I need some concise information instead of having to choose from a plethora of web sites but only when it's something I'm very familiar with and will know if it's fibbing. What I find most annoying is when the AI info that appears at the top of the page seems to direct all the subsequent offerings in one direction. For instance if I search for info by entering the names of two chemicals which I want to compare it will often choose one and ignore the other; and all the responses further down the page then relate to the one chemical. But I guess they'll soon have to prevent that happening!
(Stanley, if you want to know your Firefox version open it, click on Help and choose About Firefox.)

This is what the v.148 will offer... `Block generative AI features with Firefox AI controls' Firefox

[Stanley]

[Tizer]

I find AI helpful and very quick when I have this a sort of problem to solve...
I bought two power banks for charging our phones etc. Both with the same spec, in the same purchase from the same seller and only differing in colour. They arrived very quickly in one parcel, each bank in its own box. I opened them up and put them on charge. One of them did full charge in about two and a half hours. The other was extremely slow so I then tried it using the same USB cable and mains outlet that I used for its twin. No difference. Tried various other combinations but no better. So I want to send it back to Amazon for a replacement. They want it to be packed in its original box - but by then I wasn't sure which bank came in which box. Most of the details on the boxes and the banks were identical and had the same maker's code, something like A6610. I looked at the relevant Amazon pages but they too gave the same identical codes. Amazon can be very fussy about such details.So I then asked google what was the specification code for the black [details entered here] and it gave me something like A661020. Did it again for the other colour and, for example, got A661035. So now I can send the duff bank back to Amazon in the correct box.

[Stanley]

Nice to hear of a genuine good use for AI.....

[Big Kev]

I use it quite a bit at work, it's useful for checking long lines of code