I don't know nearly enough history to be an expert on this subject, but I've heard that one of the causes of the Enlightenment was because peasants and poors were able to afford to spend time learning and creating, rather than substinance-farming.
I'm not who you replied to but..... I've run a bunch of models through https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile and https://ollama.com/. I'm lucky enough to have a decent video-card (24GB), but if you are willing to be a bit more paitient, or run a lower model, you'll probably be able to get it going.
I grew up in California and had the opposite experience. I had friends who grew up speaking Mexican-Spanish at home, and would take the Spanish classes to get an easy A.
The teachers never understood what the Mexican-Spanish students were saying, and kept telling the native speakers that they were doing it wrong.
Fair enough. I'm sorry to hear all that. I'm lucky enough to have a good tech job, but I'd love to have a good tech job in Sweden instead of here in the US.
My experience has been the opposite. I find a place on booking/priceline/$whatever, then I go to the hotel's website, and it's ~30% more expensive. I'd prefer to go directly through the hotel, but they keep charging me more, which never made sense to me.
I don't think that's even remotely true. While it is true that the USA has it's fair share of racists and sexists, Hillary won the popular vote, and Obama is one of America's most popular presidents.
Harris lost because she ran a terrible campaign, on the coatails of another terrible campgaign, from a terrible president.
Yeah, you were clear. I thought I was being clear when I said that I don't want to fund the "open web" as Mozilla defines it. I only want to fund Firefox development.
But that's what I don't want. I don't care about the foundation, as it doesn't share my values.
"I’m sure if more people donated, they could actually be incentivized to make such an option available, but they barely get any donations compared to the revenue they make from the Google subsidy, so it’s just unreasonable to expect them to put in that additional effort, especially when the primary thing the vast majority of the money goes to is Firefox staff, development, and related server hosting anyways."
This is the problem though. How many people don't donate because, like me, they don't want to pay for a bloated CEO salary, or unrelated projects? I don't find it unreasonable at all, rather it would help them focus on what their base actually cares about. They have a lot of fat to cut, and this would point out where their resources should be spent, compared to how their resources are currently spent.
Are they going to make as much money from donations as Google gives them? no, but that's a good thing. It'll help them focus.
I feel like my point was pretty clear, but to spell it out: Mozilla is mis-managing their resources. I want to make sure the resources that I give to them only go towards what I consider to be worthwhile projects.
But I don't want to donate to the "open internet" or the non-profit, I want to donate directly to Firefox. How can I ensure that the money I spend gets spent on that and only that?
I don't know nearly enough history to be an expert on this subject, but I've heard that one of the causes of the Enlightenment was because peasants and poors were able to afford to spend time learning and creating, rather than substinance-farming.