This is straight-up tradition in my friend group. One of us says jokes are funnier when you explain them at least twice a week.
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Hey, this isnāt related to the topic at hand, but I just noticed that you can pull tabs out and snap them within the Vivaldi window so that you can view and compare two tabs at once. Or four or five even. Youāre officially the only other person I know using Vivaldi lol so I thought Iād mention it, I can see myself using this regularly! I donāt know if other browsers do it too, I discovered it by accident trying to pull a tab out into a new window.
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I think that Chrome can do that do! Last week I did something (donāt know what), and my Chrome window split in two. I was like: WTF???
Personally, I already overwhelmed by having only one browser content to cope with 
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I was thinking it might since Chromium is the base, but I havenāt used Chrome in so long I have no real clue. About lots of things, but about that too.
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Iām using Vivaldi too. And Brave.
I miss an alternative for Firefox Containers (they isolate tabsā cookies). Vivaldi doesnāt have that, but it has the option of creating different profiles, so the cookies in one profile canāt access the other.
Isolating cookies is relevant to prevent session hijacking, but the privacy tools these browsers have can maybe prevent things like that. Brave has more strict privacy settings.
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Yay, Vivaldi club! I got into it because I get tired of AI being shoved into literally everything whether it even makes sense or not, and Vivaldi has such a small team that their stances on various issues tend to be more plainly stated (regarding AI, they aint into at all. I used Firefox for ages and ages, but Iām a little disillusioned with the Mozilla Foundation and went looking for alternatives. Then I just fell in love with the customization.
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Did you find a way to have a home button with a custom assigned URL? I really miss that one!
Yeah, first I right-clicked on an empty spot on the toolbar and chose Customize Toolbar. Then in the window that appears, you can slect Address Bar in the dropdown and youāll see a number of icons. You can click and drag the home button onto your address bar and put it where you want it. I added a search bar from there while I was at it.
Next, I went to the Vivaldi button at the top left (or you can press CTRL+F12), to open Settings>General >Homepage>Specific Page, and enter the URL you want. Itās right up at the top of the General settings for me.
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I feel the same! Whenever some app announces they will be bringing AI tools, I start looking for an AI free alternative. Iām very distrustful of AI, since Google, Meta and others started to collect their usersā data and content to train these languages models, and having AI in an app probably means our data is being collected.
I like how flexible Vivaldi is. Iām trying for the first time having my tabs at the left, instead of at the top. They take less space and it is easier to see their titles. I think so far I only scratched the surface of all Vivaldi can do. It is really a cool browser!
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I think itās straight up bad for society. I give it a shot once in a while out of boredom and itās just terrible. One time Gemini told me books donāt have chapters when I asked how many chapters some book had. In fact, just to prove a point to myself that Iām not crazy, I asked it this afternoon about some music questions, and FOUR TIMES IN A ROW it straight up told me fictional song titles, even after I called it out each time. Each song title was literally just whatever I wanted to hear to match the prompt (I asked if ICP had any song titles that sound like a warning label). When I told it those songs did not exist Itās all like āThank you for catching that blah blah blahā, then proceeded to do it again. I donāt think the average person necessarily asks these things a lot of clarifying questions or double checks the answers.
Itās one thing for it to āhallucinateā Insane Clown Posse titles, but people ask AI about history, health, finances and economics, politics, any number of topics where misinformation can be really harmful. All day every day these things are answering things incorrectly on the regular and people just run with it while the companies that make the LLMs take zero accountability for it. A little blurb once in a while (if ever) about accuracy isnāt good enough.
And thatās without even addressing the IP theft or physical and monetary consequences of AI. And alllllll these companies and foundations and politicians want a slice of that pie to the degree that nearly all guardrails are rejected out of hand in the USA at least.
Edit: As a sidenote, you probably already saw this already but thereās some google services enabled by default in Vivaldiās āPrivacy and Securityā settings you might want to check out if you arenāt into Google (and who could blame you these days. I have an Android phone, so I canāt talk much, but my excuse is that I received it as a gift from my daughter, and itās an S24 Samsung, so itās too locked down to put LineageOS with MicroG or something like that on it). My next phone will hopefully be something more flexible. Itās a very long term project for me, but I would really like to get out of as many of these ecosystems as I can eventually.
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āYouāre absolutely right! Filing the tax return I prepared for you WAS accounting fraud! Would you like me to recommend some defense attorneys in your area?ā
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I also like how easy it is to move things around. It reminds me of the more customizable days of Firefox. I have my tabs on the left, with stacking turned on, and my address bar and taskbar at the bottom. On the rare occasions that my friends have to use my computer they hate it lol.
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Ah, I just discovered that I moved on to Opera this weekend.
This explains why itās different
Too many browsers on my devices nowā¦
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Also: Darwinism works
Itās interesting how sometimes these language models can be so helpful, and sometimes they suddenly make lots of errors. I read something in a newspaper about āAI fatigueā, which is a weird term to use when speaking of AI, but it seems to be true that, for some reason, they might give less smart responses after a long chat session. They might get refreshed when we start a new chat.
After installing Windows 11 (as a local user, no MIcrosoft account) I have used Copilot anytime I need help with anything Windows related, or a new app I donāt know too well, etc. Iām not logged in, so it canāt save anything personal, and it forgets everything when I close the window.
Once my Qobuz app stopped working after I installed Studio Pro, and I thought there could be a conflict of drivers, so Copilot helped me to search everywhere for the problem. It seems there wasnāt any driver conflict, but I ended up having to uninstall Qobuz and install it again. But first Copilot was very insisting that the best would be to delete some folder Qobuz had created in the wrong place. So I did that, but after that, Windows refused to uninstall the app through the normal procedure. As a result I had to remove it with Copilotās help through a harder way, had to restart the PC and install it again. I was irritated at that point, and asked Copilot āDid you give me bad advice"?ā. It took a lot longer to answer, and said āCopilot is unable to formulate a replyā 
A week later, Qobuz stopped working again. Copilot again was giving the same bad advice. I reminded it of what had happened the last time, and it didnāt want to believe me. I said now I will first uninstall it and then remove the folder if it is still there. This way everything worked out much faster and no restart was necessary. So Copilot can be wrong sometimes - and will refuse to believe me.
The funniest thing happened today. I wanted to install the LibreWolf browser, but Microsoftās Smart App Control blocked the installation (because it doesnāt recognize it, as LibreWolf is not signed with a Microsoftātrusted commercial certificate). So Copilot told me how to find and disable Windowās Smart App Control. After I installed the browser, I wanted to turn Smart App Control back on, and found out it was greyed out and I couldnāt unable it again. I asked Copilot how could I turn it back on. And Copilot said the easiest (and only) way is to reinstall Windows 11 !
This was the funniest thing in weeks! I just couldnāt stop laughing! 
Yeah rightā¦ Reinstall Windows! 
So simple! As if! Fortunately Smart App Control is redundant and unnecessary, because Windows Security has several layers of security, so it is no problem.
But I wish Copilot would preferably alert me first if an action is irrevocable.
True. I have friends who wonāt read an article anymore, and instead ask ChatGPT to summarize it. This still works better than asking a question about a subject and let AI look for the answer itself. These language models were trained with anything/everything found from the internet, which includes a ton of wrong information and conspiracy theories. So ChatGPT can have the knowledge from scientific research papers as well as from the stupidest things ever written by stupid people.
Good point, thanks! 
LOL! Now, if it tells you to install LINUX, we know that it has reached a state of AGI
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You should try Waterfox next (no joke BTW)
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Iām waiting for that to happen! 
Copilot normally is very useful for any Windows related stuff and has been very helpful. But it makes mistakes. It can give outdated information, and once it forgot we are running Windows 11 and started to talk about Windows 10.
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The options are endless. Iām trying LiberWolf, which is an open source privacy focused alternative for Firefox. It has the tab Containers, which is what I liked the most in Firefox, as it isolates cookies from each container from having access to other tabs.
But I like Brave and Vivaldi a lot more. I just couldnāt find a version that would have everything. So Iāll be using 3 browsers for different purposes.
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