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[-] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 66 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Now, several users have taken to the Firefox subreddit to complain about high CPU usage when using the feature, as well as express their disappointment in Mozilla for adding AI to the browser.

I don't think it even downloads the model if you never enable or use it.

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world 67 points 1 week ago

I love that people get upset that their CPU is using its resources when they're using it.

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Reminds me of how some people get upset when their OS uses up all their RAM, no matter how much they have. It's like they want their PC to be sluggish and unresponsive. Unused RAM is wasted RAM.

[-] Buckshot@programming.dev 9 points 1 week ago

Did a project several years where the customrr required that the server we delivered specifically for the project never use more than 50% CPU or RAM. No requirements about how fast it actually performs its intended function, just that it can only utilise half the available resources while doing it.

[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Probably a bleed-over from the embedded side. Spent a lot of years working embedded control systems for NASA and DoD - bare metal systems, often interrupt driven - and it was common to have 50% margin requirements. They know those systems will grow over time, and they often have lifespans measured in decades.

[-] Buckshot@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

That would make sense, i hadn't put that together but they had a lot of embedded control systems. This was water treatment but entirely separate from the control systems but i can see them having that a standard requirement

[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

So was it a government (state or federal) water treatment plant? If so, I can tell you how it happened. The government contracting agencies have boilerplate text they're supposed to add to contracts to make sure salient requirements get flowed. They're supposed to delete or tailor anything that doesn't make sense, but the contracts people aren't usually very technical. We had requirements flowed to us about password management and account monitoring, but no one logs into a rocket engine or a torpedo. When we'd point it out, they'd say "oops, we should have deleted that."

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

My software does that anyway because I can't be arsed with multithreading or a 64 bit version

[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"I've noticed that my CPU, GPU, and power usage goes up when I run games. Valve needs to fix this ASAP!"

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