French laws don’t recognize software patents so videolan doesn’t either. This is likely a reference to vlc supporting h265 playback without verifying a license. These days most opensource software pretends that the h265 patents and licensing fees don’t exist for convenience. I believe libavcodec is distributed with support enabled by default.

Nearly every device with hardware accelerated h265 support has already had the license paid for, so there’s not much point in enforcing it. Only large companies like Microsoft and Red Hat bother.

Smaller communities aren’t necessarily a bad thing. Compared to reddit I rarely feel like I’m commenting into the void.

There should be no performance difference. The only difference should be in loading screens and possibly pop-in from streamed assets.

The issue is the marketing. If they only marketed language models for the things they are able to be trusted with, summarization, cleaning text, writing assistance, entertainment, etc. there wouldn’t be nearly as much debate.

The creators of the image generation models have done a much better job of this, partially because the limitations can be seen visually, rather than requiring a fact check on every generation. They also aren’t claiming that they’re going to revolutionize all of scociety, which helps.

You can install any extension you want on the Dev version and some forks like mull by setting a custom extension collection. It’s a bit of a pain but it works.

Duckduckgo doesn’t have anywhere near the capacity to collect data that google does, and their ads are keyword based, rather than being influenced by other data. Their search engine is really the only thing I’d recommend using however since their add-on and browser don’t offer anything that others don’t.

Infinity for Lemmy has the option to open links with an in-app browser or with an external one.