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FWIW, LM Studio makes it incredibly easy to do this. I’ve been in tech for decades, and there are probably only a couple of suggestions I"d made to the LMS team if they wanted to target a broader, less tech savvy user base, but I think they already have their target demographic covered. I imagine the Ubuntu and Fedora crowds are already tech savvy, but vendors making it easier to ween reliance off tech giants’ LLMs isn’t a bad thing, if LLM’s are here to stay.

Now the one thing that will turn me off to initiatives like this is if these OS vendors restrct which model can be used, or make it more friction not to use their “chosen” default. Like Google just did by pushing What I"m assuming was Gemma 4 E2B to Chrome users. I figure Google wants to offload the LLM usage to local compute to take the load of their data centers, and since Chrome is already a data harvesting tool for them, there was no downside to their operations.

The least they could’ve done is install one of the abliterated models, so people can see how badly Gemini censors them…

For those that’ll go search that later, you’re welcome.

Heh, take my upvote.

I can’t believe they are FAFO with The Mouse ™️

It’s DJT, or course it’s a scam. Just like how the company will somehow be ultra profitable next time they need to quality for a high risk loan (his lifelong playbook).

OpenAI has entered the chat

“We know your IP address”. No kidding, that’s how IPv4 works, even if the browser wasn’t leaking offering it.

They clearly only read the headline

Bold of you to assume any of this will be encrypted.

They just use the different techniques to fIngerprint you. It’s an arms race, and we lost it years ago.

They can’t be the only one doing this, though. It’s going to be a game of whack-a-mole as long as the carriers are still allowed to sell this data. The only way that’ll change is if some well connected politician gets outed or arrested because of it, probably.

SMB on MacOS has had performance issues for a long, long time. It doesn’t implement SMB very well, and all the Samba hackery people need to go through to work around it is basically just lived with. rsync is much better because of this.

400kbps would be slow as hell, for all of those use cases. Video would be unusable, but other stuff would still be insanely slow with all the bloat in modern websites and tracking crap in apps.