Especially when you don’t have one to begin with

I doubt so… Sort of competing ecosystem, very opposite political stance of the audience…

Similar bootstrap issues, though. On both platforms, you have to do some legwork to make the experience more tailored to your liking.

On Lemmy, I can sign up for an account on the instance that fits my views (sorry, that’s not lemmy.ml), and from that point I can get some good content on my Home feed already, and go from there. Similar experience with Mastodon, which is closer format to Nostr.

On Nostr, though, you are welcomed by spam, and bots, and bot spam. I didn’t use it since a few months ago, but I doubt it changed to the better. The philosophy of “all filtering happens on client” means that every user has to do that on their own. Banning bots is like a full time job… Filtering noise is a second job. I’m fine with crypto, and censorship resistance is a good thing. But I feel there are not enough Nostr tools to make experience nice for the users. Edited: typos

QubesOS is not meant for app sandboxing. Running each app in its own qube is very expensive, and hard to maintain. QubesOS are designed around the concept of domain compartmentalization, letting you to limit blast radius.

I use QubesOS for finance related stuff, and also thinking to use it for sysadmin tasks on my homelab. Daily driving it seems too complicated for me

True. I often forget that people are living in vastly different environments even within the same country

Its not that luxury, the $45k trim. But its a good price for a medium size modern SUV EV

OMG, this is ludicrous! $60+ for a couple of hauls a year!!! How dare they!!!

You are doing a good job here! I’ll let others fight over your software choices, and just add some things that you might want to add:

Keyboard app (Android): I’m using Futo keyboard, but there are other options if FUTO isn’t your cup of tea.

Translation app (Android): “Translator” on F-Droid is a feature rich, fully local.

These two can replace respective apps from Google that you like have installed by default.

If the new platforms switch to DDR6, can I get some DDR5 at just 2x of the original price, not 4x?

Ha, you may be underestimating your survival instinct. Look at historical events like sieges. Resource shortage, dangerous environment, social collapse - all that can be expected in post-apocalyptic world. And people did survive. Eating whatever they can find or catch, leaving in cold, and filth, getting sick, witnessing death and other horrors… People survived.

Unless you get killed, or shoot yourself, you would wish you came prepared for that kind of times…

I dunno, this wooden pencil of yours is kinda sharp. Would be a shame if it’s not registered… You’ve got a carry permit for it?

I just had a similar conversation recently… Looks like 3G is also dead, at least in US, so some cars from 2010s also can’t connect to the network anymore. However, depending on make and model, this “problem” may have been mitigated during a routine dealership service by upgrading hardware or software… Maybe it’s worth researching which models never got the “fix”

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People are downvoting you, but I like your idea to draw analogy with heating, because it is something most of us rely on, and if LLMs and related technology will keep evolving as they do, probably most of us will rely on it more or less, sooner or later. Regardless of what AI haters would say.

But your wood fire/central heating analogy is bad. I would compare large LLM vendors to hot water heating utility common in Eastern Europe, and small LLMs to various heating devices. Utility companies can set prices, and decide who gets connected to hot water pipe, and set water temperature. There are regulations that limit the power of such utility companies, allow customers to choose the supplier, etc. Same should happen with LLM providers - competition and anti-monopoly laws should protect customers who choose to use them.

Alternatively, customers may choose not to use utility-supplied heating. They can purchase space heaters, hand warmers, install split systems, burn wood - they are free to pick technology, power source, size, appearance of such devices. They can take responsibility of heating their homes, willing to invest their time and money in order to be independent of central heating utility. Small LLMs are like that - people can run their own, with capabilities dependent on investment, or they can pay smaller providers or resellers to get more flexibility and/or privacy and avoid capital investments. They could spend time tuning small models and harnesses to do some simple tasks, and they wouldn’t need to “buy intelligence” from OpenAI and others.

Slate looks interesting, but I wonder how that mid $20k price is possible with US based manufacturer… Also, not clear if they will collect data just like everyone else or not.

Yeah, I didn’t consider Leaf because of these issues… Thanks for sharing about e-golf. And I’m wary about quality of early Chevy and Ford EVs. Even newer models are crappy. I actually own a Ford Escape PHEV, and cannot charge it at all because of a recall after recall that come with a warning “not to charge due to the risk of fire” and take many months to be fixed. Edit: corrected my car’s model

Antique cars! Sounds good, actually!

I’d think most of the modern cars use eSim, not a physical card

I am. And I didn’t realize that’s a thing! But there is not many models… WV e-golf maybe a decent option

Yeah… Too bad that all EVs are spyware on the wheels. When car makers will be forced to stop or significantly reduce the amount of data they are collecting, I may consider buying one. Probably not going to happen in my lifetime.

What if the glasses come with a little flag stuck in the frame that says “I’m born blind, this thing helps me be less disabled. It’s not filming you.”? I mean, there are genuinely helpful use cases for such things out there.