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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.

Yeah, I have seen the service life be in the 5-0 yer range. I see that as acceptable for a daily driver computer.

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).

Switching to macOS as my daily driver years ago. Seeing the enshittification of Windows in the last ten years has been pretty breathtaking.

Side note, switching to Linux (hell yeah CachyOS!) for gaming has been a pretty rewarding endeavor. It has plenty of pitfalls, but I work in tech, and that’s half the fun. The other half was that I re-imaged my Windows 10 gaming PC to be a CachyOS gaming PC, for free, and CachyOS wasn’t all like “your hardware is too old, create e-waste and buy a new one with a Copilot button on it”.

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

You missed the point. OP was talking about the two, very populous, countries that directly border Myanmar, and how they have no apparent crisis with opium/drug imports like the US does with Mexico.

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.

That article reads like a ChatGPT summary, though I’m not sure if that’s partially due to translation from German or not.

The only Korean-to-American remake I can think of off-hand is Oldboy. The remake was OK but it was a far cry from being even a shadow of the original.

I’m aware. Several issues there.

1. They use / buy lists of people to robo-dial
2. They don’t bother opt-out request handling on those lists reliably
3. The opt-out process is per-campaign, not party-wide, so the process is an endless cycle for all party candidates, and even the same ones running in future elections. Because we have no way to our out at the party level, the data is basically always there.

This is by no means am exhaustive list.

The DNC just gives it to any Dem campaign. RNC is the same. I use SMS Filter+.

I think political calls are basically exempt from it, anyways.

https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/political-campaign-robocalls-and-robotexts-rules

“Prior consent” is basically moot if you ever donate to a y campaign, ever, because you have to provide a real phone number. Or if you sign a petition your party is running, or somehow end up having that party get your number some other legitimate way. They have no way to prove (or you to disprove) your consent.

I just treat them all as spam, and report/block accordingly.

iOS 26 gave people the built-in call screening, which has been amazing for weeding out garbage calls, at least. Text messages are a different evil, but there are apps you can use to trash text messages that contain specific words, etc.

So does Claude. Just because the user-facing features forget it, doesn’t mean the company does.

forcing

Yeah, those poor capitalists forced to jack up prices to take advantage of shortages.

I was arguing with the point of “repeatedly” being a determining factor for having to have this device. It’s not reality, once is enough.

They lost their license for 2 years. The equipment was required to get it back.

Nice straw man. Murder != drunk driving.

I know someone that did it once and having to have one of these as a result. Suggest you reset your opinions a bit.