Konsole is a great terminal emulator and I used it for more then a decade (together with yakuake, which is Konsole anyway), but on my machine (8 years old Thinkpad with integrated Intel GPU) it’s too slow in rendering on a 4k screen. Scrolling too fast in my nvim session makes it stutter.

Kitty (and I assume it’s other accelerated brethren) is butter smooth when doing the same. I replace yakuake using a second Kitty process and a Kwin script to appear it and disappear it with F12 or another shortcut.

There is time travelling in this post…

My thought exactly.

I mean, the problem isn’t that they’ll look like hypocrites…

The problem is that the bullshit they spout can be used against them in court.

For instance, some of these companies are on trial for using copyrighted works for training. One could claim that the training of a model is fair use. One of the criteria for establishing fair use, is that it doesn’t damage the market for the original work.

But their email claim they think LLMs can effectively damage the creators of the content they use, and they publicly repeated over and over how their AIs will make everyone unemployed.

Now they could say that they bullshitted the public, but then MSFT is a public corp, so that might be considered market manipulation? And indeed Microsoft has walked that back earlier than most others.

It’s written basically as if the reader is also expected to be American.

Which annoyed me.

But I’ve had a rough week. Never mind me.

Americans are the only ones who fly to American cities without getting scanned… Because it’s an internal flight.

I don’t think there’s a corner left in the industrialized world where you can go through passport control at the airport without getting your face scanned. At least as a foreigner.

Tell me you’re from the US without telling me you’re from the US.

Vanadium was built with security at the forefront of design, not privacy. They’re two distinct disciplibes.

Hopefully no GrapheneOS users read this. I’m so fed up with being told: “YoU cAn’T hAvE pRiVaCy WiThOuT sEcUrItY” over and over whenever I say there may be tradeoffs.

I quite often switch between multiple European languages, and can basically type any character in any of them using a US-international layout, with dead keys.

I can make all French and Italian accents, German Umlauts, and put a Tilda on the n for the Spaniards. Both uppercase and lowercase letters.

Cute, but I want to give a shoutout to

https://www.xteink.com/

Xteink already makes such devices, including the magnetic connection.

In addition to the the cool form factor, and the magnetic attachment, there’s a whole host of custom, open source firmwares for it such a Papyrix, Crosspoint, or Crossink.

I tend to agree, but I have occasionally seen my fellow AI skeptics behaving horribly towards people that decided to use LLMs in their own development of their own project.

The Lutris drama comes to mind, but I was also not very happy to find out that the creator of Booklore had deleted his repo after being fed up with all the harassment.

And there’s plenty more.

Sure, it’s been forked, but what the hell people, it’s his project, which is for a self hosted ebook library anyway, nothing that’s supposed to save the world. Could you all be cool? Please? At least in the github issues?

I even think you’re right on the issue, but just because you’re right doesn’t mean you have to be such a dick about it.

Understandable, but tough luck. If the budget is high, Apple TV might be acceptable.

There’s always aurora. And you can install the streaming apps directly on the shield.

But you can forget high quality paid streams. Without a proprietary ROM you’re confined at low quality 720p for all the DRMd streaming providers.

(Of course no such problems streaming your ripped blue rays from your Jellyfin server)

I mean, you are on a privacy subreddit, e don’t mention how much exposure you’re willing to tolerate, and exposure to who.

With a Chromecast your streaming provider knows what you’re watching, and Google know what you’re watching.

Using a degoogled android means giving up on high end widevine support, which means that even if Netflix (or everything else) works, you’ll be stuck at 720p low quality.

By pirating, putting everything on a Jellyfin server, then streaming via upnp no one is watching (maybe your TV manufacturer, depends) and maybe you don’t even need a streaming box, but of course a used Nvidia shield with lineageos will make for a better experience.

It is best from many points of view but, as far as I understand, this community is about providing knowledge and tools, and leaving it up to the individual users to asses their threat modeling and determine the extent of the acceptable compromise?

Edit: in every use of connected technologies there are privacy trade-offs, and privacy may not be the only concern on a user’s plate.

The Fairphone mentioned in the opening has the more ethical production and spare parts support, that can be a concern for many users. Ultimately it’s for them to decide. Maybe we bore them and they just get a third hand iPhone, which is still largely a privacy improvement over stock Android.

It is also largely questionable.

/e/OS has MicroG, and that runs as a system service. You can disable most of it, and if you’re not using any App that needs Google services, I doubt it really does much.

It is possible to use Graphene without using any Google at all. However… Doing so will break almost every app out there. Anything that needs push notifications, AndroidAuto, a thousands more things. So you end up using Graphene with Sandboxed Google services.

And we get into the debate. Is it better to take the official Google Play Services, which we all consider malicious, and run it in a sandbox, or take an open source private, and trusted implementation (MicroG) and run it as a system service?

It is at the very least largely debatable.