

I’ve never heard of anyone approaching the topic to save money. It’s either privacy/ownership or just goofing around with old hardware


I’ve never heard of anyone approaching the topic to save money. It’s either privacy/ownership or just goofing around with old hardware


Every technology is useful if it isn’t used malevolently. Alas, they are, so personally, I avoid them. Maybe at some point smart glasses will be compatible with something like GadgetBridge and I’ll be able to revisit them and teach people to use them more ethically. Just like smart watches.


As long as they’re also mic less. You can do just as much privacy invading with an open mic.


Anti-LLM folk don’t just have an issue with energy consumption. There’s also the issue of intellectual theft, studies that correlate worsened education with LLM usage, and the tech leadership silencing those issues by corrupting politicians. But I’m sure if they get past that they’ll understand how great LLMs are.
I really like Faugus. Too bad they switched to GTK some time ago. I know it’s just visuals but I just don’t want to deal with it. Vermouth is pretty decent as well and integrates into KDE