No wonder why Steve Jobs was so obsessed about focus, he loved not only a clean interface but also wore same type of clothes and lives a minimal lifestyle.
YouTube - tons of YouTubers who are independent, X - raw, fast, first hand news, Not saying don't go to mainstream news, just know the bias they may have.
I stayed for about a decade but moved out of engineering to PM and then to technical marketing, it was a mixed feeling. One one hand being for so long at the same company did not help me financially that much on the other hand changing jobs into totally new domains was not as difficult if I would have jumped companies.
They have released ton's more features including AI - grok, premium subscription with no ads, growth has been record high all run with much less engineers, it's more optimized and better now IMO. In tech companies, it's not just about headcount, one needs a strong leader to drive company towards greater success like Elon.
Pi and Arduino's are way overpriced as these organisations have become more and more commercial. I highly recommend buy cheaper boards like ESP 32 for personal IoT projects.
It has a very active community, nothing is dead when there are active users. It has been living as independent package for a long time https://openjfx.io
I appreciate your suggestions but why is it so hard to have something akin to a real 'private mode' in Google Maps app where it doesn't track you at all.
Well, the real intention Facebook wants you to create it so that they get a better insight into you - the consumer whose data they want to sell to the advertisers.
Open source is a welcome step but what we really need is complete decentralisation so people can run their own private AI Models that keep all the data private to them. We need this to happen locally on laptops, mobile phones, smart devices etc. Waiting for when that will become ubiquitous.
This is a great list, I'm planning on writing some sample apps and blogs about OpenTelemetry for LLM's and this will be helpful. Which are the most popular open source ones amongst these?