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Paul Thomas Anderson, not parents-teachers association. Had to read a bit till that became obvious

That makes a lot of sense. Unfortunate indeed that Google would be the sole arbiter of that “DNS”, but that explanation was pretty good

> Same as github, then. Same as photoshop. Same as any SAAS.

You can get stuff done without these.

This is addressed in the article as well, and while there's no technical reason they couldn't do this, it would break the licensing of the apps as well as the dangers of centralizations mentioned by a sibling reply.

> The F-Droid project cannot require that developers register their apps through Google, but at the same time, we cannot “take over” the application identifiers for the open-source apps we distribute, as that would effectively seize exclusive distribution rights to those applications.

> hasn't made me slower without it

> > cannot make progress without AI. When I use up my Pro account limits, I'm done for the day

Aside from the contradictory statements, I did address your points in my edit. I get the tradeoff. As long as whatever you do is in line with the providers of the services, and as long as you're ok with the surveillance, then sure... It's a tradeoff that MUST be considered and be aware of..

> I could not have created this without AI, cannot make progress without AI. When I use up my Pro account limits, I'm done for the day - I'm too slow without it for continuing to make sense.

And this is why untold billions are sunk into AI. Creates a dependency on their services and removes agency from end users.

Edit: yes I’m aware it adds agency in the sense that some people can do things they couldn’t do before… as long as that’s permitted/surveilles, which is where the agency is lost.

The LLMs do get it wrong once in a while though in their summaries. Mostly OK in my experience with Kagi Kite (this is an app version of kite.kagi.com)

Using AI in a way that doesn’t ruin their main products.

Probably straight from an LLM. Shouldn’t attempt to extract meaning out of it.

Totally not the same things as the original statement of updating a single dependency in a bunch of projects..

> sounds like an X Y problem

Sounds like someone forgot how to write shell one-liners, as well...

And so continues our plunge towards losing ownership of the means of computation

Firefox/brave/orion/vivaldi/safari/librewolf/etc

Admittedly some of them have their own AI offerings but not as invasive and can actually be turned off.

In the case of my bank:

I had to enable secure auth to access some features. This works only with the mobile app, even when logging on the web I need the mobile app.

Some functions are available only in the app as well. Now I’m stuck with the app because I need those and needed secure auth to access those functions.

It’s evil but I has no choice (no choice of other banks either for reasons I won’t go into here, just accept it and don’t tell me to change banks. Other banks are no better anyway. )

Same here. It's very similar to a lot of the "Apple Watch saved my life" stories/headlines.

I second this. I first got exposed to this concept via the gnome extension, PaperWM. Now using Niri as well.

Written before any beta showed up.

Works fine on my M1 Macs sooooo whatever.

Except for all the issues running ARM, 16k page sizes (cuts out some flatpaks!), and the stuff that's not yet implemented like dispaly out on thunderbolt.

This site seems to be about identifying users who used emdash BEFORE ChatGPT was released, therefore identifying who is likely not ChatGPT despite using emdashes

I'll have to remember that one!

Don’t give them any ideas!!!

On incus/lxd is true there containers can only be Linux..

Not sure about the one app thing but that’s the general design of those ad well I suppose.

I was always using those to present information on an easy to digest way and highlight important things.

The good thing is my emails still contain information not just content…

Don’t worry, the PinePhone Pro is now EOL while the original one will go on for 2 more years!!!

Get rid of those pesky open source guys, keep the merchants who want $$$ and can pay $ to Google.

Hyprland might change. Other apps that are installed or even compiled might go stale or change. The chaotic-aur in use might change or need replacing. Arch or upstream packages might make changes causing issues eg some recent issue with a session manager that broke a lot of installs.

Etc.

This is what kills my days. Other interruptions from coworkers usually are on topic and it’s always a pleasure to help out.

> Wonder how being used feels like?

It’s a VC backed company. You should already know what it feels like

> Omarchy will have less development effort than macOS, their deployment system will have less development than Docker/Terraform/etc, and that's all a trade-off.

But… their deployement IS docker and terraform and etc. Their platform is Linux, nvim, etc. In total there is MORE development than all of apples platforms. It’s just not unified under one umbrella.

It does, by making waves about Linux and making Linux better over time.