There are many llms you can use offline

A poor political climate is no reason to avoid seeing a doctor

Writing a cover letter is a good exercise in self reflection

Check out ollama.com You can download a whole bunch of models for free. The way I rum ollama is on linux from the cli, but if you can’t do it that way try jan.ai

Ddg is more or less a proxy, but yes

Like the old Dog Pile

I don’t doubt it, to the extent some want more people on lemmy, do you think what we have is sufficient in quality or quantity in the eyes of those who we would attract? That was my point

Things we have no interest in changing. The topics of the most popular threads (linux, privacy, open source, niche diy, programming), the makeup of the communities (occupation, gender, political alignment, etc.), non-mainstream opinions (privacy, dangers of AI, how to best spend one’s time).

Lemmy will never grow as it stands. The public won’t change and neither will we. Our best shot is to pitch it to somewhat technically minded folks while could operate an instance if it is set up for them. Most of us could do this pretty easily with Ansible.

The harder part is the pitch. ESPECIALLY when persuading someone to manage an instance, we need to lighten any of the opinions in the first paragraph. Something we don’t historically do very well.

We also need to make things more “fun/useful”. Sports trivia, more cat/animal memes, substantially less cynical comics/more “funny ones”, more mainstream hobby communities (e.g. cooking, rock climbing, active D&D), random/communities with no “real purpose”, communities for differently abled/neurodivergent folks with a large enough user base to provide real support.

Creature comforts. A lot of people are going to find Lemmy to be primative. Something we take for granted is we will happily embrace something “inferior” but belonging to us rather than the bleeding edge proprietary offerings. I’ve come to find I “love” my freedom oriented software and hardware to the point I don’t even care if it shits the bed. It’s like my puppy. Sure it will do things I don’t like, but I’m patient with it. Most normies won’t feel that way. We’d need to polish and grow the code base to include the things people expect in a modern app, but most of us don’t have the skill or the time. And these additions may be things we don’t want anyway

I don’t see this as insurmountable. Less so as folks are becoming more aware of the invasive nature of AI. We just need to balance that et. al with the above.

Leave .world alone! (the answer to the original question is not instance wars)

How dare you besmirch the name of the frontman of the greatest band that has ever existed!

Presumably you will never have the chance to be at his wedding. Swallow your pride, bite your tongue, and be there for him. If he brings it up, ask him not to ruin the family moment. If being the infinite force trying to push the immovable object is that important to you, pick it up again at Thanksgiving.

Yes that is important!

What is something you are interested in we didn’t grow up with? I saw a mindcrafter once

Asl?

Selling alternative social media míght be easy in light of the tiktok mess

Remove cheese and scrape off the remaining sauce. Roll what’s left in the cheese. Feed it to your neighbor. By force if necessary. And yes. Throw away the crust. We are not animals.

I use invidious to search, copy the link, and use yt-dlp to download the video. You can get 1080p that way. If I wasn’t lazy, I would write a script

Typically it is frowned upon to call a woman sir. Doesn’t sharing your pronouns prevent that from happening, ma’am?

Yea I agree. Trying to remove all tracking is futile. There are 3 reasons I still try. The least important of which is protecting my own privacy.

I personally see it as a moral imperative to, when able, do something to stand against evil (hyperbolic as that may be). But the most important reason is to defend my family. Given how interconnected our data is, any datapoint on myself is a datapoint on them.

As you say, trying to remove fingerprints is pointless, but I can mitigate the impact to the best of my ability

those are the ones