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Could be because, iirc, Amazon is starting to move away from Android.

I haven’t been brave enough to try to compile my own kernel or install an OS like Arch. I’ve got a machine I can tinker with, and it’s on my list of things I want to learn how to do.

I love open source. Both the philosophy, and the incredible usability of it all.

That’s cool. I haven’t looked at any local/foss llms or other generators, largely because I don’t have a use case for them.

My current favorite albums are:

• Allison Russel - The Returner (2023)
• Black Eyes Peas - ELEVATION (2022)
• Run The Jewels - RTJ4 (2020)
• Descartes A Kant - After Destruction (2023)
• Tommy McLain - I Ran Down Every Dream (2022)

I don’t know if this is the intent of their small web effort, but the first impression I got just now when I clicked through and saw this was, “gross”.

Scummy looking/feeling marketing hustle is a huge turn off. (edit: I went back to the Kagi small website again and it seems to be sort of like stumbleupon, as it served up a different, way less gross site, and has the next site button to browse through whatever they’re featuring)

I’ve been opting out of the internet at large. It started a few years back just disconnecting from social media, but as AI has begun to pollute everything and enshittification ruins everything, I’m just kinda done with it all.

I’ve been enjoying Lemmy, and I’m hoping Lemmy doesn’t turn into an AI circle jerk.

As a result I’ve been building out my server with services I want to use that I control so I’m not trapped by enshittification or inundated with AI where I don’t want it.

With all that being said, I know AI is here to stay. My biggest problem with AI is these companies gleefully gobbling up our data, our art, our words, our creativity, using it to feed and train, and to make billions, while we get nothing. It would be one thing if all these generative models were open source and freely available for everyone to use and benefit from, but that’s not the case. I know there are open source models, but the big ones are all paywalled and in many ways being weaponized against us.

At some point I hope generative AI becomes a boon to society. Right now, I’m too cynical to believe it will. I feel like it’s just going to make things worse for the majority of people.

I have 50 apps total.

Of the 50, 17 are system apps that can’t be removed (iPhone), leaving me with 33 apps that I’ve installed.

Of the 33 installed apps, 17 are self hosted and/or fully or partially open source apps & services, which works out to 51%

Edit to add: I choose open source whenever possible.

I watched episode one and really enjoyed it. I’m also watching Blue Eye Samurai, it’s interesting watching them at the same time.

For me it’s just Linux itself that’s cool. I mean, I get the different distros have different opinions and things that make them neat, and that in and of itself is what’s so cool. FWIW I use Ubuntu (server) and desktop.

While you’re right about Android not restricting browsers, the context that is missing here is that the EU is (rightfully) forcing Apple to allow actual alternative web browsers/engines. In doing this, Apple is claiming that it’s too hard to support pwas while complying with the EU rulings.

It’s utter bullshit, and pwas should continue to be supported in safari and other browsers on iOS, but Apple’s just gotta be a spiteful asshole while complying with the letter of the EU law.

I live in the United States, currently use iOS devices, and regularly use pwas. It’s pretty unlikely my next phone will be an Apple device. I’ll probably end up with a pixel running Graphene.

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