OmegaSunkey

I think they’re pretty open? Atleast I’ve seen a few good custom roms for Sony Phones, like DivestOS (before it died). I don’t know if they stopped doing that recently.

I think Sony Xperia phones.

https://m.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_1_vii_5g-13843.php

Snapdragon 8 Elite. Release May 13, 2025.

ladrón que roba a ladrón tiene 100 años de perdón

spanish / latinoamerican wisdom

wow… how many phones did include a mini hdmi port

yeah yeah there are some with DP over USB C now but still

The thing I see LLMs more useful for is searching.

Imagine asking a robot where a book with certain contents is. I wish for that instead of a robot that does my homework, because I suck a little with searching.

I also saw them useful for science: putting all selected, finetuned scientific articles and papers into an LLM to see what it can do on a specific scientific field. So imagine my surprise seeing this is only doable for private associations, since there is nothing “good” on the public web.

(That’s also why I see no point in using AI to, say, write an essay, just like I see no point in bringing a forklift to the gym. Sure, it can lift the weights, but I’m not trying to suspend a barbell above the floor for the hell of it. I lift it because I want to become the kind of person who can lift it. Similarly, I write because I want to become the kind of person who can think.)

This is one of the best quotes that I can grab from the page.

The second being:

Markus Strasser, an entrepreneur who tried to start one of those companies that’s like “we’ll put every scientific paper in the bag and then ??? and then profit”, eventually abandoned the effort, saying that “close to nothing of what makes science actually work is published as text on the web.”

and last one:

For instance, if you show humans computer code that has security vulnerabilities, they do not suddenly start praising Hitler. But LLMs do. So yes, I would worry about putting the nuclear codes in the bag.

The paper cited in it is amazing, in the sense of confusingly surprising. Gonna give it a read.

that im running out of ram maybe ?

I haven’t really checked but CPU usage on Teams while just being a member on a call is low, but using the camera with filters clearly uses more. Just checking CPU temps gives you more or less how much CPU is used by a program. So clearly it is just worst case scenario: using camera with filters on top.

My issue with Teams is that it uses a whole GB of ram on my machine with it just existing. It’s like it loads the entire .NET runtime on the browser or something. IDK if it uses C# on the frontend.

what would need to change for you to actually give a flip phone a try?

For me to start using my phone as the main way of my computing needs and entertainment needs. Which I don’t. I only use it to send messages and read when my laptop is not in my hands. So I essentially have a not-so-smartphone, not-so-dumbphone.

I believe this will pass. Sooner or later, the AI companies will have to stop losing money and adjust their pricing. And then it’ll turn out that using AI for everything gets you worse results than humans, at the same cost. And that will be that. I hope I can hang on until then.

such hope, i wish i had

But isn’t this what people are trying to avoid when it comes to digital privacy? User data being used in less algorithms?

Yes. Invidious and other programs, websites and anything else are useful for these kind of things. When you go to another house and in another computer you want to see some video but not affect the watch history of the user that uses the computer mainly. Or just simply watching some video that you wouldn’t normally watch.

But most people who use YouTube actively on their main computer binge-watch. Sometimes they follow creators, sometimes they follow what the algorithm recommends them for the day. Invidious does not have such algorithm, since its a proxy. So, it is really not for everyone.

You see how often growing youtubers complain about more than 85% of their viewers are not subscribed to the channel, or how just some videos have more views than their main content? The issue is that Invidious doesn’t have the algorithm Youtube provides to everyone, and that not a lot of people really watch their subscribed page.

I’d say to anyone, please save this post and come back when you find any alternatives or to discuss existing alternatives.

Exposure.

What’s so funny is that they were going to allow encrypted (they say) calls on the web app but then suddenly released a native windows client and told everyone if you wanted calls you need to use it, then removed all buttons for calls or video calls.

I guess they’re coming back on that.

Theres one Minecraft version on IA. Its an old one but its very portable, so you can play it on your school without much hassle (assuming your school installed java 8 lol).

I only use SearXNG because it loads faster than DDG for me. It parses very very fast on my low end pc, and thats what I wish.