So’s your face!

Conflicted here…

Luigi Mangione, white courtesy phone. Luigi Mangione, white courtesy phone please.

Cone on, you can do better than that. I believe in you.

F-Droid is a decent replacement for the play store. Lots of FOSS and less-enshittified apps available.

Anecdotal. And contradicted by my own anecdotal evidence.

That button exists for the same reason the “close door” button exists on an elevator, and the crosswalk button exists on many intersections: to make it seem like your specific needs are being met, while completely ignoring everything you say.

That button is the internet equivalent of “Your call is very important to us”.

It’s frustrating that battery capacities are so small that a simple networking utility will noticeably deplete them.

These cardstock-thin phones with half-day battery lives are bullshit.

I want a big brick of a phone. My phone and my laptop should use the same battery pack. A phone should last through a long weekend without a charger.

I use FF on android, but on my (ancient) desktop, it just runs like shit, while any of the chromium variants “just work”.

You might be happier elsewhere.

Android. Never noticed a problem with zerotier, but I will admit that I’m usually using a commercial VPN rather than my own zerotier network.

I’ve used tailscale, but not enough to confirm or deny battery issues.

AFAIK, they all use Wireguard, though, so if there is a problem with one, it’s likely a problem for all of them.

Always-on VPN works well on my device. But I agree, native ad blocking is important.

In my area, “Don” is pronounced with the mouth wide, jaw open. Force a smile as you say it, and you should be in the ballpark.

“Dawn” is pronounced with the lips pursed. Kiss your grandmother on the cheek.

I’m going to reject that criticism in this particular case. PiHole is a significantly more complex setup than Tailscale or ZeroTier. While I agree that it is beyond expectations for the “average person”, so is PiHole.

An OpenVPN server on a dynamic IP address is not that far beyond the skillset of the average PiHole user, especially if they are using an open source router with OpenVPN and DDNS preinstalled.

Tailscale or ZeroTier are well within the capabilities of a PiHole user.

Tailscale, zerotier, or any other VPN server on your home network can keep your mobile device on your pihole network regardless of physical location.

I’m told there are differences between “merry”, “marry”, and “Mary”, but I don’t believe it.

This might come as a shock, but that “MD” behind their name isn’t a guarantee they dont hold quackish beliefs either.

You now seem to be fairly clear you’re talking about the former, largely doable and indeed mostly implemented case.

Quite the reverse, actually. That “dynamic” environment hosted by a separate service is not nearly as significant as you portray it. The entire point of a meeting is for every observer to share the same experience.

Again, it is completely trivial for the underlying AI to recognize it has been asked to sit in on the same meeting, and act as the personal representative for each of 25 separate people.

If you’re under the impression that there is a personal, private relationship between an individual and an AI instance, I suggest you disabuse yourself of that notion. If there is any distinction, it is only because the underlying AI has been instructed to schizophrenically simulate it.

You shouldn’t underestimate profit motive. They aren’t going to do it for the sake of efficiency, but they will certainly do it for the sake of money. It is ludicrous to think this degree of cost optimization hasn’t already been implemented.

I see absolutely no reason why they should invest time in rearchitecting the conceptual boundaries of how private a user’s interaction with an AI is.

Profit.

If AIs use as much power and resources as we’ve been led to believe, there are massive cost savings to be had by simulating multiple bots instead of using multiple bots. If they’ve budgeted to earn a profit from the operation of 25 independent bots, what are they earning by running only one and claiming it is 25?

There is very little chance that this degree of optimization hasn’t been employed.