No, I don’t think Apple’s intention is to convince consumers not to purchase their products…

You’re talking about a single OEM. I’m referring to the breadth of “AI” devices and software that are currently being shoved down the throats of consumers and reaching into their pockets.

There are plenty of AI models out there today that are open source and can be used for a number of purposes

Yes but those make up a small fraction of modern AI spam.

Honestly I think this is the inevitable future. There are lots of jobs where what you’re paying for is the knowledge. And while LLMs likely won’t be as good as an actual expert, most “professionals”, in my experience, both in personal professional work, as well as contracting “professional” work, are not even remotely experts, and a properly-trained LLM will run circles around them.

You won’t be able to buy them, because machines are, for some reason, not allowed to be fallible like humans, but I can certainly see a scenario where someone takes an open-source LLM and trains it with professional materials (obtained both legally and illegally) and releases it for free, and it does a better job than 70% of “professionals”.

Ideally it would be a generative AI trained specifically on legal textbooks.

I don’t know why there seem to be no LLMs trained specifically on expert subject matter.

What’re you talking about? Every one of those results are potential answers to your question.

Proprietary, overpriced, with flashy visuals and apps, and a massive marketing budget. They’re the Apple of solar generators.

You’re wrong. Anyone who has ever used Google knows Reddit is an absolute goldmine of valuable information. The problem is it’s also full of jokes and puns and bad information, and AI isn’t able to sort one from the other (yet).

It’s called critical thinking education.

Yeah, I mean, we have that, and parents are constantly trying to dismantle it. No amount of “critical thinking education” can undo decades of brainwashing from parents and local culture.

You could only train AI with good sources

I mean yes, but also no. If you only train it with “good sources” then you miss out on a whole bunch of other valuable information.

Just like scholar.google.com only has “good sources” but generally it’s not going to have the information that 90% of your search queries will be about.

This is really the wrong place to be asking about closed-source software. Everyone came here specifically to get away from that.

also has a decent direct messaging system.

If it’s not E2EE, no one here will be interested.

On my instance though I like it to be more loose with the free speech.

Also probably the wrong place to be bragging about that.

We’re also not interested in any apps that can’t be downloaded from outside the Play Store.

The point is to defeat the point.

Not that I can tell

That’s a big drawback of Yunohost. As far as I can tell, there’s no way to install without exposing to the internet. It asks for domain when installing and you can’t install without it.

I’ve used them all and Yunohost is the best. Very much not ideal but still the best. Has very easy reverse-proxy management and a huge library.

It doesn’t incorporate any sort of RAID management, if that’s what you’re asking. AFAIK you’ll need to use unRAID or TrueNAS for that. Be aware TrueNAS is in the process of breaking the entire third-party repository of TrueCharts by switching to Docker.

That’s true. I’ve lost count of how many morons tell me “oh my 2 year old MacBook broke and Apple refused to repair it so I bought a new one!”

I was a diesel mechanic as well. Never had a problem with the old readers.

When I got my P7 initially, it was so bad that after a couple of days I threw it in a drawer and went back to my old phone.

Then someone said you have to lick your thumb or rub it on your forehead before you register it. So I did both. And now it works like 95%. The other 5% I have to lick it again to get it working. Don’t ask me why. Yes, it is stupid. Yes the old one on the back is still better, but it’s not terrible anymore…

So they want to pay double the price for something with half the utility?

We were talking about Netflix…