These kinds of situations are inevitable in capitalism

The issue is that you can’t really “beat” China. Their models are free to self host and use, they don’t play by the rules of US LLM companies.

Sure it’s going to be the same for personal use, to most people chatGPT or DeepSeek are websites.

But to enterprise it will be a massive difference in cost, and AI can’t even begin to dream about profitability without enterprise

MacOS doesn’t really lock you at all though, and you’re free to dev for pretty much any software there, iOS or not

ngl I did make the jump to liquid glass on Macos, but for iOs I started on liquid glass (and quickly came back to Android once I realised I could not stand youtube without adblock and sponsorblock), so I definitely did not miss features and did like the looks of the UI

Oh yeah I’m aware that some professionals are essentially locked to a single platform (same goes with accounting and Excel), I can only hope that the industries this affects start taking Linux more seriously (or Mac, but tbh once you’re running on Mac it’s less of a leap to work on Linux)

Idk I’ve really liked it. Accessibility was an issue in the demos, it’s not anymore; the changes are purely aesthetic and tbf it does look nice

When I started at my last job, I asked for a mac; I worked on Linux, Windows (wsl), and wanted a change. Most of my collegues (in the dev team) initially asked for a windows PC, but literally everyone ended up on Mac.

Windows is only usable when the WSL is set up and then you basically work exclusively on that VM lol, I literally cannot understand how anyone puts up with this OS. Any other OS is excellent just by comparison.

Those are still external services. I didn’t mention them because they carry the exact same risks

TWP dumps your pages to google translate, no thanks. FF is on device

I guess, but even without talking about forums, even a subreddit would at least be publicly accessible and searchable. Using discord is effortless but antagonistic, at least a subresdit would be both effortless and in the service of the public.

Sure, I’d prefer an open source self hosted platform, but I’m hard pressed to find anything worse than discord

There also are Zapatistas who are currently anarchists (they don’t describe themselves as such though)

This might be relevant for following ICE around or direct action, but at this point there’s almost zero personal risk from attending something like a rally or a march.

No. If the data exists at any point, then a future threat will be able to exploit it, so full on nazi style fascism might not be here yet, but when it is, you’ll be in danger. Data can sleep forever before it becomes a threat.