I guess what they’re saying is, even though it’s “not supported” officially, you can still try and there’s good chances it’ll work anyway. If you need or prefer to stick to a supported configuration, it seems your options are either to switch to podman and figure out nextcloud, or switch away from RHEL.

I don’t think a macbook can fit in my pocket … and I don’t think the (virtual) keyboard on an iphone is a “manufactured restriction” compared to a macbook

Interesting, never heard of it before but looks promising, I should try it. I don’t care much for AI features, but I’m not against it either, especially if I can use locally hosted models, and it seems Zed supports ollama natively, so that fits the bill.

Coming from vscode, one of the features I use a lot is devcontainers, does Zed support something similar?

Visual Studio Code, I think it’s just the best, works on all platforms and there’s extensions for literally everything. If it enshittifies too much with e.g. copilot, etc. there’s always vscodium instead.

If I’m on a linux terminal, I use the micro editor. I can survive using vim if nothing else is available, but yeah, I used to be in emacs team back in the day…

I have used Qt Creator in the past and, while it was pretty good back then, nowadays I’m not sure if it can compete with vscode, I haven’t kept up with its development.

Artificial Insanity?

It’s an extension so it can be deactivated

Article says:

[…] then carefully refactor the relevant components of the extension into VS Code core.

So… maybe you won’t be able to deactivate it anymore. Not cool, microsoft (but totally expected).

One thing I don’t like though, the article says:

then carefully refactor the relevant components of the extension into VS Code core.

So … you won’t be able to deactivate it anymore? not cool, it I interpreted it correctly.

For example, that someone could fork it and make it use a local or self-hosted LLM instead. Yes I know, other alternatives exist (Continue extension) but aren’t that good.

it is a lot of effort and time invested on a feature no one requested

At my last job there were several people using copilot very successfully, some even had the paid subscription, and clearly it was very useful to them. I tried it and found it not that good, barely saves me any time and sometimes actively wastes time, but that’s me. I won’t judge if others want to use it, as long as the code gets reviewed by humans, like during a pull request (and it was, in our case).

It’s just a tool. Just because I don’t find it very useful, I shouldn’t tell others not to use it.

Gmail, outlook web, whatsapp web, slack web … just some examples of webapps that I use or used in the past that someone might legitimately want notifications from. Maybe you don’t use them, or are not required to use them for work, and that’s fine.

The article is specifically talking about android though, and there you’d most likely use an app for those, so I personally never needed them on mobile, but I can see someone else might need them.

Hasn’t been true for my past two jobs at least (US based), what I do outside of company premises / my own hardware and my own time is mine. They only own what was done on company’s dime. Not saying it doesn’t happen, but that’s not my experience so far, and I’m not sure if would be legal.

I literally run deepseek r1 on my laptop via ollama, and many other models, nothing gets sent to anybody. Granted, it’s the smaller 7b parameter model, but still plenty good.

Microsoft could easily host the full model on their infrastructure if they needed it.

I mean, they could stop messing with things that aren’t broken for once…

“We feel very isolated out there. We cannot ask for help, we cannot use our phones. But the captain is in charge, and the captain can use it. The only one that has access is the captain.”

So, boats already have wifi (and internet), in most cases, but fishermen are not allowed to use it. It’s not a technical or cost issue, it’s just… they don’t want the fishermen to communicate with the outside world

According to the research published by Hackmosphere, […]

I cannot find a link to the original research, anybody has the link to the original research?

Some of Apple’s struggles in AI have stemmed from deeply ingrained company values—for example, its militant stance on user privacy, which has made it difficult for the company to gain access to large quantities of data for training models and to verify whether AI features are working on devices.

So, Apple is behind in the AI race at least partly because they’re trying to do it more responsibly and more respecting of their users. I don’t really like Apple, but I guess I’m starting to like them more… a bit more. tiny bit. but still.

Few years ago at work, people were using them to clean electronics after soldering, etc. but once, they did it on a board with a MEMS device, a gyroscope and accelerometer chip. Took them a while to figure out while none of them worked until they narrowed it down to the ultrasonic cleaner…

While I’m a fan of GrapheneOS, I think it could still be considered “tied to Google” both due to it being based on Android, and also because it only runs on Google Pixel phones. Graphene focuses more on security, then on privacy, but not so much on reducing our dependency on Google’s software and/or hardware.

Yep, that’s what I gather as well. I just wish we didn’t have to choose, and could get both

I had heard they had rewritten it in go and got a lot more performant, not sure what else they have done. I don’t care much about the politics as long as it’s still open source (is it?).

That said, I’m a happy nextcloud user and I don’t see a reason to switch (after moving both data and db onto SSDs it’s much faster, so maybe php wasn’t the bottleneck).