Smee

If it can draw circles I’m convinced to switch over.

Spread some privacy on the unfortunate users kind sir.

I don’t need strange insertions in my posts to confuzzle any bots I think.

Have you considered you might be an AI living in a simulation so you have no idea yourself, just going about modern human life not knowing that everything we are and experience is just electrons flying around in a giant alien space computer?

If you haven’t, you should try.

It’s like that wombat that have square poops, but the concretesaurus shits bricks.

The Game

Damn.

Did you draw that on a phone? Very nice!

👌😩🤌

It’s possible to run local AI on a Raspberry Pi, it’s all just a matter of speed and complexity. I run Ollama just fine on the two P-cores of my older i3 laptop. Granted, running it on the CUDA-accelerator (GFX card) on my main rig is beyond faster.

Ollama recently became a flatpak extension for Alpaca but it’s a one-click install from the Alpaca software management entry. All storage locations are the same so no need to re-DL any open models or remake tweaked models from the previous setup.

Or if using flatpak, its an add-on for Alpaca. One click install, GUI management.

Windows users? By the time you understand how to locally install AI, you’re probably knowledgeable enough to migrate to linux. What the heck is the point of using local AI for privacy while running windows?

I’ve been on lineage for ages and recently tried out /e/, was pleasantly surprised. Reminded me of a reskinned lineage with some FOSS/F-droid apps integrated into the system and some extra privacy stuff.

I particularly like the fake location and app tracker features.

When it comes to standardisation, there’s a minimum defaults-based system called GSI where the same distribution works across a lot of devices. But minimum defaults leaves a lot of devices specific features dead in the water. It’s more for development than distribution.

How much privacy respect do you feel you need? Self-hosting that stuff is the holy grail.

Fossify Calendar is a standard android calendar that pulls from the built-in android calendar storage. You can use any standard calendar like Fossify or Etar to mention two open source apps, much in the same way that you sync your nextcloud contacts to the built-in android contact storage. Any standard contacts app can interact with your nextcloud-stored’n’synced contacts.

Running Nextcloud for tasks, calendar and contacts on a self-hosted server is one of the more private solutions.

So you’re disappoint it wasn’t a rickroll of the original image?

Finally my moment to shine with incredibly niche knowledge!

Joplin, while it has the ability to encrypt the sync target (even if it’s a local folder synced with syncthing) does decrypt the content in the app data folder. The notes are in an unencrypted database while all attachments just hang out in the attachment folder.

This leaves the content vulnerable if the computer is compromised. But then again, apps that keep stuff encrypted at rest still have to decrypt it to memory - leaving the content vulnerable if the computer is compromised. 🤷‍♂️

All in all, Joplin is definitively one of the great, more secure note taking apps.

I always wondered why there weren’t any nuke batteries available. We have had the technology for decades.

I used it way back but haven’t found anything comparable after going FOSS only. I miss the adaptive wake-up window.

There’s more cocks on YT than I expected.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xDZsu4XgQsE

.deb

$ /opt/camelchat/camelchat

opt/camelchat/camelchat: symbol lookup error: /opt/camelchat/camelchat: undefined symbol: g_once_init_enter_pointer

Appimage

Set as executable.

$ ./Camel-Chat-0.2.0-x86_64.AppImage

tmp/.mount_Camel-7OCAAq/camelchat: symbol lookup error: /tmp/.mount_Camel-7OCAAq/camelchat: undefined symbol: g_once_init_enter_pointer

From a similar issue for a different app it seems to be a glib issue, requiring glib 2.8+ when Debian12 is shipped with 2.74.6-2+deb12u5.

Android

Works perfectly!

I did run the app image in terminal and got an error about missing something, and the app image comes with everything bundled right? Might be an issue on my end I suppose.

I’ll redo it and paste the error message tomorrow.