and using your own brain is anarchism

I’d love to us a local LLM that runs fairly well on like an 10-12th gen i5 and 16 GB RAM.

Any suggestions?

It was idiotic, but not quite that way. It actually started with “You wouldn’t steal a car.” Then tried to pretend that downloading was the same as stealing.

“You wouldn’t download a car,” came from the sarcastic backlash to it.

I have theories on this but I don’t think it’ll be as straightforward as you’re describing.

I think they’ll try to exploit software pseudo monopolies (specifically Microsoft Windows and Steam) to forcibly tie hardware to identities and make most widely used sharing platforms (mainstream social media) preserve much more tracking information on each piece of data.

I think we’ll see similar agreements and serial number registrations for things like GPUs as we’re seeing on 5090 sales in the US. I also think using Linux or other anonymous OSs will be treated like Graphene is already being treated as a suspicious sign.

I do think longer term there will be enough public revulsion to prevent this from happening too quickly and for the most part I don’t think the free software genie will ever go back into the bottle just because of how reliant everything is on it, but this can of course change. I genuinely believe Internet identity verification for basic things is extremely unpopular even with non techies and I’d like to think it’ll get repealed as a legal requirement in some places

There is none around here.

Please stop using people’s disabilities as an insult. You’re insulting the disabled more than the target of your insult.

moneymaker

That isn’t even making money.