Not for everyone, but they are aiming at increasing hardware ownership costs so more people can’t afford local AI

OpenAI/Anthropic is incentivized to prevent this.

They are also big enough and unregulated enough that they could use their power & political/industry relationships to drive up the price of local AI ownership (RAM, GPUs, etc)

May go the Gentoo route. majority of my friends use that as their primary os. peer pressure + compiling your OS is fun

Battery life is limited by cell modem drivers being closed source and having to be reverse engineered.

I have been looking into an alternate hybrid radio device using Reticulum. Though with that comes a new less convenient user experience for a lot of apps.

Socialized losses are the norm. People’s energy bills are already paying for the nearby data centers .

The company behind os level age verification is Meta: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings

You mean they’re complying with Meta’s age verification at OS level lobbying?

https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings

I’m emphasizing breaking free from identity ties to devices enforced by the hardware/radio. Not adding it to all devices.

It also limits open source competition in the phone market.

And the hardware. Your phone requires much harder power optimization in order to have a usable battery life. Same for size and heat dissipation.

Also politics related to the radio connection. Public cellular is tied to identity. It is structurally hostile to user-controlled, fully open, deeply optimized devices because the radio stack is certification-heavy, operator-governed, and privacy-hostile.

People put doom on microwaves, I’d call that general purpose computing.

After reading that… it only pertains to commercially licensed?

If switching from Windows or Mac and you want to keep similar UI for easy transition, check out ZorinOS. A friend of mine recently installed Zorin OS Core w/ nvidia drivers and is enjoying it so far.

To drive up fake usage numbers for justifying the bubble they created to shareholders.

Yeah agreed for most people migrating from Windows should be fine.

I just had a bias since I’m just used to making my own systemd services and udev rules for my work.

Ahh I see. Won’t the immutability impede work? I guess that depends on the type of work. But given OP is switching from Windows for first time it’s unlikely they’ll be wanting to mess that.

yeah Bazzite is also a fine gaming + typical work option

I’m also assuming OP doesn’t want a gaming-only setup / wants to actually have a general purpose use desktop too for work, etc.

Bazzite isn’t well suited as a general purpose work + gaming machine.

From OP’s post it sounded like they want simple / not tweaking their OS so they can focus on gaming.

ZorinOS or PopOS with nvidia drivers

I’ve heard ZorinOS is good if you want easy switch over from windows / want to keep similar UI

Given that this person’s boss wants them to dump company data into Claude, I see no functional difference.

The trick is to tell them you’ve been using it more than they have and that it’s not as good as chatGPT for task A, but that for task B claude does okay 25% of the time so we’ll need to 4x the timeline in order to get a good claude output based on that expected value.

But not as good as your personal local LLM that you’ve been training on company data. No one else can use it because it’s illegal to clone. (your personal local LLM is your brain)