Small fine tuned models seem to be where the market as a whole is headed. Even the big players like OpenAI/Google/Meta are doing this as a means to optimize infrastructure. The Qwen3 models have been really interesting to work with.
I’m not disputing the technical aspect. But due to these realities I prefer to drastically limit the services I interact with.
Sounds like a great reason not to use their services
“I tried nothing and I’m all out of options!”
Sent you a DM, Interested to hear more about these problems!
I have been offering 1:1 chats on signal to anyone who wants help switching to Linux.
Asking questions in forums and social media is intimidating. I despise the snobbery that often represents this community. I just want to help people regain some control over their digital lives.
There is always a trade-off with privacy and security. It’s totally okay to decide you prefer convenience over privacy.
If you wanted to give it another shot:
Why not just access your financial institutions in a web browser?
At that point why not just run a rolling release? Debians whole selling point is stability which backports kinda ruins.
You can change to generic button glyphs in the controller settings I believe
Natural language processing makes TTS way more usable for people with reading disabilities. But there are absolutely no good uses of AI.
Ahh I may have misunderstood sounds like you’re trying to “pin” applications to be launched. This is more app launcher than dock.
Wonder if rofi would suit your needs?
This is the main benefit. However, i’m finding the software I use requires less dependencies and libraries these days.
I barely even use flatpaks anymore. Almost everything is in official repos. I couldn’t tell you the last time I had a dependency conflict.
Your question was “what?”. Appreciate the follow-up question though.
Wayland based tiling compositor
You have accurately identified a major part of the problem. Many people are unwilling to change their habits, or don’t have the patience to learn new tools.
The other element though is time, many people don’t have the time to stop and learn. Especially when a problem like privacy is a lot less immediate than hunger or healthcare.