Their AI policy looks very reasonable, and they certainly aren’t vibe coding. Everything is rigorously reviewed and tested by a handful of experienced, competent humans.

Those two things are not unrelated.

There could well be a kernel of valid criticism in it but this article is so exaggerated and strident, that I can’t take it seriously. It’s like people who scream GOVERNMENT WASTE about every budget line item that is not obviously important to someone who has only the most simple and ignorant understanding of it.

“If it’s January, it’s cold” doesn’t imply it can’t be cold in other months.

Depending what you find acceptable there are things you can do. For example at work we proxy through a mailgun account to do simple smtp notifications from bash scripts and webapps.I would imagine you could also proxy from an email server.

And you can at least manage your own email domain accounts via various webhosts. This may not meet your criteria for self hosted but its more independent then using gmail.

I know there are gaming-centric distros but I wonder, if someone built a Linux that was essentially a console equivalent, useless for anything else, how it would fare.

This is tangential, but their page behaves weirdly on my browser (using ironfox on grapheme). Bits of the page show up for an instant then disappear when I scroll.

Audile is open source and on bdroid. Here is their privacy policy: https://github.com/aleksey-saenko/MusicRecognizer/blob/master/PRIVACY.md

When did people start using the term ‘lab’ for this sort of thing, and why?

Oh agreed. I wouldn’t want to install an OS from a fucking idiot either.

(And I take your point that said idiot may also be a dishonest slime ball.)

I can’t believes he’s intentionally anti-privacy. Occam’s razor suggests he’s instead a fucking idiot.

I think their point, in the first part at least before going off on ideology, is that appimage makes things a lot harder for developers. At least I think that’s their point, the rantiness makes it hard to distinguish technical points from the idealogical…

This doesn’t seem exhaustive enough to be titled “the state of Linux music players.”

KDE dolphin. I have no idea what you are describing in half your items, but it certainly has preview panels, and lots of things you don’t mention: open terminal here, synchronized terminal panel, split windows, support for browsing over SFTP, keeping folder tree as you browser down or not, zoom, etc.

Probably no one’s thought of this yet, but i’m going to say black electrical tape. If you put it over your eyes it takes care of all your devices at once.

Only irfanview.

Also, it is one thing to decide that something is not an ethical issue of concern, it is another thing to act with disrespect to everyone with a different opinion.

Wow an expectation of future vague performance improvements is exciting indeed!

This sounds like a great idea. I would suggest doing also other things that simulate the brain in other ways, like listening to music (or even playing an instrument), visual stimuli (art, nature), physical motion and coordination activities (dance, sports). You may well already do these things, I just felt I should mention it since our culture is so prone to associating brain with mental logic specifically and forgeting how much these other things involve the brain.

Learning a language is another thing with really strong evidence for brain development /preservation.

There was no conspiracy theorizing here. Enshittafication driven by money is simply how our world works now.