Lemmy was built as a clone of Reddit, but federated.

Reddit is and has always been called a link aggregator.

Lemmy technically aggregates links to things as its primary function, and then allows us to talk about those links.

Other drivers are assholes.

Asshole drivers are terrifying.

“Nothing in it” usually means one car on the other side to most people.

The car on the other side is an asshole, and there’s no way to tell which exit is theirs.

Nobody uses their blinkers in a roundabout like they’re supposed to in order to indicate this (blink towards the center to indicate staying in, blink towards the outside to indicate leaving).

Other drivers are assholes.

That’s the thing though, there are alternatives now. They just take more discovery and setup time than most are used to.

If it’s not insisting, it’s demanding, which is worse.

There are many tools now that replace X11 behavior. If Wayland doesn’t “do what they need”, at this point there’s a strong chance they have not put in any effort into making it work for them.

For desktop forwarding there’s waypipe.

For tablet users, KDE (And probably gnome) have pretty good tablet support at this point.

For artists, KDE JUST got much better color calibration and HDR support.

For gamers, WINE now has an experimental Wayland-native mode, and barring that we have Gamescope to make it behave semi-native (so this one is more of a future-ish solution that you can use now).

Screen recording mostly just works with pipewire and almost everything supports it now including Discord.

Etc.

Those users can stick with the last version of KDE or GNOME that supports X11. They’re insisting on using unmaintained software already, so it shouldn’t be much of a leap to do the same with the DE.

It’s really not fair to demand that people building your DE for free maintain two vastly different rendering stacks when they clearly don’t want to.

You can say it in as many posts as you like, that doesn’t make you right.

73% of plasma 6 installs with telemetry enabled are using Wayland

I think that the fantasy of X11 sticking around forever is sweet, but the writing is on the wall.

I don’t like flatpaks or snaps or anything like it either, but I think they help a lot in situations like the Steam Deck or PinePhone where you want the base to be able to move slowly and be stable, while letting the apps on top move quickly.

The problems with flatpaks and similar is that it allows and even encourages developers to stick with horrendously outdated libraries, and your system is only as safe as the container’s isolation defenses.

They also make it more difficult to go in and directly modify or tweak the program as the user.

And many developers are no longer offering bare-metal options.

Well, in the case of the liberux and the 9 pro, you get a lot more storage space built in (very fast storage), way more RAM, etc.

Its up to you whether that’s all worth it. To me it is, I max out sub-$400 phones very quickly. The pinephone feels very choppy to use too by comparison.

Wow, that’s quite the difference. What’s more shocking to me though is the fact that the rockchip somehow is built to handle a higher resolution than the tensor despite being weaker (8k@60fps vs 4k@60fps), and has AV1 support where the tensor doesn’t.

That’s a good callout. I’m not super familiar with it, do you know how it might bench against the Tensor G4?

Liberux NEXX is supposed to be a thing but they sorely need backers. It costs about the same as an equivalent Android phone (pixel 9 pro 1tb costs $1,500, liberux nexx 1tb costs $1,300).

8 core/32gb RAM/1TB storage phone in a very sleek body, Linux phones could have their flagship soon (and unlike pinephone it sounds like Liberux is gonna do the actual work on developing the software).

Both combined is perfectly fine when both (or all involved) people specifically want it. It can be a lot of fun as long as youre being safe.

How do you get it to do discord and other random apps?

If you have access to the actual files themselves you can even edit them with a text, binary, or hex editor depending on the format.

Are you using Pipelines in either github or another upstream source management platform? I don’t know if they have a free build plan or not, but you can have an entire pipeline that just spits out an executable for one or more platforms every time you commit to your main branch, depending on how you have compilation set up (you can have it use both a Linux and a Windows VM for different steps in the pipeline too). It can even handle publishing them to a website if youre handy with bash and/or powershell scripts (or python or JS or whatever you can call from the pipeline).

I use the Azure DevOps version at work and its amazingly useful, but very confusing to learn at first.

Looking forward to seeing your work - it’s always good to have competitors, and gpt4all is also very crashy. If you have a lead in stability, I’d definitely use yours over theirs.

Some other areas you could probably look into if you want to differentiate are:

• Getting Started experience - recommend some high quality models and update the list as time goes on. Maybe include a good default one as part of the package.

• Convenience - include a way to do what the modern chat interfaces do where asking it to do something other than text will call a different AI model built for that purpose and return the result (image generation, etc)

• Voice conversations - Can we actually talk to the dang thing?

• Assistant module - piggybacking off of the last one, can we invoke it with a wake-word or a button press and have it “always available” (similar to HomeAssistant with a Whisper plugin, but on-device).

Anyway, I wish you well in your endeavor and will keep an eye out.

EDIT: looks like the conversational bits are on your roadmap, and you do have some basic suggestions on startup.

As for voice, the OpenWhisper module might fit your project’s theme a bit closer than elevenlabs.

Bro this is Gpt4All

Its just whatever is built into copilot.

You can do a quick and dirty test by opening copilot chat and asking it something like “outline the vulnerabilities found in the following code, with the vulnerabilities listed underneath it. Outline any other issues you notice that are not listed here.” and then paste the code and the discovered vulns.

That seems to be the direction the industry is headed in. GHAzDO and competitors all seem to be converging on using AI as a force-multiplier on top of the existing solutions, and it works surprisingly well.