They're not thinking that far ahead. They're thinking "how can I make the lines go up this quarter?"

No doubt many of them understand that you need people with enough money to buy products or the economy stagnates. But they don't see it as their problem right now. Their problem right now is to make the line go up by any means they can. It's similar to how the owners must understand that climate change will fuck everyone if left unchecked, but they don't see it as their own problem right now, so none of them take any steps to avoid disaster. Capitalism doesn't contain mechanisms for coordinating actions towards the greater good. Instead it creates many "tragedy of the commons" type situations.

Corps have been complaining for years already that people aren't buying enough. Millenials are killing this industry and that industry because we don't consume enough - "enough" being whatever level they've decided we should consume. They feel entitled to our dollars, whether or not their product or service is any good.

If they were smart, companies would lower prices to be more competitive and incentivize people to buy more. Instead they've doubled down and posted armed guards at the store exits to intimidate the customers they have left. They've slipped data collection into every interaction. It's pretty obvious they're not playing the long game anymore.

GPT4All and then any model you like. I like mistral.

Ditto! I run an old server, but would be willing to upgrade and self host a service instead of paying this ass hat any more money!

OpenWebUI? pretty easy to selfhost and works wonders on my rtx a6000

Perplexica is one example. I also seem to remember there is some way to integrate it with SearxNG which is a self hosted meta search engine.

I just tried morphic.sh and ayesoul.com and both are solid alternatives I must say, although as I said, I just tried it so I'll see how it goes, I'll probably add an edit to this comment once I get acquainted with both.

Ig that's probably safe to assume. I do use a VPN and regularly clear the cache/storage, at least, and only run it in a separate profile

sure. my primary use had been writing code and had been using GitHub copilot for about few months, i noticed i was struggling to write “creative ” or non-trivial code. non-trivial part made sense as obviously having written all the smaller or easier pieces would give better understanding for solving the non-trivial part. the “creative” part was a bit more concerning to me. explaining “creative” code in general terms is a bit hard but if you are dev too then think of something like quick sort vs merge sort. both are equally efficient but quick sort is something that feels not obvious. with copilot infact i was likely to come up with insertion sort. another added benefit i had felt after stopped using llm was work seems more fulfilling despite having to doing things like writing tests and documentation on my own.

that’s the general observation but you can ask anything specific on this as well that i missed out on.

Cross picket lines? /s