Oh no, it’s dependent on Chrome…

The fossify apps are legit, I use them daily.

This is the same or similar situation as OpenOffice → LibreOffice or OwnCloud → NextCloud (and to a lesser extent but more similar scenario, Audacity → Tenacity or various other forks).

This is what true open source looks like in action.

You have to pay lawyers to litigate.

And the contract said it was to be open sourced, which has not happened, so litigation must now happen to enforce it.

He could, but he likely doesn’t have the financial backing or community support to pull it off.

Browser+jellyfin is easy then, but again you need to make sure you’re not using google play services. That shit calls home like crazy.

With how KDE treats Plasma and their whole dev philosophy of “If we don’t use/like something, than neither will you”

How does anyone confuse the KDE team for the Gnome foundation? How did you manage to pull that off?

Lol. Lmao even.

If it has google play services on it, at all, there is absolutely no privacy.

If you can manage to stick to an F-droid+Aurora+Obtainium setup (maybe with IzzyOndroid enabled in F-droid), you can probably pull off privacy, but in my experience there are at least three major streaming services ive encountered that refuse to run if Google Play Services aren’t running and you can’t pass the SafetyNet authenticity/security check thing (which raspberry pi is missing the firmware and hardware to be able to support.) Netflix being the biggest of them, I think Disney Plus has issues, and it’s been a while since I tried but either crunchyroll or hbo Max gave me a hard time.

That’s what I do. I have a bunch of .desktop files that just open Firefox in kiosk mode to whichever website I want, and a bunch of .PNG files to make them look like apps. I installed them system-wide.

I’m a pretty big KDE Stan but I decided to give Gnome a go since Plasma Bigscreen is virtually impossible to install for a normal user at the moment. Its not perfect but it gets the job done, and I love the basic parental controls it has. Still absolutely awful in terms of settings though.

An Airmouse is a gamechanger.

Its a TV-remote-style device that works like a Wii remote to control the mouse, usually has a keyboard on the backside, and connects to a USB 2.4ghz or Bluetooth receiver depending on the model you get.

I got a $20 Rii and a $10 other brand one to try out. Both are fine. I like the buttons on the Rii better but it has no backlight which sucks because I’m usually watching TV in bed at 9pm. The $10 one’s keyboard also responds faster so I can actually speed type.

Can we crowd source a legal effort to force the contract to be honored?

People are always angry and confused when i call MIT a grifter license

Wrong. This is operational security warfare. China, Russia, and every adversary should be holding the same attitude towards us if they’re worth their salt at protecting their internal national assets.

It doesn’t matter that its Chinese people by blood, its Team-U vs Team-C.

Now, the shitbags crying about this probably are doing it from ill-intentioned positions and are most definitely racist, but while their broad intentions are evil, this is one of those cliché “broken clock right twice a day” moments.

They support web browsers

It does work well but that’s not what OP asked for, they asked for wireless VR.

I believe if you’re willing to compromise and install chrome/chromium 🤢 you can run ALVR? It requires a Quest headset last I checked though.

I wish we would all start switching over to JSON for configuration files. It’s so much easier to parse, and you can’t screw it up with too many spaces or not enough.

I don’t like how the manjaro team does it specifically. A lot of the time i’ve seen packages break in Manjaro that work fine in Arch, then Manjaro users come into Arch forums acting like its an Arch problem when it isn’t.

Also, their driver install helper causes more problems than it solves, which was especially highlighted in the transition to open source official nvidia drivers. Couldn’t install the open source ones for the longest time, and couldn’t install the right ones from the repo with pacman directly. Caused some major issues for a friend I was helping.

Helped him switch to proper Arch and all the issues went away.

Valve on the other hand puts extreme effort into maintaining stability. I use it regularly and have zero issues, though I use it as-is out of the box.

My argument is incredibly simple:

YOU exist. In this universe. Your brain exists. The mechanisms for sentience exist. They are extremely complicated, and complex. Magic and mystic Unknowables do not exist. Therefore, at some point in time, it is a physical possibility for a person (or team of people) to replicate these exact mechanisms.

We currently do not understand enough about them yet to do this. YOU are so laser-focused on how a Large Language Model behaves that you cannot take a step back and look at the bigger picture. Stop thinking about LLMs specifically. Neural-network artificial intelligence comes in many forms. Many are domain-specific such as molecular analysis for scientific research. The AI of tomorrow will likely behave very different from those of today, and may require hardware breakthroughs to accomplish (I don’t know that x86_64 or ARM instruction sets are sufficient or efficient enough for this process). But regardless of how it happens, you need to understand that because YOU exist, you are the prime reason it is not impossible or even unfeasible to accomplish.

This argument feels extremely hand-wavey and falls prey to the classic problem of “we only know about X and Y that exist today, therefore nothing on this topic will ever change!”

You also limit yourself when sticking strictly to narrow thought experiments like the Chinese room.

If you consider the human brain, which is made up of nigh-innumerable smaller domain-specific neural nets combined together with the frontal lobe, has consciousness, this absolutely means that it is physically possible to replicate this process by other means.

We noticed how birds fly and made airplanes. It took many, MANY Iterations that seem excessively flawed by today’s standards, but were stepping stones to achieve a world-changing new technology.

LLMs today are like DaVinci’s corkscrew flight machine. They’re clunky, they technically perform something resembling the end goal but ultimately in the end fail the task they were built for in part or in whole.

But then the Wright brothers happened.

Whether sentient AI will be a good thing or not is something we will have to wait and see. I strongly suspect it won’t be.

EDIT: A few other points I wanted to dive into (will add more as they come to mind):

AI derangement or psychosis is a term meant to refer to people forming incredibly unhealthy relationships with AI to the point where they stop seeing its shortcomings, but I am noticing more and more that people are starting to throw it around like the “Trump Derangement Syndrome” term, and that’s not okay.

No you’re supposed to rice the hell out of your Arch install, put an anime girl wallpaper, some form of neofetch replacement (RIP), and post screenshots about it while wearing programmer socks and loudly telling people how good arch is and how much their distro sucks.

Then complain about how you broke it and can’t fix it because you used archinstall thereby skipping the setup and recovery lessons, and didn’t read the wiki before updating.

Workflows are different, configuration files can be different, and package names (not just management) can be different.

Additionally, release cadence (how fast you get new stuff, even when considering fixed releases), stability, performance (how were the packages compiled), and custom patches that aren’t part of the original code (*shakes fist angrily at Manjaro*)