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Honestly with the likes of Opencode / pi / hermes I don't really find the "Claude Code agent loop" part particularly interesting.

The edge Anthropic has on others lies on its models performance. CLI tooling (and obviously pricing) is definitely not better than others.


Except the model isn't particularly better anymore, as compared to the newest wave of FOSS models

This should be higher, as this dates from 5 days ago I wonder why OP didn't bother to mention this follow-up

To be fair to OP, that follow-up doesn't appear to be mentioned anywhere in the discussion on #310226, either. They probably should have left a note about that change before locking the thread.

To be honest, I didn't see the follow up. It just incensed me enough that they would do that to begin with.

Right up there with Zed being pretty open that they siphon your code through their API surface and have a "Just Trust Us Bro" data retention policy, along with no way to turn the collaboration features off.

- OP


What's this about Zed? I've been considering switching to it but I want to know more about what you mentioned.

The cool thing about open-weights model is that you are free to use alternative providers that won't phone home to the original model creators.

I see 6 alternative providers listed on Openrouter for DeepSeek V4 Pro for example.


At least that’s what they’re telling you. It’s a ”trust me bro” scenario.

I’d rather use the phone home version (deepseeks own endpoint). The benefit is that I’m fairly certain that they actually host the model I’m paying for.


If you're not Chinese, and you start a company outside of China, and your whole pitch is "We run open weights and we have nothing to do with China", 1) why would send data to China?? 2) why would you risk your business to do a thing that makes no sense?

A fly by night operation created primarily for the purpose of collecting training data and corporate espionage will make whatever claims they think will get them the right traffic.

Well, the context was running the models via open router, not hosting 800B> models yourself. Of course, if given the option I believe most people would pick ”don’t share sensitive data”.

What I’m trying to say is that EVERYONE uses your data, even the sensitive type. So you might aswell use an endpoint that does what it says and treat EVERY endpoint whether that’s OpenAI or anthropic as if it’s collecting all of your data.


No, not everyone uses your data. There are providers who very explicitly do not collect or use your data.

Sure, and I won’t collect or otherwise store your credit card info if you send it to me. Trust me bro :)

No but seriously, I am astonished by the level of trust you have for these for-profit companies. I’ll remind you of this quote:

”Zuckerberg: People just submitted it. Zuckerberg: I don't know why. Zuckerberg: They "trust me" Zuckerberg: Dumb fucks”


Some providers are based in the US or EU and would face legal repercussions for lying about what they do with your data. It's a bit more than "trust me bro". Off the top of my head, you can use Fireworks, for example, which is based in California and would face the same consequences for lying about their data policy as OpenAI or Anthropic would.

Meta is based in the US, yet they torrented TERABYTES worth of books to feed their AI.

I’m not trying to be negative here, but your point is invalidated by that particular event in itself.


What, because they broke the law in one way, they'd break the law in every way? That's not how business works. The way business works is, I steal from other people to make a product, but then I don't steal from my customers, because if they find out, then I no longer have any customers. (Plus all their customers would sue them, which would both legally and financially tank them)

That's a naive way of thinking. You're saying "oh, they are thieves in this way, but they surely wouldn't be thieves in this other way!"

If you have no problems shitting on tens of thousands of authors of books, you don't have problems shitting on your customers as well (which they have proved again and again, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook–Cambridge_Analytica_d...)

Let's just say I wholeheartedly disagree with your viewpoint and leave it there :)


Another vote on niri being just great software. While itss idea (scrolling tiling windows manager) is novel, the software in itself is very polished with a very mature API that doesn't change at every version (looking at you hyprland).


The hyprland developer is extremely talented, for his age, but still the mistakes of youth are very apparent: rash decisions, changing for change sake, my way or the highway, etc.

If he sticks with the project until he grows out of the impulsive phase, hyprland will be in a much better place.


Not sure about mid-life, he is still in his early twenties. He was a gifted programmer with very popular open source projects early on.


> Not sure about mid-life, he is still in his early twenties.

As an IC, you're basically geriatric as soon as you hit your 30s.

/s


Thanks Dylan for all your work over the years. It has been very influential from Neofetch, Wal/Pywal, KISS Linux, to your own Bible, the Pure Bash one!

Wishing you all the best for the future, may the Greek weather keep you happy!


I use LineageOS on all my devices (it's actually my main criteria when buying a phone) to mainly install apps from F-Droid without relying on the Google Play Store.

It has the same familiar look and feel on all devices and by experience is way snappier than the original ROM.


are you able to do any banking your phone?


(Lineage user here) I've had no trouble with Schwab, USAA, Discover, Amex, Mercury, PayPal, Venmo, or Stripe.

Phone is rooted with Magisk Hide and MicroG for spoofing google play services. Google Wallet does not work.


Google Wallet also doesn't work on Graphene OS.

I just looked into this and in the US there's basically no technical answer that I'd expect to be reliable.

You've got a few choices:

* magsafe wallet (~$10) without nfc shield with a physical card

* "purewrist" prepaid debit card (would be good for a kid maybe)

* garmin smartwatch that gets linked properly like Google Pay would

If you're in the EU there are a ton more options, specifically "Curve Pay" and possibly "Amex UK".

Very annoying.


Curve Pay is a viable option last I checked. I am unaware of any payment options on Amex UK app. Amex expects you to link your card with Google Wallet.


Most everything banking related works for me. 2 different credit unions, roboinvesting, paypal & paypal-alikes, credit card, car insurance, etc.

What does not work? An LG app to control an air conditioner.

Also I have to hide root from the roku app, which I use for the headphone because it works better than the headphone on the remote.

Super important stuff, no wonder they lock that down so much.

Ok I did skip one real thing for the sake of the funny. I can't do google tap to pay. That's about it.

This is all the same on a rooted standard rom as on Lineage.


>What does not work? An LG app to control an air conditioner.

I use GrapheneOS. Thankfully I've had few things not work. Google Pay being one of them, the other is the garage door (Liftmaster)[1].

I genuinely find it disgusting. Thankfully I rent the apartment (and attached garage) so I've never given them any money. At the end of the day there's literally zero justification for a garage door opening app to brick itself if it's run on a unapproved platform. The official[2] statement states:

"Our customers rely on us to make access simple without sacrificing quality and reliability. Unauthorized app integrations, stemming from only 0.2% of myQ users, previously accounted for more than half of the traffic to and from the myQ system, and at times constituted a substantial DDOS event that consumed high quantities of resources."

AKA "we are incapable of implementing a basic ratelimit. faulty third-party clients made our AWS bill go up a bit so we are going to go on an irrational crusade against third-party integrations of any kind and expend more resources doing this than would be spent by giving users a simple API to use"

[1]: https://xdaforums.com/t/root-detection-for-myq-apps.3858887/ [2]: https://chamberlaingroup.com/press/a-message-about-our-decis...


Banking apps that do not require Google Play services, such as Bank of America, run just fine. Besides, you can always open a browser and use the web version. Losing banking apps and "tap to pay" is a small price to pay for avoiding having your data constantly siphoned by Google.


> Besides, you can always open a browser and use the web version.

Not possible in many parts of the world where banks force you to use their app for basic banking functionality.


3 banking apps running fine, until revolut decided to pull a douche move. i've ended my contract with them.

2 banking apps running fine.


I use chrome and the web version.


> Maru is built on the latest Android Oreo.

Yeah this is abandonware, idk why it's being posted and upvoted now.

Something similar to real mobile/desktop convergence is still technically possible today with Phosh on PostMarketOS (or Mobian, Mobile NixOS or Arch ARM) and a compatible device with USB-C video out (like the PinePhone).


There's something charming about the slickness and naviete of this abandonware site.


Interesting I assume it's with all drives off, how many Watts with some disk usage?


Each drive adds around 7W non-idle.


The hardware is basically the same as self-hosted NAS, the motherboard could even be of a lower quality. The software though is closed source and most consumer NAS only get support for 4-5 years which is outrageous.


You're not buying from the right brand.

Synology supports their hardware for about 10 years since release. They are the "Apple"-like of NAS.


I think the average # of years between buying a NAS could easily be 5-10 years.


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