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Deepseek R1 and OpenThinker are two more examples. There's also SmolLM, which I believe also open sources its training data and ensures proper licensing for it.

I have a similar perspective. I built my own in-home AI server because I assumed if the technology had any staying power, I better learn how it works to some degree and see if I can run it myself.

Jan is another great recommendation!

I'm keeping an eye on Ollama's service offerings - I don't think they're in enshittification territory yet, but I definitely share the concern.

I still don't believe the other LLM engines out there have reached an equivalent ease of use compared to Ollama, and I still recommend it for now. If nothing else, it can be a stepping stone to other solutions for some.

In case you're not aware, there are a decent number of open weight (and some open source) large language models.

The Ollama project makes it very approachable to download and use these models.

1. Install Ollama
2. ollama pull hf.co/mradermacher/VibeThinker-1.5B-GGUF
3. ollama run hf.co/mradermacher/VibeThinker-1.5B-GGUF

If this has a gyroscope, I'm sold.

The login page for the old apps is at the bottom of the page in the footer.

That being said, I really miss this being a premium offering.

"Free"

Try using it standing up.

I think cooler is subjective. With a physical keyboard back in the day and Remote Desktop, I had a pocket-sized Windows PC with me at all times. With SSH, I had a portable terminal I could easily administer servers around the world with. I thought that was pretty cool.

Now I'm tap typing on a device with no physical feedback where the keyboard hides half the screen and reshuffles my terminal output every time said keyboard is shown and hidden. That's not cool at all.

ಠ_ಠ

I'm upset that they'll make foldable screens before adding a physical keyboard "because movable parts break too often".

I still miss QuickPic. :-(

I would counter that I still feel Solid Explorer is the best, but I'm aware that's just my opinion.

I'm highly concerned about this, not only due to lack of control of software I can choose to install, but also what happens once a developer is blacklisted? I haven't seen anyone really address this.

What guidelines will Google use to determine that an app is "safe"? Will Google begin blacklisting developers who modify apps? What about developers who make apps that aren't controversial themselves, but linked to controversial technologies or can be used for controversial means? (Torrent clients, etc.) Google to my knowledge has not provided a list of criteria they will use.

Even if Google claims pure motivations now, I think the amount of control this policy carries will be far too tempting for Google to refuse to utilize in full for any cause.

Thank you! That is exactly my point.

That's not quite the same - that gives you the appearance of being a local device, which is enough to fool the restriction.

Their policy and technology enforcement is to charge for remote access, not relaying.

They charge for remote access whether it's through their relay service or not, and you can't opt out of fallback to their relay service.

I don't know if we're guaranteed to see the same level of support for Android based devices, and if Google decides they're not marketable enough, they could drop support as soon as before they even launch as they have with previous hardware initiatives.