Damn, jumping to accusations sure is crazy, what was your first comment in this reply thread again? Jumping to backdoor accusations.

You download a model that you plug into a front-end that supports that model type, if the front-end doesn’t give it access it won’t have access.

It’s like being afraid of Photoshop brush file, the brush is only used when you want it how you want it within the confines of Photoshop. Same for models. At worst a backdoor would exist in Photoshop (or in our actual case in one of the front ends) that the brush file somehow exploits, but that’s a big reach, especially with open source software.

If people are however downloading self contained .exes or something with a model+frontend pre-packaged, well, that’s on them. I don’t think deepseek makes any such file available anyway so blaming them feels a bit… xenophobic?

Just run it locally

Or I guess just self host an email server

Sadly you’re damned if you do, damned if you don’t. If you’re voting you’re supporting the status quo of the Dems really only listening to corporate backers, if you’re not voting you’re letting the opposition (Trump) have a better chance at office (which he did get). They’re both terrible options, and I’m not sure blaming individuals who are tired of having to fight for the lesser evil instead of a better tomorrow is fair

Have you heard about “arguing in bad faith”? When it’s an entirely different person or entity from those that screwed us in the past it’s unfair on them to assume they’re in it to screw people over especially when it comes to open source federated platforms where cutting one head means it can still work fine.

Those are some pretty bad faith assumptions

I’d pirate meds if I needed them and had to deal with American pricing

I always thought of it more as a Virgo

But is it not our curiosity that defines us? What separates us from machines, outside of needing to sleep, if we don’t have our curiosity, our passion for the unknown? It’s not like we can only have a little curiosity, curious enough to try a new meal but not to work towards breakthroughs that might unlock ways of bettering our lives.

How else would we have gotten all of our vaccines without people “playing god”? I think while the garbage AI is a bit scary, it’s not the AI part that terrifies me, it’s the coldness “the economy” has towards people’s livelihoods, otherwise AI is nothing special in pushing forward or downfall as a society, it’s just highlighting something that was always there, a class conflict

Idk X has different problems in that area, it’s not really a place for meaningful discussion, and it’s often used by bad actors who just want to spread chaos, and with Elon at the helm I can’t see X different way of doing things anyway

Jesus, someone shat on the wrong side of the bed today

They’re social platforms, not entertainment, and it’s to prevent echo chambers

Could also check out openSUSE if you don’t mind the lack of an AUR

Until Open AI announces a new 5t model or something and then the hype refreshes

Yeah there’s no easy win, Affinity is the closest competitor but it’s worth keeping in mind that they’re not the anti-adobe, they’re not fighting for accessible open software, especially not since they’ve sold out to Canva.

I am still happy with my purchase and I think it’s a good deal tho esp on a sale, just worth the consideration.

I’d add that they often have steep sales, and Black Friday is coming, but also while affinity is an underdog their formats are just as closed source if not more so than Adobe

Won’t products made in the US with parts imported from outside the US that are then exported have the same problem?

They did release it but the latest iteration that’s on steam deck is still steam deck only, or shared via community projects like the one you mentioned

The problem is the computer code needs to be coded by a human, so it is just as fallible to biases and manipulation