MalReynolds

Generally correct, but,

GrapheneOS and similar have poorer performance on phones

FWIW my gOS gets 40-50% more battery, likely due to lack of parasitic (see what I did there?) google services.

Hmm, as Ukraine shows, they’ll be mighty handy when the revolution comes ;}

We’re so damn lucky that LLMs are a dead end (diminishing returns on scaling even after years of hunting) and they just pivoted to the biggest Ponzi scheme ever, bad as that is (and the economic depression it will cause), it pales into insignificance compared with the damage these fucks would do with AGI (or goddess forbid ASI with the alignment they would try to give it).