selfhosted AI is 1000% more confidential than a human therapist; but stuff like ChatGPT? yeah stay away from those

if there are only 12 people on tumblr, i must be the only person on lemmy

in general, you would want something fast (probably something that fits in your GPU/VRAM) so you can get suggestions as fast as you can type. for chat, you’ll probably want the most intelligent/lorgest model you can run, it’s likely fine if it’s running on the CPU/RAM since the quality of an individual answer is more important than the speed in which many small answers can be generated. so, probably qwen for both, but, different sizes/quant for different use cases.

are you looking for autocomplete or chat?

for anyone looking for a cheap hobby, try coding, there are plenty of free resources to learn, and you can get started on almost any computer (or even an android phone!)

looks a little like a zergling, cute!

games! in maybe 95% of cases you can find an open alternative to some (non-game) software, but with games it’s the opposite.

i would say that the main proprietary softwares i still use, are video games

playing a game for fun vs playing a game to feel better than others

after a very long time, i’ve stumbled upon this https://thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-usb-bluetooth-40-micro-adapter-tpe-usbbluv4

did they open source it?

too right, but maybe it’s cause of the gloom?

*unless it’s an open source community-driven project

simplex is good as an alternative

IIRC it’s not open source

i use simplex with people i used sms with before, and matrix for everything else

it would be nice, especially for users like me, who only use lemmy on mobile

(also see the issue on github)

Get a password manager.

no, this is genuine, advent of code is proprietary. (see their about section)