At the moment I have been pretty satisfied with the LLMs that Kagi is offering in their standard their for my low requirement queries. Supposedly most of the apis they use are too alternative servers that host instances of the models, some claiming they don’t use your data. I am not aware to what extend open source is serviced in those models, but I have little interest in Lumo for the time being. Can someone explain to me why open source matters for LLMs?

How do you expect anything to be completely free?

I’m using the AdGuard extension. Would this potentially be a preferred alternative?

How is the heat production and ticking noise on the Belkin? I have been pretty content with a qi1 anker magnetic puck charger, but I read the qi2 from them gets pretty hot.

I am not the full expert on the subject, but I assume the profiling is to a lesser extent. For one you don’t browse within a Google account.

I also like the slimmed down UI and subscription management of invidious compared to yt.

And don’t forget no ads and sponsorblock. Although some add ons like vinegar for safari get you pretty close to uninterrupted viewing.

All said, probably not the best in regards to pure privacy.

How quickly those this flood your storage?

Currently I ran invidious in docker. The solution is … just okay, performance isn’t great. But at least you only stream whatever you pick for watching.

I only follow around 15 channels. For simplicity 10 video are added daily to my subscription feed.

Are there privacy concerns with this solution. This together with ad blocking were my main drivers for invidious.

What is your use case? Or is it only to cloak from your isp?

I hear your argument, and I agree to it. For new drivers it should also become common sense to plan your route save and thus comfortable.

But OP specifically mentioned his daughter experiences anxiety. That pushes it into a different category if it was not meant metaphorically.

If your daughter gets anxiety or panic attacks while driving, I suggest her to get professional help/therapy instead of avoiding particular (but common) traffic situations. I’m talking from experience. Fostering the anxiety now by not acknowledging it, might end up with an ever longer road to recovery for self confidence later on.

I have a Mac mini m1 and run several containers to manage media, arrs and vpn. I also have a Debian vm for homeassitant. I had used UTM prior but now moved the vm to VMware fusion.

Main issue I run into is not enough ram as the base model only has 8gb. And I do not have redundancy optimised when I reboot. I have it locked with a password so it doesn’t auto run the containers or the vm.

I double the mac for light browsing too. I considered getting a dedicated Linux mini pc for the services next to a desktop Mac. But my usage is too sparse at both ends of the spectrum.