I’ll never understand people that drive these entirely unnecessary abominations. Energy efficiency should be a major motivating factor in vehicle choice: which generally indicates smaller vehicles for most tasks.

I firmly believe that most local, individual journeys should be made by eScooter these days, and a saloon car is already the best format for mid range family trips (it wasn’t broken - just go electric).

SUVs are mostly a sign of sociopathic tendencies - a manifestation of the drivers need to be feel bigger, heavier, stronger than the next person. To be confident you’ll injure the other party in a crash regardless of who was in the right… because “fuck you I can afford this”.

If you live in the country, fine, the rugged format makes sense. Drive one exclusively in the suburbs to pick your shopping up? The choice says something about the buyers personality IMO, and it’s not favourable.

You wouldn’t catch me dead driving one by choice.

You’re just not Spreading hard enough, friend. Excel is like the OG low-code App Dev platform!

I mean much of the hype is warranted I just wish every man and his dog would spare us their personal revelations about it on LinkedIn.

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If you’re out there suggesting political stances can be adequately expressed along a single line, then you’re not doing much better I’m afraid. Engage with the nuance, friend, it’ll build understanding and be better for all of us.

‘Left’/‘Right’ need to go, they’re losing any meaning they once had - instead: “What’s your policy on X”? “How do you feel about Y?” “Do you agree with Z’s policy on A, B & C, and why?”.

Curiosity, followed by grounded opinion, over tribalism.

Now excuse me while I go and try to practice what I just preached 😅

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I think I found my jam! AnythingLLM self-hostable

Are there any AI apps that will index markdown documents with a vector DB, then allow you to run natural language queries using some kind of RAG approach with a local LLM?

Closest I’ve found is LlamaIndex, but this is still more of a ‘foundation’ than a turn-key solution and right now I’m too time-poor to do the assembly required…

I realise I’m describing close-to-frontier tech, but is there anything more turn-key (Dockerised) out there yet?

My use-case is pretty ‘vanilla’ in this space: Having a knowledge base and wanting quick answers to questions like “How should screen X behave if I am not a registered user?”.

Thanks for any suggestions!

I suspect you’d find a cast iron correlation between dark triad personality traits and ownership of these things, at least in the city. There are so many reasons they’re a bad idea, but nearly all of those reasons require a shred of human decency and compassion to be recognised. It started with SUVs, but the F150 and Rams in the suburbs are plain ridiculous and a sure sign that their owner has some super unpleasant traits.

Pretty clear choice for me. US administration are downright scum. I’d sooner we take our chances in a fragile geopolitical position than ever dance to their tune.

Start strengthening EU alliances. If we’re going to play politics of convenience that’s better done with China. They might be capable of things that shock us, but they also seem to value and respond to sensible economic exchange. It’s becoming rapidly apparent that the US are more about Russian style domination - you can’t even bargain with that.

Also if it really mattered I’m sure the UK could work out how to do much if the required maintenance themselves. It’s not exotic tech at this point.

Doesn’t really follow…

To say nothing of the wider hypothetical conflict, wouldn’t the US bases themselves be trivial to overrun by UK land forces?

They’re air bases and not fortified from attack by the host country. If anything the easy opportunity to disable their aircraft while getting our hands on any undamaged kit could present a minor tactical advantage.

For this reason they’d surely vacate before turning nasty.

Am I missing something?

$14 USD/mo… Ironically

I’ve been an enthusiastic adopter of Generative AI in my coding work; and know that Claude 3.7 is the greatest coding model out there right now (at least for my niche).

That said, at some point you have to choose principles over convenience; so I’ve cancelled all my US Tech service accounts - now exclusively using ‘Le Chat Pro’ (+ sometimes local LLM’s).

Honestly, it’s not quite as good, but it’s not half bad either, and it is very very fast thanks to some nifty hardware acceleration that the others lack.

I still get my work done, and sleep better at night.

The more subscriptions Mistral get, the more they’re able to compete with the US offerings.

Anyone can do this.

It should not be that surprising. Many teenagers are really smart, curious and will find their way here. That said I realise your warning is well intentioned; I hope Lemmy remains a more civil place than Reddit became over the last ten years, for everyone; teenagers included.

Same here: Deleted my 13y Reddit account along with every other US tech account except Google, as I need that for my livelihood.

Censorship wasn’t the motivation. Rather; I’m withdrawing my support for the US economy in any way possible, given the shocking geopolitical events of this year and the way they are treating Ukraine.

Besides, the Federverse feels like going back to the internet’s roots and I’m here for it!