I guess now is the best time to switch to Linux. MacOS 26 being super sluggish and looking like a soap bubble game for children. Windows becoming a SkyNet OS. Meanwhile Steam just announced their new hardware on SteamOS, emphasizing that users still own their hardware and can install whatever they want.

That sounds great — thank you for working on this. I’m not a developer, just curious about AI in general. Local AI feels like the right direction if we want to save energy and water, too. Is your memory system open source?

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In the past, they forced Steam to implement proper refund policies, and they are currently suing Microsoft about the way subscribers were duped into paying more for "AI features" they didn't want.

Interesting, I had some vermiculite removed recently and got a response from the ZAI trust that the samples had fibers but they couldn't say specifically that it was asbestos. I assumed that was a legal distinction, it didn't occur to me that it might be from different test methods.

Early 90's were more fun. I modified DOS command.com file to change the outputs it prints, drilled holes into laptop to attach broken hinges, break electronic garbage to salvage wires and interesting things, disassemble disk drives, ...

My father just retired as a lab analyst looking at builder samples for both modern and historical construction, specifically for asbestos.

The day I moved into the college dorms he looked at me and said "Don't move the floor tiles, ceilings tiles or the touch the large ventilation pipe outside my door in the hallway." A lot of the buildings at my university were built with asbestos, so much so that the university had a 30 year contract with the lab he worked at to analyze samples.

And it isn't only historical buildings that have asbestos. A very well known mall that was built in the 2000s had incurred some severe hail damage and while the repairs were ongoing samples were taken and found to be hot. Someone had introduced asbestos contaminated materials into the original build and rather than extensive repairs the mall had to do extensive remediation first, before continuing repairs.

Apparently there is still a large stock of "hot" building material that are sitting in warehouses and every once in a while they make it into the supply chain.

I think this is the natural endpoint - local models doing something like what Atlas and Codex are doing, acting like a firewall between the user and web. You don't need to wade through the crap online yourself, the AI extracts the useful signal for you, acts like a memory layer for your values and preferences. Don't like the feed ranking - use your agent to extract, filter and rerank by your criteria. Not a big fan of dark UI patterns? Not a problem anymore, the UI can be regenerated. Need a stronger model? Sure, your agent can delegate.

I see this as a big unbundling, since your agent has your ear now, not Google, not social networks, they lose their entry point status and don't control by ranking, filtering and UI what I see or what I can do. They can spread out searches to specialized engines, replace Google for search, walk above all social networks and centralize your activities so you don't have to follow each one individually. A wrapper or cocoon for the user, taking the ad-block and anti-virus role, protecting your privacy and carefully reducing your exposure to information leaks.

All of this only works if you can host your model. But this is where the trend is going, we can already see decent small models, maybe before 2030 we will be running powerful local models on efficient local chips.