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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I don’t like flatpaks or snaps or anything like it either, but I think they help a lot in situations like the Steam Deck or PinePhone where you want the base to be able to move slowly and be stable, while letting the apps on top move quickly.

    The problems with flatpaks and similar is that it allows and even encourages developers to stick with horrendously outdated libraries, and your system is only as safe as the container’s isolation defenses.

    They also make it more difficult to go in and directly modify or tweak the program as the user.

    And many developers are no longer offering bare-metal options.
















  • Looking forward to seeing your work - it’s always good to have competitors, and gpt4all is also very crashy. If you have a lead in stability, I’d definitely use yours over theirs.

    Some other areas you could probably look into if you want to differentiate are:

    • Getting Started experience - recommend some high quality models and update the list as time goes on. Maybe include a good default one as part of the package.

    • Convenience - include a way to do what the modern chat interfaces do where asking it to do something other than text will call a different AI model built for that purpose and return the result (image generation, etc)

    • Voice conversations - Can we actually talk to the dang thing?

    • Assistant module - piggybacking off of the last one, can we invoke it with a wake-word or a button press and have it “always available” (similar to HomeAssistant with a Whisper plugin, but on-device).

    Anyway, I wish you well in your endeavor and will keep an eye out.

    EDIT: looks like the conversational bits are on your roadmap, and you do have some basic suggestions on startup.

    As for voice, the OpenWhisper module might fit your project’s theme a bit closer than elevenlabs.