So… like it is already? Ever tried to call someone in a different time zone? It’s fine-ish 1 or maybe 2 hours off, but much beyond that still requires a minimum of research.

I was digging around and it seems there are some iffy api translators for duck.ai such as https://github.com/HuggingBear/DuckDuckGo-AI

But I’ve not tried this yet, so no idea how it works.

Ngl I really wish there was a decent way to hook into third party “offerings” like duck.ai. I don’t have the spare GPUs to run anything at any kind of decent speed.

I’d say plex is up there. “Want to use your hardware and bandwidth to view your own files? Pay us!”

Reductio ad Hitlerum is a really weird thing to pull out of your ass on this particular discussion.

The IT lackey just trying to make ends meet has no say in this process.

I keep trying to learn that, but keep forgetting. ADHD is rough. X.x

They were talking about matrix itself, not a specific option. And I’m not going to lie, having to hand hold your servers federation choices seems like a hassle. At that point why not just use a self hosted, non federated option?

That is an objectively untrue statement.

While that can indeed be considered an issue, the idea that this somehow makes the internet objectively worse is debatable.

O.o Do you understand what Cloudflare actually does?