I'm not saying it's a good idea or that it's private enough, just that it's not a theoretical questions, alternatives to Meta or Google Glass do exist already and some of them are not cloud dependent.
IMHO what's important is to be explicit about usage, understand how it's used and have informed consent. If you use them to be sneaky and hurt others, even if they are "privacy focused", fuck off.
Right... which... is why I wrote revenue and not operational profit? Was I unclear? What should I have shared instead? Please feel free to clarify directly with whatever you believe would be better and why, we can all learn.
There are plenty of theoretical use cases, sure, especially for AI because it's basically just either statistics on very large datasets or heuristics. Most of us, if not all of us, use that pretty much daily.
LLM though is a lot of less obvious but one can easily imagine public research on language, namely being able to study how language evolved.
GenAI... also, in itself honestly it might even be the most interesting of all because it's makes us pragmatically ask what it's like to be creative.
Yet... all that is so SO different from the commercialization and the capture of it.
So public research in AI, I'm 100% behind it. It can be useful. VC backed for-profit systems that extract and capture value, no, nearly nothing legitimate can come out of this... but to be fair it's not limited to AI, AI just happens to be the last thing they try to capture.
Indeed, I try to have as little apps as possible... because I don't trust them.
Now that I mostly rely on F-Droid it's a bit different but my default behavior when I have to use an app is "Oh no... you're going to siphon all my data in exchange for mediocre service I'll still have to pay for" whereas I trust my browser a lot more.
Not sure what that means. Typically I would also question people who think containers are "expensive" in the sense of wasting resources. IMHO it's a great compromise to have very weird services while the server itself is very stable.
if you need new things before it’s ready for a new version it’ll be pain
Like what?
Also if you need something before Debian is ready for it... you're weird. I don't mean this in a derogatory fashion, solely that you are doing something our of the ordinary. Consequently you should first question WHY you do that in the first place.
Finally if you do need something very specific, containers are there to ... contain that. Running Debian as the host distribution doesn't mean you're limited to it for your applications, servers included.