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[–] 84 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

for example:

get off of facebook (easy). don't buy tesla or use starlink (easy). don't buy on amazon (difficult but doable). Don't upgrade your iphone, and don't buy new apple products (moderate). Don't use CHATGPT (easy).

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  • [–] 71 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Use Linux and open source software. Contribute to open source projects. Buy hardware second hand. Use non corporate social media. Buy local. Get your stuff fixed instead of throwing it away. Avoid data harvesting where possible.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    Getting off Amazon was easier than I thought. Has been years now, and I only needed to order through a friend once, when I needed a specialty item I could find nowhere else. Most small shops have comfortable checkout systems now and short delivery times. And there's eBay, which afaik takes a smaller cut from third parties than Amazon.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'd add not using Amazon Prime, Amazon Web Services and other Amazon services. Not using X, being critical of SpaceX. Also, stop advertising these things, stop telling your friends about them, maybe even stop talking about them altogether. I think for some strange reason sometimes bad press is better than no press.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I use chatgpt a lot, what is the best non-billionaire funded llm? I really need to change to one that doesn't worsen the world...

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Try hosting locally DeepSeek R1, for me the results are similar to ChatGPT without needing to send any into on the internet.

    LM Studio is a good start.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Don't you need a fast GPU to do so?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Any relatively new gaming PC from the last, what, 4? Years has enough power to run local LLMs. Maybe not the ginormous 70GB behemoth models, but the toned down ones are pretty damn good and if you don't mind waiting a few seconds while it thinks, you can run it completely locally as much as you want, and whenever you want.

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