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ChimeraOS on an Aya Neo Air

ChimeraOS LogoThis is a follow-up post to  Putting Bluefin on a Surface Go 



In my quest to put Linux on absolutely everything that used to run Windows that I can, I’ve already moved my Framework 13 over to Bazzite, my Surface Go to Aurora, and now the Aya Neo Air over to ChimeraOS. Things are going well-ish.

So, for the Air, there are a couple of options - I could have tried to put Bazzite on it but so far no one on the forums has tried it on the original Air model so I was a bit wary of that whole... Read More

What the heck is going on over at Proton?

tl;dr I’m no longer recommending Proton services to anyone and have moved off to other services.



Right, so up until recently I was a happy Proton customer at the annual unlimited tier. They were missing some convenience features and the integration of a document editor into the Drive product was pretty great.

That is, until they decided to shove an LLM into their core product and upend their security model and break some trust by the way they rolled it out. Let’s take a quick look at their... Read More

Taking /e/OS for a Test Drive

Pixel 6 Running /e/OS on my deskRight, so here we are again, just another step in my journey to find a way to opt out of all the “shove generative AI into everything” trend in my personal life. In my last post on the Apple Intelligence announcement, I ended on a note of “well, I guess I’ll just not upgrade”. That’s a viable strategy for a while (which I intend to make use of for as long as I can), but in the long term it might not be viable.



Look, I’m not totally opposed to running an LLM or something on device, but I want it... Read More

Putting Bluefin on a Surface Go

Surface Go Showing the Bluefin DesktopSo, since Microsoft decided to shove AI into everything, destroying what little trust I had left in them in the process, I’ve been giving Linux another go! Now, disclaimers first, I’m still primarily in the Apple ecosystem. All my Cthonic Studios work is done on Macs (and this is partly for software reasons, which I’ll get into in a future post), and I have some Windows Gaming Handhelds (also more on that at the end) but I’m slowly converting some of my tech over.

Today I want to talk a bit... Read More

Apple Intelligence is also not great

Apple Intelligence in a rainbow colorUpdate June 17th, 2024 - Ed Zitron has a pretty great take on this where in he argues that the ChatGPT integration is a mere footnote and it doesn't seem like Apple thinks it's going to be useful.



Well here we are again. Yet another giant company has decided to put Generative AI front and center, embedding it inside the operating system. I'm starting to think this is the most cursed timeline possible (not really, but the simulation is getting real weird).

I'm going to get to that, but first I... Read More

Microsoft’s Copilot+ Recall is a Horrible Idea

Shutterstock evil cube…and you should disable it. Or not buy a Copilot+ PC.



I’m going to cite every source I’ve got on this, the story out of Microsoft is changing and being “clarified” as this goes on, so I’ll do my best to keep this updated and as accurate as possible.



Update - October 15th, 2024: It's baaaack. Microsoft details security/privacy overhaul for Windows Recall ahead of relaunch. There's also some chatter about it being enabled for every Windows 11 PC, not just Copilot+ ones. Check out this... Read More