Ok I agree with the sentiment but I hate the “observe this meme in which your side is portrayed as the ugly one and mine is portrayed as calm and collected”. it looks like the type of stuff id see on facebook

It’s like Discord if less people used it and there was also no e2ee and the signup page was broken and it was centralized

my threat model doesn’t include carrier location tracking, im not that extreme in danger of anything

The Qwen models that you can run with llama.cpp (Jan’s main backend) are quite brilliant for their size

windows genuinely infuriates me, not only for the typical reasons like Microsoft bloat and adware. I hate how it handles a lot of systems, and much prefer the organization and relative modularity of Linux. development and software management is also a pain on windows, and it’s difficult to sandbox apps.