Either the UI is defined in some DSL, that’s loaded (or compiled) and then you spend most of the time writing getElement(pathToElement) and wiring it up, or you have to boilerplate create each element and parent.addChild(element).

Im saying “there are no elements” because of what OP says here, the system i’m using now doesn’t have that.

You have a panel+border+text “primitive” drawing functions. Nothing is stopping you from creating a single function that calls all 3 of those. You probably should, since it’s probably a common pattern. You could call it DrawBoxedText. There is no difference between a DrawBoxedText function and a BoxedText element with a draw() method.

yeah i could make a function for that, but i would argue that “here is no difference between a DrawBoxedText function and a BoxedText element with a draw() method.” there is a big difference between these. Personally i find using a function like DrawBoxedText much easier.

I think this could be the beginning of the end for capitalism.

With past automation capital became more efficient but labor was still required. A tractor for example replaced hundreds of farmers, but still required an operator, same with factory machines. But AI is different.

Capitalism requires the capital labor relationship, but AI fudementally gets rid of that.

What way it ends up I don’t know, but for the first time there is a real chance to end the extractive nature of wage labor.

Ah the luddite argument.

I’m quite happy AI is taking my job, now all I have to do is supervise a bunch of AI agents who do the work for me while I can do things I actually enjoy doing.

And my boss likes it too because things that used to take an day now take at max an hour.

Buy big tech, get big tech.

People get upset that apparently “it is litteraly impossible to buy a smartphone without AI” while there are plenty of alternatives, but instead of putting in the effort to learn they would rather blame an abstract technology and buy the next IPhone anyway.

And Flock is building a surveillance state by using cameras, do people get pissed of at concept of cameras? No so why is AI special?

Yes people should get pissed off, at the billionaires, at the government, but why at the tech itself?

I mean that american billionaire says that doesn’t mean the tech behind it is bad.

AI isn’t closed, there is a huge open source community

https://huggingface.co/models

I had my own library for UI that tried to have a element model, but it was bloated and didn’t scale well. Now im drawing everything via vulkan compute shaders and its fast and looks great.

I think the philosophy needs to switch from elements back to pixels, atleast that is what worked for me.

i dare to say its as easy as webdev

snippet from my game:

DrawMenuButton(buf, btnExit, "Exit to title", exitHover, exitHover && window.mouseLeftHeld, false, font, topFontPx, exitCol);
DrawMenuButton(buf, btnSave, "Save changes", saveHover, saveHover && window.mouseLeftHeld, false, font, topFontPx, saveCol);
PushPanel(buf, titleRect, panelBgColor, 6.0f * s);
PushBorder(buf, titleRect, borderColor, 6.0f * s, 1.5f * s);
DrawText(buf, "OPTIONS", titleRect.x + titleRect.w * 0.5f, titleRect.y + titleRect.h * 0.5f + topFontPx * 0.32f, font, topFontPx, textUnfocusedColor, TextAlign::Center);

this is in the draw function, and along with the other code produces this menu:

Well atleast me, everyone at my job, the hospital, the government… probably most of the world?

This definitely depends on the banking app

my bank’s app worked fine using waydroid, but others may not.

I’m not expecting people to flash custom roms, but both the pinephone and Jolla phone come pre-installed with open source os without AI.

If you don’t want to switch you never have to see a terminal. As easy as any other phone.

So the statement “litteraly cannot buy a smartphone without AI” is false.

I’m sure that atleast some of the 99.99999% are smart enough to unbox a phone, insert a sim card and press the “call” button.

you literally are forced to use AI in your home.

What forces you to use AI in your home?

you literally cannot buy a smartphone without ai

There are probably plenty more but 2 is already alot higher then “litteraly cannot buy”

https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-beta-edition-with-convergence-package/

https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-sep-ii-2026

Or if you simply want to flash

https://postmarketos.org/

https://lineageos.org/

That user’s Linux is in bed with a US private corpo

Everyone’s linux is in bed witu US corpos if you just look at the commit history of the kernel

The block user button is your friend

I’m running 2x4090, the 35B fits very comfortable in that.

For large models like the 397B without a ton of money there are several ways, ive seen posts of people using arrays of used 3090s with good results.

The other option is CPU inference although with current RAM prices that is less cost effective.

I was looking at maybe an array of Milk-V JUPITER2 since vllm added riscv support which could be very cost effective.

Depending what OP was using before but going from something like GPT5.2 to LLama 3 8B will be a massive difference (Although OP says to use it only for basic tasks so that does offset it)

LLama 3 already being a very old model doesn’t help either

I run Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-AWQ-4bit which while leagues ahead of LLama 3 8B still is a very noticeable difference.

This is not to say open source is bad, if one had the resources to run something like Qwen3.5-397B-A17B it would also be up there.

Losing a vital plane now when you are at war then it doesn’t really matter if it might get replaced sometime far in the future

You don’t have to be a tankie or a wankie to recognize the fact that a loss ratio of 0% is very good for an aircraft.

If it was a Russian or Chinese aircraft doing this then that would also be a fact.

It’s stupid to say that a single aircraft being damaged makes the entire type worthless like many here are saying when the F-35 is the only aircraft flying these missions and come back with only damage to a single plane.

That is not a political statement or approval of the strikes. That’s just a statement on the plane.

For the all the probably hundreds of sorties flown with a result of zero losses and only a single aircraft being damaged they might aswell be invisible.