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Alpine has been used in Docker, and Docker is now run everywhere

This is exactly what came to my mind while reading through the article.

Your home server might have the required bandwidth but not requisite the infra to support server load (hundreds of parallel connections/downloads).

Bandwidth is only one aspect of the problem.

That solves the media distribution related storage issue, but not the CI/CD pipeline infra issue.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-NTSYNC-Merge-Request

Exactly the same rationale as mine.

Users are only shown Big Tech “3rd-party” options. Mozilla made this choice intentionally.

Well, how many users really have LLM local-hosted?

To be honest, I never tried publicly available instances of any privacy front-ends (SearxNG, Nitter, Redlib etc.). I always self-host and route all such traffic via VPN.

My initial issue with SearxNG was with the default selection of search engines. Default inclusion of Qwant engine caused irrelevant and non-english results to return. Currently my selection is limited to Google, Bing and Brave as DDG takes around 2 sec to return result (based on the VPN server location I'm using).

If you still remember the error messages, I might help to help fix that.

Though it is an off-topic but what exact issues you faced with SearxNG?

On Ubuntu, replacing Firefox/Thunderbird snap version with actual deb version.

The built-in AI staff,you referred to, is nothing but an accelerator to integrate with 3rd-party or self-hosted LLMs. It's quite similar to choosing a search engine in settings. This feature itself is lightweight and can be disabled in settings if not required.

But pocket can be disabled via about:config, right?

I thought that’s how all those soft forks handled that mess.

You may self-host SearxNG (via Docker) and avoid direct interaction with search engines - be it google, bing, Brave or DDG.

SearxNG will act as a privacy front-end for you.

https://github.com/searxng/searxng