How interesting! Never knew. Its making it a bit hard to read but thats ok I guess. Thanks for the info!

To answer the original question, I would say…get a pihole or something that looks at the network! Its fascinating to see without a doubt what modern day computers are reaching the internet for. Since there is 1001+ Linux distros all I can definitively say is that some of the more popular distros take care of the nitty gritty at the cost of using their own servers for a couple of things. A vast majority of the time its not nefarious.

Im having a hard time reading your message? What is going on with the ‘t’ char?

Is the voice AI?

Regardless just put pihole and/or a router/switch that allows you to see the network calls between a computer and the internet and you will get a better look at what stuff the OS is reaching out for. MS is pretty bad, but not as bad as some people make them out to be. Linux has a couple (mostly just NTP and internet checks). I havent done the check with Mac OS.

Same. Its somewhat useful on some very small scripting or tasks…but its mostly just to try out a new model or two. Its not really useful for anything big.

I will have to say…even my tiny models are about as good as Chatgpt/Claude/etc… which makes me think about how much people are spending on tokens regularly. I was able to get the same kind of python script started with my local tiny model that was comparable to the newest Claude code offerings.

It works so well!

I think i have that model. Fantastic ebook reader if so.