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How about SAP, Dassault Systemes, Amadeus, Hexagon, Visma, Wolters Kluwer, Sage, ...?

You can still get a cheaper brand new SBC - Radxa ROCK 5C with 16GB RAM for $160 or ROCK 5C Lite with 16GB RAM for $140 on AliExpress: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007473801146.html

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It's nothing unusual in open source projects to be the Benevolent dictator for life (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_dictator_for_life)

You don't need HTMX, there is 160-bytes HTMZ: https://leanrada.com/htmz/

Actually, declarative partial updates (HTML patching) have long been possible in every modern web browser without JS by using my Pure HTML Out-Of-Order Streaming (PHOOOS) technique based on Declarative Shadow DOM. You don't need another syntax with processing instructions. Demo: https://kraksped.pl/phooos/

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OVH - they are cheaper than AWS and bound by the EU privacy law (GDPR).

Smaller, cheaper providers like OVH or Hetzner.

For a no-JS web browser, try also Dillo, it is very lightweight ad it has been recently updated.

Not only in Chrome, you can use Brave, Vivaldi based on Blink.

This was back in 2020 and they pardoned for it, it's time to give Brave another chance!

There are more: Epiphany (GNOME Web), Ultralight, Servo, Ladybird, Ekioh Flow.

Ungoogled Chromium doesn't include any tracking by Google and there are privacy-friendly Firefox forks: LibreWolf and Mullvad Browser.

Does anyone believe a single big tech company isn’t harvesting data en masse from everyone in duplicitous manners?

I believe SUSE, Red Hat don't harvest users data en masse.

There has been no agreement on anything, no expectations or rules established.

Yes, there has been one expectation: DNT (Do Not Track) header, sent with every request, which should be respected.

What's wrong with MD? Is parsing it more complicated than HTML? Why can't Dillo support rendering MD documents like it supports Gemini?

For GMaps alternative, there are Here WeGo or Bing Maps. For Android, there are Sailfish OS or Ubuntu Touch. For Chrome, there are Brave or Vivaldi (Blink-based). Google is not irreplaceable.

E.g. Vivaldi is Chromium-based but doesn't include Nano Banana.

But Edge, Brave or Vivaldi are based on the same Chromium engine as Chrome.

Serious question: why do you use Google Chrome in the first place, when there are better alternatives, e.g. Brave (crypto stuff could be easily disabled) or Vivaldi, both with adblocker?

There are already: Matrix, Jabber, Mumble, Zulip - all open source.

Discourse, Matrix, Zulip, Rocket.chat - all open source.

Freeloading? Bad word. There are plenty of free/open source alternatives like Discourse, Zulip, Matrix, so why would anybody pay for something which should be free to use and respect user privacy?

No, Discord/Slack is a mess. Interesting topics got buried in an IRC-style chat. Threaded BBS are much better for organizing communities, like Discourse. And it is open source, so no vendor lock-in with stupid age verification.

What's the difference if Apple gets $20B from Google and spends $1B to another company or just gets $19B from Google and doesn't spend nothing?

Llamafile (https://llamafile.ai) can easily exceed 4GB due to containing LLM weights inside. But remember, you cannot run >4GB executable files on Windows.

I doubt it’ll be radically different from other implementations of AI + Browser in such a way that it stands above the others.

Mozilla distinguishes itself by allowing to use any AI, including open source private, local LLMs in their chatbot, not only proprietary Gemini like Chrome or Copilot like Edge. This is privacy-friendly.

Why not generate good old RTF files instead of PDF? They are much simpler and support more than ASCII charset.