I'd sooner buy one from McDonald's

I'd object to this if it were open source and forkable, but looks like it is not and so your OS becoming corpo-fied is an especially salient and unavoidable risk:

Cortex is KORA's own technology and is not open source

I will probably give KORA a try when it's available. I'm not on the "fuck ai" train and I see no reason to avoid experimenting with something like this.

To your point Microsoft has already started on something similar anyway.

The image also doesn't load from kbin.earth, which does federate with lemmy.ml. I see this occasionally, and I've considered filing a bug with the mbin folks. It's interesting that it also happens with piefed.

EDIT: I'm dumb, fedia is also mbin.

I have two accounts on pure lemmy servers. The one that doesn't federate with lemmy.ml doesn't display the thumbnail for this post, but coughs up the image if I click where the thumbnail is supposed to be. The one that does federate with lemmy.ml shows both the thumbnail and the image. Someone probably has to put a bit more thought into image propagation and storage for corner cases like this.

Its just not worth it to rent from cult, facist, or megacorps willing to destroy the world to do it. Local LLMs though are cool, and hopefully we set up for better distributed training again.

KORA is built around that idea. Their "Cortex" engine runs workloads on local LLMs first and will use resources on other computers on the network before it sends work to the cloud.

It's a very good idea and if it works as advertised I suspect Microsoft will offer them a LOT of money for it because it's almost exactly what Microsoft's "Hybrid Intelligence" is trying to do.