Microsoft is known for making things “optional” at first then eventually forcing it down everyone’s throats. Removing offline accounts is one of them.
It’s not so much the technology itself is malware, but its behavior replicates that of malware.
Next time, use a VPN so it doesn’t all show in the US.
Quantity over quality…
Yeah this is the idea. Personally I think charging needs more emphasis on at-work and apartment charging because if you don’t live at a house, you essentially rely on public charging which isn’t good for the battery.
Also more hotels should have charging. Having to drive 15 minutes away just to charge is annoying.
You can’t built it yourself but you can download the model and run it locally on your machine without it interacting to any server.
There is a community-driven project aimed at making a fully reproducible version called Open-R1. You can find it at https://github.com/huggingface/open-r1.
It’s semi-open, not fully open source as what is typically thought of.
The same way you have a lock on your front door “just in case”. It’s not emotional. It’s logical.