While I would normally give the /e/OS founder the benefit of the doubt, it looks like the AI nonsense has pushed him off deep end.
Over on Mastodon, Duval announced the release of a new version of ElixirOffice.
https://mastodon.social/@gael/117530501841058734
The project is 100% vibecoded with no human contributions. Just human supervision.
https://techhub.social/@daks/117554870613898127
I almost wrote that things “spiraled” but that is a loaded word. Duval defended himself.
https://mastodon.social/@gael/117558336561536469
Made a comment about “idiots”:
https://mastodon.social/@gael/117565645599355671
(I guess idiots is people that don’t like AI)
And told another user to “Go Fuck Themself”:
https://mastodon.social/@gael/117565649289007656
Briefly, I considered a hacked account. But…
AI is the most powerful technology ever available for humanity and I wish the good people embrace it too. Not only the bad.
https://mastodon.social/@gael/117574052628223076
In his own words, he is living in a different world:
ffs. First proton, now this. Were running out of options.
It’s also getting really tiring having to swap part of my stack every few weeks.
At least for email I now have it with a custom domain and can more easily switch if that becomes necessary… Changing phone OS is always a pain, even with root&backup solutions.
This one hurts especially, your customers are people that picked a phone for ethical reasons, they raise ethical concerns, you tell them to go fuck themselves… And I don’t even know with all these things, maybe I could even grudgingly live with a product where they use LLMs “responsibly” or something, but then they always have to go off the rails with the emotional maturity of a 5 year old and how could I trust a company with such a person in charge…
later he says:
Interesting experience with the anti-AI zealots today. Do they really think there can still be a world without AI? 🤔
Their proposal: either you are using AI and therefore you are a fascist. Or you never use AI, never ever.
My proposal: let’s make AI better.https://mastodon.social/@gael/117577271270407804
Clearly he wasn’t taking any criticism seriously.
Dude is in deep. I’m so glad I don’t have /e/OS installed.
Well, I was already thinking about switching from /e/ to lineage, so I guess now I have a very good reason to get it done…
Lineage OS accepts AI contributions, too. See their AI contribution policy.
Alternatively, Nura (previously postmarketOS) does ban AI contributions
Sigh… I only switched to e/os/ this year since Google was starting to lock me out of certain apps (I sideloaded basically everything since hell no I’m not using the google play store if I can avoid it). I missed that android encrypts your SD card unless you back it up to pc with a usb cable and lost all my files. I am very hesitant to switch again, but it certainly looks like I unfortunately am going to be forced to in the very near future.
I really want to get off mr. Bones wild ride… :(
Now I’m afraid of getting a phone with e/OS
Glad my old Motorola with /e/OS is powered off in the drawer
The Mailings tab is back: write a letter, load a CSV list, preview each recipient and export DOCX or PDF (merged or one per recipient), offline. (It shipped in 0.5 but didn’t appear)
It… “shipped but didn’t appear”. Great.
I am glad that i read your whole reply well written post, because first I was lie… what’s the problem this time…?
But sad to read that somebody is so much out of touch, that he could be a politician




