Most probably they use some underlying technologies from KDE Frameworks or something along those lines. But not an actual Plasma Shell or anything like that.
Not OP but even setting up an AWS Account is a roughly hundred step process. Root account, IAM Accounts, I just tried using CLIv2 which asked me to set up something called Identity center first? Billing is complicated, setting up looking and metrics... Another two services. Some other best practice things... Also extra services.
AWS is complicated.
There is - for me and seemingly others - a lot of value in avoiding this complexity.
AWS used to be easy to use for "drive by users".
It's not anymore.
If you are using AWS anyway and are accustomed to it, obviously, RDS is a good choice. But I don't want to learn what DNS and Filesystem are called in AWS-speak just to shoehorn myself into getting stuck with AWS forever, when all I need is a hosted database so I don't have to worry about backups, etc.
My typical situation sees small to medium (virtual) servers that run software for tens to possibly thousands of users. There are plenty of use cases that aren't "google scale" and can be operated on a simple machine and can profit from a "simple" hosted DB.
Rant: Same goes for things like CDNs, I'd guess that 99% of websites don't get nearly the amount of traffic that a simple linux server couldn't handle out of the box. Let alone need sub 100ms ping responses, yet there is this weird cargo cult that requires putting your terraformed, docker stuff running javascript from with a python container with multiple layers of caching behind cloudflare because people don't dare consider simple architectures.
Their moat right now is developer tooling. They allow fine tuning + an easy API to use their llm.
Noone else does that right now. By the time others do, so much tooling and infrastructure has been built around OAI that the switching costs will be a lot.
It will get to the point that if you want your llm to beat oai on the market it won't be enough that you are as good or even better. You need to be vey very significantly better than OAI. For an extreme example of this see Windows. The network effects keeping it together are so strong that the platform becoming an abandoned adware hasn't been enough to push users to significantly better platforms like Mac.
Now I've fine tuned the hell out of gpt-3.5 and I'd love to see how my app would performed on a fine tuned Opus. I went to their website and I can't seem to fine tune their model yet. Meh. My guess is that by the time they make it available I won't have a strong reason to even try anymore.
On Gnome, the Super (Windows) key does an Expose (show windows reduced-size and non-overlapping) and lets you launch applications (and more).
On KDE 5, the Super key brings up the Application Launcher, which is nice. And Super+W (which isn't too painful to type) does an Expose. But it would be nice if there was an option for Super to do an Expose and bring up Application Launcher.
Yeah, the Gnome Super key hit the sweat spot for me too. As you say, all the things you wanted the desktop to do are available from that one easy to reach button - swapping between windows, pick something from the launcher menu and text search the applications. KDE has so many configuration options it can emulate just about everything Gnome does - but it can't mimic that exactly.
Gnome (and systemd) seems to want to emulate macOS mostly, and as user of macOS I'm not sure why you would want to do that. But macOS has nothing that matches Super key exactly - so well done to Gnome for that innovation.
That button makes me consider whether my sway setup is worth it, as sometimes I think Gnome can achieve something similar. And even with less cognitive load, sometimes!
The "Overview" effect does all that. Switch window, switch desktop, launch apps, drag windows to different desktops and monitors, etc. In KDE5 it appears to be in the list under Workspace→Workspace Behavior→Desktop Effects→Window Management. …I think I may have had to edit `kwinrc` to get it to bind to just Meta without another key, though:
I will do so shortly! thanks for giving someone in a position like mine a small chance, even if I'm not quite what you're looking for it's nice knowing there's someone who would be kind enough to do that. I'd also be more than happy to jump through any skill assessments to see if I'd be a good fit/get on a VTC to verify I'm real haha
We use langchain and don't regret it at all. As a matter of fact, it is likely that without lc we would've failed to deliver our product.
The main reason is langsmith. (But there are other reasons too). Because of langchain we got "free" (as in no development necessary) langsmith integration and now I can debug my llm.
Before that it was trying to make sense of whats happening inside my app within hundreds and hundreds of lines of text which was extremely painful and time consuming.
Also, lc people are extremely nice and very open/quick to feedback.
The abstractions are too verbose, and make it difficult, but the value we've been getting from lc as a whole cannot be overstated.
other benefits:
* easy integrations with vector stores (we tried several until landing on one but switching was easy)
* easily adopting features like chat history, that would've taken us ages to determine correctly on our own
people that complain and say "just call your llm directly": If your usecase is that simple, of course. using lc for that usecase is also almost equally simple.
But if you have more complex use cases, lc provides some verbose abstractions, but it's very likely that you would've done the same.
How is their press release important? They did provide the means and tools EU forced them too. Users are not going to be reading this and deciding not install Firefox on iOS.
They haven't yet provided the tools they're being forced to. What they announced so far is a joke and clearly non-compliant with the DMA. Given it's still two months out until it comes into force, they're probably testing the water how much they can still get away with... after all it really sucks when someone takes away your ability to steal 30% from the whole market...
Other web pages don't have such access.