Well the half-good news is, judging by Palantir’s track record of managing large public projects elsewhere, that project is bound to bankrupt the US once and for all so people can build something new. The bad news is, it’s probably only going to happen late within the first fifteen years of the ‘two-year’ contract.
The knowledge is still there, it’s just that the LLM has been instructed not to divulge it, and these instructions are often imperfect and can sometimes be circumvented accidentally or on purpose.
There’s been some talk about Brother imitating HP lately. Last thing I heard is that they’ve been attributing it to a ‘faulty’ firmware upgrade and offering a ‘fix’. Personally I’m not yet sure what to think of it - it’s one thing I’ll be keeping an eye on though. My current HP printer will still happily work with third-party toner but is slowly approaching the end of its lifespan.
Generally speaking, for the average user who doesn’t need special hardware to produce ultra-quality borderless photo posters on a regular basis:
+1 for Jitsi. Works well, user-friendly, lots of features without looking complicated, not too resource-hungry, lots of ways to extend it. All the other person needs it to click a link, enter a name and allow microphone/camera usage one time. There’s also an app for Android and iOS, though you can just as well use a mobile browser.