Le Chonk

Enough with this shit, you’re not being cute, Mistral.

Mistral requires play services.

Mistral is worse than others both in UI and UX.

Why would I?

Mistral requires play services.

You don’t need to use Google/Android, you chose to.

Where is the button for fdroid on their site? Or git, obtainium? Direct apk?

I dont use them or google. When I had mistral is kept opening and closing to flag no google services found.

f-droid, apk, all built on top of Google ruled tech. The problem is Android and the grip Google has on it.

Use the Web, or if you have the tech skills, other OS. Interacting with a model, is just text after all.

I run Mistral on GrapheneOS without Play services.

I think of Mistral as primarily making models for API use that you can use in all sorts of places. I didn’t even know they had an app. I think the app is probably mostly intended as an easy way to try out the models, not their main business.

It’s a model, not an app, you can run it however you want

Are they more ethical and environmental than the competition?

No, and they’re really bad at vulnerability management too. But they are French and not US based, so they get all the €€€€€€€.

Some people didn’t like me asking but more people didn’t like your reply.

Well it’s trained in France so yes by default. The energy mix is actually pretty good