So, which one is it?
The OP is already familiar with Hazel. Hazel still exists. Keep using / update Hazel. Problem solved.
Sounds like a recommendation to me?
You brought up Claude. And only Claude. Why didn’t you mention all other LLMs, too?
I have a pretty clear idea, actually. You’re using Discourse (this forum) to promote the casual use of “AI”.
In part. There are probably millions of cameras out there, constantly sending private data to someone else’s computer (“the cloud”), voice assistants phoning home, TVs tracking watching habits, car telemetry sold to insurance companies, health data collected by fitness gadgets and watches, smart home this and that…
Rest assured they don’t. Many want to, yes. Sometimes I let some of them for specific tasks. Most of them will never touch the outside world.
Because we had no Internet.
A lot of methods were tried before that. Sometimes in the form of hardware dongles. Piracy thrived.
I’d prefer any “offline” method, but I can see the value for developers.
That’s a choice. Every some months or so a connection to Paddle is required for the license check. And every some years for a major Scrivener update (something like v3 → v4). That’s not much useful data.
I’d still prefer “always offline”, but it is what it is.
That’s not sufficient. As long as other people still buy stuff that spies on me. 