My assumption is always the person I am talking to is a normal window user who don’t know what a terminal is. Most of them even freak out when they see “the black box with text on it”. I guess on Lemmy the situation is better. It is just my bad habit.

I recommend GPT4all if you want run locally on your PC. It is super easy.

If you want to run in a separate server. Ollama + some kind of web UI is the best.

Ollama can also be run locally but IMO it take more learning than GUI app like GPT4all.

Once again, a VPN can help to mitigate the risk of de-anonymization by hiding your source IP address before accessing the guard node in the Tor circuit.

Lmao he showed a bunch of well known issue about Tor, then start the usual VPN ads.

People will tell you that everything is a honeypot. In fact, I am a honeypot

Is that the snap version? Or Flatpak? Depends on with one it is there is a lot of way to limit the access to maybe only the download folder.

That is a fair point. Source first software isn’t a part of FLOSS, but even in worst case scenarios it still can be considered as “source available”. Which is better in term of transparency compared to closed source App. OP asked for “private” way to watch Youtube not open source way, so I think grayjay could still be a great choice. We are talking about watching from YouTube which is a corpo closed source spyware anyway.

Grayjay seems to be really stable compared to newpipe. I used it for 6 months now never break once. They also recently released a beta version for desktop which is quite promising

I personally think Freetube is the best for desktop right now. Recently, there is also grayjay for desktop. The UI is still buggy IMO, but also seem promising.