Yes, we are doing that. These tools help make my personal projects come to life, and the money is well worth it. I can hit Claude Code limits within an hour, and there's no way I'm giving OpenAI my money.
As a third option, I've found I can do a few hours a day on the $20/mo Google plan. I don't think Gemini is quite as good as Claude for my uses, but it's good enough and you get a lot of tokens for your $20. Make sure to enable the Gemini 3 preview in gemini-cli though (not enabled by default).
Huge caveat: For the $20/mo subscription Google hasn't made clear if they train on your data. Anthropic and OAI on the other hand either clearly state they don't train on paid usage or offer very straightforward opt-outs.
> What is the privacy policy for using Gemini Code Assist or Gemini CLI if I’ve subscribed to Google AI Pro or Ultra?
> To learn more about your privacy policy and terms of service governed by your subscription, visit Gemini Code Assist: Terms of Service and Privacy Policies.
The last page only links to generic Google policies. If they didn't train on it, they could've easily said so, which they've done in other cases - e.g. for Google Studio and CLI they clearly say "If you use a billed API key we don't train, else we train". Yet for the Pro and Ultra subscriptions they don't say anything.
This also tracks with the fact that they enormously cripple the Gemini app if you turn off "apps activity" even for paying users.
If any Googlers read this, and you don't train on paying Pro/Ultra, you need to state this clearly somewhere as you've done with other products. Until then the assumption should be that you do train on it.
I have no idea at all whether the GCP "Service Specific Terms" [1] apply to Gemini CLI, but they do apply to Gemini used via Github Copilot [2] (the $10/mo plan is good value for money and definitely doesn't use your data for training), and states:
Service Terms
17. Training Restriction. Google will not use Customer Data to train or fine-tune any AI/ML models without Customer's prior permission or instruction.
Thanks for those links. GitHub Copilot looks like a good deal at $10/mo for a range of models.
I originally thought they only supported the previous generation models i.e. Claude Opus 4.1 and Gemini 2.5 Pro based on the copy on their pricing page [1] but clicking through [2] shows that they support far more models.
Yes, it's a great deal especially because you get access to such a wide range of models, including some free ones, and they only rate limit for a couple minutes at a time, not 5 hours. And if you go over the monthly limit you can just buy more at $0.04 a request instead of needing to switch to a higher plan. The big downside is the 128k context windows.
Lately Copilot have been getting access to new frontier models the same day they release elsewhere. That wasn't the case months ago (GPT 5.1). But annoyingly you have to explicitly enable each new model.
Yeah Github of course has proper enterprise agreements with all the models they offer and they include a no-training clause. The $10/mo plan is probably the best value for money out there currently along with Codex $20/mo (if you can live with GPT's speed).
That's good to know, thanks. In my case nearly 100% of my code ends up public on GitHub, so I assume everyone's code models are training on it anyway. But would be worth considering if I had proprietary codebases.
My thoughts exactly. The $100 Claude subscription is the sweet spot for me. I signed up for the $20 at first and got irritated constantly hitting access limits. Then I bought the $200 subscription but never even hit 1/4 of my allocation. So the $100 would be perfect.
Unfortunately the fight seems to be enormous. It's not just this little slice of computing freedom, it's all the random bullshit that various world governments get up to that I keep seeing in EFF newsletters: big tech enforcing government censorship or ratting you out to your government that's having a play at fascism, or making you verify your identity to access services, or trying to get access to your encrypted communications, but on top of that it's also: weaponizing copyright law to get you in trouble for repairing things you bought, choking out small businesses that might compete with regulatory capture or copyright shenanigans, shadowbanning your content if it doesn't look nice next to coca-cola ads (everyone putting little stars on sui*ide or whatever other nonsense), adding fees on all your payments or completely un-humaning you if you don't pay to play (credit card companies; UK allowing "CC only" shops).
Not to be the strings on the pegboard guy, but, it's all looking to be connected, and it's all looking to be the natural outcome of organizing our societal value systems around profit motive and letting gigantic inhuman profit-seeking algorithms (corporations) run rampant and allowing capital to be transferable to political power.
Walkaway by Cory Doctorow seems the most feasible path forward for people that are tired of this sort of society. Modern society seems too prepared to be able to overcome with widespread revolution, and in any case such an overthrow seems too vulnerable to co-opting by bad, authoritarian actors.
It is connected, but not in the "man behind the mirror" sense. It just happens to be the result of important governments across the world shifting politically right simultaneously and pushing/tolerating agendas that value government-enforced security over personal freedom.
A duck just happens to be the result of the way it looks, walks, swims and quacks.
What use is this decomposition in case of the undeniable enfascistification of the world, other than giving a set of bullet point excuses for the devil's advocates?
It is, but the longer the general public plays ostrich in the sand and prefers losing their tail feathers one by one to unburying their eyes and admitting where all this has been going, the more enormous it will be.
Don't I know it. The problem is as soon as we truck out the big words - anti-fascism, anti-capitalism, the statist propaganda kicks in and our uphill battle just turned into a upcliff battle.
In my experience, the third main variable here is cost. Light gear can be durable, but that usually costs a lot more because it uses expensive materials like titanium.
I'm so used to installing via F-Droid or straight APKs, installing something using the Play store feels weird and hack-y. If anyone's doing the "side loading" I think it's Google :P
I would love to learn more about how to set something like this up. I hope this group will consider open-sourcing more tools and instructions for others who hope to follow in their footsteps.
As some other commenters have said, Headscale/Tailscale scratches some of this itch for me. Having individual devices connect directly to an overlay network is fabulous. However, I can never fully control Tailscale the way I wish to, and connecting networks together with it is difficult.
> UNESCO works to advance divisive social and cultural causes and maintains an outsized focus on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, a globalist, ideological agenda for international development at odds with our America First foreign policy.
Ummm...what?
This is the kind of nonsense that makes me want to leave this country.
Always fascinating how many people are more alarmed by their country withdrawing from international treaties, than by it rounding up its own citizens and sending them to concentration camps. One of those should be far more alarming than the other.
Every bit of resistance counts. If you feel the lat-lon-alt suit your tastes, stick around, speak your mind, and don't let the nationalists tell you to get out. :)
Exactly; I rather enjoy telling those who would have me leave my home that they should set the example first. After all, they're the ones pushing for changes they want to see, they can go do that over somewhere else.
It's too bad to see otherwise intelligent people refusing to engage with any statement or action of the US federal government in good faith. However I suspect the point you cited is far more relevant to this move than the distraction that is Israel v. Palestine. There is plenty to criticize and oppose in the UN's agenda. Much of it suggests developed countries severely inhibit their growth and further centralize power to better control the pesky proles who might not want to go along with the plan. See James Lindsay's reading of their Sustainable Development Goals which cites them directly.
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