Yet my libertarian centrist friend INSISTS that AI is great for humanity. I keep telling him the billionaires don’t give a fuck about you and he keeps licking boots. How many others are like this??

By design. Soon ms won’t allow you to even have the OS installed, it will only be internet accessible (no internet=no pc usage) so they can steal more data for free.

Can confirm. Made many sparkler/aerosol can boom.booms

Do you guys also keep a notepad file on your desktop with all the usual commands and shortcuts on it? I can’t imagine remembering them all otherwise… and I kind of cringe at the non stop DDG ing I have to do to do some basic liux stuff.

Right, and subaru stupidly quit making the wrx wagon in 2014, no idea why. There’s also the appeal of early 2000s gm, dirt cheap and easy to fix. Like an 03 Tahoe. Just not good on gas. You can find some of those in an I5 though which is cool.

They don’t realize it’s the big shiny companies that are actually scamming them and stealing their data.

In complete agreement. I hate crossovers so much.

Have you looked at this wagons or Volvo wagons ? Or just a good old tacoma or tundra long box ?

I was never put off by it, but I tend to like less shiny things.

This is why I go the extra mile to keep iot out of my life. Especially in cars , which is getting hard, but I figure my future cars I’ll likely retrofit something old. Newest I’ll tolerate is 2014, with no touchscreen.

How can you convince anyone to get off these ? Everyone I’ve showed lemmy to is terrified it’s a virus, and what chat platforms are there besides messenger that we can convince anyone to go to? Maybe I need smarter friends, lol.

Ah, good for you for trying!! I’m sure it’s hard, those trash games are made to be addictive…as have games always been really, but the evil was hidden better and they didn’t have the ability to track your every move.

Dude it’s sad what kids are subject too now. Endless ad spam and shit games. They’ll always be corpo brainwashed.

Are modern DJs musicians as compared to a classically trained cellist (sp?)? In my thoughts, not really.

Corporations. Stop giving them money any way possible.

I bet this is it

Trying to get away from corporate trash, so no more spotify or tidal for me. I am only trying to use :

SomaFM, totally donation based radio, very nice for long listening drives or work

Archive.org (AMAZING for so much stuff)

Bandcamp (actually support artists, there has been talk of them enshittifying though)

My own library of physical music.

However, when I had tidal, it worked well. I like to support artists though especially in today’s world.

That’s the problem. We can’t tell the difference.

But look at it this way. In 5 years nobody will be able to tell the difference between an AI image or AI music (boomers already can’t). So then what? When an art gallery prints a 30 ft tall AI image and people come look at it and how amazing it is, all while having no idea it was AI, what will be the point? The only art left will be live performance art, which could actually be a good thing in it’s own way. But the “at home” artist who only publishes works online will be dead, because there will be no way to tell the difference.

I see this view a lot and I agree with it, but how can you argue with anyone who says well, that’s what they said about synthesizers for music. Or ipads for art. Or computers replacing typewriters. Are you saying anyone who doesn’t hand write a book in cursive while solely learning the djembe from a scroll is not a real artist ? (Obvious /s but it’s kind of valid). Unfortunately we are the old man yelling at cloud, just 20 years too early. The future will laugh that there were AI detractors (in my opinion).

I never assumed you American!

Also heavily into classic rock.