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Memory unlocked haha. I could literally smell the static on my old crt monitor when I read that!

I’m sure that’ll be a tiered pay option soon enough. $10 a month gets you an ai that’s just an acquaintance. Doesn’t “care”, forgets your name sometimes, doesn’t remember that thing you talked about last week. $50 a month gets you your ai best friend. It “cares”, remembers everything about you, makes suggestions based on what it knows about you, even goes out of it’s way to prompt you first and ask you how your dentist appt went.

In my opinion ai is in the “drug dealer wandering around the club giving a free bump” phase. Once people get addicted and sew it into the fabric of every day life, these companies will up the price, make the cheaper tiers too frustrating to use, and charge up the ass. “Oh, you’ve got an ai boyfriend? Let’s see how much you’ll pay to keep it or have it lobotomized.”

Damn. It’s American. I’ll be keeping an eye on how well it does though, it’s a great idea.

It blew my mind when he announced it. Brand recognition is one of the most important things companies hope for, and Twitter was in it’s own, very select brand recognition club at the top. Tweeting became part of everyday vernacular, in the same way that googling something became synonomous with searching online. It’s a company’s wet dream. No one says “gramming”, “threading”, “facebooking”, etc. Maybe Snapchat has snapping, I’m out of the loop but even I’ve used tweeting/ed in every day conversations.

That recognition is the stupidest thing to just throw away, especially to replace it with something that can’t replace it from a language perspective. Xing makes no sense in context.

Well yeah, there are only 4 lights.

I switched to PipePipe. Works well

Ironfox is ok. Though it’s not fully open source (the ui isn’t) I use Vivaldi

I think Ubuntu Touch gets decent reviews

I use Feeder, no issues.

I was falling down that hole about 2 years ago. I’ve always been a tech nerd, big scifi fan, etc so the tech advancements lately were really cool to me. Integration was such a cool concept. A fridge that could see inside itself, track what was in it, and suggest when it’s time to get more of something just seemed so futuristic. Screens everywhere with weather and useful info really played into my childhood dreams watching scifi movies and tv. I’ve since done a complete 180 and as of 2 months ago finally completely cut out all big tech, but there’s a big push for people like me to fall into the trap of “I don’t need it, but it’s so cool”.

I installed Ubuntu Studio as my first distro 2 months ago. Have to reset plasma multiple times daily due to nvidia drivers but other than that it seems pretty solid. I’m interested in trying something else but it took a lot of work to get my audio working right (I do freelance audio for a living) and I don’t remember how I did it haha.

Check out @themurphy@lemmy.ml 's comment. They did contribute significantly. Also, y’know, it’s in the article and on the post itself…

I use Feeder on android from fdroid. It was like a breath of fresh air going through a list of things I’m interested in, reading articles, and not getting sucked into the comments because there just aren’t any.

Added bonus, its very limited so there’s no doom scrolling, and refreshing the feed only updates with something new like every few hours. Spend a lot less time on my phone now.

You’re confusing privacy with anonymity.

Hence the Buddy Holly part. Glasses like Buddy Holly with HUD like the Terminator.

China absolutely has interest in Americans, just not in the way you’d think. Social media is addictive, and TikTok is no exception. Quick bursts of media that result in dopamine hits creates addiction and eyes glued to a screen that can push whatever agenda China wants. Studies have shown social media and ai have an affect on intelligence and learning, and China knows full well that in the long game, this results in the dumbing down of society.

TikTok is doing exactly what it was designed for, sowing division and misinformation to destabalize the US. It works too.

I had it working on Windows, just can’t remember how haha. I’ve moved to Linux and I don’t know if I’m missing something to get it going, or if it’s because ProtonVPN isn’t nearly as devloped on Linux as it is on Windows. Appreciate the positivity though!

Same, though I can’t get remote access working while running a vpn on my machine and it’s driving me nuts

RSS is still going strong. I’m in the process of shifting my screen time from lemmy to RSS. Just articles, no comments. Makes me realize how addicted I’ve been to comment drama, I say as I post a comment.

This is why it’s so important to vote based on policy, not party names or “teams”. Parties can name themselves whatever they want (within reason) and they evolve and change as well. Canada right now is a good example. The current Liberal party is basically the Conservative party of the 90s. Just look at policy and leave the brand out of it.

Never forget, North Korea calls itself The Democratic Republic of North Korea. The Nazis were called The National Socialist German Worker’s Party. Words have meaning, even when they don’t.