Buy old and give your restoration shops less money than you’d spend on a new car, and have a dependable, easy to repair, non government controllable vehicle. Thats what i do.

Wrong, that didn’t start until like 2015 or later even.

They do though, so thats a total lie. Try getting into your car that you paid for firmware, see if tesla locks you down.

I’ll note none of my old cars have this problem. Don’t buy new cars people.

Massive bookshelf here. Can’t enshittify watch we already own! Fuck corps

People got lazy and threw away their stuff thinking streaming was the future. Some of us knew better because we know how capitalism works.

Own your media folks!

I’ve never cared about visual quality myself. I regularly play atari 2600 games so graphics are no where in my realm of care

My vcr and all old consoles actually work fine on my shitty insignia flat-screen. But I’d rather play on my crt or projector tv.

Its true. We can have a nuanced view. Im just so fucking sick of the paid off media hyping this shit, and normies thinking its the best thing ever when they know NOTHING about it. And the absolute blind trust and corpo worship make me physically ill.

But it wasn’t new anything new. The “cloud” services were literally the internet, just made a little easier for stupid people. Just like this llm shit isn’t really new. The paid off media wants idiots to think its revolutionary but its not. Its a chatbot that sometimes gets stuff right.

The stupid are easily addicted.

Yes, it was forced on me. I have updates disabled too. Pieces of shit.

No my s23 has no bixby buttons. Just power and 2 volume. Samsung DELIBERATELY updated so the POWER BUTTON activated their shitty agent. Only software shutdown was avilable until I changed.

Getting a linux phone when this dies. Fuck samsung.

I have an idea guys what about like a big cloud we can put all our data in ?? Guys CLOUD. ITS SO GENIUS. CLOUD.

This ai shit is the exact same thing (also it isn’t ai. And I hate that we keep calling it that. )

You’re right we are in an anti ai bubble ( we all remember THE CLOUDDDDD buzzword companies wouldn’t shut the hell up about, and that was an objectively far better service than Ai is) however, I can’t name anyone in the company I work for thats had llms revolutionize their job. It helps summarize (badly) and help with excel formulas (does ok if you know what you’re doing). Plus, our clients dont pay us to use a shitty half ass llm, they expect actual intelligent humans to do the work correctly.

I also won’t buy from any company blatantly using llms in their products. They’re good at hiding it. But I will notice.

Yeah. Unfortunately it feels like the homeless situation further encourages mass car culture because youre a lot safer in there than walking at night especially if youre small or a woman.

Very similar here. That is genius!! Beause i also feel dumb giving someone 5 dollars they are going to go spend on a steelhouse reserve instantly…very common here.

Right, I feel like a total ass ignoring them because its just mean. But I also feel like if youre too friendly they think you’re an easy person to rob as well…and im not a scary looking person. If i was it would help

That is so awesome. I wish I’d been around when that was a valuable skill, when programming was actually cool.

Yep. Make the normies depend on the shitty Ai and kill the real internet. Makes me so fucking mad.

Well, stupid people want it and they do use it when its shoved in their face. Like how samsung updated and BLATANTLY made their peice of shit AI button TAKE OVER THR POWER BUTTON so when you try to turn off your phone little old granny gets confused that an ai agent pops up and starts recording you. Absolutely infuriating and I wish torture on whoever implemented that shit.