Don’t worry. With SCOTUS overturning Chevron this won’t stick. /s (in case it’s not obvious)

Apple user here. I can assure you, Apple sucks just as bad as MS and Google.

The stupid. It hurts.

surprised pikachu

I noped out as soon as I read that line.

Privacy. That’s iPhone.

Unless the government says otherwise. Because really we don’t give a fuck about you or your privacy.

First, fuck Roku. This is exactly why my roku tv is not connected to the internet and never will be. My kodi box handles my entertainment needs.

Ugh. I don’t want generative AI in any of my appliances. Here’s hoping everything lasts long enough that I can avoid this trash.

I’m the same. I prefer apple products generally speaking, but Apple sucks just as much as every other giant asshole company and I don’t like Apple. There’s no ethical consumption in capitalism. Fuck all these companies.

I noticed this a few days ago or so and I was delighted by it. I never sign in to YouTube and hated the garbage recommendations on the homepage.

Yup. Was waiting for the shoe to drop. Fuckers.

I’ve been opting out of the internet at large. It started a few years back just disconnecting from social media, but as AI has begun to pollute everything and enshittification ruins everything, I’m just kinda done with it all.

I’ve been enjoying Lemmy, and I’m hoping Lemmy doesn’t turn into an AI circle jerk.

As a result I’ve been building out my server with services I want to use that I control so I’m not trapped by enshittification or inundated with AI where I don’t want it.

With all that being said, I know AI is here to stay. My biggest problem with AI is these companies gleefully gobbling up our data, our art, our words, our creativity, using it to feed and train, and to make billions, while we get nothing. It would be one thing if all these generative models were open source and freely available for everyone to use and benefit from, but that’s not the case. I know there are open source models, but the big ones are all paywalled and in many ways being weaponized against us.

At some point I hope generative AI becomes a boon to society. Right now, I’m too cynical to believe it will. I feel like it’s just going to make things worse for the majority of people.

Shit like this should be opt in by default. But no. Instead of respecting the users they count on ignorance, forgetfulness, and obfuscation for this kind of fuckery.

I would love tab groups

I’d also suggest taking a look at Jellyfin.

As to the hardware, I’ve seen lots of recommendations for refurbished thin clients on eBay. Good value. Myself, I’m using a pc I had built for live streaming, and pivoted into a server. I think it’s got an i7 in it. I recently added some ram to bulk it up to 32g, and while it stared with a 240gb ssd, it’s now got a whole raid array in it.