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If the Amish weren't Christian, I'd be tempted to join them...
A lot of them live in severe poverty.
people are saying its because of AI, but its actually because they refuse to get any information regarding technoblades death
I think you meant to say "people are saying it's because of slop" - no sane person that I know refusing to work with this shit is dumb enough to call it "AI"
slop is often used to refer to things that were not made using generative AI
but yeah, AI is the wrong term
Fair enough, I only started reading the term when it was used to express disdain for machine learning systems being wrongly marketed as "AI"
they are AI though
how would it be wrong marketing?
they are AI though
see - when they sell statistical gibberish generators as "AI", gullible people will believe it. You just proved my point.
I think that it’s not that people refuse to use new tech, I think it’s more that most of what is coming out is just worse in terms of usability and functionality in a lot of ways. Not so much a rejection of innovation, but a rejection of the priorities that major industry players have decided on. Like, “improvement” is relative, and what people care about isn’t being improved or actively being regressed.
They’re making bad products, and people don’t want them.
I'm not going digital Amish, but I'm trying my best not to let tech oligarchs hoard wealth that they can use to pursue their take on techno feudalism.
Most things could be nice if they were done environment consciously with something else than profit-oriented data harvesting in mind: social networks, LLMs, even smart glasses.
I'm not going totally "Amish", but I've become a cranky bitch about technology nowadays. I was very passionate about tech throughout my teens and early twenties. Since then, I've watched every major tech company go to shit. Services I used forever go to shit or die. Companies harvest more and more of our data in creepier and more invasive ways. They went from "don't be evil" and creating interesting new tech or shaking up an industry (Google fiber, for instance) to doing anything as long as it saves a dollar.
The only thing giving me any hope or interest in this space is FOSS and hosting things myself. It was confusing to me at first and still is in some ways, but not only can I solve my own issues, I can offer a lot of it to my friends and family. Having 10 different streaming services and finding where a show is within them is expensive and annoying, but I'm enjoying managing a library and hosting it on jellyfin. Then I can tell a few people, hey get jellyfin and type in this url, I'll find whatever you want. I recently setup seerr so now they don't have to feel like they're bothering me when they want something, they can just request it (and see what's new, upcoming, where something already is streaming if they already have that service, ratings, etc). Yeah it doesn't support the show or movie but it's a much more enjoyable experience. I stopped paying for Google drive and have all my pictures and videos (which is what used up all that space) syncing right to my PC, which then backs up to jotta cloud (not foss). I got off windows entirely (except at work) and use Linux now. I'm probably going to setup nextcloud and get a few people on there soon, since i have the space and it'll save them a subscription.
I like that DDG lets you put date perameters on searches. Usually when looking for reciepies, I seach only from 1998-2016.
lemme get some of that sweet old internet
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I'm not going say I'm not tempted
Idk framework 16 seems pretty nice
I'm actually happier rolling back to older tech options and sticking with open source apps and OS's.
My car has no computer, I go talk to humans at banks, I avoid large companies. No AI, I vet everything I utilize for privacy, My brain is at peace.
Sounds like nice people. Cant fault them for it, tech has gone down the drain over the years and newer stuff isn't really worth the cost anymore.
Are they recruiting?
Though why specifically 2021? What exactly happened at that specific year?
AI started to become good enough to be marketable.
Chat started to pop off
Chat, ? Pop off?
Can you elaborate a little more on that?
"Chat" is ChatGPT and "pop off" is popular or gaining traction.
I promise I'm old, I'm just going back to university and am surrounded by children lol
Doing HW is why my response lagged, my bad.
Thank you for explaining. Language does seem to evolve faster than i can keep up with it.
The kids today will ask a sort of rhetorical questions out loud and say something like, "chat, should I (under whatever nonsense here)". In this instance, they're pretending to be streamers and ask the viewers. But if someone says, "I'll just ask chat to write my paper (or whathaveyou)." That's ChatGPT. The difference is contextual.
That's good to know. Thank you. Yeah context can change a lot, but not even knowing the context can make it rather hard to guess any meaning.
Normally I'd say you can ignore it because it'll change soon enough, but I think "ask chat" will become synonymous with "ask ai" similar to how "Google it" is now considered personal research/look it up.
They're Luddites 2.0.
They can call themselves luddites when they start blowing up data centers.
Ned Ludd didn't fuck around and neither should we.
Hasan Minhaj had an interview with the "Gen Z Luddite" movement
https://player.fm/series/hasan-minhaj-doesnt-know/the-gen-z-luddites-rebelling-against-big-tech
My current phone is an iPhone 12 mini. Am happy multiple companies, commodore, clicks etc are working on more limited phones. It all takes too much out of a day.
Also, I want my electronics to have buttons. Not screens.
Buttons and the aux hole.
I don't know why everyone just accepted that we don't get those things anymore.
I hate cordless earphones, I doesn't make any sense at all.
I want my electronics to have buttons. Not screens.
Could you elaborate? Do you miss tackle controls so much you'd rather have that vs screen space, or you genuinely don't want a bigger screen?
Cooking plates come with (janky) touch panels instead of physical buttons, my laundry machine too.
Also actual feel of good buttons on for example amplifiers etc actually is a nice feel. Also buttons are replaceable if broken.
Generally if no screen is needed (fridge) it can just go.
Also a screen should be if it’s there dumb. Eg a TV should not come with an OS that will serve me shitty apps and advertisements.
My induction hob comes with physical handles, and so does washing machine. And for them, it doesn't make sense to do otherwise - wet fingers don't go well with sensors, and I don't know who came up with that terrible idea.
For the smartphone, though, touch controls allow for the precision and speed of input unmatched by any other input method. They also allow to maximize the screen space on a very small device, allowing better interfaces and reducing eye strain.
The quality of an OS and the developer incentives are different matters entirely, though.
I was just thinking about how this is likely my life going forward. The last tech I bought was a first round preorder steamdeck which was a lot longer ago than I want to think about. If I need a phone I buy 5 year old refurb flagships instead of the overpriced disposable "budget" slop they make these days. New hardware is now a luxury item for the petite bourgeois so they can make slop to satiate the poor. AI has sucked up both more money and physical resources than it would have taken to globally eliminate poverty.
No thank you. I'd rather live off grid in the woods with some solar panels so I can emulate every game from the last 40 years. More than a lifetime of games. I don't need anything new.
Some people also refuse to interact with venomous snakes, for the same reason.
Are we? I wasn't aware
This is probably unfounded extrapolation of https://openpath.quest/2026/i-am-retiring-from-tech-to-live-offline
I really wish to get to that level. I already avoid a lot of corporate internet sites, but I still have to deal with whatsapp and, to a lesser extent, discord. My car is is an old piece of junk because that's what my salary can sustain, if/when i get a new one, I'll want the same amount of "smart" features as everything else in my home: zero. Computers (also phones and tablets) only connect to the internet via firewall.
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