No, because I don’t have an irrational fear of AI. I don’t like when poor or unfitting AI art is used, but it isn’t AI who makes that decision to use it.

I use archive.is if I really need to read one of their articles. My point is, it is strange that they block read-only access like that.

I was surprised when I found out that reuters.com blocks mullvad vpn.

I was thinking the same. The limit was only 5k? We live in very different worlds lol.

The need to pee at night.

Navidrome.

Also this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists

Shouldn’t it be more or less the same with lemmy? We have a few major instances that are in sync with other instances, so indexing either of them should cover different sites.

What are we going to do about it?

Nothing. People move to reddit and discord for a reason. If forums were worth saving, this problem wouldn’t have existed.

It’s not the government until the companies buy the government.

Jira.

The US had always been a questionable democracy with the hyperfixation on the president and just two parties setting the agenda, but I’d argue that it’s still a democracy, though it is a rapidly deteriorating one.

by ditching the Karma farmers

How, exactly? Decentralization aside, lemmy is a reddit clone, but on a smaller scale. The same human psychology that drives reddit also drives lemmy. I think your assessment is more applicable to mastodon because there you really have to figure out how to fill your feed with content.

But even a web-based version of Word can’t be a Google Docs alternative, because Word can’t into spreadsheets and presentations.

Maybe I missed something, but since when Word is not only an alternative to an office suite, but also a web-based one?

A tablet versus laptop? I don’t get it. Apples to oranges.

Yeah, but smartphones have stopped offering anything new. I recently upgraded my 8-year-old device, and I hardly notice any difference. I bet other customers see that too. They are desperately trying to find the next big thing. It’s astonishing, however, that all these companies completely ignore the fact that their customers don’t even want AI features.

I guess if you make a lot of money you get a pass for allowing misleading and anti-consumer marketing campaigns?

He is appointed by the people for whom he is making money and not by the customers. So the answer is likely yes.

My back hurts when I see a colleague on a zoom meeting sitting like that cat.

A couple of Sony games because they don’t want to sell them in my country 🤷 They leave no other choice but to pirate them.