How to stop AI glasses?
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Without you sharing some context it's hard to suggest anything precise. I mean, are you talking about sudden frustrations or long-lasting ones? Sudden and unexpected or constant and relentless? Caused by yourself to yourself or by other persons? Caused by some physical issue/pain?
- Long walks. This is like magic to me. Plus it helps get in much better shape physically and mentally (better blood flow helps the brain works better or something like that).
- Writing, sketching. Longhand with pen and paper. As far as I'm concerned, it's much slower than typing which also helps thinking slower, which helps take a step back and consider whatever the issue is.
- The most useful tool I have: if the source of my frustration is something I can't change (that's the keyword: I must know I can't change it), I will accept it or I will ignore it if you prefer. I will forget about its existence, accept the nuisance, zap it out of my mind. It's one trick that can be learned with practice (aka with... more frustration), that's really worth it. Philosophers may refer to that practice as stoicism, but it's not exclusive to the stoics. For me it's all about my available energy and time (time I have in a day and time I have to be... alive, on this planet). I have a limited amount of energy I can spend each day, I have only 24h a day and I have a limited amount of days remaining to live. Why would I want to waste them on stuff I can't change or that will only make things worse (since I can't change them)? So, I don't waste my time with those ;)
Like many I imagine: China to where I live (France), back in those days when I ordered too much useless crap online.
I recently learned that my company prefers closed-source tools for privacy and security.
I will suggest that same logic to my banker too: a vault whose key they won't own, but I will. Don't worry, all your money will be safe with me, it's a promise 😇
Welcome and there is zero need to apologize. Some people (and group of them) can be a real pain. Once you have learned how to filter them out, it's a nice place with nice people. There is no shame in blocking them, a bit like I would not let someone enter my home so they shout their nonsense into my ears, or make their mess on the carpet.
Once again, welcome ;)
Maybe you live in a rural area and people are less attached, but in cities, everyone is addicted af
I live in Paris, France (hopefully enough of a city to qualify?) but I'm not 'addicted af' (not at all, for that matter) and neither is my spouse, nor are quite a few of the people we know ;)
That said I also see a lot of people walking looking at their screen, bicycling looking at their screen, driving and looking at their screen. And I see a lot of accidents too. I wonder, could there be a link?
Do you feel weird/anxious if you go outside and don't have a phone with you?
Nope. I sometimes forget my phone at home, no big deal I seldom use it. And even when I don't forget it I have zero social apps or games installed on it, not even email ;)
I only use it to pass phone calls and to manage IDs and finances (and it's only because my banks all require me to use their stupid apps, I would gladly tell them to go funk themselves but I need to be able to access my accounts).
What I never forget and I never hesitate to use whan I have the opportunity is a pocket book, so I always have something to read (without distraction, aka no Internet) and a pocket notebook/pen so I can write stuff (without any distraction, bugs, updates or whatever...) and in both case without any worry about being tracked.
so like its basically social expectation to be on your phone when you are by yourself.
Is it? And then people are surprised they're exhausted, and constantly anxious and/or angry at one another? Doom scrolling is poison for the mind and for the soul. I'd rather look around, or speak with people.
you are missing a lot of information
Do I? Well, so far it has not caused me much issues.
that you might need in case you get lost or something.
When that happens, I ask my way around to people. It sometime is a nice opportunity to start a real conversation ;)
edit: typos and clarification.
I often talk aloud all by myself when I'm reading. Either reading the book aloud, or talking to no one in particular commenting whatever I'm reading. Maybe talking to its author, or to the book itself?
Worse: I do think it helps me a lot get what I'm reading, and I would love to see more people doing it ;)
I’ll definitely do my own research, but there’s so much information out there—it feels like drinking from a firehose. It’s overwhelming!
Because it is overwhelming. And that’s coming from a 50-something dude that is not much of a geek himself and that switched after 35+ years using Apple.
Do you have any tips or websites to help me get started, step by step?
My top suggestion would be to keep it simple. Don’t try too hard to learn everything. Just use it and learn as you go. I mean, don't try to 'learn Linux' just start using it. You don’t need to read a whole lot of docs for that (using Mint the installation should be dead simple and the you can connect to the Internet, launch your word processor or spreadsheet, do some photo editing maybe, listen to music and watch videos. It's still a computer, just with a different operating system and different apps.
Each time you will have trouble doing something then you will know it's probably time to do some reading and research. Each time there is anything specific you want to know more about, then you will know what to search for.
Say when you want to learn why Linux is sometimes called ‘GNU/Linux’, not trying to be pedantic here it's just to show you how there is always more to Linux than what’s on the surface. Next to the free OS and apps there is this whole philosophy of freedom as well as the Unix very specific approach to software development and the way those software should work and how they should be used and that explain why things may be very different than what you were to under Windows, both being covered by the ‘GNU’ part in ‘GNU/Linux’, which is itself also not just about those notions as GNU is also a set of developing tools and apps (that are used to construct Linux itself—expert, no need to hate me for oversimplifying here). And it's just considering the Linux name! Really, it’s endless. Often fascinating, but endless.
To the point that learning Linux can feel like the Danaïdes sisters being told to fill with water that bottomless bucket, or poor Sisyphus having to push that same huge rock up to the top of the hill every single day for the rest of eternity—maybe not the most… fulfilling option ;)
So, as a beginner:
- Learn how to create a bootable ISO on Mac or on Windows).
- With Mint in mind you only need to follow the assistant instructions (and make sure your computer is working fine with Linux)
- Use your new (and freed) computer and make mistakes (it's the best way to learn) ;)
If you want to read an excellent docs, no matter the distribution you're using Arch Wiki, Mint as great user forum
Oh, thx a lot!
I must admit I don't know much about those kind of snacks but I would be surprised a doctor would suggest to eat those with any kind of medication.
My wife has to eat a snack with her medicine she takes before bed or she gets nauseas. I have struggled to find an alternative to goldfish because I agree, it’s garbage. Any thoughts?
What is a goldfish (beside a fish, I mean)? If you mean an alternative to snack, has she tried fresh fruits (an apple, pear, a few grapes,...) or maybe things like nuts? The idea being to no eat heavily processed food at all and not too much of anything. If she is not into fresh fruits (that would be sad), at worst I would suggest a slice of fresh bread (here again not the industrial hyper-processed kind of bread, real bread) with something, maybe a little jam?
Aren't they constantly? ;)
I wake up between 4-5AM every single day of the week, and all year long. I don't even need an alarm clock. I can go to sleep at anytime
- No screen before bed. No computer, no phone, no tablet, no TV (we don't own a TV, so we don't have much choice here ;). What do I do instead? I read a book, journal, write, chat with my spouse or friends, play chess or board games,... I do various stuff just not on a screen. Not even using a Kindle.
- No coffee in the evening. No alcohol at all (evening as well as in the day: I was an alcoholic many, many years ago). No soda either. Either I'll drink water or herbal tea.
- Light & healthy diner. I don't stuff my stomach, don't eat garbage pre-packaged industrial 'food' either (this alone was a huge change for me, the day I quit eating that absolute turd a few years ago and my health has jumped through the roof, pre-packaged food is just poison in a fancy packaging and a lot of marketing, I would not be surprise if it was to become the tobacco of the XXI health-wise).
- No snacking, no candy, chips, or whatever.
- At least one long walk during the day. Every day.
Where on lemmy is there discussion about news, culture, and zeitgeist without people defaulting to boring and predictable political takes?
I swear sometimes I feel like I’m reading a bad newspaper comment section, like everyone is a poorly trained AI that just spouts default politically-oriented replies.
- Have you tried discussing with people about those very topics instead of politics, or without yourself bringing your political opinions to the table?
Sorry to say so but looking at you recent post history it doesn't look like you're exempt from talking 'political takes' yourself. Why complain about something it seems you're also actively contributing to?
(If you're wondering, I seldom have the 'opportunity' to talk politics on Lemmy because 1) I don't browse the communities where that kind of content thrives and 2) I refuse to waste any more of my time in any discussion the moment it starts shifting toward politics because I consider online 'political discussions' are more often than not akin to having a tantrum, when it's not pure hatred or unadulterated dumbfuckery, none of those helping in regard to politics nor offering any sound base to discussing it, or anything for that matter.) - Have you tried discussing with people in niche communities? I frequent a few such niches and there people don't really speak politics. Why would they? It's not the what the community is supposed to be about. Obviously, doing so and being on Lemmy it also means you won't have as many discussions or as many participants as you might have in broader communities but you can't have it both, at least not for now, not for as long as there will be so few Lemmy users.
Interesting thought about the lie, I guess sometimes it’s hard to determine what is a criticism against a use case of a tech and what is criticism against the tech itself.
Don't get me wrong, I think it's perfectly fine to criticize 'the tech itself'. What would you say about a tech that would allow a government or anyone for that matter to read your most intimate thoughts just by pointing some device toward you? Would you be ok for that tech to be used (say, hoping that it will be used only against 'perverts' and 'terrorists' in order to punish them for crimes they have not yet committed and do not even exist) but knowing perfectly well that such a tool will be used against the entire population, including you and your child/spouse, because as the saying goes:
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely
Edit: I would be hostile, plain and openly hostile, to such a tech.
What I was saying is not that. I was saying that it's not being hostile to a tech to criticize it.
It's not because one criticizes something (tech, or whatever) that someone wants that thing to be gone. To criticize something is to consider its merits and faults, that's all it is. It's pointing out strengths and weaknesses. It's not blaming or crying. For example, chemo is a great (tech and) therapy that saves many lives all year long but should it not be constantly criticized in order to make it better than it is? Say, to make it less painful and less destructive (which it is) to the patients being treated by it? Of course, it should. That's criticism. And that's why scientists are constantly trying to improve it (and labs too, but then they're also motivated by increasing their stocks value ;)
What I'm not saying is that if something can be done (tech, AI, thoughts reading, whatever) that something should be done no question asked and that the rest of us (all of humanity and, in our present situation, the entire ecosystem of our planet) will just have to deal with the consequences and fuck us all. Once again, see my (silly?) thought-reading example.
I'm saying that it should be discussed. I know it won't (the perspective of becoming 'Musk-like' rich and powerful can seldom be resisted). It never was. It probably never will be. But I still think it should be discussed because we ought to be less stupid than we always have been (stakes are much higher than ever), we ought it if not to ourselves to the next generations. I mean, I would not want to be a 10 or even a 20 year-old today when I see what's to be expected in the following decades. Heck, for the last 20 years or so my spouse and I were pretty sure we would have passed away long before shit really start hitting the fan, we're not so sure of that anymore.
Edit: typos and clarifications.
the other... persons.
But does it not sound like the horse farmers when the car came out?
but I also accept that it is inevitable
Look where we're heading as regard to pollution (to which all our engines are not a little factor) and ask yourself: would have we known what we know today, was this 'inevitable' path we decided to follow (ultimately it was a choice, nothing more: the choice of using much cheap(er) energy and workforce as a way to gain more power/money faster) was it really the smartest one? Or should we have tried to follow another less obvious path but maybe less destructive? Destructive, like AI is in regard to the OP question but it obviously is not limited to AI.
fighting against technological advances has rarely worked historically.
That's one of the most glaring lie (not yours, I mean it in a general way) in regard to tech: criticizing it or one of its form is not being 'against tech'. It's a critic of tech and/or a refusal of a certain type of tech. The choice is not between ''using tech' and 'being a caveman'. It's about questioning the way we use tech (to do what? Do we really need machines to do creative work?), how we control it (who decide what it's allowed to do and how it is trained), and who owns it (who get all the money? Not the artists they were trained upon, obviously). And who controls all of that?
Also, keep in mind that exactly like AI or the smartphone are considered 'high tech' today, the horse and the cart were also considered high-tech back in their days. Do you think their users were hostile to tech? I don't think so ;)
I learned to sew in my early 50s. Very helpful. I also leaned to... solder (small electronics) which is also a great way to save a lot of money, and to generate so much less waste.
If it's a tournament, I would consider this:
If it's in a club, have the same rules with the sanction of expelling the cheater from the club. Temporary ban for a first time, perma ban starting with the second one.
As a chess player myself, I would also reconsider my habits, ie I may stop going to those clubs where the (stupid, literally) mentality to win at any cost would not be kept under tight control by the staff.