If youtu.be premium is actually ad free (and I can still run sponsor block) I can see paying for it. I get a lot of value out of it and can't really justify doing a lot of work to avoid paying.
I have always felt that kids will get out of education what they put in/their interest in actually learning. I also think there is some benefits to learning how to manage technology de jure as it's likely to come up when they're out of high school too.
I kind of disagree with some of the points about learning more just talking to an AI, both because I tend to get wrong answers or important missed context in my AI testing, but also because I think I needed to learn some stuff I wasn't interested in personally.
Today I don't really have much opportunity to interact with classes beyond the great courses and linked in learning, and unfortunately much of the newer content is more like a YouTube curated Playlist than a traditional course. They are mostly superficial overviews more intended for entertainment than learning details.
YouTube on the other hand is all over the map and you have to know what to search for.
I think some value of the experiment is the part where it got the kids to review their notification settings to suppress things they weren't interested in. Personally I think having phones in airplane mode / off during class is probably the best plan. Do the notifications during study hall, lunch, bus ride, and other free time.
My sister did that but only netted 30k more not 3x. Still well worth it imo. Of course it's kinda amazing that more companies aren't taking this "cheat code" to get cream of the crop "minor league" non major center talent for the discount of amazing wages out in the hinterlands that are 40k or more less than big city prices.
Ehh. That's like accident billboards. I maintain that most people don't know they can block ads, and a large part of the masses who have heard of it think it's complicated or too hard for them.
With ad blocking I have a small tension that if I know a sort of thing exists, I presumably will find it when I search for it. So I don't want another vacuum ad.
If I don't know something exists then I have to stumble on it somehow.
The bigger problem would be if they didn't block their own ads. I honestly didn't even know they did ads so my blocking, of which they're a part, apparently is working.
Usenet is hurt a lot by takedown notices unfortunately. So lots of older popular stuff doesn't work. That said, things like Anime or something that isn't given a takedown seem to be on there about forever. The server speed is a benefit for sure.
I think I've mostly moved to Kagi, because someone needs to be incentiviced to actually focus on search, not ads. That said it's also good bang for buck in annual ultimate because you get access to multiple AI models.
That said, I so far continue to be mostly underwhelmed by AI except for basic starting points on scripts or for games like D&D.
I think I've mostly moved to Kagi, because someone needs to be incentiviced to actually focus on search, not ads. That said it's also good bang for buck in annual ultimate because you get access to multiple AI models.
That said, I so far continue to be mostly underwhelmed by AI except for basic starting points on scripts or for games like D&D.
Just wait for an Islamic group to sue then. Or wait for Scientology to decide they don't want to be a second tier religion and start suing.
Or an atheist group maybe. Idk there's enough competition in religious zealots to make picking a favorite hard to do unless they just throw out the 1st ammendment prohibitions.
Yea, I just wish more niche communities would come to Lemmy, but most of the interesting ones are actively not tech savvy en mass, and so are lucky to figure out reddit I guess. Or Discord maybe, which sucks as a reddit replacement.
Idk, I think Frieren isn't about the action, and all the stuff about elves and maturing, and what is really important etc is a breath of fresh air to me. And has just been interesting and different to me.
Windows post 7 was and remains annoying and getting worse all the time. So I wanted an OS without telemetry and one that I could control the updates on. I also work with Linux a lot at work. I use Alma 9 for a LTS release. Don't have to mess with it much.
I have found that you usually have to go to a specialist forum or the like and spend a few months reading it and asking questions etc. Rarely has a community steered me wrong. However they also usually point to expensive or specialty products. Mass market is usually mediocre at best.
Sometimes though there are deals like Harbor Freight hand tools or their higher end power tools.
Not being chromium is kind of the problem, some sites don't work right. It's also quite hacky IME for tab management with lots of extensions fighting to try and get what Vivaldi has out of the box. I tried hard to use Firefox but it can't really handle the tab loads I have had since 2001 and Original Opera where as Vivaldi does.
The point is, if you buy a pre set up laptop with Linux the drivers are pre installed too. You cannot take a clean Linux install and not compare to a clean Windows install.
As to my Mom, she didn't set up Windows either. In either case you're paying someone to set it up if you're like her. Just because you already learned Windows doesn't make Linux harder, just different. Do you think an enterprise is not going to have IT in both cases? It's not like the users are setting anything.
Probably just so you don't accidentally waste time unknowingly rereading a book.