At some point you have to jump ship and follow what fits you and your needs/wants in terms of security, morality (in the context of Meta and its complete lack of ethics), etc. You can try and get folks to try other platforms but most of them will inevitably fall back to what they know and never leave. Iâm not going to keep Facebook around on the off chance that one relative needs to reach out. The relatives willing to actually make an effort can already text or call me and vice versa.
This whole billionaire social media prison is not something Iâm willing to keep destroying my mental health on over some âblood is thicker than waterâ bs.
Yeah I find the code completion is pretty consistent and learns from other work Iâm doing. Chat and asking it to do anything though is a hallucinogenic nightmare.
I use it extremely sparingly. Iâm critical of anything it gives me. I find I waste more time fixing its work and removing superfluous code more than I do gaining value from it.
I just had Copilot hallucinate 4 separate functions, despite me giving it 2 helper files for context that contain all possible functions available to use.
The trend with AI seems to be that the folks with zero talentâthe ones that have never poured themselves into a single cathartic creative, discovery, or research process once in their livesâare the ones pushing AI the hardest. AI art is a solution searching for a problem that has never existed. The only âproblemâ execs see is that they have too big of a headcount and need to reduce that ASAP so that they can pump out more soulless slop.
The only slack Iâll give here is if you use generated images lightly as an inspiration reference point. Even then, the morality of how these AI tools came to be is questionable since they essentially plagiarized art from others. My theory is that it will also make our brains lazier similar to how map software does for navigation. Navigation makes sense though because itâs a mundane thing. Replacing your entire creative team with it though? Make sure to put some money aside for when your venture inevitably folds.
Funny enough, this is why Iâve enjoyed Rednote a ton. Iâve found that a lot of western folks are there as a reprieve from how insanely volatile Meta and other platforms have gotten. Itâs a different vibe and the platform was specifically built for people to learn and grow together. The audience there very much strives to keep a good vibe and will call out anyone that tries to disrupt that.
I left every single western social network because theyâre all filled to the brim with angry, asshole people. America has a ton of miserable people that will go out of their way to be rude to others on every social network. Iâm sick of that energy.
If itâs not rude people, itâs ad after ad.
The only things I use now are Xiaohongshu (Rednote) and Lemmy (my own instance).
Ton of people here in my town protesting today. I wasnât able to attend but made sure to drive past a few crowds while blasting Hindâs Hall and honking in support while throwing my fist up to folks. Gotta get the revolution amped up.
I donât drink because I donât wanna, and I donât leave the house often because everything is too expensive. Home is nice and I have everything I need here. Iâm basically a mid-40s zoomer I guess.
Iâve been playing it on the Deck for the past couple weeks and it runs really well. I think the only thing I changed was UI text size (made it larger). It will hit some slight FPS drops in places, but itâs a manageable dip and doesnât affect gameplay.
At some point you have to jump ship and follow what fits you and your needs/wants in terms of security, morality (in the context of Meta and its complete lack of ethics), etc. You can try and get folks to try other platforms but most of them will inevitably fall back to what they know and never leave. Iâm not going to keep Facebook around on the off chance that one relative needs to reach out. The relatives willing to actually make an effort can already text or call me and vice versa.
This whole billionaire social media prison is not something Iâm willing to keep destroying my mental health on over some âblood is thicker than waterâ bs.