rm_dash_r_star @ rm_dash_r_star @lemm.ee

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I'm sure you get my point. Yes you have to pay the water bill to flush the toilet. There's lots of other "subscriptions" for utilities like power, garbage collection, sewer. We call those bills not subscriptions and they've been around as long as modern society. I think we can take those for granted. Not in the same league as the subscription hell we're seeing for online services these days.

It's colloquial to the USA, it's an expression. My grammar is usually good except when I bastardize it to make a point like, "I aint gonna take that crap" or "grammar corrections are getting ridiculous anymore." In the USA you'd have to live under a rock to have never heard that expression.

Agree, AI is going to extrapolate. As AI becomes more capable it will replace more jobs. At the limit there will be zero jobs for human beings. So what happens then? The economy will no longer function. Even the argument that new technology creates new jobs falls down because AI could eventually design and build itself along with any other machine that's needed. We'll be wards of our technology, but it won't even be ours anymore. AI will be in control.

Some like to say people concerned about jobs lost to mechanization are just reacting to some kind of irrational fear and are failing to understand progress. However there is some rationality there. If you take mechanization to the limit it could upset our society at the least, or at worst cause our extinction.

Just more subscription hell. It's ridiculous anymore. I'll need a subscription to flush my toilet at some point. I mean how much of this are consumers willing to put up with. Anyway Reddit is well on the path of monetizing themselves to irrelevance.

I'm still using Chrome, but it keeps getting shittier. At some point they'll push me over to Firefox. Hope Firefox can avoid getting shitty.

Never used that slang. That "brah" slang came from Hawaiian surf culture. The first time I heard it used commonly was when I went there to surf in the early eighties. Never picked that up, always sounded weird to me. There was other Hawaiian slang I didn't like because the local surfers at the time were not nice people. They didn't like the "howlie" surfers and would take any opportunity to terrorize them. They would say "you like beef?" or "you give me stink eye?" in a hostile tone. I mean back then California surfers could be territorial and you'd just avoid the few places where you might get hassled, but they had nothing on the Hawaiian locals, meanest on the planet. It's weird because the Hawaiians were generally welcoming and nice, but the surfers, forget it. Probably not like that now, but I don't know, haven't surfed there since.

Much as I'd enjoy the rural environment and wide open spaces, it's 74F at my beach house right now.

Hard to pick a favorite from the long list.

Here we go with the Texas grid again. No matter what they get hit with they insist on remaining independent. Well actually it's the cold that gets them, but they have a problem they're not dealing with none the less.

Go instance shopping. Yeah you're creating accounts on instances you may not use, but creating an account for a test drive is acceptable I think. I tried five instances before I found one I liked. My runner up I use as a backup in case my primary goes down for some reason.

First I narrowed down candidates to those that are regionally close to me. You can sort instance location by going to https://the-federation.info/platform/73. Further down the page you'll see a listing of all nodes (instances). You click on the location header to sort them by country.

Then you want to look at user numbers. Too big and the instance could have overload issues. Too small and the instance may not be well established and reliable. So medium on the user counts.

Then I did a "ping" on ones that looked good to see how they do on network response.

Once I found good candidates, I created an account on each and gave it a test drive. You can see who won for me.

Nothing to hide until a person has something to hide. An attitude of "I don't have anything to hide" may catch up to a person. No one knows what the future holds. One day they might start tracking private information a person does not want tracked, for example financial or medical data. So better to put the fence up now than try to put it up during a stampede.

Personally I keep my data private with a reasonable amount of effort. I try to keep a small internet footprint and there's stuff I won't do for the sake of privacy. Going some years back the only social media I engaged in was Reddit until coming here to Lemmy. These are anonymous mediums. It blows my mind that so many people are willing to completely splay out their lives non-anonymously on social media.

Corporations are like governments, we need the services they provide to live a modern life. Both can do things that harm public welfare, and they do. If you find the solution to malevolent government, you'll find the solution to malevolent capitalism. That solution eludes us and always will because of human nature. We will always compete for acquisition. You'd have to eliminate greed which is impossible.

The problem with a non-capitalistic system is it suffers a much worse fate because there's a single point of control. In the ideal it could work better, but because of human nature it works a lot worse.

But yeah, corporations do a lot of evil greedy shit so fuck 'em.

I think stock values are mostly driven by speculation with a minority on a company's actual performance and real world worth.

Haha, isn't that most of the internet already? But really, you have to wonder with AI powering so many things, it really could end up that way. Some people could do their whole job with a phone bot, kind of like that Multiplicity movie from 1996.

I'm not a vegetarian, but I try to replace meat with plant based products when possible. I also avoid leather. In modern times I've discovered so many negative things about it. The main thing is livestock farming uses literally ten times more resources and creates ten times more pollution than crop farming. Also the the industrial farming of livestock is amazingly cruel.

Haha, I grew up on the California coast and surfed a lot in my youth. The only slang from that era I still use is "bitchen" and I say it as an anachronism, like "groovy".

Sometimes I say "bitchen camero" in reference to a car I like. That's from a song that stuck in my memory. Comes from a punk garage band in the early 90's; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxKt_Wc0m1g

I actually have one, but it's been stuffed away in the back of a closet for a few years. I have a portable USB optical drive I use to rip them to mp4 and keep in a library on network storage, but it's not set up to actually play them.

Anyway the library is a hot tip, best place to find DVDs and sometimes ones you can't find anywhere else. If you have an optical drive you can rip them and keep a copy for posterity.

Yeah I mean really, if the US can spend 1.8 trillion on pandemic relief, a few billion on space exploration is a drop in a bucket. And we'll probably get better returns on the investment.

Yeah it's total marketing nonsense, always have to be informed as a customer and not fall into that trap. Always chose fiber if available, if you have to suck it up with cable, check the actual speed you're getting.

WiFi hotstpot through your phone provider can be a solution, however many providers have a cap on hotspot data in fine print even with unlimited data plans. Check that.

Well said. I think people tend to think of the Fediverse as a competitor, but the goals are not the same. The Fediverse is wholly about the community driven by the community.