I’d gladly pay them about $10 a month for a family plan.

At that point, maintaining AdBlocker updates on half a dozen different platforms would be more pain than the money.

But let’s be honest, they’re not putting out Netflix and Disney quality content, it’s just 5-9’s of slop with an occasional diamond of a creator.

at $27 a month, and a trajectory over time to be more expensive than cable, they can fuck right off.

If it doesn’t just download copies from libgen you’ve already paid once.

I do a few things at work that I use AI for. Work had a gpt enterprise key, now we’ve moved to claude. Through O365, I also have access to copilot.

Pretty much anything I ask claude or gpt about, I can be sure to get a solid answer or one that was at least on Stack Exchange or Reddit. If that fails, and I drill down a little more on a problem, adding details, they’ll both get a little better after a couple of questions and usually come up with a reasonable answer.

Not copilot. If you ask copilot something and it doesn’t come back in one shot with an authoritative cited answer, just walk away. It makes no attempt to ensure the answer is right or sane. It either hit in training or it didn’t. And if it didn’t, trying to convince it to strike out in a few other directions to solve it is absolutely a fool’s errand.

It’s like they bought into OpenAI, then never got any updates or made any progress. I

Yes I get that, but again, this is very focused on YOU. What about your friends and family who will suffer from the reduced value of the world. What about the general population?

I don’t comprehend how that is focused on me. Anyone save someone with cognitive impairment with unlimited time would progress. They could put $25 in a bank account and check back in 200 years.

who will suffer from the reduced value of the world.

I don’t understand your take on this either. Time creates whatever value is needed. The rest of the world will continue on as it does now, the scope of whomsoever value was extended would extend exponentially. just because one person is granted unlimited time doesn’t take anything away from anyone else, they just become capable of more production throughout their timeline.

With unlimited time you could theoretically make a perfect world for yourself, one day. But it does nothing for things that are valuable now.

That’s the whole point of this exercise, by choosing unlimited time, now is no different. 100 years would be slightly changed. Think bloodless vampire, not Methuselah

I’m just against the idea that there is nothing of value besides things you could also achieve with unlimited time.

Again it’s not that everything else is null, it’s that the power created to the unlimited timeline makes all the other value inconsequential.

With infinite time, you’ll survive past the climate change issues, or perhaps even manage to elevate yourself to the level of supreme ruler with unlimited wealth and have the other billionaires heads on pikes.

I think you’re REALLY underselling unlimited time.

With time, you can make money.

With unlimited time, you can become an artisan in any scope you wish.

All other values are, the long way around, derived from time.

Ubuntu, RUN!

NixOS FTW

As long as the encryption keys being used are registered with the ISPs they could decode it.

You would make the law so that if an ISP did not decode traffic for DPI, it would be liable for it. They’d drop any non DPI able packets so fast it’d make your head spin.

WTF you gonna do with PC3 ram, you have a good supply of ancient hardware or something?

It’s not the one thing that’s gone to hell. rent is on it’s way up all over the world, unemployment is way up, food costs are up. Ram, SSD, Gas, Electricity. Over the past year, most things have gotten more expensive. Evevrything has gone up except salaries.

Transport costs are about to skyrocket. That’ll add several more percent on everything.

From an indie dev standpoint, maybe you’re just insulated more than most.

Canonical has never been accused of being able to read the room.

If they really wanted to go down that hole, They could force companies to register keys with the ISP so they could snoop.

With you on Tumblr

TT is scarier now that it’s ‘controlled’. in 1984 concepts, I expect they’ll be sending agents to take care of people that are anti-rightwing.

I don’t think you’ll find that the case. Most people have a problem. They are incapable of being even slightly bored.

If you take away twittler and Facebook, they’ll readily replace them with BlueSky, YouTube and TikTok because they’re easy and low effort.

It’s harder to read a book, do a craft, go for a walk, or anything truly enriching.

My wife tried to exit TT when things got political. She lasted 2 weeks before she made a new non-political following account and went right back at it.

I left Facebook quite some time ago, but have to go back regularly for my HOA bs. I still peek in on my old friendships while i’m there, but don’t engage and make sure to leave quickly.

Then she says Bluesky doesn’t have an algorithm while he defends the openness of Reddit.

These are the experts…

The inevitable end is when they bake the commercials into the stream, take away the skip buttons and ban accounts for timeskipping over commercials through other detectable means.

The inevitable counter is we screencap youtubers, feed it through comskip, and produce commercial-free content and torrent it.

I’ve looked at every last option. Unfortunately, All my crap is on ATT Samsung. I’m waiting for some linux maturity or for google to finish playing their hand before i trade in my very nice camera for privacy

Not OP, but in progress as well

Email is pretty easy.

Google docs is less easy if you need to collaborate with people professionally, but you can always go back to PDF, email, and openoffice to a point

Android phone is hard, I could go to Apple, but I don’t really like them any more than Google. I have drones and cameras that only want to talk through Android/iOS. Losing my Android app purchases is a bit bitter.

Pay-to-tap is hard. I can move to Garmin eventually, but they’re really expensive, and there’s only like one model that’s good for it. I can always just use my credit card to tap through.

Non-Apple/Android Bluetooth watches are underwhelming or expensive AF (Garmin, for example, still requires Apple or Android for the initial setup and is expensive).

OAUTH is a major sticking point. I log in to a LOT of stuff with my Google ID.

I also have a legacy Google Workspace; they host my domain email, my domain OAuth, and my family calendar is all over there. They’re all sharing through it.

There’s no good replacement for Waze. No crowd-sourced traffic is good at routing you from state to state around large metro areas. There are loads of maps. but nothing dependable for anything other than a short ish trip.

Try some methods to change your IP.

NewPipe, PipePipe, Grayjay, brave mobile

One of them generally works.

The latest NewPipe is working for me right now. It only ever dies for a few days.