That’s what I don’t get: people here complain about bots reposting from Reddit, but those posts are also just reposted from somewhere else usually…

Steam is more consumer friendly than GoG because it offers Linux compatibility

GoG offers Linux compatibilty, what are you talking about?

[Steam] lets the customer choose whether they want DRM.

I agree, the customer can chose to buy games on GoG if they want them to be DRM free. Joke, I know there is DRM free games on Steam too.

However, all Steam games do require you to have a Steam account connected to this specific key (game) just to launch You also do need to be connected to the internet at least once every 30 days. Obviously this isn’t an issue for some people but if you want to own and run your games offline GoG offers more ease of use.

Unironically “Industrial Society and Its Future” by Ted Kaczynski.

I don’t agree with it at all. I think disabled people are people too, radical stance I know. But some points, especially about modern left and new technology becoming mandatory are well argued and true.

I always thought he was just a random looney and he’s definitely not. I think the book didn’t radicalize me but showed me what I believed to be true (that the guy was just a looney or evil) was wrong.

I don’t believe that the rise of technofascism can be stopped by hiding in the woods tho and I don’t think rejecting all tech will make everyone’s mental health immediately better, he does not at all take things like community and purpose into account.

In my book I write, “Can a bridge decide to collapse?” The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy? There are permits you have to acquire. There are supposed to be tests. When you ask about the bridge collapsing itself, you’ve lost the thread.

Quite a good quote.

I also like her observations about lawmakers reacting to media coverage of AI breakthroughs and not listening to people from the fields where the supposed breakthroughs have happend (like with the maths problem recently).

If you’re using Android, I can highly recommend using Summit for Lemmy.

God knows what dark magic those bastards harnessed but it works so well!

deleted by creator

Cheers!

If you like Sci-Fi and are open to something less extreme than Bret Easton Ellis I’d also recommend “Roadside Picknick” by Strugatsky bros. Or if you want something in a more similar direction but with a lot more cynicism “Post Office” by Charles Bukowsky.

“Road Side Picknick” is more existencial wtf. There is also an excellent film about it called “Stalker”.

That’s great actually!

The thing is: I would get them too if I could afford it.

For the headphone stuff which is quite cool tech actually, I don’t like wearing in ear headphones and they basically work as headphones without going into your ears. The Ai stuff seems honestly creepy but I’m sure they legally can’t force you to use it in Europe and the camera stuff seems okay.

A Scanner Darkly or Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep by Phillip K Dick.

Not for online games like Splatoon tho.

Firefox is the only browser I have installed and it’s been my default for years.

It’s a known issue. It’s been reported on google play but I guess they haven’t fixed it yet.

I’m not so sure. Probably they will block Linux users from certain sites. Not exactly what I’d call a win.

Firefox on Android has gotten quite shit as well. It just refuses to load sometimes and won’t open pages until you copy and paste the url in a new tab. Extremly annoying, especially for online payments.

E: It’s a known issue for a few months now. Check recent reviews on Google Play if you don’t believe me. Fuck me for complaining about having issues I guess.

Repackages and patches an older version of the Android ytb app as well as some other apps. The patches do different things for different apps (usually remove ads).

Read the documentation. Just selected is enough, just make sure you have sponsor block selected. I don’t remember if it is selected by default.

I like Revanced. I can listen to stuff even while the screen is locked and have sponsor block and other addons if I want. I think half the time I spend on my phone is watching Youtube and it’s heaps better than Firefox with an adblocker on Android.

It wasn’t really worth it before, now it’s even less worth it?

Revanced works perfectly fine on Android and on desktop I use an adblocker.

Come to Lemmy we have:

Anti-Ai Ai generated memes.

Ultra-conservative leftism (Soviet Union was amazing actually)

Anti-bot anti-reddit post (reposted from Reddit by bots).