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And EVERYONE stood on their desks and clapped!

New pipe, smart tube, vanced, etc etc. there are about 15 options before I would pay even 1 extra dollar to Google. Every TV manufacturer seems to still have a working option.

If none of those work, I can honestly just do without.

Yeah that is definitely against the grain for me.

I pay for Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon prime, but never in life will I pay for YouTube premium. I have Google one and I pay enough for it. There are plenty of apps that still deliver an ad free, promotion free, bullshit free experience and the fact that Google works so hard to fuck with it makes me even less likely to ever pay.

Paying for YouTube would be like paying for tiktok or whatever dumb shit video service people watch now. It just isn’t going to happen. I will use the service for free, find the content for free, or else it will get cut from the lineup.

Pay for YouTube / watch YouTube ads… Lol no way to either one.

Artificial for sure. That’s been the case since 2 years before kids were born.

I never had an artificial tree growing up. We always cut it ourselves, drilled it, fed it, decorated it and so on. I took my wife from the city to go cut one and it was a great experience. That said, the artificial one is so nice. It gets assembled and has lights included, so once you stack it, it turns on and is already lit. All you have to do is arrange ornaments.

Full disclosure, I HATE DECORATING A TREE. So for me, not having to put lights on is a huge win. Also it’s the right height every time, And stuff just works.

Nice? No. Entertaining? … … Ok yeah it is.

Superiocre_bard

Nah bro, that’s like a 40-hedron

I only use my parents’ first names when trying to get their attention from a distance.

Cool story, shitwagon. You made a new account just to post this. What a pussy. How sad must your life be?

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This is probably Hamid, you hilariously fragile fuck. Eat a hotdog and go to hell. You can’t even be accountable to your own mean comments.

You already made a ban happy vegan space safe space for yourself, why don’t you just go ahead and crawl back into it.

Most people. People are the worst.

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Yes but only for the paid version which I don’t have so I can’t vouch. I’m cheap in that way

The main advantage is, if you keep a lot of “bookmarks” (which I don’t, but I like to be prepared) they are searchable not just by name, but also by tag.

This means when you find that good stack overflow page about resolving cuda issues on a VM you can tag it as “linux” “python” “cuda” “VM” in addition to giving it a name. Then you can search for any of those and find it.

The free version is pretty good and it lets you do one level of folders and as many bookmarks as you want. (Oh yeah. It supports folders so I have one for example that is called Unwatched YouTube, you might guess what I use it for). The paid version is probably better because it includes unlimited folder nesting AND it saves a snapshot of whatever webpage you’re bookmarking so you never lose anything. I would think this would be indespensible if you habitually save things like reddit or Lemmy threads so it doesn’t get deleted from under you.

I don’t use raindrop.io as much as I would like, but I would assume it’s a far cry better than a browser with 200 tabs open.

Idk it’s crazy to see the browser windows of some teammates during screen share.

Read the thing, write down the relevant stuff / copy it to reference notes, bookmark it with raindrop or something that allows you to tag for context, close the whole browser.

Jesus Christ… It COuLd bE AI!

Now hang on a minute lol. AI is just stolen garbage, but obviously we expect the “wiser folks” here in the agora of lemmy are going to give reasonable / acceptable answers? This is like the mcdonalds of philosophy here.

So I see here two conjectures:

1. AI is bad because it is creating a mashup of information (which may or may not be accurate) from sources it took without permission.
2. People are within their rights to outsource the articulation of their opinions to experts (see also “wiser folks”. After all, this “division of labor” has always existed.

1q.) So let’s say I take my 2 GPU workhorse PC and train basic language (not obviously line of reasoning, or guardrails, or other languages or anything like that) from a library of articles and professional documents I own or control. Then, by way of something like resource augmented generation (or similer idc) it gives me a well articulated argument of why AI is bad, is that reasonable? I would think this is a BETTER perspective than 2q below.

2q.) In what way is mining the totally anonymous, unverifiable posts of literally any person with a keyboard on lemmy MORE valuable than a reasonable sounding argument from any generative AI or just pressing the middle button on your phone over and over? This sounds totally stupid. “Division of labor” has probably made all of us dumber. I (coincidentally) build language models as part of my job, somewhere in this thread is an AI expert who has read 1 newspaper article and is “training” on the information from other lemmy comments.

At the same time we say “Holy shit AI bad, AI hallucinate, AI lies!” we are going to say it’s totally cool and reasonable to shout into the internet box where rando people can say anything they want, and that’s better?

I mean I do like the smug argument and the smiley face, but the premise that “Gen AI sucks, hone your argument against AI using ask-fucking-lemmy” borders on content for c/selfawarewolves. It’s so ridiculous I practically expect you’re just trolling the thread.

Ah yes. AI is just dressed up exploitation and thievery of other people’s ideas; a mashed up and uncreative slop. By the way, can I just aggregate prepackaged ideas about it from strangers to make my own argument? I don’t want to spend time crafting or refining it myself.

Pretty wild position of you ask me.

I just want to say I spent almost 45 minutes to attempt to respond to this and ended up just deleting it.

I’m sure it’s tough to be neurodivergent, and there are plenty neurotypical folks who would like to understand and make your life easier. I would also like to understand and support other minority positions, and every one is an investment of time and effort.

I’m sorry to inform you sir but that game is definitely called rock paper scissors