Thanks a ton, I will look into it!

Yeah I’m not arguing that, the post is a “what if”, like I know is non-essential right now this instant

If AI becomes the necessity to work, and therefore buy groceries, then AI, tho this is dubious at the moment (it would need AI to become essential for work first for this statement to be true)

There’s an incentive for authoritarian goverments to use AI even if citizens cant afford to use them, I mean i do feel customers will always to be able to afford AI to some capacity, prob will cost more than now if AI “collapses”

Do you happen to have a specific one to look for? My guess is there will be a bunch of knock off crap being made to try and sell to privacy focused people

Good idea

These clothes/glasses look the same as the regular thing? Or do they give away the fact you are trying to mess with surveillance? Cause if they point that out you stick as a sore thumb

My definition of restrictive is having limited access to the things people who don’t live isolated have access to. I’ve lived both on a capital city an a more rural/countryside area, even on the countryside there are cameras on buses, hospitals, gov buildings, on houses, of not all houses like in the city, but if you go out anywhere even here, you will get recorded. (unless you go to a place without people, which as I said would be restrictive)

My perspective of reality might be “warped” as you say, but does that change any argument I’m making? Or it’s something you just wanted to say?

Yes but one thing is one guy sitting down and pressing a button “lets check for this word tag here nationwide”, or maybe “this person was flagged as suspicious, let’s read his stuff” and another completely different is “lets scan absolutely everything for patterns using AI 24/7”

You kinda used to need to be targeted either by a keyword of some kind or more of a manual review, I don’t think before AI they could try and figure you out in an automatic way like they can now. I think it will be more pervasive now

I’m both fearful and naive, but I don’t think makes me automatically wrong tho

Cost aside, what worries me is your every thought (or an approximation) will end up written down forever in some database tied to your identity. I don’t mean absolutely every single human being on the planet earth will use AI to be competitive, but I do think it will be to such a high degree that it will feel like everyone is using AI to stay competitive.

I’d say, “virtually everyone”. For some time I’m sure you can keep up, but over time, let’s say 10 years for example, I do believe people who never use LLMs will be on a way worse competitive position than the people who use AI. Prob way earlier than 10 years tbh

Thing is, we WILL allow it to be, most people are not on the fediverse or session/signal/simpleX, they don’t give a shit about their privacy. Techbros, or corporations don’t really need 100% of the people to be on board for this to become mainstream, and hell, while i choose not to use it, AI is creeping into even my banking and online shopping apps, I also can’t even look up something to buy without logging in now, so every single search I do is tracked. There’s no other option for online shopping in my country that even comes close to that one, so you default to using it.

I don’t know what a NAS is, but yes, local AI is something I’d really like to get into (can’t atm due to money, but i will when I can save up) I think this will become so much more of a productive way to work that while we won’t be “forced” directly into it, we will end up picking it up in one way or another in order to stay competitive, get a proper salary for food housing and health yknow?

Only if its something that most people choose to do, I don’t like cameras, and now there’s cameras everywhere, I can reject the system as much as I want but if I want to buy the stuff I need to eat I have to go out and get recorded. Of course you can argue I could also live on a farm isolated from everyone else and grow my own food and never go into any town or city, but that’s a really restrictive way to live.

Sorry, I don’t understand what you mean

Had a ton of fun writing that haha, I was so sleep deprived almost choked on my coffee, nice to know you enjoyed it!

My mom’s laptop was dying and as she works on it it was more and more annoying to use due to constant slowdowns and freezes, she asked me to recommend her a new laptop maybe to buy in installments.

Instead, I went ahead and pulled my mint xfce drive, jiggled it, turned it face down, then up, then down again, I slot it deep into her dell laptop, straight up no lube, then filled it up to the brim with the new OS, even though we started at 50/50 win/mint ratio, mint slowly spilled over windows, eating it up, absorbing it, ripping pieces off, just how Alice stole from Jensen. Consuming it.

Now win10 is reduced to its cuck chair, still installed, but never picked, every day it passes he falls deeper on the realization he’s not mom’s favorite’s toy anymore, and will probably never be touched or started again, unless by accident.

It also pisses people off sometimes: “Ugh… Protesters again, now my commute will take 15min longer, what the fuck is wrong with these people… GO TO WORK FUCKING HIPPIES!” As if they were part of the upper class lol, I like how gary from gary’s economics explains it, you are not part of the elite, policies that benefit the elite hurt you, as resources are limited wealth has to come from somewhere, if the rich are getting richer faster that means you also go poor faster

What do you expect off of a man literally called Gary OLD-MAN

whot? there’s a website for it https://www.ezmdl.com/ it doesn’t allow you to query massive downloads, (you can do playlists, but to do multiple playlists at the same time you gotta duplicate the window and put each playlist in a new tab) but it has no ads and is super simple, a kid could use this one (limited to mp4 and mp3 with no quality options, but still)

whot? there’s a website for it https://www.ezmdl.com/ it doesn’t allow you to query massive downloads, (you can do playlists, but to do multiple playlists at the same time you gotta duplicate the window and put each playlist in a new tab) but it has no ads and is super simple, a kid could use this one (limited to mp4 and mp3 with no quality options, but still)