I can easily get nothing done without having adhd. Its a blessing.

Some people get shot because guns were invented.

Yeah those things.

I will stop using it of course. There is a price to pay for not being affected by this. Its not going to be free.

Its not anti science to not blindly trust science. Its actual science to try and verify observations. Sure, most people dont have those skills to properly know what they are observing, but I think its good if people try to learn.

I learned tons of stuff about the common pitfalls about measuring the curvature of the earth by looking at flat earth arguments and seeing what science says about them.

Today you can throw those arguments into chat gpt and get a decent summary of how anything actual works.

Using lasers to track earth curvature across a big lake for example, absolutely fascinating to see why it doesnt work as you may expect.

Ah you meant like that…

Yeah, the power these companies have over our lives is very disturbing. They have positioned themselves as something most academic people really need, at least linkedin has.

Then I will just update my profile to a link my own cv page.

Absolutely never using any service that requires this. I dont even have any account on those platforms and I never will.

I quit at 50, living on savings and stock market…

I dont know, its just something awful about working every day. I got sick of it.

Now im not doing anything special but im free to just live.

Its just hype. Current models cant lead to AGI, but its a stepping stone. I for one is happy as long as we dont have it, because it will lead to dystopia very quick.

No, all your suggestions will just accomplish nothing except get people who follow them into huge problem with zero gains.

Not paying taxes, being violent, how is that a plan? Thats why the downvotes I think. You are just being angry and wanting change, but you also dont have a plan that will do anything. Just like everyone.

No change to Trump will come from that. Blocking roads or dumping manure? That may work in France because French police still are humans. But in America you may get shot doing that and called a terrorist afterwards.

Yes but capitalism = profits is all that matters.

Also since big tech has more money than almost anything, they become illegal unofficial kings in a world where money is all that matters. They influence entire elections and what information is able to be shared.

Yeah its so strange to watch people treat Trump as a good guy. What the hell is going on. I can only assume Americans are overworked and overstressed and cant think anymore. I probably would be too in that country.

Trump will always do what is in his own best interest, money or power wise. He gives zero fucks about anyone else.

The thing is, its not going to fall apart forever (unfortunately). Billions are invested by all big tech companies into enormous server farms just for AI and their entire future stock value is now based on them coming up with a way to make a profit from this.

Replacing humans can lead to a lot of profit since salaries are one of the most expensive things in a company.

So I dont know. I think the future will suck. But what else is new.

Yeah I agree. We have to wake up a bit. Real change happens outside of this place.

We arent smarter. Actually most people here have no voice or influence outside of their computer screen.

We can use some tech, sure. But I very much challenge the idea that we are smarter as a group than other university students.

But since a lot of us have poor social skills, we compensate by thinking we are smarter or better, when we should instead train our social skills and stop thinking like that.

Edit: You meant they dont work to access things outside of China of course.

You cant ban vpns, its easy for tech people to set up a vpn server on any server on the internet and connect to it. Wireguard for example, super simple.

Yeah there are some differences. Flatpaks are not updated when you update your system but you can run the “flatpak update” command to update all your Flatpak apps at once.

After install, it should just work. :)