Good.

I think many comments have already nailed it.

I would add that while I hate the use of LLMs to completely generate artwork, I don’t have a problem with AI enhanced editing tools. For example, AI powered noise reduction for high ISO photography is very useful. It’s not creating the content. Just helping fix a problem. Same with AI enhanced retouching to an extent. If the tech can improve and simplify the process of removing an errant power line, dust spec, or pimple in a photograph, then it’s great. These use cases help streamline otherwise tedious bullshit work that photographers usually don’t want to do.

I also think it’s great hearing about the tech is improving scientific endeavors. Helping to spot cancers etc. As long as it is done ethically, these are great uses for it.

r/vintagecameras

I created !camera_collecting@lemm.ee as a replacement. So far it’s just me posting.

I have a full-sized and a 96%. I don’t know how people live without a numpad. Even my laptop has a numpad. I don’t do excel shit. But at work I have to enter alot of phone and CC numbers. At home I use the numpad for rating photos when sorting and importing them.

At this point there is a pretty solid list of reasons to avoid Brave and use another FOSS privacy focused option.

Personally, everything I’ve read about Brave makes me trust them even less than Microsoft, and Google.

Thats fair. I haven’t really noticed any of those issues. For my use case of just organizing and streaming my desktop’s media library to my TV, its fantastic.

Jellyfin is so much better anyway. I used plex for years and it has steadily enshitified.

Just wait till the “AI” bubble bursts.

Just a couple fascist corps squabbling over AI slop. I hope they both lose.

I got my first one today. I feel like I have finally made it in the Fediverse.

I have a lot of fond nostalgia for Digg, and Kevin Rose, especially from the Tech TV days.

But reading this article doesn’t exactly spark much excitement for me. In the end, it’s just another centralized capitalist venture (now with AI slop from the start) that will end up enshitified in the pursuit of shareholder profits.

We are already using the alternative. Lemmy is the way forward for this format.

I can’t be the only one who feels like this is the absolute lowest priority of dumb shit to resist the regime over. It’s just filler. Another thing he is doing to flood the zone. But one that really doesn’t hurt anything. It’s a distraction. Ignore it and focus on the actual damage he is doing.

They gotta focus on the “3d printed” part for those sweet sweet clicks.

I pay for YT premium and use unlock origin + privacy badger and don’t see any ads on YT.

Does anyone else have issues loading articles on linuxiac? Every time I open a link to an article there CPU usage spikes like crazy, firefox bogs down, and gives me a wait or kill page dialog.

Agreed. Automotive repair is a big exception to my video tutorial hatred. It just makes more sense as it’s something being worked on in 3 dimensions. It would probably work well for home improvement stuff as well.

I watch a ton of YouTube. I love it for entertainment and some news. I absolutely hate YouTube for tutorials or guides though. If I’m trying to figure out how to fix a computer issue, I just want to read about it and have screenshots I can look at. I don’t want to have to constantly pause a damn video or scroll back and forth to find info.

As far as tiktok style videos go I just hate everything about them. I hate the auto play, I hate the vertical aspect ratio, I hate the stupid auto voiceovers, I hate the dumb floating captions and comments overlay, I hate the lack of volume adjustment or the ability to pause and rewind or seek. I hate the types of brainrot content that people make to work the algorithm. I hate that the format has infested YouTube and IG with no real way to be rid of it.

My problem with tiktok/reels/shorts is not that they aren’t federated. It’s the entire format/concept I hate.

Or you could just lean into your mental health issues and try TempleOS.

You nailed my experience. Though AIM was preferred. I begrudgingly used MSN too for a couple people who weren’t allowed to install AIM.