trams were the biggest casualty, but not the only.

how about historically? we had rail, and it was great. Most of it was ripped up at the behest of auto manufacturers.

as these tariffs start kicking in, companies are really going to regret not having local inventory.

I don’t think lemmy is big enough to be “next”, but this is still a valid concern.

luddites were not anti progress, they were pro workers rights. today’s usage of the word is insulting to their work.

exactly one comes to mind: blender

and yet all those “use eu tech” charts always recommend proton products

I bet you’re right, but the fact that I never see it is a feature worth paying for, especially for a smooth-brain like myself.

I would prefer to run my ais locally, but my brain glazes over if I see github. I found a a program called “gpt4all”, but it’s very limited in what models it can run, and what I could get just wasn’t as good for my use case as openai’s 4o model. Also, being able to generate images in the same conversation as text work is a feature that I’m fairly certain no other ai model can do (yet).

I pick my battles.

If I took a hard stance of not engaging with any business that did things I morally object to, I’d be forced to be a self-sufficient hermit in the woods.

I say this as someone who frequently uses generative ai, and actively chooses to pay for the service.

Fuck openai.

This company has utterly failed to fulfill their mission statement, and they will be unable to make right by humanity until ALL software they have created is available to the public as FOSS (free and open source software). Openai claimed that this is exactly what they were going to do, and then they just didn’t. So fuckem.

eventually, imma have to actually look into lemmy front ends or clients. I stand by the statement that I shouldn’t have to, but I’ll prolly have a better time of things if I did.

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I’d say good luck, but the downvotes tell me that neither of us are in for a good time.

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I really shouldn’t comment on this, but I just can’t help myself.

FIXING THINGS IS HARDER THAN BREAKING THINGS!!!

who woulda thunk it?!? I’d tell you to fuck off, but this is your instance so imma fuck off instead.

and by that I mean I will block anyone who responds to this comment, no iffs ands nor butts.

if someone says linux is hard to learn, that person isn’t making regestry edits.

That said, windows used to be intuitive, but they peaked with xp and it’s been a downhill slide since.

a display of their choices.

someone else linked one called “shreddit”. haven’t really looked at it yet

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