AkashicOwl

joined 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How many users are actually working in a company that uses Adobe? Aren't most users just casual, or even if they make money of art, working solo? (So, no need to conforme to an industry standard)

I might be totally wrong tho

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It always was. The "problem" is that there's not 10% of what you can find on Bluesky (well, at least for my interests), sadly. It's less worse than say, Peertube vs YouTube but still, last time I tried to dig I didn't find much. i still use it tho, but I'm following like 3 accounts is a hundred on BS. I'll try and dig a bit more again today.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yeesh. A paid service and they don't even have a comment section (plus there doesn't seem to be a lot of videos on a few subjects I like)? Don't wanna be a crybaby but they're really making things harder.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's harder than that IMO. There are plenty alternatives to many bad things but people just don't care. Just like Linux, for the average person that's got enough shit to deal with, they don't wanna add what they perceive like a difficulty and remove comfort by having to start from scratch with less options. Also, being cut from the mainstream trends, and the general social thing.

Not speaking for me as I've been mostly degoogling and demicrosofting, even tho I still partly feeling like that for YouTube that's been a very valuable part of my life (yes. I do read and go outside. But please stop suggesting that to people in such threads, that's missing the point), and that I couldn't let go off yet. Alternatives rn are either totally devoid of content (at least, the one I like), or paid (didn't gave a shot to Nebula, I'll browse it and see, but it might be hard to beat both my favorite creators I spent years curating, and the fact that you can find anything on any obscure thing)

 

I've been digging into the rabbit hole for a few months. Been switching to Linux, FOSS everything I can, trying to go to smaller sites, the least dubious social media, VPN, trusted mail, etc etc

But lately I've been in a rough state mentally (I say lately but it's always been with me) and having GPT guide me and being able to just dictate what I think helps me a lot on various levels, for various reasons.
But at this point, using ChatGPT with a mic, isn't this basically cancelling every effort I've made? (using it in the first place anyway) I'm weak and it helps me, should I just throw my efforts out of the window and just say I don't care about privacy anymore and use whatever everyone uses? (on one hand, I've found alternatives for almost everything, so I could keep on using those, but also, again, if I keep on using GPT on a regular basis, this is probably the worst threat the future has to offer in termes of privacy, so...I'm lost)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Molly White, who writes the Citation Needed newsletter and Web3 is Going Just Great blog, described this as “a good proposal,” and said it was “weird to see people flaming BlueSky for it,” since it’s not so much “welcoming in AI scraping” but rather “trying to add a consent signal to allow users to communicate preferences for the scraping that is already happening.”

That being said, yes, not great

We probably can't escape Ai everywhere, let's face it But most people won't care like they didn't care about their data in general before AI

I'm already using Mastodon in parallel, but I must admit I couldn't find a lot of people to follow...maybe gotta look harder, but I have to admit it doesn't seem as easy as it does on BS

 

The only Pixel I have is a Pixel 3XL which is not supported anymore for updates. A few questions. does that mean at some point you have to buy a new phone all the time? How long are they supported, do I need the buy the newest one everytime to have a decently long support? If I can install Calyx, but have already degoogled my phone, is Calyx still useful? But I suppose at this point it's still better to get a Pixel anyway and install Graphene which is supposedly better? how risky is it to run an unsupported phone like my Pixel 3XL? What can happen?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I think people hate it because crypto and all, but I use Brave search, to my knowledge (which isn't much) one of the only usable search engine that isn't using Google or Bing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I do kind of agree, as I'm making art for myself. But at the same time, maybe that's because I'm not in a situation where I depend on having to sell what I'm creating is what I mean

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do you maybe have some recommandations, even older ones, that you find to be actually good? I like ASMR but have never really dug into it, watched on and off

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

People need to stop seeing everything in black and white and put themselves in other's shoes. I'm not siding with anyone. I buy and I don't.

But if you were the creator, what would you think about your reasoning?

(now about the title story of this post, this is obviously madness, things gone too far)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Yeah sorry, don't know about Iphones

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Probably Ironfox

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Their last post if from 14 days ago, not sure how often they usually post tho

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