Fairphone costs cheapest in carbon footprint and disruption caused to copper mining communities.

It’s more expensive for you, sure, but it’s the least costly option in grand scheme of things.

It could work in theory as a form of sabotage, but I believe one would need to have great self-restraint to do it correctly.

It’s hard to notice the difference when you are

1. actually hurting AI industry by abusing their free tiers and poisoning training data

2. you rationalize your AI usage by telling yourself “I am not paying so I am in the clear” because you want to larp as freedom fighter without actually sacrificing any comfort

Both subjectively feel very similar.

So I would rather not risk becoming 2nd case and avoid AI altogether, unless you are some hacktivist who actually knows what they are doing.

They never claimed they do it to punish website owners though. I see it as them having found the experience annoying enough to opt out from using the service altogether

this is the shit that would transform the US to a beautiful place to live in

Social democracy alone could do that? You might be overestimating it then. Ideologies are not magic

This app must have been designed by devil to torture digital minimalists and UNIX philosophy people in the afterlife

I have seen multiple of those Windows debloater scripts online, but I struggle to understand which one is legit and which could be malware

At least one security researcher says Edge is the most secure option for Windows users.

https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/security-privacy-advice.html#browser

62% home ownership in 1960’s for much smaller homes (on average 700 sqft) vs 65% now for an average of 2000sqft

62% -> 65% sounds reasonable.

700 sqft on average -> 2000 sqft on average is suspicious though. It’s possible stats got skewed by the top 1%, who are today richer than ever before, and own ridiculous amount of property. Median sqft perhaps would be more representative

Why not spend 5 minutes and find a place that has exact same meals, but doesn’t use AI?

I would take Word (or LibreOffice Writer) bullet point list with prices and ingredients list over “pretty” AI menu at this point

Your point can still get across

Probably even sharper than with AI, because it looks cleaner and has less distracting elements

I might not be able to tell every time something is AI. That’s true.

But if a person has put zero effort making sure it doesn’t look like AI, then I have every right to call that out.

If you cheat, at least be smart about it and not get caught.

Surely this will make them finally realize it is unsustainable to demand consumer to upgrade their hardware every few years?.. Right? Right??

That’s weird. If they want an OS to tinker with, Windows is the worst option really. Why not Arch or Gentoo or NixOS?

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I am no coder, so I only ever need to modify configs or write down my thoughts. nano for configs, Standard Notes for thoughts

This article’s title is ridiculous. What do you mean ‘why don’t normal people use agentic AI?’ Were they supposed to?

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I think there were already some research findings, how software developers tend to drastically overestimate how much AI helped them, while AI was actually hindering their productivity. It could be the same case here.

What AI is really good at is spitting out plausible sounding garbage, pretending it did some comprehensive research on the topic, and making people feel like it’s helpful without neccessarily being so.

I am not a conspiracy theorist