Not sure if you haven’t noticed, but go try to by tech right now. Ask Apple how much they are raising prices regardless of where it’s being sold at. Tariffs in the US absolutely will and do harm global prices, and you’d be completely out of touch to not think that. But thanks for the ‘hurr hurr I am not from the US’ excuse.

It already is, especially at the entry level, which is a massive problem. You went to college, have the education but don’t have the skills, and an AI bot can do essentially 80% of your work, with little of the cost. Think about all the people already putting websites, marketing, images together that otherwise you would need to pay someone for. No need to pay for them, even if they do a better job, because most of the time you aren’t looking for 100% when 80% will do. That’s the unfortunate reality that we all live in.

I mean at this point people are looking for connections, so that bot who will do basically whatever you say and stroke your ego, sure seems like something ‘better’ than actually going out and being rejected. There likely is going to be a point in the future where people have more ‘augmented friendships’ than actual friendships.

Why? AI and technology in general absolutely replaces human labor. For me, the hate is that is coming extremely rapidly and there is little thought from anyone about what’s going to be next. A post scarcity society is inching ever closer, and individuals are just pissed about the system, governments can’t do anything, and the owners are figuring out how to monetize it all. Seems like we are cooked if we don’t all start working on ideas of what society looks like when very few need to actually ‘work’, or a larger portion of society cannot work. Because even without AI or technological advancements, the population is rapidly aging and simply will not be able to work.

Technology has always replaced humans though. That’s ultimately the point. The problem becomes when there aren’t alternatives for humans to do but we still live in a capitalistic and consumeristic society.

I think everyone want’s their lives to be easier, but they also want to be able to eat, survive and thrive.

What Windows software do you find that isn’t working on Linux?

Have you read the comments in the thread, everyone is suggesting this is a great thing.

In some states (like mine), they shove these laws allowing access into omnibus must pass bills, and since representatives cant vote down on them, you basically would have to vote everyone out. Better ideas is to show up at every city and county meeting, with your community members and make such noise about it, that they have to do something about it so they can’t keep hiding behind under the counter deals.

You could go to city and county meetings and help get these things banned altogether. Legal and a much more effective way to do things.

Yep, while being a vigilante and likely getting caught get’s headlines, the better action is use your legal rights, show up to city, county and state meetings and get them banned all together. Getting your representatives to answer to the people is the best course of action and always the most productive one long term for actual change.

Easier when you control the media as well. Simply stop reporting on it, and people forget it exists.

I’m not so sure about that. A lot of people left, mods were replaced, and at least it seems like in my experience reddit is much more full of bots now, and less worth visiting. Add in the slow death of old reddit, it’s simply another Facebook which I haven’t needed to visit in 10+ years.

Yeah, I think that’s basically it. Reddit was full of bots, and now it’s just bots arguing with each other and trying to shove whatever they are promoting in front of you. Add in the slow death of old reddit, it’s simply not worth going to the site any longer.

Would be great if it was just the AI industry, but it’s simply expanding what tech is subject to tariffs, so its the people that pay the price. Couldn’t afford that RAM already, so I guess it doesn’t matter right?

I’m not sure how higher tech prices for you and I are a good thing, but sure. Because that’s what is going to happen here, it’s simply expanding tariffs on more items.

Yeah, would love to see more of a torrent type website that simply hosts torrent files to models.

I’m not sure about that. I have been using Graphene for a bit, and its surprising due to Google just how much stuff breaks and simply doesn’t work or fails silently under Graphene. It feels like one of the old school Custom ROMs which is great, but not on your daily driver phone.

They shouldn’t apologize, the dude should of known that destroying evidence during an investigation is going to land you in jail.

As long as you aren’t doing it during an active investigation, no it wouldn’t be illegal. That’s the problem. Guy thought he was sneaky, and got busted. If you come in to investigate and suddenly you are deleting all the records, you are going to have a serious problem.

Depends, the free bags, the upgrades, everything else on it can be worth it if you travel or fly enough, but obviously a lot of people don’t think about it and are just spending extra for something they can’t fully utilize.