tactlesscamel

You pay how much!?!?

Y'all know that is enough to buy a real human, right? Well, good for you. I'm going back to figuring out which of my 2 streaming subs are getting cut. Maybe my free crap is enough to figure out that for me while I make my own art.

To be frank, the time you spend constructing prompts, tasks, and all else required to get your ai to do a thing was probably enough time to do the thing yourself. -Research included.

It's good to see the world throw the concepts of art, pride, and general accomplishment in the trash. Why have friends and partners in projects when you could give your savings to Anthropic, OpenAI, or any number of companies already obtaining ungodly ammounts of financing? A somewhate helpful bot at the cost of who you are and your bank account.

Did You build it? Or did you manage the build of it? Could you have done it without AI? If not, you didn't do it.

A drill is just a tool. You can screw a screw without one. AI is just a tool, you can do things without it, too.

But AI applied in a manner you could not otherwise complete on your own is not a tool. It's a slave. None of the ideas or creations presented in that instance are your own. You just cheated someone out of a paycheck they may have otherwise earned.

I'd like to see current regulations enforced for everyone before adding more. "Great news guys, millionaires can now sue billionaires for breaking their kid's toy," is all this ammounts to. They dont have enough bodies (physical or virtual) to uphold what's currently in place. Nor, do governing bodies care.

- It causes cancer? Make sure you add a warning label.

- they lost PII? Make sure we collect the fine. What's that; they can't afford it? Don't waste the resources, then. There's other opportunities out there.

Pride in one'one's journey, the feeling of accomplishment for creating/learning/doing something, and the general art within the act...

Yes, it's ironic that the stock photo companies offer on-demand image generation when the private galleries only offer photos which required an adventure and effort.

Same goes for any "regulation" in the states. Gov't does their job only when it brings revenue in the $$$$$$ territory. Everything else is civil and ignored - even if it's promoting the sale of millions of protected information.

Of all the reports I've submitted (evidence included) followups and fines have been issued to exactly 0 companies. Hell, Quadlock [phone mount company] happily acknowledged that their policy is to verify identity by requesting plain emails including photocopies of the credit card used for purchase and full state ID. Absolutely against regs.. who cares? Not the SCC nor the FTC.

You should look past the screen and see what's going on. War is not the same; violence against humanity is not the same.

You're right, it's not in the ballpark. It's at the gates. The game isn't on simply because they poisoned the opponent in the duggout.

It's time. It needs to stop now while the body count is low. This isn't about some dev getting severence. They've taken away the street sweeper position and are watching us eat each other.

How much money are you all paying to use this tech? Last I even tried, it would cost my entire salary. Yet, everyone and their newborns are using it every day for everything. How is this possible?

I emplore you to discover the difference between quality and luxury.

YOU can make a better quality table than IKEA with a few 1x2s, plywood, nails, a hammer, and a hand saw.

Thought I'd get settled in before the mandate ;]

"AI is making the world better by enabling business to circumvent the leading loss of profit."

"The economy is making a comeback: A new gas station has helped rejuvinate the job market by offering $15/hr jobs to replace those 70k/year careers."

"Thanks to Flock and human behavior patterns, we can arrest criminals in near real-time." (Okay, this one isn't a thing, yet.)

10 years working with SMB. They don't use it now because complexity and cost. While the majority of users here seem to be interested in offloading their bank account to AI for "productivity" or whatever, most SMBs die in 1-3 years and struggle through with chump-change.

If you want to help SMB, stop with the interconnectivity hype of bringing outrageously expensive software together. Try making something that really helps instead of syphens more money and hurts the workforce. Seriously, what's Claude going to do for a landscaper using pen-and-paper anyway? That's the majority of your SMB. The grifting MSPs are your target for this bs.

I much prefer a 60mi commute to a 96km commute. It is less depressing.

Blackrock buys more of the world.. cool story.

If all you want is to watch your videos over the net, you're better off not using either. Just put it on a shared drive and install VLC.

Complaining about a one-time payment for software backed by a team of lawyers in an age where farts are patented and opposing farts are sent CnD letters, is crazy.

Nearly a decade after my investment, I can stand up as many Plex servers as I want with free relay services, metadata aggregation, trailers, and extras. Not to mention access to all of my music in the same manner. Better yet, it's all curated in accounts for various family members near and distant.

Plex also takes me as long as it takes to install the OS and applicable software (+3s for ufw rule). –It just works.

Maybe Jellyfin has that now. But I hate plugins. Either have it or don't. F** your DLC.

I feel this is written from the mindset, "all objects within a set must be obtained at once." Or, perhapse, "nothing lasts anyway, so there's no reason to bother."

Quality has its cost. A quality dining table could only have the potential to be sold to every room one might place a dining table, exactly one time. IKEA might sell that same dining table to the same room every year. IKEA is destined for the landfill; quality can outlive a bloodline. Sales of quality must sustain all those employed for the process accordingly. - Sure, some TLC is required, but IKEA can't even get wet.

Quality also provides additional benefits. They are not only a functional object, but a wealth of sentiment and memories for the home. They are also a symbol to the pride one takes in their craft, and a silhouette of their creator's experience and deserved reputation. IKEA is for parties and showrooms/staging. Quality is for comfort and places of importance.

My heart aches, that the notion of buying prefabricated trash to use in the interim of its journey, is better than searching individually for items that will bring character and meaning—as well as, functional superiority—over the course of a lifetime.

This equates to software bragging about how great its algorythm adjusted the color of a Submit button to improve deliverability on a website masquerading as a web app that could have been written in HTML and CSS without the button at all.