I have come to a similar conclusion, I think managed self hosting for certain services gives you the most control and privacy while still giving you all the benefits of an always on web service, and then I’ll make a home server from my old laptop for anything that needs to mostly run locally for even more control and zero cost

I kinda assumed it already did, so I stopped using Google photos, now it’s time to exit google drive as well. The only transition I think might be hard for me is Gmail and maybe Keep, but I’ll figure something out

As good as this movie is, it still has that Star Warism about it that makes it lesser compared to the Andor tv show, Andor changed my opinion on what Star Wars could be, if it was left to competent writers and didn’t have Disney corpo suits calling the shots to sell merch and appeal to the 4 quadrants

US only has safety nets for the wealthy, gambled with large sums of other people’s money on stupid shit and lost it all and fucked up the stock market for everyone and started a recession, there there, here’s sone public tax money to pick yourself up

Expand the island to the size of a continent and this just becomes the daily life of many people

My opponent is usually one stray existential thought about how my life is not where I wanted it to be and how I’m not good enough and there goes my chance at restful sleep

Only in America can super rich characters like Scrooge, Richie Rich, Batman be the protagonists we are supposed to cheer for

Did you take your highschool desks picture to the tattoo artist as a reference

I don’t understand what DST has to do with it?

Yup it’s about establishing the monopoly on violence, back in the day the used the excuse of the mandate of god, now they use the excuse of flag and country

a lot of prisoners work jobs while incarcerated but that is another can of worms, besides the argument that it takes money to keep prisoners alive so maybe let’s just kill them instead is psychopathic, maybe if the system was designed towards rehabilitation instead of punishment and offered people support to begin with like free healthcare access, education and unemployment benefits, we would have less prisoners to begin with. Also if you read any news you’ll find countless examples of innocent people getting thrown in jails because the corrupt pigs didn’t want to bother doing their jobs or had a vendetta.

She killed someone in 1995, what does executing her now and even failing at that to the point of torture accomplish, if premeditated murder is a crime than how is it okay for the government to do the same as a form of punishment, it feels barbaric and outdated. The only situation I can see it acceptable is if the person is found guilty beyond doubt and their continued existence poses a threat like terrorists who people might try to break out or people who can run their crimes even behind bars

Reminds of USSR downplaying the Chernobyl nuclear disaster to save face while other countries offered help that they declined

Isn’t the fact that I want to get off Google mean I know that already

Oh no

I’m not sure what you are trying to say, what difference does it make if the users of a product are profitable when the creator of said product isn’t, the users of AI make their money on a diversified portfolio of products, the AI companies are making no profits right now as the subscription prices they are charging are at a loss to gain market share, if they don’t find a sustainable profit margin over time they will have to shut down or increase the cost of the subscription so only a limited number of companies and individuals will be able to afford it. Either way the gushing AI inference taps will stop leaking so freely at some point.

It only feels slow when everyone is forced to use AI, none of these companies have proven to operate at a profit yet

Glad I hesitated moving over completely from Google to Proton services, time to purge them completely

Especially when working for someone else. Your best is reserved for yourself and people who matter to you

I hope all these companies that are flaunting rules to steal content to train their models get crushed by lawsuits after we kick the pedo crooks out of office and get a real government working again, so long as the new government isn’t filled with people that will look the other way if they get a boatload of money from lobbyists