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[–] 180 points 1 year ago (37 children)

My dude, you can be mad at AI and use a FOSS alternative - best of both worlds

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  • [–] 51 points 1 year ago (23 children)

    Yea, not everything is a binary choice.

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  • [–] 69 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    What people really want is to not have to change anything - neither about their lives, nor about themselves.

    They want to live in a perpetual 2005 where Windows is forever usable and still just an operating system. Where they feel happy and comfortable in their environment and their skills and abilities.

    And I get that, because I feel it too.

    But sometimes you have to change yourself, in order to change your world.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I mean if you’re dead set on it you can get a lot of modern things running on windows xp, chromium browsers, dx10/11 games, discord, etc. it’s a nightmare and you’ll have a ton of headaches (especially with the dx10/11 stuff, apparently, I’ve never tried any of this) but it’s possible

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    [–] 70 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Why are the robots making art? Why are the humans packing the boxes?…

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Because development of mechanical devices does not hype investors nearly as much

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    [–] 35 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    You could replace the reactor core of a small nuclear plant with Lemmy users hearing the letters "AI".

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    [–] 33 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Sometimes you're in the feelings phase, not the solutions phase.

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    [–] 28 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    I would be happy if more and normal people were actually mad at ai.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I would be happy with more nuanced takes on AI.

    Instead of just "All AI is worse than the devil and is killing babies" or "All AI is the pinnacle of humanity and is the next step in our evolution".

    LLMs have a place, but it is not in every product imaginable.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    Wait who doesn't already use Notepad++? It's even part of the standard install image at my job, and we have MS365 accounts already

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    [–] 26 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Some FOSS software has been adding gen-AI to itself recently, particularly where it requires you to get an API key from Gemini, OpenAI or Claude.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    Notepad++ is just, a top tier app

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    TBH, tech companies showing AI down our throats is still no good, open-source alternative existing or not.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I'm chill with the amount of ai duckduckgo has, because its not in your face and it can be easily disabled.

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    [–] 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    You can do VSCode, which is FOSS, contains integrated AI, and you can even complain about Micro$oft at the same time as a bonus!

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    [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    People are allowed to want what they're comfortable with to not be riddled with llms

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Modern computing is a steaming pile of other horse's horseshit in my living room

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