AstralPath

New account = new TOS I imagine?

Of all the current media subscription services, this is the one I have no issue paying for. The service I get for the money I pay is appropriate. I've taken my own measures to limit the amount of PII that Google can vacuum up from my life as well. I'm fine with them knowing what I like to watch and providing algorithmic recommendations for new content. I police said algorithm aggressively to ensure its always on topic and never trying to show me ragebait or shit I don't want to see.

When the day comes that the cost outweighs the return I'll stop paying for it and use Grayjay or Newpipe or whatever other option there is. If its a full on dystopia by then, well y'know what? I don't need Youtube to survive. I'll be fine without it.

You should look up the definition of the word "meme".

Have you not heard of the Steam Deck? Steam's own hardware is running Linux for gaming... SteamOS is Linux....

KDE really is nice. It can be a little bit buggy when messing with themes and panels and stuff but overall its nice. I've got it looking like waybar and I'm really enjoying it.

You're not wrong. The inertia people have towards this stuff is unbelievable sometimes. You will be fine without marketplace. You'll survive if you don't see fresh content on Reddit every second of your life. People act like FAANG is fucking Kuato growing out of their abdomen, inseparable but through pain of death.

Life existed long before this exploitative shit.

Is there a single non nefarious use case for deepfake technology? I honestly can't think of anything.

You've got the burden of proof backwards, pal.

The way I see it is that when I've run out of content on Lemmy, that's my indication to put down my phone and do something else. My buddy framed it in that way during a discussion we had the other day and I think he hit the nail on the head.

Also:

Search engine quality determined exclusively by the folks that consistently mistake their Facebook status update field for a search engine.

"This artform that I don't have a hope in hell of ever understanding is invalid... because I say so."

Better stop watching movies and tv and only ever go to your local playhouse for entertainment.

It's fine to have AI stuff as a hobby but I'm sorry; AI generated art has no business in an art gallery with human art.

Rent/host your own spaces, open your own galleries, hold your own events. No one is saying that people can't engage with AI art. What they're saying is that the effort to legitimize AI art as an equal to human art is incredibly damaging and cancerous.