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Earth has better food than moon, sure, but have you seen how they treat people there? Awful, just awful. Plus I like how it’s not so crowded on the moon. Moon has better cheese too, and it’s plentiful.

It’s to be understood verbatim AFAIK :D

There’s this old Finnish saying: “Nuha lähtee nussimalla” which translates roughly to “Fucking gets rid of flu”. Guess there’s some truth to that, then.

Has anyone coined a term like “digital imperialism”? I think it’s quite fitting.

I also have uBlock in Firefox and AdGuardHome running in my LAN. Guess it’s something about Kiwi (haven’t heard of it)

what’s your browser? my firefox and chromium both work.

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that’s a really good explanation

Yeah I guess that makes sense, actually. Thanks for explaining.

I feel like I’m dense and stupid to ask this, but:

What about streaming services? there are a quite a few of them, and I don’t think any one of them is in a monopoly position. Despite that, all streaming services keep enshittifying. What am I missing?

You’re right, it’s much more than just an “AI story”!

I’m willing to bet that AI is going to be more and more difficult to avoid for the average people, as the (corporate) push for it is so strong. As it has been for Google, Meta etc. Average person doesn’t have the energy or motivation to care enough to dismiss AI completely.

But for us more tech-savvy people, maybe local LLMs are the solution?

The future is about embedded ads in LLM responses, and people relying more and more on LLMs, so what we need to do is what we’ve always done - circumvent / block ads. But how would that work in this scenario, realistically?

This reminds me of the (quite good!) scifi short-story about an AI that is given free reign over a fastfood restaurant:

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

Yeah ig it is

Not denying, but how has it been spying? you mean telemetry?

I’ll paste my other response:

Fairphone 4. It’s working out decently enough for me. To be clear, some features are still broken (most crucially phonecall audio, which only works via headset), speakers altogether started working just a couple of months ago in edge branch. Camera kinda works, but it takes just horrible pictures. Broken if you ask me. I like the “feel” i have with it, it no more feels like I’m carrying a spying device in my pocket, but a computer instead. There are drawbacks, like I have to do my banking old school, visiting the bank site via browser, but they are worth it for me. My phone screen time has definitely shortened. It’s more quiet now.

edit: and you can do cool stuff with it, with root access by default! I have signal-cli running as a systemd service, which connects to my matrix signal bridge :)

edit2: funny story about the mentioned signal-cli. I had to put the phone in the fridge, because otherwise while compiling it (had to be compiled, no packages available) hit the critical temp threshold and shut down. :D Felt kinda funny. 2026, phones compiling in the fridge.

I feel like it was in the sweet spot for me as I was looking for a “true”(i.e. non-android) linux phone, and I happened to have a FP4, which I bought years ago. I don’t see many other options for this device, other than ubuntu touch. I tried it like a year+ ago, and it was nice, but it lacked userspace drivers for wireguard and while it was officially listed as issue somewhere in github/gitlab/wherever the development was, the development seemed really slow, almost stagnant. And I rely heavily on wireguard in my homelab setup, so that was a deal breaker for me.

Fairphone 4. It’s working out decently enough for me. To be clear, some features are still broken (most crucially phonecall audio, which only works via headset), speakers altogether started working just a couple of months ago in edge branch. Camera kinda works, but it takes just horrible pictures. Broken if you ask me. I like the “feel” i have with it, it no more feels like I’m carrying a spying device in my pocket, but a computer instead. There are drawbacks, like I have to do my banking old school, visiting the bank site via browser, but they are worth it for me. My phone screen time has definitely shortened. It’s more quiet now.

edit: and you can do cool stuff with it, with root access by default! I have signal-cli running as a systemd service, which connects to my matrix signal bridge :)

edit2: funny story about the mentioned signal-cli. I had to put the phone in the fridge, because otherwise while compiling it (had to be compiled, no packages available) hit the critical temp threshold and shut down. :D Felt kinda funny. 2026, phones compiling in the fridge.

phew, feels like I jumped the ship just in time. Installed PostmarketOS on my Fairphone a couple of months ago, and I’m not looking back.