Fair enough.

Yeah, the intergration of AI with chat will just make it eat even more power, of course.

Per: https://www.rwdigital.ca/blog/how-much-energy-do-google-search-and-chatgpt-use/

Google search currently uses 1.05GWh/day. ChatGPT currently uses 621.4MWh/day

The per-entry cost for google is about 10% of what it is for GPT but it gets used quite a lot more. So for one user ‘just use google’ is fine, but since are making proscriptions for all of society here we should consider that there are ~300 million cars in the US, even if they were all honda civics they would still burn a shitload of gas and create a shitload of fossil fuel emissions. All I’m saying if the goal is to reduce emissions we should look at the big picture, which will let you understand that taking the bus will do you a lot better than trading in your F-150 for a Civic.

And the biggest hole in yours is that you can’t imagine that people have better shit to do than learn your job alongside their own just to make it a little easier on you. Call me when you’re spending hours every day studying up on medicine and law so that you can also find the answer to your simple medical/legal questions in 30 seconds online just like doctors and lawyers can.

What you have is a magical thing called ‘job security’ that others would kill for. You are needed to figure out complex technical computer shit because other people have other shit they want to be doing with their time. If they actually did as you suggested you wouldn’t have a job anymore. But instead of viewing that as a positive - instead of feeling needed and valued for something that you contribute to society - you choose to view it as a negative: any inconvenience exists solely to make your job harder, and how dare people not devote even more of their life to making yours a little easier? I know, I felt exactly the same way when I worked IT, and it’s a big part of why I left.

Yes, companies are simplifying and refining things, in some cases they do remove functionality, that’s just the way technology works. My dad called himself a shade-tree mechanic, but when I was growing up there was nothing on a car he couldn’t fix. Nowadays he takes it to the shop not because he’s prevented from fixing it but because cars have gotten vastly more complicated in the ensuing ~40 years and he - despite being a very capable and technically-minded person - just couldn’t keep up with it anymore because the business of doing his job and raising his family was more important.

If you want to be angry at companies for obfuscating or removing functionality then brother I’m right there with you. Just don’t be making assumptions about other peoples’ intelligence just because they don’t have the time or interest to sink countless hours into this just to make your life a little easier.

Where does this idea that mainstream media is being abandoned come from? I spend a fair bit of time on sites like lemmy (and previously reddit) and most of what I see all day long is articles linked from CNN or WSJ or NYT or whatever, plus a few links to second-tier sites like HuffPost, Salon, etc that are more about opinion or analysis than just reporting things as they happen. Sure, maybe some people get their news from twitter or whatever, but as far as I can tell the vast majority of people are still getting it from cable news or major newspapers, aka the mainstream media.

But the reason they were installed in those places is because the power is cheap. Which is a particular irony in Texas because despite having cheap power we never seem to have enough of it. Every summer ERCOT rolls out warnings that are like ‘zomg you guys I didn’t realize it gets hot in Texas in the summer, y’all are gonna have to turn off your air conditioners so we don’t run out of power. What? Of course we’re not turning the AC off in our offices, are you crazy?’ Yeah, sorry chum, I’m not suffering through 100+F degree heat just so some rich asshole can make a bit more money today.

I wasn’t listing other bad things, this is not a whataboutism, this was a specific criticism of telling people not to use one thing because it uses a ton of power/water when the thing they’re telling people to use instead also uses a ton of power/water.

Oh, you mean like people have been saying about books for 500+ years?

The point isn’t that it’s restrictive, the point is that words have precise technical meanings that are the same across authors, speakers, and time. It’s rigorous because of that precision and consistency, not just because it’s restrictive. It’s necessary to be rigorous with use of language in scientific fields where clear communication is difficult but important to get right due to the complexity of the ideas at play.

Are you not aware that Google also runs on giant data centers that eat enormous amounts of power too?

So your argument against AI is that it’s making us dumb? Just like people have claimed about every technology since the invention of writing? The essence of the human experience is change, we invent new tools and then those tools change how we interact with the world, that’s how it’s always been, but there have always been people saying the internet is making us dumb, or the TV, or books, or whatever.

This is the way. Wait, wrong show. Rebellions are built on hope.

Spring or summer, and mostly the idea. I like the flowers and how everything is super vibrant green, but I hate the pollen and where I live it rains all the time in spring. Summer is the same, I like the long, bright, clear days, but also I live in Texas so it’s hot as hell and not at all uncommon to go a week or two highs north of 100F/38C (a couple years ago we had 43 days in a row like that.)

What the fuck do you imagine a military - especially the Israeli military - does, exactly? How do you imagine they’re locating those hostages? I’m going to guess it involves a lot of rather unfriendly things done to Palestinians that they would classify as ‘harm’.

Society should exist for the sole purpose of bettering the lives of all of its members. Anything that goes against that is inappropriate in my book. Right now democracy is going against that pretty hard in the US.

Oh do you guys have cheap power too? Soon you too can enjoy the constant droning hum of some rich fuck mining bitcoin on an industrial scale to get just a little bit richer just like Texans.

Heh, I do to a little bit, but starting in high school I was just actively correcting my twang hard until I just had like a generic American accent. Somehow from that effort I’ve picked up localisms from all over the US (I have moved a lot, but that was years later), like I use ‘soda’ instead of ‘coke’. Nowadays you’d never be able to tell unless I was drunk as shit, which I don’t do more than once every few years at best, cause even without the accent I don’t talk like an Okie anymore.

You missed the most important part of the article, at the end:

What Every Trump Article Needs

Every article about Trump’s immigration policies needs to make it clear that those policies are steeped in racism.

Every article reporting on what Trump said needs to make it clear that he is a serial liar.

Every article quoting Trump needs to quote him at length, rather than cleaning up his incoherence.

Every article about a Trump announcement needs to make it clear that he could very well reverse himself anytime.

Every article about a Trump reversal needs to clearly indicate that the White House is in constant chaos, and that its reversals are deeply destabilizing

Every article about something Trump says in a social media post needs to state that he often uses social media to impetuously propose irrational things that end up not happening.

Every article involving him “testing the limits” of the rule of law needs to clearly indicate that he has no grasp of his constitutional responsibilities and is acting so unlawfully that he’s basically running a criminal enterprise.

Every article about what Trump “believes” needs a caveat that his only consistent beliefs are self-interested.

Every article about Trump enriching himself needs to make it clear that enriching himself is his dominant guiding principle.

Every article about something the administration has done needs to question whether Trump is actually aware of it.

Anything less than that is basically a cover-up.

I’ve only seen three (Spirited Away, Nausicaa, and The Wind Rises), and Spirited Away was long enough ago that I don’t remember much about it. But I loved both Nausicaa and Wind; if I had to pick a favorite it would probably be Wind just because the historical context drew me in even more than I already was.

It’s less that I’m unhappy with the answer and more that I’m confused about why you would give an answer that I’ve already said I won’t use. But if screaming into the void is your jam then you do you.

Huh, that’s unfortunate. I see a lot of recommendations for Fennec and Ironfox a fair amount and use regular firefox on desktop, maybe I should check those out. Is there one you recommend?