In defense of AI here, it can be very helpful for education when used right.

For example, when I face concepts I cannot comprehend from study books and papers (either because author expected different set of prerequisites or articulated the point poorly), I ask a local LLM to explain them to me in simple terms. They work very well for that. And once I grasped the idea, I can follow the book again.

The problem occurs when user offloads their thinking to an LLM. Not “get me up to speed on that”, but “solve it for me”.

As someone who had issue finding instances that both fit my requirements and have an open registrtion, subscribing via RSS is a neat feature. Yes, you still won’t be able to comment, which isn’t great (we need so much more activity there), but you’ll know when new videos come out and will be able to watch them.

Close the comment section, this is impossible to overcome

Compared to cooking, baking is often a harder art, but it’s extremely rewarding!

Enjoy!

Rock for us all!

Cooking is awesome if I’m in a homey mood

BIking otherwise

It will get better from there. There will be so much more ways to feel good, happy, and fulfilled. It might take a while, but the path you chose is the best.

It was so good Russia couldn’t invent any better and took the same music and a few lines

You never know!

My girlfriend asked me to download her collection, too. She still didn’t give up streaming, but knowing her favs will never be taken away from her gives her some peace of mind.

Sure, just download Nicotine+ or another Soulseek client and search for the artists you’re most interested in. You won’t be able to “import library” or probe 2000 artists at once, but still, it will give you an idea. Since Soulseek is a P2P network, ideally you should keep port 2234 (or whatever you set in the client) open to see all content it has to offer. But if you can’t, no worries, you’ll still see plenty!

Might be a time to build your own music collection.

It takes some work, yes, but the result is very satisfying, and it doesn’t even have to take as much time or drive space as you imagine.

Pretty much everything else is handled already. You can:

• Have brilliant personalized music recommendations (thanks, ListenBrainz and last.fm!)
• Download dozens of millions of tracks, including very obscure ones, in two clicks (thanks, Soulseek and its amazing clients like Nicotine+, also, support indie music producers on Bandcamp and take their music from there - your money there will go much longer way!)
• Automatically add all metadata to a song, even if you have none, not even its name, in which case the sound itself will be matched against the database (thanks, Picard!)
• Host your music somewhere to build your streaming service for a lower price than your Spotify subscription (thanks, Navidrome/Subsonic/Jellyfin/Koel/…!)…
• …or just dump it into your device’s memory and choose one of the million players out there, some of them laid out in a way very familiar to streaming service users.

All of the tools (well, maybe not hosting a music server, but it’s not too hard either) are absolutely grandma-level, and you can easily install and operate them seamlessly.

And on top of it all, of course, is that no one will take your music or the ways to play it away from you. No item will ever be removed from your library (unless you yourself do it). No player will stop working with it. It’s all yours, and it’s just a bunch of .mp3/.flac files that will outlive us all.

Give it a few evenings, and you’ll never need to worry about enshittification of streaming services again. Genuinely recommending it as someone who didn’t pay a dime to streaming services in 4 years now.

I’m so tired of people pretending everyone but their family and friends is an evil imbecile and plague to humanity.

Isolation does this to people. We start looking for simple answers, and without getting living breathing counterexamples, it’s easy to turn an outside “mob” into a scapegoat.

People in most other circles are just like you. They have their dreams, concerns, and they act by what they consider to be good faith. They are someone you can understand, befriend, make part of the community or maybe - just maybe - start a family with.

People are good. Pretty much all of them. They may differ in what they mean by it, but fundamentally, they live their days trying to be a better version of themselves, to make the world. a better place - or simply to get through another day. This happens too.

Learning to love people, to embrace them goes a long way to building a sustainable and healthy community - and to fixing a lot of the mental struggles of today.

Hold on to each other. Learn to forgive, and to look at things from another person’s perspective. For most people are no enemies, but someone you can start something beautiful with.

What do you mean science fiction? Commercial thorium reactors exist since 1962. They just require more investment per watt of power, and don’t produce much of useful byproducts (it’s not all just waste with uranium cycle), which is why most places opted for uranium as long as there’s plenty enough to go for now.

Doubling other commenter. This absolutely is insane and cool and worthy of a medal.

I need the story now

Precisely because of what is described in the post.

Omarchy is an Arch-based Linux distribution created by a person with questionable political views. Many in the Linux community will go great lengths to ensure not a single penny of theirs gets into his hands.

I think Lemmy is not at a scale sufficient enough to produce enough original content. I’m okay with tasteful reposting.

We’ll see brighter days indeed!

Well, might go hungry for a while if I need any clothes or whatnot. Trying to juggle side jobs to make it livable, and treat credit card with caution.

Microbiologist, Russia

Zero.

Copyright system barely ever benefits the authors themselves. Instead, it is one of the forces perpetuating the dominance of large businesses, and allowing monopolies and oligopolies to proliferate.

Particularly egregious are patents in the field of technology. We essentially agree to stifle the progress in the name of profits of patent holders - profits they’ll take from us - and it is not alright.

We must keep technology in the public domain for the benefit of society, and we must work on better forms of author compensation.