I used to be excited about new tech and new gadgets.
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@Em0nM4stodon I wonder if the generations before us went through a similar development, just with different kinds of enshittification.
@kallisti @Em0nM4stodon Television absolutely did in the U.S.
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@Em0nM4stodon me too.
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@Em0nM4stodon I'm worried about old tech *also* becoming infested with AI too unfortunately. It seems like a lot of software or products that I had trusted to be a little better have given in.
* BeagleBoard
* OnlyOffice
* DuckDuckGo
* Startpage
* Gitlab
* Mozilla
* Phillips (mostly their razors, which have AI marketing now despite that not making any sense)
* Even fucking Encyclopedia Britannica has a chatbot on their website...WHY@benrob0329
Arrgghh..how has duck duck go given in ?
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@Em0nM4stodon This is just a bad mindset, in my opinion. There couldn't be a better time for technology- we've had so many advancements in just 2 years! Even if AI is ruining some of it you can still have fun.
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@benrob0329
Arrgghh..how has duck duck go given in ?
They say they are anti-ai...oh no...@J_Peregrine Honestly, I haven't seen them claim to be anti AI anywhere. Their main search has their Duck.ai "private chatbot" advertised on every page and an AI response to most search queries.
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@Em0nM4stodon I'm not known as a positive person. In fact I used to be proud of being a pessimist or as I would call it a realist. I think the Corpos pushing AI and dystopian tech may in fact push people into holding on to old devices longer, create a demand for them, or potentially more serious efforts to reduce e-waste. Yay?
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@Em0nM4stodon I absolutely feel this way. A new service, a new upadate, a new gadget used to be something to get excited about. Now it really isn't.
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@watchfulcitizen @Em0nM4stodon Great. I don’t have much of any of those, so…. Worth it!
@shawnhooper @Em0nM4stodon nothing to loose then!
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@Em0nM4stodon @gentlegardener Absolute same. I don’t even want any new tech anymore because all it is now is more surveillance or more subscriptions.
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@Em0nM4stodon Aye.
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I used to be excited about getting a new car, but the same applies to cars these days. Which is why I'm still driving my 2001 PT Cruiser
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I used to be excited about getting a new car, but the same applies to cars these days. Which is why I'm still driving my 2001 PT Cruiser
I bought my car almost 10 years ago and does not have any AI and I removed the satellite/cellular telemetry. Zero unscheduled maintenance. It may last longer than I do.
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@Em0nM4stodon I'm worried about old tech *also* becoming infested with AI too unfortunately. It seems like a lot of software or products that I had trusted to be a little better have given in.
* BeagleBoard
* OnlyOffice
* DuckDuckGo
* Startpage
* Gitlab
* Mozilla
* Phillips (mostly their razors, which have AI marketing now despite that not making any sense)
* Even fucking Encyclopedia Britannica has a chatbot on their website...WHYAI is indeed splitting communities and projects 🫤
A small note: noai.duckduckgo.com is the official frontend from DDG without AI. -
@Em0nM4stodon
skepticism has been my most trained skill in the last years… -
@Em0nM4stodon even the verge, a gadget magazine, written to hype tech, is fed up with AI stuff.
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We buy second hand whenever possible:
Originally for sustainability reasons but more and morealso to avoid surveillance and AI.
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I bought my car almost 10 years ago and does not have any AI and I removed the satellite/cellular telemetry. Zero unscheduled maintenance. It may last longer than I do.
@dianea @thezenlady @Em0nM4stodon I'm sticking to my pre-2000 cars. Easy to repair by the mechanic in the nearest village. Also, their ashtrays are much larger than in modern cars.
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@Em0nM4stodon @gentlegardener Absolute same. I don’t even want any new tech anymore because all it is now is more surveillance or more subscriptions.
@stopthatgirl7@famichiki.jp @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange @gentlegardener@mastodon.scot I'm going backward using more and more old tech..
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