I am not sure I agree with this. Many if not most here grew up, and were raised on social media. We saw the risks, saw the dangers and were warned, and instead of teaching the next generation about those things, we shoved iPads in front of them and said we were too busy to pay attention.

Same thing is happening with AI. A generation learning about it, being involved with it, and instead of recognizing the pit falls, they are offloading their brains to it so they can watch Netflix and order Doordash.

Society is cooked, and the signs have always been there but we ignored them and decided to yolo instead.

It’s super common. In my and many states they put ID verification to access naked pictures, so if Dems don’t vote for it, perfect materials to campaign against. The system is f’ed.

The idea is that the president works with these people and can’t be forced to work with people who will not work with him. So the fix is for Congress to move these agencies back under the legislative branch instead of the executive branch, or you are just going to see more seesawing of people getting fired every 4-8 years even more than we currently have.

Basically that’s now what can happen. Any agency under the Executive Branch. But seems like Congress f’ed up by putting so many branches under the Executive branch to begin with. Time for Congress to fix that, lol but that’s never going to happen.

They just upped it to 17gb a month as well. Been pretty happy with them, even though I think T-Mobile bought them out.

Yep, they do charge you to switch between networks though, and charge you a fixed fee for each additional line on top of your service, so it works well if you have just one phone or device.

I have been ok with US Mobile, but they kind of get pricing when you add devices or need more data. Mint has been pretty solid for me though, and I have heard Visible is pretty awesome.

Mint works pretty darn well. It’s still using t-mobile towers, but is a whole lot cheaper.

Just depends on how and what you do with it. All this means is people will just hide their usage of AI. Used an LLM to come up with some lyrics? Just don’t disclose it. Sampled and mixed with AI, don’t disclose it. Hell all of the mastering tools now have AI jammed in there as well.

I mean you can eat non-read meat, and let’s be honest, probably best if everyone ate a little less meat in general.

Obesity and overweight also a massive issue, 70% of Americans now, so add that to the list as well.

That is the unfortunate thing, hosting your own media does take storage, but I still think overall it would be cheaper depending on the amount of storage and how much you are spending on Streaming services. A quick look says people are spending $100 or so on services each month. So $1,200 a year. You can easily build a 30tb array and the NAS for under that, even with today’s outrageous prices, as as you find more storage, expand upon it. 30tb is going to host a whole lot of media. Let’s say the average 30 minute TV show is 0.5 gb and a movie is 2gb, you can store something like 20,000 TV episodes and 10,000 movies. I think you’d be just fine, and that’s a payback of one year. And you can easily share that with your friends and family without paying additional fees.

They care, but there isn’t a ‘lot’ that can be done. These ticks range is expanding due to climate change, and even with proper precautions (sprays, clothing, monitoring) it still can happen. Lyme disease is a big thing in on the east coast, so they do know about ticks.

Well, it’s expanding its reach because of climate change. Same with armadillos.

Yeah, it’s becoming more common as the carrier ticks are able to expand due to climate change and more people are outdoors. There isn’t a good solution/treatment yet either, and it effects people differently. For some it’s a 3 month allergy, for many, it’s permanent.

I mean people still use MicroSlop everyday, so I don’t think there will ‘ever’ be a time.

Same, works great, it’s my media, no ads, no issues. And no I don’t have to pay some $750 for a ‘PlexPass’ either.

The AI bubble isn’t going to burst like you think. If it does, sure, component prices may fall, but most of us won’t have jobs anyways so we still won’t be able to afford them.

JellyFin + your own media = ad free streaming. I detest ads and general streaming services. Whenever you want to talk about a show, you have to preface it with ‘what streaming service is it on’?

I don’t even have kids, and thought it was pretty good. Little heavy handed on the messaging up front, but they really pulled it together at the end of the movie. Solid 7/10 and well worth seeing.