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  • tea@lemmy.todaytoReddit@lemmy.world•Reddit has successfully driven me away
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    3 days ago

    It’s just how capitalism do. Enjoy free VC services while they last, but do not get attached to them. They will, invariably, enshittify.

    Private companies with good leadership can last for a bit but eventually slide as well. Companies do not have moral stances and only will hold moral policies as long as they have moral leadership or they fear user backlash. Money and profits are too great an incentive.

    Reddit was big enough that it wasn’t worried about user backlash. I’m enjoying Steam for now, but there will come a day that it will too become a pariah, mark my words.

  • tea@lemmy.todaytopolitics @lemmy.world•'The golden years are not golden’: Boomers are hoarding most of America’s wealth and power because they’re terrified of outliving their money
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    5 days ago

    100%, I don’t think there’s a single thing that I would do differently than them on an individual level. Housing was cheap (compared to today). School was cheap (compared to today). Healthcare costs were manageable (again, relative). Being frugal and attempting to have enough retirement to make it through old age is not a vice, that is just sound money management.

    The actual sin is making it harder for everyone else coming behind them.

    • Make housing more expensive by restricting zoning (I already purchased my house, so I need to protect my investment from things that would degrade the value).
    • Make school more expensive by not properly scaling public higher education (I am already out of school, so why should we invest more in public schools).
    • Make unions weak (no collective action means I personally might earn more, though workers overall will earn less).
    • Make a single payer healthcare system a political impossibility (the system is working for me (because I have $$), I might have to wait in line with all the poors if they can also access the same level of healthcare).

    Basically they enshittified government and culture before it was cool, creating stratification layers to benefit themselves when the available alternatives would have been better for society and subsequent generations.

  • tea@lemmy.todaytoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•This Week in Self-HostEnglish
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    28 days ago

    Oh, I didn’t mean to say I was using Plex there. Jellyfin + domain + reverse proxy is what I do for both Jellyfin and Seerr. I was just saying people who say “wireguard is the only way to go” aren’t taking into account all workflows, like sharing with family and having them connect via their TVs.

    I also just don’t want family and friends on my home network all the time, haha.

  • tea@lemmy.todaytoNot The Onion@lemmy.world•1 In 5 Boys Know Someone Their Age Who's In A Relationship With An AI ChatbotEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Yeah, this is a recipe for disaster.

    Maybe there are benefits in that boys whom otherwise would be just lonely and alone find that they can have conversations with the void/hivebrain. But the “relationship” aspect of this is just more bad news for the overall psychology of our kids.

    …reading more of the article…

    Chambers noted that chatbots are, by default, submissive, and reassure and reaffirm people’s thoughts because “they want you to like them”. “On top of this you can create your perfect ‘person’, moulding not only how they look but how they respond to you, how they treat you, and you can start and stop the relationship on a whim. This isn’t real life – and these instant gratification behaviours seeping into real life will have consequences.”

    Yeah, that seems not good.