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I see a lot of the same questions here - primarily people want to stop fooling with Roku. I used Roku devices for years- even had the top model in the living room. I finally got sick of being bombarded with increasingly aggressive ads. I don’t know if they are still in stock, but I bought one of those ONN 4k Pro or whatever tv boxes from Walmart, loaded projectivy and it is great. Got smarttube working (doesn’t always work) and have my servers connected. Not a single ad. EVER. I can even play up to some ps1 games on retroarch from it.

more of this, please

Jeez Machiavelli, why you gotta rain on the parade?

Because we like to let things cause serious, widespread, irreparable harm before we even think about standing up to the rich.

good lord

“distrust in capitalism and our pseudo-democratic plutocracies, the profit motive to replace the human workforce, the reckless criminal-incompetence of its implementation, and apparent stupidity of the average hairless primate”

I have hair, thank you very much, but seriously get out of my head. The hubris these days is unbelievable.

A lot of people are making well-reasoned arguments about human nature, the nature of a dangerous tool, defining responsible use, and the challenges inherent in any sort of ban.

The points that look the best to me definitely include tagging, but I haven’t seen suggested any method of gatekeeping as to who has access to the means of dissemination of software. Because the damage by the tool is determined by the one who wields it, only people who have established trustworthiness should be allowed to contribute.

A perfect example of a tool used responsibly vs a tool in the hands of an idiot. There’s nothing that can be done to make idiots stop idioting.

It is just a tool, but human nature makes it a net negative. There are a lot of tools like that, and history shows that once the cat is out of the bag, humanity just has to live with the damage that tool causes. There’s literally nothing that can be done to stop it on a large scale, but small communities can always dictate what they will tolerate.

Thankfully the culture of Linux power users (I am not one) is firmly anti-AI. There are several reasons for this, and not all are altruistic, but it’s the right approach to have. Dummies like me have to use it for commands, codes, and scripts, but I’m not going to be submitting ANYTHING to any kind of actual project, because I recognize my incompetence.

I mean, I’m not sure the hysteria is completely unreasonable. AI does pose multiple legitimate threats and should be used responsibly, and not trusted with certain duties. We’ve also seen that the powers that be treat the world around them like a fratboy treats a drunken co-ed (it’s meant to be disgusting), and that the constant growth demanded by the shareholders leaves no room for ethics, morals, or big-picture thinking.

I use AI. I also built my own for simple tasks. I’ve had a lot of experiences with AI at this point, and its generous to say the pros-cons are a wash. The use-cases I and most normies see is AI expediting an already blazing fast enshitification of everything around us.

nah chupacabruuuh, I have my target set up in the woods away from the bullshit. Or at the virtually-unused public archery range. There are ads there, and they’re ads for businesses that actually paid to build the thing, which is different from ad revenue for the sake of ad revenue TO MAXIMIZE PROFITS. Brody I’m so fuckin tired.

“Hey man, I’m just the messenger!”

“exactly.”

How’s it compare to Portainer? I hear Portainer is about to be enshitified.

So anyway, archery is cheap, fun, and there are no ads.

My life, my lover, my lady, is the sea.

Done. No ragerts

I started with docker desktop on windows for a year. Got tired of resources redlining because windows is greedy. Tried proxmox and just couldn’t get past the setup (don’t remember which part). Anyway, running headless Debian with docker is working really well for about 2 months now. Between cockpit and my codeserver container I can get most anything done through gui. I even installed comai llm on my mint desktop machine to help me with commands.

With unprecedented temps in excess of 106 F, running a couple of old lenovo desktops is nothing compared to my AC bill.