Although it’s not like one can’t just move to an alternative assuming they can take their audience with them or their audience isn’t too big to lose, before Google snuffs them out in favor of AI slop.

Next step: YT starts phasing out human creators in favor of Google’s homegrown AI slop.

If you can find one and have the cash and skills to do the mod, find an older iPod, such as an iPod Classic or iPod Video, and then SD-card-mod it and flash it with Rockbox.

Those older iPods still have a really good audio section even by modern standards and operate completely offline; Rockbox just ‘unlocks’ them, as it were.

Also, USB-C-modding them would be recommended as well in order to ditch the proprietary cable.

Kings of Leon? Nickelback? I’d also suggest Right Said Fred, but AFAIK they’ve always been derided and I’m Too Sexy is a meme at this point.

Like legitimately, I’m Too Sexy is a song you could rick-roll someone with.

I also included ARM desktop boxes like what Google is trying to push Android on in a partnership with Qualcomm lately in that too, basically, any ARM device regardless of whether it’s a phone or tablet, or a cheap desktop box, will work for your ‘local PC’ (aka. a thin client) in a cloud rental scheme.

It does in Nooki, but it’s not really active at all.

Seems like a fatal risk to have online only services.

Maybe that’s the whole idea. I mean, think about it, you know how killing Section 230 would kill online freedom, right? Someone probably thought, ‘Why kill Section 230 when we can go a step further and consolidate general-purpose computing to the cloud, and then have a centralized kill switch we can flip by intentionally blacking out web access for the entire country, leaving everyone ultimately helpless and under our grip?’

Phones? Tablets? There’s your local PC right there. I don’t condone it, but I’m pretty sure that’s what Bezos is threatening to make happen; instead of having a local PC you own, you’ll access everything from your phone in a way that it can be revoked on a whim.

Good thing you can uninstall Windows for now, then.

Also, I have a feeling that Bezos’ threats to kill the PC (yes, I’m calling them threats because they sound like threats), and the KYC stuff going around are somehow linked.

Bezos’ threats against the very existence of the PC could also be construed as a threat against self-hosting, including the Fediverse, and against the existence of alt OSes as well.

Good luck killing off older games, though.

There are other VPS providers you can use, though, most of the Fediverse uses Hetzner, for instance.

I’m not giving up my PC, I’m running it until it dies, Big Tech can fuck off.

Big Tech ruined it.

Even the Fediverse can’t entirely heal the damage that Meta and Twitter caused by walling everything off, for example.

I mean, the Fediverse is a good way to fight back against the likes of Meta and Twitter, at least on the face of it, but its userbase is niche at best.

No, Jensen, you got that backwards, GenAI itself is hurting society and has done a lot of damage, the active and well-deserved pushback against it ain’t hurting anyone.

Your grift is what’s killing the world, asshole.

Hell no, and Nvidia can fuck right off with this shit, right alongside MS, and anyone else who pulls this crap.

GenAI is a scam and I will continue to refer to it as such as long as free speech still exists in my country.

This is probably going to encourage Sony to go the Apple route and start making their own silicon so they have full control.

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It would be more likely to get dismantled.

Some instances already implement this, but a hard anti-AI stance or at least requiring labeling of AI-generated content?

No.