• arcine@jlai.lu
    12 hours

    If the Amish weren’t Christian, I’d be tempted to join them…

  • megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    16 hours

    I think that it’s not that people refuse to use new tech, I think it’s more that most of what is coming out is just worse in terms of usability and functionality in a lot of ways. Not so much a rejection of innovation, but a rejection of the priorities that major industry players have decided on. Like, “improvement” is relative, and what people care about isn’t being improved or actively being regressed.

    They’re making bad products, and people don’t want them.

  • 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it
    17 hours

    I’m not going digital Amish, but I’m trying my best not to let tech oligarchs hoard wealth that they can use to pursue their take on techno feudalism.

    Most things could be nice if they were done environment consciously with something else than profit-oriented data harvesting in mind: social networks, LLMs, even smart glasses.

  • atopi@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    13 hours

    people are saying its because of AI, but its actually because they refuse to get any information regarding technoblades death

    • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
      13 hours

      I think you meant to say “people are saying it’s because of slop” - no sane person that I know refusing to work with this shit is dumb enough to call it “AI”

      • atopi@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        12 hours

        slop is often used to refer to things that were not made using generative AI

        but yeah, AI is the wrong term

        • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
          2 hours

          Fair enough, I only started reading the term when it was used to express disdain for machine learning systems being wrongly marketed as “AI”

            • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
              25 minutes

              they are AI though

              see - when they sell statistical gibberish generators as “AI”, gullible people will believe it. You just proved my point.

  • Bongles@lemmy.zip
    23 hours

    I’m not going totally “Amish”, but I’ve become a cranky bitch about technology nowadays. I was very passionate about tech throughout my teens and early twenties. Since then, I’ve watched every major tech company go to shit. Services I used forever go to shit or die. Companies harvest more and more of our data in creepier and more invasive ways. They went from “don’t be evil” and creating interesting new tech or shaking up an industry (Google fiber, for instance) to doing anything as long as it saves a dollar.

    The only thing giving me any hope or interest in this space is FOSS and hosting things myself. It was confusing to me at first and still is in some ways, but not only can I solve my own issues, I can offer a lot of it to my friends and family. Having 10 different streaming services and finding where a show is within them is expensive and annoying, but I’m enjoying managing a library and hosting it on jellyfin. Then I can tell a few people, hey get jellyfin and type in this url, I’ll find whatever you want. I recently setup seerr so now they don’t have to feel like they’re bothering me when they want something, they can just request it (and see what’s new, upcoming, where something already is streaming if they already have that service, ratings, etc). Yeah it doesn’t support the show or movie but it’s a much more enjoyable experience. I stopped paying for Google drive and have all my pictures and videos (which is what used up all that space) syncing right to my PC, which then backs up to jotta cloud (not foss). I got off windows entirely (except at work) and use Linux now. I’m probably going to setup nextcloud and get a few people on there soon, since i have the space and it’ll save them a subscription.

  • Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    22 hours

    I like that DDG lets you put date perameters on searches. Usually when looking for reciepies, I seach only from 1998-2016.

    lemme get some of that sweet old internet

  • Photonic@lemmy.world
    1 day

    Lemmy

    • Developer: LemmyNet
    • Initial release: May 5, 2019

    Whew, we’re safe guys

  • Snowballfighter@lemmy.caEnglish
    1 day

    I’m actually happier rolling back to older tech options and sticking with open source apps and OS’s.

    My car has no computer, I go talk to humans at banks, I avoid large companies. No AI, I vet everything I utilize for privacy, My brain is at peace.

  • Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.orgEnglish
    1 day

    Sounds like nice people. Cant fault them for it, tech has gone down the drain over the years and newer stuff isn’t really worth the cost anymore.
    Are they recruiting?

    Though why specifically 2021? What exactly happened at that specific year?

        • Pistachio@lemmy.zip
          17 hours

          “Chat” is ChatGPT and “pop off” is popular or gaining traction.

          I promise I’m old, I’m just going back to university and am surrounded by children lol

          Doing HW is why my response lagged, my bad.

            • Pistachio@lemmy.zip
              9 hours

              The kids today will ask a sort of rhetorical questions out loud and say something like, “chat, should I (under whatever nonsense here)”. In this instance, they’re pretending to be streamers and ask the viewers. But if someone says, “I’ll just ask chat to write my paper (or whathaveyou).” That’s ChatGPT. The difference is contextual.

              • Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.orgEnglish
                9 hours

                That’s good to know. Thank you. Yeah context can change a lot, but not even knowing the context can make it rather hard to guess any meaning.

                • Pistachio@lemmy.zip
                  9 hours

                  Normally I’d say you can ignore it because it’ll change soon enough, but I think “ask chat” will become synonymous with “ask ai” similar to how “Google it” is now considered personal research/look it up.

        • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
          1 day

          Well, ‘chat’ is Internet Chat, as it’s been known for 30 years when it moved from academia to mainstream.

          ‘Pop off’ is just this year’s slang for “rapidly gain popularity”, and it’ll be replaced by something equally ephemeral (like with ‘fetch’, ‘fleek’, some level of ‘rizz’ or ‘cap’) soon.

          • Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.orgEnglish
            1 day

            Thank you, but that still doesn’t really explain why 2021. Chatting services we’re popular way before that. Something must have happened in the year 2021 in relation to technology so that this specific year was chosen as last decent production year for technology.

            • frostysauce@lemmy.world
              18 hours

              I saw a comment somewhere else on Lemmy saying they heard someone refer to asking chatgpt something as “asking chat.” So I think it was a meta reference to calling AI chat.

              And yes, since chatgpt was released in 2022 my cutoff for searches is also 2021, so it makes perfect sense to me.

            • SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org
              1 day

              This might be my “woosh” moment. But I’ll bite.

              I think they were referring to ChatGPT being let loose on the general public. That kinda marked the start for the current AI bubble and the enshittification of every new tech product with some sort of LLM bullshit.

              • Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.orgEnglish
                1 day

                No, I’m genuinely curious why such an odd number, like 2020 would make more sense as it’s the beginning of a decade.

                ChatGPT was released late 2022. So it cant be that one either. Maybe some other AI chat service was released around 2021?

  • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world
    1 day

    Hey that’s me! I actually specifically bought a 2019 kia because it has less digital controls than the 2021 they had for the same price.

    • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works
      1 day

      Oh, yes! I was thinking why someone would do that, but cars are a very good example. I wouldn’t want a smart car that can’t drive without an internet connection, or an android tv that pushes ads on every menu option. I choose the “dumb tech”

      • pfr@piefed.socialEnglish
        17 hours

        Im not kidding one bit when I say, “We need open source Vehicle & Engine Manage System software and hardware!”

        I want to be able to flash my Car’s ECU with custom FOSS software. Yes, you can already replace the ECU with custom tuneing opetions that cost an arm and a leg. I want there to be Open Source Software and Hardware for consumer vehicles!

  • SpaceDuck@feddit.org
    1 day

    My current phone is an iPhone 12 mini. Am happy multiple companies, commodore, clicks etc are working on more limited phones. It all takes too much out of a day.

    Also, I want my electronics to have buttons. Not screens.

    • Stormy@thelemmy.club
      22 hours

      Buttons and the aux hole.

      I don’t know why everyone just accepted that we don’t get those things anymore.

      I hate cordless earphones, I doesn’t make any sense at all.

    • Allero@lemmy.today
      23 hours

      I want my electronics to have buttons. Not screens.

      Could you elaborate? Do you miss tackle controls so much you’d rather have that vs screen space, or you genuinely don’t want a bigger screen?

      • SpaceDuck@feddit.org
        14 hours

        Cooking plates come with (janky) touch panels instead of physical buttons, my laundry machine too.

        Also actual feel of good buttons on for example amplifiers etc actually is a nice feel. Also buttons are replaceable if broken.

        Generally if no screen is needed (fridge) it can just go.

        Also a screen should be if it’s there dumb. Eg a TV should not come with an OS that will serve me shitty apps and advertisements.

        • Allero@lemmy.today
          12 hours

          My induction hob comes with physical handles, and so does washing machine. And for them, it doesn’t make sense to do otherwise - wet fingers don’t go well with sensors, and I don’t know who came up with that terrible idea.

          For the smartphone, though, touch controls allow for the precision and speed of input unmatched by any other input method. They also allow to maximize the screen space on a very small device, allowing better interfaces and reducing eye strain.

          The quality of an OS and the developer incentives are different matters entirely, though.