This made me chuckle.

Does this mean I should buy games from GOG? Or support physical media/indies?

I want Linux to succeed, and be the competition to Windows, so I deal with these “downsides” honestly, the limits in my theory, cause me to only purchase good hardware and software.

Is the mainstream even what should be targeted? I’m reading comments on how people are actually getting worse at using computers.

I’ve been just recommending Lemmy out there as the new internet, which us what this feels like to me, IS like the old internet again!

You found what works best for you! Pretty silly to judge.

I prefer the open ecosystem too, its why I choose android.

Americans too wrapped up in shiny AI hype

-signed American citizen

I’m convinced that this AI stuff is just a shiny toy being dangled in front of average people.

And its scary how well it works. Until I read about it from internet users, then the big flaws get revealed

This is unfortunate, I like my privacy, I’ve also been hearing about server side ads. On grayjay, I haven’t needed to sign in.

Not gonna lie, I love listening to the smart comments, I’m not THAT smart. And thanks to reddit being shit (comments suck) I refound lemmy

I’m on a different instance, I think that let’s me see all of the Internet’s sides.

They took down the fucking don’t be evil sign! Google used to be a good company but I don’t trust their actions. I’ve only found out about the spyware level chrome browser, not to mention that Google has been coloring my searches on the internet.

But what do I expect from a ADVERTISING company first and for most?

Don’t authenticate to a search engine.

Haha, yes I’m an eggplant, thank you BTW, I enjoy seeing you posting! I think you were a reason I stick around lemmy.

My lifespan is shorter than 30 years so yes.

My last straw was the privacy and lack of control.

I didn’t like software being released by Microsoft telling me my choices were bad or unoptimal, I like my software, I made my choices from listening to others and forming my own opinion. I had a shift in thinking recently, I wanted to start selecting my software based on my values rather than just choosing whatever works.

I do lean to having privacy and freedom to do whatever with my tools as “good” things

The show keeps living! Glad to see it still around.

Why not go further and suck all the water down running these massive data centers making AI?

Yeah, its sad that it’ll take something happening to the common person to take Privacy seriously.

If we could tackle the idea that Privacy matters and get more common folk aware of what they are losing, then I would like that very much.

Its a selling point for me privacy wise no? The program Doesn’t need the access to everything like my graphene phone.