In some respects I’m glad the US gets invasive updates before the UK, it means I get a longer warning, and this realm isn’t always protected by EU regulations. I haven’t used Photos for a while but I still need to warn others. One saving factor: even though the article never says it, this feature seems to be for backed-up media only, and not for on-device media.

Wait, Ecosia has an AI assistant? One - that sounds ridiculously counterproductive to their goal of being eco, Two - I need to check that out haha

Try Fairphone. Ethically fantastic company, and they offer their phones with either Android or Murena /e/OS

>Downloads Niagara to minimalise my phone, reduce distractions
>Buys Pro, re-enables icons

Am I a heathen

Well it’s a good thing those two URIs can be easily blocked. Besides you can get the app from their Github page (sadly no F-droid repo as closed-source), and pay for Pro (if wanted) via Stripe instead of Google Play. I also had issues migrating Niagara off of Google once I’d connected the two, but an email correspondence with the lead dev Max Rumpf got the issue pleasantly and quickly resolved.

It’s likely the only reason for the privilege is to collect coords to send to the weather API. At least it’s optional, and there are alternative ways to see weather reports, just not on the home screen.

I tried accessing Google Photos via my phone to handle a couple of things I had active on that account from before. Little fuck refused to let me open the app unless it had unconditional access to all my media.

+1 for Niagara, plus even though you don’t have to, pro features can be purchased outside of Google Play.

A good movie for visualising this (IMO) is A.I. Artificial Intelligence.

I’m using an adblocker and get in just fine, may be random or it may be the js blockers I’ve implemented. Here’s my list of lists in case:

• AdAway Default Blocklist
• Peter Lowe’s Blocklist
• OISD Blocklist Big
• uBlock₀ filters – Badware risks
• HaGeZi’s Ultimate Blocklist
• AdGuard DNS filter
• Phishing URL Blocklist (PhishTank and OpenPhish)
• Perflyst and Dandelion Sprout’s Smart-TV Blocklist
• Phishing Army
• HaGeZi’s Windows/Office Tracker Blocklist
• Malicious URL Blocklist (URLHaus)
• EasyList Cookie Blocker
• No Google (disabled for now)

Note for any NordVPN users, their URIs are blocked by HaGeZi. Same list temporarily had Tidal’s URIs blocked as well but it seems to have been fixed.

Steam is turning into a sour grape for me - I complied with their restrictive and ancient method of age verification for UK accounts but I kind of want to migrate off them (they also charge high fees for devs, make it ridiculously difficult for new devs to exist, can singlehandedly destroy a studio and are very much monopolising the PC games industry so there’s also ethics) - in favour of GOG. At least with them you own your games, and can (shock horror) even choose whether or not to update and patch that way to glitch out of the map, or duplicate those orbs for currency, or anything else that doesnt comply with the specific way you’re allowed to play with the world they built.

Damn, sorry, I should file this away into my ‘rants’ folder

Xbox has had this for quite a while now (although I haven’t checked if that’s UK exclusive)

I mean, it’s not terrible, I believe a rival light source interrupts the waves from the screen so it doesnt hurt as much (is also the science behind monitor bars), but I agree – I’d probably prefer a no-image-compromise, scratch-resistant, effective antiglare coating to a simply brighter screen. Can’t say for sure though as my phone doesn’t have an *obvious coating

Nor does 2000nits screen gang

My head is super itchy though…

That’s cool, but wtf is it a conversation on Lemmy for

If you run your own AI and watch how long it takes, how much it runs up the resources for a few seconds, then you might get an idea of what it’s like hosting at least three copies of a multi-terabyte LLM, in memory, with much shorter response and a much bigger knowledge base (Gemini by Google), taking millions of prompts per minute. Then think of every company that’s hosting major public AI services.

Then remember that the only things good that come out of AI are natural language inference for voice commands and slightly improved developer processes.

Hosting it is just a reminder of the rapid environmental, ecological and cultural destruction that is the AI bubble.

In summary: Perhaps, if the hoster wants it for streamlining their dev process. Otherwise it can be replaced with a far more efficient standard algorithmic program, which is what we had before.

Based.

Good point, with a caveat. The vast majority of aforementioned demand on China is terrible quality. That doesn’t mean that the only reason Chinese trash manufacture exists is because of foreign contracts. In fact, I believe very few of them were actually ‘asked to make trash’ by way of making it as cheaply as possible.

I am willing to stake that nobody, not even American businessmen, paid those manufacturers to create ten thousand seller pages on Amazon and the like with randomly generated six character names.

And things tailored for Europe that are produced in any other country are miles better than the slave colonies of Guangdong Province. Things made in: England, Scotland, France, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Finland, Norway, Germany, USA, Canada, Vietnam, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Nepal, even Malaysia and Singapore.

PFF I didnt know the US exported anything good. I never mentioned the US.

EU, on the other hand… There are more than two countries in the world

I find that, just as some people don’t think trans men exist, some people don’t think woman can be rapists or paedophiles.