Why should we need “equal power” to some hypothetical “cloud pc”? We did video cutting, 3D rendering, webbrowsing, videochatting and so on in the late 90s with PCs whose CPU speeds where measured in Mhz not Ghz… with the PCs build in the last ~15 years i really, really see no danger of running out of useable devices within my lifetime (i am slightly over 40 now).

If there will be some time in the future when its only possible to get “meaningful employment” or “make appointments” using some cloud based shitstain i will happily spend my last days doing my part in helping to burn down this dystopic society.

Oh… right…

Yourself and the code you read and understand. So as long as you don’t use a system where this is possible (say 9Front and the like) you trust nothing and nobody, do careful backups and don’t go on a installation spree.

My computer, my rules… and if I want a piece of software out it will move out.

What about the following take: LLMs are an abomination that consumes enormous masses of resources for… well… really nothing besides being a tool to further enshittify the Internet and the world as a whole, being a tool for making it easy creating ever more divisive content (not to mention the special content Grok is now known for), killing jobs and replacing genuine human creativity by a cheap, warped imitation thereof.

My opinion is: Everybody who uses or promotes this technology is accomplice in making the world a worse place.

Don’t use Discord!

IRC and Matrix are better, free alternatives.

Ah right… my bad!

You mean the Asian settlers who entered the American continent via Beringia?

Ami go home… and STAY there

Why not self host it? If you use Software like snac or gotosocial its quiet easy and soft on resources.

This one is on you. MY copy of the necronomicon firmly sits in my library in the west wing…

The age of pocket computers ended with the Atari Portfolio. What we got now is the electronic form of Soma.

No. If the project is interesting enough for people spending their time developing and using it there will always be running Lemmy instances. The need for funding over the amount people are willing to dedicate to a hobby project is the death of a project like this.

I don’t see a “we” in this, follow the free software way: Don’t like it? Fork it yourself or don’t use it.

Look at the people who hang around there.

Fuck “Hacker News”, the people that hang around there are in major ways responsible for the shitty state the internet -and the world- is in now.

Do yourself a favor and try Vivaldi, while yes, it uses Chromium under the hood, it at least is made by some of the original Opera creators

1. Implement policies that makes voting for democratic parties more interesting than voting for extremists

2. Ban extremist parties

3. Violence if lawful ways to combat parties that are threatening the constitution is otherwise not possible (as stated in the German constitution)

I see it that way: Anybody who attempts to kill the free and open Internet is somebody i would personally see as an enemy - regardless of political affiliation.