Ive successfuly eliminated AI/chat bots completely out of my personal life. It was far far too much work. Well not that much, but if someone is tech illiterate its gonna be hard. Which unfortuntely is large swaths of the population.

Got a new email address with a provider that doesnt use AI, and also got the thunderbird client. Also changing the default search engine to no ai duckduckgo. Finally, going to linux so I dont have microsoft banging on about copilot. Well tbh i didnt go because of AI, its just that I liked the look of it and had heard that windows 11 was terrible.

Wait? You are able to disable the AI feature without dismissing the tutorial first?!?

You forgot the step where the os/app again asks if you want to subscribe to premium and you again tell it to remind you later, because never ask me again isn't an option anymore.

Good news, I’m using AI to make an AI driven piece of software to turn off all the AI for you!!!

As Louis Rossmann said, the developers have a rapist mentality. They don't understand consent and believe they have a god-given right to your data.

Called the vet clinic with an emergency the other day. Instead of a human there was an AI calling itself "Emma" on the phone. It asked me about the symptoms so I was listing them. It replied "Is your cat puking too or only october?"

FUCK OUT OF MY FACE

Turn on my computer, boots super fast. Log in, I'm ready to compute in under a second. No AI in my face.

Thank you Linux.

Click link to website

Remove popup for their shitty app

Deny cookies

Halfway through paywall pops up

Never visit website again

I’ll sooner straight iron the wrinkles out of my balls than to pay for YouTube premium

Honestly, at first I thought the expression was perhaps a bit too harsh. Then the Epstein files came out and I now completely agree with the comparison

It’s not the developers, it’s the assholes in charge that have an MBA (masters of business administration). Modern MBAs literally teach that it’s not their money it’s your money and they’re just an obstacle to it, and they apply that mentality to literally everything.

Theres literally no option to say no, and if you say yes once you can never take it back.

I understand the stakes are significantly lower and that rapists arent under the same vampire-entering-your-house rules, but its actually a very accurate and eye-opening analogy

Nah you're doing it wrong. You write macros to copy paste between all the AI features so they talk to each other all night long while you sleep 😴🛌💤💤

🥹 It costs these idiot companies dozens of dollars per minute if you do it right ❤️ and you're just using it to make live art 😍

I like to generate 50 images of Mario smoking weed just because I can. These AI companies know better than lil ol' me. They surely must be right about their growth projections based on how much people need to generate free images of Mario smoking weed 🥹

Chat, is it really "Funny" if it is true? 🤔

Yep. I won't touch your shitty diamond butthole ai logos. I puke the second I see it. Disable it all. When I can't disable it it goes in the trash.

great job helping them destroy our planet

hopefully you'll get your reward sooner rather than later

I remember when DarkViperAU got into huge shit over this sort of phrasing

I mean, there is an argument to be made for wrecking the financial models these companies run on by running their subsidized or "free" tiers into the ground. Right now, all of them are kept afloat on nothing but investor speculation, so if the financial results start to sour (further) there's a good chance the whole house of cards folds on this "industry" when those investors back out.

Doing it by creating pictures of Mario smoking weed is perhaps not how I would approach that, though.

This isn't funny. This is sad AF. It's 1984 irl.

a software

\facepalm

Who's that?

I was shit posting, but the faster the bubble pops by undeniable contact with financial reality, the better off we all are. That's less data centers being built, less power plants and gas turbines the sooner it all pops. The longer it goes on the more gets built, and the more that'll rot when these companies go bankrupt from the crash.

their finances need wrecking for sure, but they seem to be doing that well enough on their own

the increased processing is dumping literal tons of pollutants into the atmosphere, our drinking water, and our food supply and wasting our increasingly difficult to obtain fossil fuels, which we need for a bunch of other things like medical supplies and fertilizers for food for the actual real humans that are alive right now

i say all this with no anger or hostility

Going easier on the free tier stuff isn't going to speed up their collapse. I was shit posting but it's a genuine tactic people are using to be accelerationists against the AI bubble.

I think we could consider it a form of eco-terrorism like sabotaging an oil pipeline. It will hurt the ecosystem in the short term, but it hopefully reduces the much larger ecosystem damage the company would've otherwise done in the long term.

I also add them to my pihole blocklist if I'm not feeling lazy

Only for them to mysteriously change back after

I just ate the computer so now the AI bothers me less, despite the indigestion. The heavy metal poisoning is going to be hell though...

Often "no" doesn't really mean anything anyway and they proceed with their thing.

How is it 1984 IRL?

The ruling powers in 1984 are sadistically oppressing the people. With seemingly no other point to it, than oppressing and tormenting on a mass scale. The whole point of the surveillance in 1984 was to oppress, the surveillance was secondary. I'm not saying that we can't draw parallels, and some can probably be made without too much mental gymnastics, but it's not like 1984 1:1, not even close.

Damn. Corporate hit squad got him mid sentence.

Linus could do something funny and embed a copy of bonzi buddy with a tux skin in the kernel.

Do you mean AI companies are not using AI mostly to oppress other forms of thinking?

(Disclaimer: I do not share this opinion)

Can't you instruct OpenClaw to do that for you?

Then maintainers would not add that to their distro or you could easily recompile your kernel without it.

Well yea, you turned off the toggle in settings -> advanced features where as this new setting is a dropdown in user profile -> personalisation its a 100% different setting with no relation to the old one.

Linux noob: is recompiling your kernel a time consuming task?

Making people not own anything anymore while stealing all their data and forcing shit into them while making them pay monthly fees which increase constantly to bleed people dry, is not sadistic and oppressing? While at the same time taking control of governments by paying off corrupt politicians to change rules to make more money at the cost of safely, environment and freedom of people? Maybe the only difference is that the reason to torment and oppress is to gain money and power. But is that different to 1984? It's how regimes maintain power. Make the people weak enough so they can't do anything against you but make them not weak enough to work for you.

Wow, these Linux users just make up problems instead of simply asking AI for the latest solution every time.

The last time I had to recompile the Linux kernel was around 2013 or so, and it only took about the time it takes to go take a piss then go smoke a joint.

I'm a patient penguin...

Only gotta do it once for driver issues right?

Maybe? Right?

🐧

Do you mean AI companies are not using AI mostly to oppress other forms of thinking?

I think it's the goal for some companies. I'm not sure that it is happening yet. Not for a lack of trying. I mean grok is supposed to be very friendly to Musk agenda of the day, but appear to be uncontrollable in regards to facts vs opinion.

(Disclaimer: I do not share this opinion)

I don't think I do either, IDK. It's not a hill I'm about to die on, I'm hardly even prepared to play yahtzee for this hill.

What I opined to was the invocation of 1984 as soon as something can be used as surveillance. Because people who do this have either never read the book, or they've read the cover when visiting someone, who just happened to have a copy laying casually on their coffee table.

My problem is that spying isn't the main purpose of the surveillance in 1984. The main purpose is to ensure people know they're under surveillance, and make sure that nobody not feel oppressed. And while I dislike AI in everything, I don't believe that AI was introduced to hurt me or most other people.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

add fortune; to .bashrc for occasional laughs.

5 minutes, 26 seconds. Arguably faster than a single Windows update installs.

https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/build-linux-kernel

If you wait until you accidentally use the AI feature before turning it back off, they get to report a higher percentage of user engagement.

I hate the ads and tracking too, but I don't think "not visiting them ever again" is a real punishment for them if you bypass all the things that make your visit profitable to them.

"Oh no - all these users who don't make us any money refuse to tax our servers with their bandwidth. The horror!"

Hard disagree, its not the developers who make these ideas, they just have to build them to keep their job.

"Chat, what's the easiest way to remove your presence from my experience?"