Had my first ones yesterday too.

I’ll use FreeTube if I have to, though I don’t quite like the UI, but cleaning the cache seems to have done the trick for now.

Revanced users are within a rounding error of the total users, surely?

Some of us use NewPipe. 🤷‍♂️

Good, good, there aren’t enough microplastics in the sea, must dissolve more.

I just found out the other day that items pinned to the taskbar are in %AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar. 🤦‍♂️

Microsoft is a sad parody of itself.

Hear me out, Eliza. It’ll be equally useless and for orders of magnitude less cost. And no one will mistakenly or fraudulently call it AI.

They add capabilities not replace.

They poison all repositories of knowledge with their useless slop.

They are plummeting us into a dark age which we are unlikely to survive.

Sure, it’s not the LLMs fault specifically, it’s the bastards who are selling them as sources of information instead of information-shaped slop, but they’re still being used to murder the future in the name of short term profits.

So, no, they’re not useless. They’re infinitely worse than that.

That’s all I want out of AI.

The ability to hurt my computer when it isn’t working properly.

Damm cyclists… they ruined cycling!

That is not dead which can eternal lie,
and with strange aeons even death may die.

In Terry Pratchett’s Discworld the wizards of the Unseen University built a possibly sentient supercomputer out of an ant farm (much faster and more powerful than previous druid-built computers based on standing stones, which were mostly limited to calendar calculations and required regular human sacrifices).

The Agathean Empire at the edge of the disc has little boxes with little imps inside which can paint a picture of what you point the box at in mere seconds.

Later, some Ankh-Morpork entrepreneurs trained imps to paint even faster on highly flammable nitrocellulose reels and, moving them very fast and lighting them from behind with excited salamanders, invented moving pictures (and promptly accidentally almost let the Things from the Dungeon Dimensions enter the disc).

Even later, some other Ankh-Morpork entrepreneurs created a continent-spanning network of semaphore telegraphs, even managing to send pictures through it.

All while some Dwarves in Ankh-Morpork invented movable type, while getting in trouble with the wizards, who’re well aware that you can’t use that to print magic books, for the type will remember…

And, all along, deep under their mountains, the Überwaldian dwarves have been digging up and using ancient Devices to power whole cities…

You don’t want guns in a spaceship. Don’t want to poke a hole in a wall and open it to space.

Swords make a lot more sense when fighting inside a spaceship. (Granted, short swords, probably, due to the limited space, but still.)

Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.

— Pratchett, maybe…?