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How does that recycling work?

You’re not a dinosaur. Making people feel old and out of the trend is exactly one of the strategies used by big techs to shove their stuff into people.

only respond to painful cookie request menus to reject cookies

You can do that just with ublock with the annoyance list, or using an extension like i don’t care about cookies. Simple and efficient, no need for an “ai agent” for that

Aren’t those requests made from client devices?

Wouldn’t that bring more solar energy to earth and contribute to energy imbalance?

Maybe you’re mixing Wh with kWh. 40Wh is not that much, but it’s still a lot for a single request.

In a way, the entire lemmy community is the fuckreddit sub

I find it a surprisingly low value. I can store all the current debian packages in my storage media at home, that’s crazy! FOSS really tends to be lean and efficient.

Is that for real, or are there some tricks, like buying energy from somewhere and not aggregating in the data?

That’s interesting. I feel like a lone voice in my university, trying to explain to people that using LLMs to do research tasks isn’t a good idea for several reasons, but I’d never imagine that being disabled would put me into a group more likely to think like that. If I had to guess, I’d suggest that there’s possibly a strong network effect being abused in our social environment to make people get into the AI hype, and we, the ones who live less connected to the “standard” social norms, tend to become less vulnerable to it.

Yes, it is. People are personifying llms and having emotional relationships with them, what leads to unpreceded forms of abuse. Searching for shit on google or youtube is a thing, but being told by some entity you have emotional links to do something is much worse.

My city has a car-free area for ages, but people don’t value it :(

Laughs in f-droid

Everyone has microplastics, even newborn babies, and we have no sign of decrease in its use.

An archived version, for anyone having access difficulties:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250713020638/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyvj986l615o

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and doesn’t need to be exactly right

What kind of tasks do you consider that don’t need to be exactly right?

I don’t have high hopes for our future to want to have been born much later… climate change, economic crisis and who knows what else are already at the door.