We have plenty of organisms that can eat wood, that hasn’t rendered wood useless to us.

Yeah, lemmy is really a hell of an echo chamber on certain topics. I see both pros and cons to AI, and that balanced view makes me literally the most anti-AI person in my social circle.

They were a few hundred million in debt. That’s gonna need more than a reorg to handle.

What market share? The article is very explicit that irobot went broke due to competition.

Social safety nets are very much a regional issue, depending on the country they’ve actually improved.

Housing & cost of living is something that affects everybody equally, so it’s somewhat weird to bring it up when discussing a particular profession. We’re ALL having trouble buying a house.

Rise of hostile music distribution services… Major studios and music distributors have ALWAYS taken advantage of the power imbalance to shaft musicians. I don’t know if it’s just before your time, but the idea that they were being paid better in the past is laughable. Musicians having to tour and sell merch so they can pay their bills has been a thing since forever.

Source? I remember artists being treated very shittily in the past too, I’m not convinced things have improved / declined significantly for them.

It does to some people, me included

New publisher, who probably doesn’t like gog

Native speaker here, and that’s the first time I’ve ever heard such a distinction. Nothing on Google seems to back it up either, so take the asshole’s explanation with a grain of salt.

On the other hand, we have assholes like Elon

How in the world did you read an insult in that?

Affects would be accurate if the sentence had been constructed differently.

‘how AI has affected their jobs’

Affects is a verb, which is not in line with the rest of the sentence

Who’s consulting IBM to build out an AI platform?

I didn’t even know that SO many people still pay for toys.

There’s not many alternatives for kids

1st rule of acronyms - use the full term once first.

I wasn’t referring to the Nazi part, I was referring to the ‘no contact with entire family’ part

Sure, if that works for you. Given OP’s question though, it’s unlikely that’s what they’re looking for and you’re just pushing your own opinion instead of trying to help them.

All it needs is enough tech ability to run a few docker commands. That has absolutely nothing to do with LLMs. Not to mention the horrifying intrusion on our rights by limiting what we can host.

Most people have at least some family they’d like to see during holidays.

1. It’s a 2D pic, how do you even tell what the ‘angle’ of the floor is?
2. What I’m hearing is you’ve never traveled outside of 1st world countries. Here’s a similar item. They’re incredibly common.
3. They’ve been defurred. Because nobody wants a mouth full of hair. Here’s a getty image of more guinea pigs waiting to be eaten. Notice the smooth skin?
4. FFS the finger is just folded under.

it’s still inexplicably weird as shit

No it isn’t, you’re just being extremely narrow visioned and expecting everything to align with your tiny bit of experience with the world.