i like e-books on an e-reader. i wouldn’t consider them enshittification, can read them offline and even get some drm free books

anyway my boomer and luddite habits and devices:

an e-book reader that’s always offline, with drm free books
gog games just like you (just hoarded plenty of older games yesterday from the sale hehe)
lemmy and mastodon instead of modern social media with addicting algorithms, invasive tracking and ads
a retro emulator handheld (anbernic rgsp) to play gameboy, gameboy classic and gameboy advance games offline. aux earbuds with it ofc if i use it in public
no ai usage
i use qwant instead of google cus it’s a lot closer to an old school search engine
youtube without algorithms (pipepipe, freetube) just like the way it used to be
pay with cash instead of card or google pay etc nonsense
no loyalty cards or loyalty apps even if i lose money monthly from groceries and such
avoid apps and usage of the smartphone in “smart ways” whenever possible
don’t play any games with a rootkit anticheat
no modern car, i use public transportation. i pay for my ticket without an app whenever possible
no consumption of short form content

how young do people think gen z are? older gen z people will turn 30 next year which is in roughly 3 months

i’m on the older end of gen z and can absolutely remember this.

windows xp was used for a very long time and this is a windows xp and before era thing

Leben’s Geil

that makes sense. i kind of have the same viewpoint as a european, but i think it would be hard to get the average joe to move over if they’re similar in data collection policies.

i don’t know what the average viewpoint is but what i hear often is that people here often think of china and usa as similar “devils” (note: i don’t agree with this, i think china is a lot better). people are like “these massive countries are the same shit in a different package. america, china, both bad”.

so with that said, i think a lot of people would have issues moving over because they’re already used to youtube and everyone’s there anyway.

i was thinking they might have some knowledge of even more intense data collection policies than google, but that might be giving them too much the benefit of the doubt

i saw this on reddit.world earlier and some people said this company is even worse than google

is that true?

the only normal way to interact with people is snapchat?

doing that often gets you banned from the service ._.

people have always been against stealing creators’ content

now some of y’all for some reason are fine with it if it’s a multi trillion dollar company doing the stealing :|

those didnt generate slop and steal from creators

generative AI is different

i think it can be useful in some situations but i think it should be trained ethically

that’s exactly what they want you to think.

this shouldn’t be normalized

in the new version the playback works fine, but the comments are still broken.

i’m fine with that though, but i hope they fix that too

it’s here!

i used youtube api before, and now i tried invidious on two different instances and it spams a lot of errors in the subscription tab and when i try to watch a video i get this

i did check the issue reports and these seem like issues other people are experiencing too

that’s good news :)

thank you, seems like there’s no offline subscriptions but this is better than nothing.

i can just check the subscriptions from freetube for now i guess, unless that breaks too

hopefully freetube gets fixed soon! i really miss it already

edit:

:(

damn, i’ve never seen a lemmy post hit 1k upvotes before

and also because they sponsored a far-right influencer.

they promised not to do that again tho and said that it was a mistake so it should be fine

yeah i was looking for a vpn inside the eu/efta and couldn’t find a better alternative so i went with proton and have been very satisfied so far

bought the 2 year package, no regrets. at least not yet. if they sponsor another far right influencer i might have to switch to something else after my subscription ends

for e-mail im gonna do something different tho, dont wanna have all my eggs in one basket. but it’s completely fine if some prefer that for the convenience :)

edit: e-mail, not mail

i don’t really see a point in posting in another language than english here, as the community is incredibly small

to be honest i don’t understand posting in another language to begin with if the community is clearly english speaking

just use DeepL or whatever is the best way to translate your post to english