drive me insane

Sometimes I forget how long it’s been!

Apparently they exist

High speed rail would make such a difference. If you tried to make the same trip as pictured with Amtrak, you’d probably be looking at double the travel time at least.

EAT FREON

I think a lot of scary shows and movies have aged that way. We’re so desensitized now.

I remember people being legitimately spooked by the X-files back in the day.

I absolutely would suspect AI

Great rules

It is. He’s upset about the spending bill and the national debt and seems to be going scorched earth on Trump and Congress because of it.

Game of the year, no question.

What will you do with the extra time you’re not on social media? Maybe AI saves us from social media cancer?

If history is anything to go by, time saved by new technology gets replaced by more work…

If anyone wasn’t aware, Google has apparently learned that because they are so dominant, they can intentionally tank the quality of search without losing users, forcing people to remain on their site longer and view more ads.

Yeah, there has to be a point when they’re going to realize that they’re hosting bots to advertise to bots, and nobody is going to want to pay for that.

I listen to lots of music on youtube, just random playlists in the background. Unfortunately, there is a TON of AI music on there now, and it’s really hard to tell the difference these days.

But surely if you hit any bumps while driving, the disc skipped, right?

Rest assured, I’m very much a normie with tech stuff too. It wasn’t bad to set up. It’s been a few months, but I’m sure I just downloaded it from the link on their site and followed the installation prompts.

The hardest part is finding websites that support RSS. But for an example, say you wanted to receive reports about outbreaks from the FDA, here’s their RSS feed: https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/contact-fda/stay-informed/rss-feeds/fda-outbreaks/rss.xml

You would just go to “add feed” in the RSS reader, and paste the URL, and you’re done! You can customize how often you want it to check your feeds for new updates (I have mine check every couple of hours), and when they show up, you can view them within your reader similar to email.

RSS Guard. I tried a few, then decided that what I really wanted was just a simple app that would run locally, doesn’t run in browser, doesn’t rely on me creating an account to sync with some external server, and doesn’t have limits to the number of feeds I can add.

It was pretty painless to set up. The only downside is that if I ever want to transfer my feed list to a reader on my phone or another PC, I would have to export the list and then import it, but that’s not hard.

The moment I see myself in an ad, I’m giving up on technology and joining the Amish.

I recently started collecting feeds for my RSS reader, and it is so refreshing. I haven’t added any Lemmy feeds to it yet, since I’m on here a lot anyway, but it’s nice for blogs and websites that I’m not going to remember to check regularly otherwise.

Oh totally, but I was thinking less about edgy trolls and more like, rage-bait headlines and rants intended to keep you engaged with a platform because you’re mad. Or, for example, floods of political posts with all the nuance of a negative daytime TV campaign ad (you know, with the deep voice, storm clouds, and spooky music).

I remember in the early days of the internet, that type of content was around, but still largely relegated to talk radio or email forwards. Now it’s mainstream and some of the most popular content on every major social media site. It’s disappointing and feels inauthentic, like your favorite hang-out spots have slowly filled up with solicitors handing out flyers.