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Bandcamp, Soulseek, Navidrome, ListenBrainz.

Has been a pretty solid Spotify-replacement stack.

For those that are streaming their own collection, I highly recommend scrobbling to ListenBrainz for discovery.

To use your analogy, it’s like someone said, “Well, if you want a Michelin 5-star steak au jus, then your wallet is gonna take a hit”. And you replied, “That’s like saying in order to eat dinner you need to raise your own livestock and train for years as a professional chef”.

I’m not saying corporate LLMs are bad, or that they have no upside. I’m saying your scale for what’s essential and what’s a luxury is alarming.

That is… literally my point.

You’re comparing very disparate things. And I already pointed out the downside. No one here is whining about anything.

Yeah, this thing that’s notorious for hallucinating and has only recently become even somewhat reliable is essential.

How did all those students from 2021 even survive??

Jesus, we’re absolutely fucked.

If you think LLMs are as fundamental as having a computer or internet access, then I really just don’t know what to say.

And you don’t need any of that. You don’t even need a local LLM.

So if you decide you want it, then that’s on you, and you have made the choice to give up your data.

Or because the bulletproof vest company might sell you a faulty one as part of a conspiracy to kill you.

Cries in NixOS

The Nest Mini is not a thermostat.

What in the Mr. Robot…

And likewise, that doesn’t mean people aren’t allowed to give him shit for doing it.

Lol what? Are you saying Substack is the only blogging platform that exists?

Why is this guy saying a datacenter generates energy? It does literally the exact opposite.

Is that true, though?

Who does the math?

at that point you might as well use regular hashes to verify the integrity of your video

Generated by what authority, though?

I’m at about half a year, and I thought for sure I’d be mixing in Google from time to time, but nope.