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  • Losing friends to the endless fantasy of AI/social media slop. Under 30s, are you dealing with the same and if so what worked for you to help socialize again?

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  • Work and consume media. Knowing every content creator and influencer gossip summary and seeimg all the livesteam clips and sharing reels about the drama. I can't think of any useful hobbies for the last few years. We were computer techs in some period of time (friends from school and childhood I was able to get a foot in the door at a company at least starting in my department for a bit) while everyone was doing their college thing but those friends that still kept on with that stopped coding once they saw AI could do it. The others I only know one works on his car but I don't know much on anymore since he's been quiet. Myself and one of the other 6 have stayed active, I'm outdoors adventure active while he is gym active

  • Losing friends to the endless fantasy of AI/social media slop. Under 30s, are you dealing with the same and if so what worked for you to help socialize again?

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  • Yeah I've talked with them about it but it's really the dopamine being hijacked is the issue from the content. I know there's a thing where people lose interest in "normal" when they get used to more and more wild of a thing, like porn fetishes. I'm sure there's things that have helped reset that mental rush, like with the example about the fetishes, those said people having actual sex to reset to being more normal (don't take literal I'm being very general since I don't study this). I'm pretty scared of the "create your game" AI engines that will inevitably coming for this reason cause it will make exactly what your want to always want it and then hook the user to never wanting to disconnect from the game. My friends though aren't cut out for stuff like paintball so laser tag seemed as one of those good out of norm medians that's not physical but out of the house

  • What movies and shows had a positive influence on your life in your childhood?

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  • "Zoom zoom zoom! " is still stuck in my head to this day

  • NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions

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  • What a way to basically double prices for users that actually use the service as it was promoted...

  • what should be the amount of work hours per week? is there a threshold where it starts to affect your life?

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  • It depends so much on the work but I think 25-35 is a healthy work life balance. I for one would rather have a well rested surgeon that's on a 30 hour a week schedule than one that's been pulling back to back to back 12 hour shifts

  • what should be the amount of work hours per week? is there a threshold where it starts to affect your life?

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  • I had something similar for a few years and loved it. Spoiled me since it was my first career out of high school and ended up feeling the 9-5. Schedule is closer to 30-35 a week more spread out over 6 days atm but works better for my current life and doubles as a good workout without being exhausted like if I was doing 8-9s 5 days a week

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    Librewolf, Waterfox or something else?

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  • Check out Orion. Still in beta for Linux but still pretty good so far from my experience so far. Flawless for anyone on any ios devices or Mac since its build with webkit like Safari.

  • What happened if the 5th attempt failed?

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  • The old memories of seeing this for 5 minutes as a kid just to be able to load the espn homepage to see football scores and a few images

  • US lost 105,000 jobs in October and added 64,000 in November, according to delayed data

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  • Yeah I saw Atriocs reaction video to that. It’s very true in places like Florida, that’s where I was when dealing with both layoffs as well as the extended job search while rent went up at the same time. Ended up leaving a month before the election back north closer to where I grew up and have been better. I’m so glad to have left cause now uber has a planner where you have to schedule your time to work the gig, widely talked about on their subreddit as well as the market got so flooded with drivers this year while less people are riding that none of them make much money anymore

  • How often do you use AI?

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  • I only use it within Kagi and only have pretty much used their Kiki K2 model which I believe is locally on their servers. At most I’d say twice a week to help sift through some information faster but have no intention for outside of that. Such a waste of resources and compute power for most tasks imo, the internet needs better indexing to find information more efficiently.

  • US lost 105,000 jobs in October and added 64,000 in November, according to delayed data

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  • If Uber and the other gigs didn’t exist the unemployment rate would probably be at least double what it is now, then again would something else have taken over in its place? Different conversation but kinda does highlight the power of these gig companies. Uber for example would be like these third largest US employer behind Walmart and Amazon if they did employ most the people who do it as the same equivalence of a part or full time job.

  • US lost 105,000 jobs in October and added 64,000 in November, according to delayed data

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  • Only ones that belive most of this anymore are the ones that don't go out and interact with the public or dont read/watch much outside of their entertainment echo chamber, which is still a lot of people but they aren't thinking much outside of the headlines. The labor market is shit right now for anyone that's actually looking for work. From my experience on this lots of employers are interviewing, yes there are multiple rounds in the most basic jobs lately, to then get offered wages so low it's better to go in the gig market and cater to the wealthy.

    I wish I was joking but when this was ongoing last year I did over 50 interviews with dozens of companies hr departments, not recruiters, to be offered wages lower than what indeed and glassdoor data showed others were being paid pre 2024. I did sales so seeing base salaries so low and commission rates lowered compared to before it's was an early sign these companies are either low on cash from lack of spending or a greater push towards outsourcing labor oversees like my last 2 employers before that did since they can pay $2 an hour to have someone make cold calls all day in Vietnam and have the older folks in the company take the leads and keep the commissions to afford their bloated lifestyles post covid.

    The same is for the Neverending growth of the publicly traded companies that are forced to keep finding ways to spend less so they have higher payouts/dividends for the same folks in that older generation with bloated lifestyles. Sadly that "best" way to lower spending is to lay off workers and then next year a couple more then a couple more as AI (really offshoring) takes them all like the manufacturing jobs.

  • How come posts on Lemmy often have fewer upvotes than the comments in the thread, even if they merely provide additional information or expand on the idea?

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  • Conversation > Number of upvotes on a post. Similar to old reddit when upvotes didn't matter as much but the information in said post did which would end up having the top few comments having more upvotes than the most itself.

  • LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash

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  • I got a Sony OLED that was on a steep discount near the beginning of covid since it was clear me and my roommate would be home a lot more (Ended up just being in nature more and used it sporadically). Thankfully their interface was minimal at the time so it was just a blank homescreen in offline mode but I've saw tvs now adays some people are buying that will have an overlay even while on any hdmi inputs, that you must connect to the tv. A friend of mine got a cheap Walmart one after a move like 2 years ago and the overlay took up a third of the screen. He just moved too so he had no internet to connect to for a couple days so couldn't even use his PS4 on it.

  • LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash

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  • It seems TV aren't even owner by the owners anymore. I don't watch TV nor game anymore but seeing the amount of ads when just turning on tvs at friends houses is wild and now with this it's doing way too much to just be a display. Whoever decides to start making dumb tvs again at mass with all the newer tech like hdr and dolby atmos in it will have a booming business but I guess no residuals after the sale no unlimited growth for investors.

  • Do your clothes fit (USA)

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  • Pants are so annoying to try to buy. Every brand/version currently avaliable is a slightly different size even with the measurements so it's hard to try to buy them during sales in bulk online. I'm pretty active for work and have bigger thighs so I go through pants more often than the normal person, but even with that I feel like quality is getting worse causing more of those issues, especially unsuspecting shrinkage. I like the lees extreme motion pants but have noticed if I buy 2 pairs online one will be slightly more narrow than the second pair when it's both the same pant

  • What's the biggest case of planned obsolescence you've dealt with?

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  • Dealing with this right now. Battery is 4 years old and going weak, decided to no longer recognize any charger below a certain battery percentage (like 72%) unless it's wireless. Thought it bricked itself when it first happened until seeing it's an issue with the batteries used for this model just straight up rejecting to charge for many heavy users. Getting a new phone soon since its so inconvenient while working outside.

  • What movie trailer was better than the actual movie?

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  • Atlas on Netflix. Seemed like a knockoff titanfall type of movie but felt more like a movie filled with the main character talking to the AI suit lost and confused with maybe 10 minutes of what the trailer made it seem like it would be.

    Atlas Trailer

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  • Most degrade over time as they either grow tired of doing it after years of treating it as a job/ buisness with mutliple employees or they move on to other things and its just no longer a priority besides keeping the revenue going. Similar to watching a TV series or a podcast, they are all eventually must end but some go way past their time or upload frequency that worked and just end up a either corporate style mess since it is a job to sell ad space now or just too exhausted from the years to keep up the effort of being good. The second part is moreso for those that switched over to mainly streaming to make clips of them reacting to other people's content.

    OG Youtube watcher since back with the Lonely Island being the only thing on there at The start. Ironically they're still pushing 20 years later as a podcast now vs their SNL style skits.