So do you trust cell towers more, or just stay offline when out and about?

Agreed. The point being that people aren’t really upset about whether it’s art or not. They’re mad about money.

And that’s not exactly dumb either, making bread is important. It’d just be nice if it was admitted to.

AI being appropriated for neural nets which might even do things unrelated to what we think of as intelligence is annoying, I’ll give you that.

What art is is kind of a huge can of worms, though. In any case it’s pretty clear they can satisfy potential clients a lot better than human digital artists, though, and that’s where at least part of the butthurt comes from.

It was, but doesn’t that seem shortsighted now? When there’s a change it’s usually bad for someone, but no change since the 1700’s would definitely be bad, even if there’s a steady two pence or whatever to be made weaving.

Sitting in 2025, we can identify a whole lot that was wrong with the world and conditions of labourers (including literal slaves) then. It seems kind of odd to blame technology for them, at least directly. But, that’s where the luddites turned their anger, and Lemmy seems to slide into doing the same thing - although there’s a lot of overlap with valid skepticism about things people claim AI do, that it actually can’t.

If we did what they wanted, I couldn’t afford the clothes I’m wearing. Or probably a lot of other things - shit tons has improved since the late 1700’s.

Sure, there’s less weaver jobs now, and there will be less digital artist jobs in the future. Arguably, the past few centuries have shown that if there’s other things that we can do instead, it’s still for the best. (If there’s not, a whole new conversation opens up)

No. The luddites were against the move away from manual weaving, and literally did break into factories to smash looms.

This person on the internet in hemp rags they grew themselves.

Because Lemmy is full smash-the-looms Luddite about AI art.

Continue using a custom ROM.

If more brands start locking down their devices I’ll have a conundrum, and it’ll start being about antique hunting. More apps requiring an “approved” OS would also do it, but geopolitics will stop that from going too far in the near future.

I’m using AOSP, which is kind of Google-derivative, but I’ve gotten off of everything else. Geopolitics seems like it will get in the way of overbearing US monopolies pretty soon here, too.

Maybe, maybe not. Periods of hardware and software lockdown have ended before.

A hard fork off of Android seems like the easier path to me if it doesn’t. Sure, they can break compatibility, but it will take a while for that to catch up with us, and in the meanwhile we can use apps and infrastructure that already exists. And Fairphone, at the very least, seems likely to continue being receptive to whatever ROM you want.

No? Even if you forget about AOSP, which exists and is great, F-Droid could register as a dev. It seems to be a principled stance they’re taking not to.

If you’re on AOSP, Google can’t affect you this way. You just need a portal to find APKs.

Okay, but can you reprogram it to run Doom, before a creeper blows it up?

Well, I’m already running a custom ROM.

Non-Android Linux has a mobile software ecosystem problem as of last I checked.

So what app store should one move to, in that case?

Big projects like Tor actually use GitLab, as well, which is a vote of confidence. Some of these other ones don’t have the same obvious maturity.

I mean, I like a browsable GUI where I can look at a project in more or less detail, and without actually spending disk space.

And then the lowest rung of all has to deal directly with meatspace in it’s smelly, sticky, 360 8K glory.

It bugs me that so many people far richer then me aren’t competent or confident enough to roll their eyes that that.

Yup.

Unfortunately, is still runs slower than Piefed on Python (IIRC) because the database code is godawful. Hopefully there will be a fix eventually.