lol no, not here at least.

university degrees are like 99% self studying at this point anyway so it doesn’t make anything any faster if you learn the same things, you just lack an important piece of paper

yeah, just show your library card when asked for a degree

very nice

no need for any of that stuff for me, so i don’t use it

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

some people will use windows because it’s cool and forbidden?

news flash: they’re already using windows

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?

lol not in finland

same here. firefox on my phone though

those almost 800 000 homeless people sure love their freedom

yeah it’s pretty obvious ragebait

edit: from their post history they do seem german but i still think they’re trolling or joking

a lot cheaper too

i’m not sure which one you’re referring to, me “knowing what being finnish means” or saying those lines

i know what he’s referring to cus there’s a lot of finns that are russophobic and trying to excuse it with political stuff but it’s not something specific to being finnish… not all of us are like that

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what part of him being finnish-american has influenced his decision making?

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