AI only feels like it boosts productivity because it kicks the can down the road and makes it somebody else's job to clean it up.

You saved time generating your work email? Now I spend time translating what it's actually supposed to say because half of it is irrelevant garbage.

You saved time generating your event poster? Now I spend time recreating it (because you've anchored on that version), or painstakingly editing out all the incorrect notation.

You saved time generating your logo? No there's no way to 'clean it up', the anatomy and structure makes no physical sense. So I have to recreate it from scratch anyway.

You saved time automating this spreadsheet? It's not arranged in an importable format and now i have to spend time breaking down all the arbitrarily merged cells so I can even use it. My computer freezes twice under the load of processing excess garbage data.

You only think AI saves time because it's wasting somebody else's.

Either way, bring popcorn to watch the legal teams do backflips.

I think youre right, theyll try. Though for 'managing', I don't think that will matter. They don't really need to.

The point of being a legislative giant is that your lawyers use whatever angle will work on a technicality for whatever profit goal you're trying to achieve. Often throwing bullshit arguments one after another, to drown your opposition in paperwork, burden of proof or legal fees until they're forced to cave just to minimise losses.

Companies are abstract entities that don't have any actual principles of copyright to be hypocritical about, and the principles of the many people within them are scarcely relevant at scale as their jobs are dependant on compliance to rules imposed above them.

The owners of these companies won't have to manage anything, because they're insulated from consequence and the company is treated as a separate entity, for some reason.

I'd assume that it's based on some form of measure. How many times streamed,, average episode rating, how many streaming/hosting licenses were purchased, etc etc.

I can absolutely see how a show without much narrative complexity but is delightful 'popcorn' to second-screen watch after a long day could perform well. It's all in which metrics were used and how they were weighted.

There was an Arkham game (the first one, so Asylum?). I had to escape some locked rom under a timer.

I literally couldn't leave the room or find anything to interact with. I was swinging the camera around, kept pacing back and forth between locked doors and bars(?)

Eventually I ran out of time and the Jokes just said "boom!" On yhe screen and nothing else happened. I guess the timer was fake tension.

But anyway after spending three fucking minutes pacing in a single room for a single intractable I rather lost my taste for trying again

I mostly used both on mobile. I refuse to use the official app, my Sync app stopped working (can't use Apollo). I have RedReader but it isn't as comfortable, no NSFW, and the UI is awkward.

When my custom API token stopped working in Sync, I just didn't care enough about reddit to jump through new hoops to fix it. It annoyed me each time I loaded the app out of habit, but not enough to fix it.

I think lemmy having less content is a good thing for me. Everything in moderation: I'm sleeping better, reading more, etc since reddit became unpleasant to use on mobile. I'm okay with that.

I don't know how much I actually enjoyed reddit vs how much my brain was just addicted to the IV drip of pseudo-information.

Hey Dave,

Thanks for this. I've appreciated using Lemmy under your care for a while, and the freedom to see a range of communities with one login is a big reason for choosing it. I've appreciated you as a host, and the new server feels responsive!

I've heard of piefed and would be happy to check it out.

How is hosting handled practically? Is there something community members can do to help maintain server costs?

Same thing in NZ. I think Aussies and Kiwis walk around barefoot more than it seems Europeans do, including women, so it probably shapes how our feet develop. I know its common in the northern Anglosphere for the pinky toe to 'tuck', because the tendons are tightening in the shape of a pointed shoe.

I can wear wider mens street shoes if i need to, but the options for women's dress shoes that fit are nearly non-existent.

When i do need shoes, there's a particularly Aussie brand I try first. I noticed its wider than the other imports

The type of reading material should change as we age. Imagination Library does simple children's books for read8ng together. I wouldn't expect a 12yr to still want to read See Spot Run-level books.

Don't buy cutlery from the Backrooms

...the streamer?