It’s strange how we’ve moved from mall shopping to online shopping to now AI shopping for us

Well, “we” only did the first move because it was more convenient. The latter is being forced on us.

Doesn’t matter what it is; it’s edible, and the owner of that arm desperately needs to eat it.

“Breighdone” (Brayden) is probably the most egregious one I haven’t brain-bleached yet.

My friend works in the billing department of a local hospital, and she will occasionally text me some crazy spellings she comes across.

I already judge reality TV watchers harshly, but holy crap, I will judge the ever loving daylights out of anyone who would watch that and boycott every product that would advertise on it.

Let the hate of the crowd wash over me, but I don’t even like Flatpak, and I’ve got love-hate (mostly hate) relationship with AppImage as well.

Just give me a system package or a zipped tarball.

In recent years, have had to just get used to needing to build most projects from source.

Couldn’t resist.

Unlike NFTs, it’s actually used by ordinary people

Yeah, but i don’t recall every tech company shoving NFTs into every product ever whether it made sense or if people wanted it or not. Not so with AI. Like, pretty much every second or third tech article these days is “[Company] shoves AI somewhere else no one asked for”.

It’s being force-fed to people in a way blockchain and NFTs never were. All so it can gobble up training data.

You know what the bible also says, Elise?

"I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent.

– 1 Timothy 2:12

Please STFU Elise Stefanik as is your biblical right, nay duty, thus sayeth your lord.

If you use an instance just for yourself, it doesn’t actually decrease the load on the main servers in any way.

That’s not completely true. Yeah, it still loads another server a bit, but the server-to-server federation traffic is much more lightweight than the client-to-server traffic that would be involved with you having an account on that server and accessing it that way.

But yeah, multiple, equally-sized communities on different instances is the ideal situation. The only sticky part right now is FOMO because you’d have to constantly watch for new SelfHosted communities and join them. Hopefully some frontend tools come along soon to make joining/managing multiple communities like that more streamlined.