Yeah, if I remember correctly the first version of the matrix was a utopia and it failed because humans need something to fight / compete over in order to stay motivated

Reminds me of the the sexydancingladies skit from Viva la Dirt League

Ah, yes, you’re right. If the focus is just on not giving money to Google then SponsorBlock is unnecessary.

However, I also find most sponsored segments obnoxious as hell so SponsorBlock still helps with making the YouTube experience better in general

What’s currently being marketed as AI reinforces that there’s always someone who can do your job worse for cheaper

I’m just waiting for the “cheaper” part to change. Surely these VC’s will want to see some ROI on the stupid amount of money these hosted models cost. There’s no way the subscription fees being charged cover the actual cost of running the models, so something will have to give eventually

Nvidia on modern Linux (Wayland) is garbage and I’m buying AMD next time.

Like seriously, people will try and tell you “oh you can install the proprietary driver easily now and they’ve come a long way”

Sure, but it’s still garbage. I can’t even full screen a video in Firefox without a it crashing and a bunch of apps simply refuse to work without shitty environment variable hacks to drop back to software rendering

I’m not a noob either, I’ve been using Linux as my primary OS since 2008

Nah win2k pro was really, really slow compared to xp

I mean, Firefox + uBlock Origin + SponsorBlock makes YouTube usable without giving Google more money