Pushing someone, even gently, to change something about their routines almost always causes them to become defensive and double down. The most effective way to enact change in someone else is to discuss how the changes you’ve made have benefited yourself.

What you’ve described is not what this post is about.

A discussion on encryption would be on the topic of digital privacy. Tone policing an employee of a company none of us even work for is not.

This topic isn’t about privacy it’s about workplace culture

What does your IoT network look like? A second wifi router? Mesh?

Unless it’s been updated, Plex HTPC doesn’t work on arm

This is my white whale. There is a guy making LineageOS versions of Android TV that seem to work well for some people but in my experience are buggy and I couldn’t get CEC working no matter what I tried.

Libreelec (kodi) works fantastic and CEC is flawless with every device I tested, but Kodi these days is really only good for local media (not Plex, Jellyfin, Youtube or streaming services) and real-debrid.

KDE Bigscreen is my last hope, but it’s probably going to be a while before it’s ready, not even including the inevitable wait for TV-interface versions of streaming apps that can run on ARM (if you’re using a raspi).

A new account that immediately starts posting fake incendiary content?

The only thing I’m surprised by is that reddit didn’t boost that to the front page for engagement.

My mama begged me to get into cartooning but I thought corporate law was the path to financial independence how could I be so foolish

Yeah that’s a very good point, I have long hated how Reddit has been slowly erasing each subreddits individual identity/community and just turning the app into another algorithmic content feed.

Tap to pay will not work

Turn on “annoyances cookie banners” in UBO

Posting highly formatted but substanceless empty fluff is not a “writing style”, it’s spam. A human is certainly capable of doing that if they set their mind to it, but occams razor strongly points to automation.

I’m starting to understand why you often find yourself accused of being a bot… 🙃

Umbrage is our word we need to take it back

One cannot win an argument that does not exist

An LLM cannot “argue” full stop. If you find yourself in a debate with the text outputted by an LLM bot you have accomplished nothing besides wasting your own time (which is the entire point).

The problem with automating social media posts is that they definitionally cannot have “merit”. The primary function of slop is not to “argue” but to “flood the zone with shit” and create a plausible consensus for whatever opinion the person running the LLMs wants. We saw this with paid humans before LLMs. It’s not new.

A human will never be able to win a debate against an LLM bot “on the merits” because their function is to waste your time. An LLM cannot stand on merit, cannot hold a position, and cannot construct an argument. The words that are output by an LLM have no connection to any inside mind or model of the world. The only way to win a debate with an LLM is the same way you win a debate with a troll: identify the hallmarks and refuse to engage.

“a revolt” as if there when weren’t a million alternative communities on Reddit and Fedi already.

Self censorship is the worst kind.