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i’m just not 100% sure where the morals/ethics line is supposed to go.
I’m not amoral it just seems like people arbitrarily draw lines and they seem so certain.
You have to draw your own lines, ones that are important to you. You shouldn’t let others tell you where does lines are.
As Martin Luther King Jr said:
Ultimately you must do right because it’s right to do right. . . . You must do it because it has gripped you so much that you are willing to die for it if necessary. And I say to you this morning, that if you have never found something so dear and so precious to you that you will die for it, then you aren’t fit to live.
I think these are all good questions to ask ourselves.
Is it first order disagreements like this NVIDIA boycott, or is it second order as well ? Meaning any company that willingly works with NVIDIA or explicitly buys new NVIDIA gpu’s ?
It’s going to depend on your interest or ability to research. However, if one were to simply buy used items when possible, or choose a brand one thinks aligns with themselves after some research, I think that’s a good start.
GPU’s right now are ridiculous which means the secondhand market is tight, if your timeframe/need is also tight then it might not be possible to always do the “right thing™”.
If one thinks they might need compromise their morals, I think they should really consider their options. I’d rather pay full price for an old used GPU than give nvidia any money, but that’s my personal opinion.
Why pick 2014
I think this is just because car companies weren’t yet starting to surveil their drivers as part of a new revenue stream until 2014. You can read more about it.
- It’s Official: Cars Are the Worst Product Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy
- How to Figure Out What Your Car Knows About You (and Opt Out of Sharing When You Can)
Personally, I’ve removed myself from the American market about as much as I can while still living in the USA.
I’ve divested from American stocks.
I try to make/grow my own whenever possible, and rely on my local community more. I even started a community regenerative farm.
If I do think I need to buy something new, I try to either buy European, Japanese, or from a few other choice markets depending on the product, like South America for specialty wood and coffee direct from as small a manufacturer as possible.
I don’t expect everyone to live like this, not everyone has the luxury. But I do hope people atleast try to not pay companies that harm them.
new
New is the key word here.
Buying new boosts sales metrics, incentives investors & management, and is blissful consumerism.
We should be boycotting all companies that we don’t agree with. And NVIDIA is a department of war contractor and American Regime mega donor.
If you actually need something, and it’s possible to need a GPU, then you can buy second hand from within your community. Try to buy as local as possible, look for things like surplus office equipment or at local repair shops.
In your example of a car, buying a used car is also better than buying a new car in many ways, especially since cars made before 2014 were not able to surveil you.
Boycott bad companies / practices, and stop consuming the latest slop they put in the trough.
Its so interesting to me that the theme was arranged in one night.
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I have to say I am a bit sad that gen ai is in use here. However I’m pretty sure toplessgun is a solo dev team.
Hopefully they can replace the generated assets overtime.
Maybe someone that owns the rights to some Finnish music would allow them to use it in their game? Although the game is supposed to be set in the 90s and I’m not sure how hard it would be to source 90s era Finnish media rights.
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Could be your VPN or something. I like to use PipePipe as a backup.
Several hours after the White House post, the Department of Homeland Security put up its own Halo image with the message “Destroy the Flood,” and a link to the ICE recruitment page.
Comparing immigrants in the US to a parasitic alien life form that infects and annihilates advanced societies is not deeply offensive, it’s also rooted in the worst of human history: As seen in the untermenschen of the Holocaust and “cockroaches” in Rwanda, to name a couple recent examples, dehumanizing the “other” so you can more easily inflict cruelty, injustice, and horrors upon them is hardly a new technique, and the US government’s messaging was not subtle.
Its called the piss filter.
Generative models (what is often referred to as AI) are opaque and it’s almost impossible to understand exactly how something got added or why it’s happening. But somewhere along the way models started to use it and no one looking at the output thought it was bad enough to not post.
I use FreeTube and NewPipe. But Google just broke them. Even yt-dlp needed to implement a JavaScript engine.
I’m using ReVanced in the meantime but I’m not enjoying it. It’s good as a backup I suppose as it’s better than using YouTube through a browser.
Here’s my guide for installing ReVanced via obtainium, just incase it can be useful for someone
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install the following in obtainium
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download the suggested version of the official YouTube apk
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launch revanced manager, patch the YouTube apk, then install the patched apk.
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go to YouTube app info and select it to be able to open YouTube links by default
Edit: just used PipePipe for the first time. It works and seems like a better alternative than YouTube ReVanced to me.
I hadn’t heard the update yet.
‘It’s going to be extremely hard to repair the relationship:’ The Subnautica 2 legal dispute is far from over