Just depends on how and what you do with it. All this means is people will just hide their usage of AI. Used an LLM to come up with some lyrics? Just don’t disclose it. Sampled and mixed with AI, don’t disclose it. Hell all of the mastering tools now have AI jammed in there as well.
That is the unfortunate thing, hosting your own media does take storage, but I still think overall it would be cheaper depending on the amount of storage and how much you are spending on Streaming services. A quick look says people are spending $100 or so on services each month. So $1,200 a year. You can easily build a 30tb array and the NAS for under that, even with today’s outrageous prices, as as you find more storage, expand upon it. 30tb is going to host a whole lot of media. Let’s say the average 30 minute TV show is 0.5 gb and a movie is 2gb, you can store something like 20,000 TV episodes and 10,000 movies. I think you’d be just fine, and that’s a payback of one year. And you can easily share that with your friends and family without paying additional fees.
I mean people still use MicroSlop everyday, so I don’t think there will ‘ever’ be a time.
Same, works great, it’s my media, no ads, no issues. And no I don’t have to pay some $750 for a ‘PlexPass’ either.
The AI bubble isn’t going to burst like you think. If it does, sure, component prices may fall, but most of us won’t have jobs anyways so we still won’t be able to afford them.
JellyFin + your own media = ad free streaming. I detest ads and general streaming services. Whenever you want to talk about a show, you have to preface it with ‘what streaming service is it on’?
Many would say that, but usually when societies have abrupt crashes, it isn’t pretty, and everyone suffers more because of it. Who knows, maybe you are part of that 20% that will gleefully laughing to the bank, but like most of the rest of us, I doubt it.
We investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong!
True except the 80% of people who will suffer further because of it, and the 20% that will gleefully be laughing to the bank and buy up everything at a discounted price. Few of us should be cheering for the failure or success of AI.
We don’t need companies taking risks for the sake of risks though. We need companies that actually have good ideas and can produce products. This isn’t much better than a Kickstarter. And you probably know incredibly well, no one is changing or going to succeed in the very bloated cell phone market.
Turns out that maybe a YouTuber gathering a bunch of old failed Commodore executives who don’t give two shits probably isn’t the best way to bring a failed company back online who’s sole purpose is to cash in on nostalgia from GenX’ers who is general give zero fucks about it.
Mullvad doesn’t work on Android though correct? And if privacytests.org/android is to be believed, seems like Brave currently is the best of the bunch, unless you have seen something better?
Anyway to set up Firefox on android to actually block tracking? Seems like it is just as leaky as Chrome, but maybe they have improved it.
I think you’d be surprised, there is always a connection. Oh some middle aged millennial waxing poetic about nostalgia? Wow, totally haven’t heard that before, and it’s certainly not the singular thing every company is capitalizing on in media currently. No, you are absolutely unique and Google is simply listening to every conversation about you.
Anyway to set up Firefox on android to actually block tracking? Seems like it is just as leaky as Chrome, but maybe they have improved it.
People have already done that and shown that no the device isn’t listening to you 24/7 and sending all your data out. There are plenty of papers on the subject, and it makes sense. Why record, decode and analyze all audio when your digital footprint is so much easier to compile and analyze. People aren’t random, so it’s easy to put them into statistical buckets of how to target them. Here is one reference paper (of many): https://recon.meddle.mobi/papers/panoptispy18pets.pdf
It doesn’t need to, that’s the issue, there is so much other data you are generating that can be harvested. Nothing you talk about is completely random, so it’s incredibly easy to build profiles about you, without listening to a single word.
Probably something people aren’t thinking about. How would this even work in two party consent states/countries?
I am thinking about installing Graphene OS, any thoughts so far on how it work, or rather what hasn’t worked on it? I am already using Brave and Proton and trying my best to get out of the AI overlord mess that is Google.
Mint works pretty darn well. It’s still using t-mobile towers, but is a whole lot cheaper.