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Giles of the Jungle May 21, 2025

@neil I feel like I'm being chased around the Internet by a slimy AI slop monster that's insidiously engulfing everything I use. It used to be I could just ignore the rubbish bits of the net I didn't like, but no longer.

I hate being forced to move just to avoid all this, not to mention the time involved in learning new tools. And who's to say the services/products I move to won't also succumb?

It's exhausting.

And it takes a huge chunk of enjoyment out of being a fan of tech and computers.

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Johanna Janiszewski May 21, 2025

@gilester45 @neil that is so true! "If you don't like it, don't use it" is not working, because that crap is shoved into my face everywhere.

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Steve Hill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺

@JohannaMakesGames @gilester45 @neil as I get older, I find the never ending treadmill of "spend your time learning whole new tech just so you can carry on doing the same stuff" exhausting. I want to have cool new tech to do cool new things, but increasingly I'm finding tech that works being replaced with tech that does the same thing (but often worse), and that treadmill means I never get time to try the "cool new things". Maybe I'm just getting old and need a child to set up my VCR for me...