A summary of what you need to know about the state of “business” in 2026.

Its not like there are zero uses for AI, its that the use cases they’re trying to shove down our throats are the worst ones.

I’m a certified AI hater, but I still use it on occasion to help with spreadsheet formulas.

I think the police would LOVE to take the credit…

Are you sure? They didn’t seem interested at all when that fuckface chose Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas as an ideal target for his rage.

They had all the opportunity in the world to make a name for themselves and let a bunch of kids die instead.

[Edit] No shade towards you of course. I’m just still pissed off about this. That much is clear in hindsight after posting this comment.

Quick! Delete this before the Trump admin declares that the existence of loanwords is a war on the American Language®

Prohibition of AI does indeed prevent Bandcamp’s servers from being overwhelmed by the storage needs of slop “artists” and the gruel they call their “music”.

I’ve been re-reading LOTR lately and I like to put on Middle-Earth ambience in the background. Do you have any idea how much LOTR themed ambient slop is on YouTube? There are channels with over 100 videos, each exactly a 3-hour slopfest of sounds with HD/4k resolution slop art playing on screen.

Considering the vast majority of real artists might put out 5 hours of music in their entire careers, why the hell would bandcamp want to host hundreds of hours of fake music from a single source and pay for all that storage?

AI is a plague upon humanity. Bandcamp is on the right side of history and I’m happy to have my music on their platform.

Major labels have a presence on there too though.

This actually made me laugh out loud. 😆

There’s plenty of life-affirming news. You just gotta filter for it. There’s whole communities dedicated to it. I strongly recommend curating social feeds. Keyword block lists are a godsend. There’s no politics at all in my Youtube feed because those topics don’t get my click.

I’m not the most prolific poster ever, but you’ll notice I’ve not once posted anything about world news.

I also heavily curate my frontpage so as to not see any of this bullshit if possible. Some things slip through but my keyword block list is pretty robust.

I’m just trying to live without a firehose of anxiety inducing shit blasting me in the face every second of the day. Honestly, I’m getting close to shelving Lemmy like I did with all my other social media at this point. Lemmy’s not bad, but I’m really starting to feel like it might be good to disconnect for a while.

You find world news interesting? For me that’s the most boring subject anyone could possibly bring up.

“Oh, Trump’s being a prick again? Didn’t see that one coming. Oh, people are fighting and killing each other again? How surprising. We’re still killing the planet and almost all the most prominent people in the world only care about stock prices? Shocker.”

I’d rather discuss literally anything else.

Welcome! I’ve been on Nobara KDE for two years, exclusively for one, and I too recently purged all trace of Windows from my nvme drive and repurposed it for games.

Feels real good.

Dude, the nuns at my dad’s elementary school beat him and traumatized him so much that he has PTSD.

Its pure evil to abuse a child. No surprise that agents of the church took no issue with such evil behaviour.

I don’t disagree with you, but they’re stepping in the right direction, at least. That’s worth something these days.

There’s nothing wrong with being content where you’re at. Your mental health is more important than a better wage, IMO.

They want their greasy tendrils all up in your PC’s guts. Every bit of info flowing in your system can be monetized. All they care about is money and dominance and their “AI” in everyone’s devices is their wet dream.

Cancer is preferable to tech bros as cancer doesn’t know its killing the host. Tech bros know full well their actions are killing the planet and its inhabitants. Their actions are willfully vile and toxic; completely at odds with the needs of humanity.

Don’t expect them to ever do the right thing for anyone but themselves.

Yup. A price that respects their user base. On that basis alone I have had (and will continue to have) no issue paying for another license if needed.

When I switched to Linux I just bought a new copy instead of figuring out how to transfer the license I had for my Windows PC because the Reaper team just straight up deserves the money.

Reaper.

Mainly just the satisfaction of supporting a project we like. IIRC, my Mom’s PC is on the version they’re sunsetting too. Pretty sure we’re gonna need to update it anyway.

Likely wasn’t a stud where they were expecting one and instead of getting a different stand or something they were just like 🤷

My mom loves Zorin OS! We’re strongly considering the pro version now.