It’s a minor thing in the grand scheme but I actually hate that generative AI has ruined the art of the hasty Photoshop. The fact that it was done in five minutes before the discussion moves on so it looks like shit was 100% part of the appeal, and clankers have destroyed that little bit of internet culture.

Hey, same.

Damn man, go for a walk or something.

You’re very angry for a person who literally used the term themselves a couple of comments ago. What term would you rather use then? It’s colloquial, everyone knows what I’m talking about. Are you the kind of person who gets angry when someone doesn’t call it “GNU/Linux” too?

Obviously capitalism makes pretty much everything worse but let’s not pretend AI wouldn’t have issues without capitalism too.

Americans and their exceptionalism again.

That’s horrifying. I really hope he’s triple-checking everything.

People hate inconvenience more than they hate their data being mined.

If we’re being real I don’t really trust anyone with my data.

Inserted ads, although in my experience they’re placed by the podcast network rather than Spotify.

Yet you participate in society. Curious.

Depends on where you’re watching YouTube, but there’s options for most devices. On PC you can use an ad blocker such as uBlock Origin, or a browser with a built in ad blocker like Brave. If you use a phone you can use the mobile browser version (not perfect but pretty serviceable) with a browser that blocks ads. There’s app options for Android such as Greyjay, and modded YouTube apps such as Revanced and Morphe. There’s an app called SmartTube Next that works on most smart TVs. If you have a VPN, setting it to Albania will cause ads to not be displayed on most services even if you’re using the official app and works on every device I’ve tried it on. There’s probably more ways but those are what I’m aware off the top of my head. There is no reason that in 2026 anyone should be seeing ads on YouTube.

This is gonna be an unpopular opinion here but telling people who have used Windows their entire lives to just switch to Linux as if it’s that easy is entirely unhelpful and makes the Linux community look elitist and out of touch.