One is one thing and the other is another thing.

I’m not so sure about that. Windows despite its ads is still generally usable or at least readable, but adblockers affect almost every website, and in a much more extreme way, without which renders some websites virtually unusable. As someone else said, installing another browser is also far easier than taking backups, installing an entirely new OS, implementing your backups, and learning an entire new OS which may not readily support the software you have licensed from windows for most users.

Users care a lot about convenience. I expect that they weigh installing and learning linux etc as less convenient than the ads in windows which is why they would not switch, but I expect when it comes to this case, they would weigh installing a different browser with adblock as much more convenient than using the internet with ads on every single website.

What evidence is there that they don’t? If it’s because you don’t see people talking about shooting guns and wrastlin’ cattle in the Linux forums you visit, perhaps you have formed some stereotypes of people that you shouldn’t have.

I think this is the more accurate take. I think the world at large is more likely headed toward a world in chains or world war 3 disaster scenario more so than anything.

Wow good job Spain.

I guess this works because email doesn’t exist.

I guess this works because file sharing applications and websites don’t exist.

I guess this works because VPN’s free and paid don’t exist.

I guess this works because Tor, i2p, Freenet, and Yggdrasil don’t exist.

I guess this works because torrenting doesn’t exist.

I guess this works because black markets don’t exist.

I guess this works because chat applications don’t exist.

To be a fly on the wall of these government meetings where they talk about this shit would surely be the funniest fucking thing in the world.

Ads are generally acceptable so long as I’m not paying money to the service I’m using and seeing them anyway.

Television. I cannot understand why anyone would willingly pay money to be advertised to constantly.

Then invent the technology that makes what you want to do reasonable, otherwise don’t blame a drill for being incapable of hammering nails fast enough for you.

I’m over a decade away from 40 and I grew up with it.

Furthermore the context of the use of younger is in:

“In my experience, younger people who grew up with the internet write their texts and emails as if they are instant messaging, because they grew up with AOL and MSN messenger etc when it comes to text based communication.”

Which is replying to a post titled:

“What is it about the text messages and emails sent by older people that make me feel like I’m having a stroke?”

The use of “Younger” here is not an absolute term, it is a relative term, meaning it refers to people younger than the older people the original poster is referring to, who are in my estimation likely to be anyone under the age of 60 based on what OP describes and my informed experiences having worked in the IT industry supporting users of all ages.

But then why buy the ticket at all? How are foreign agents going to get your credit card purchase? Just leaving the car in the airport should be enough

This is an excellent point and someone else also pointed out that it wouldn’t be necessary.

I would agree if it were domestic agents, but if airlines will comply if a foreign agent just asks for it, then that is somewhat concerning since its a multinational corporation freely handing over information on private individuals to authorities that don’t have local jurisdiction without so much as a warrant.

Like unless the foreign agents are working in cooperation with the local government, I don’t think for example, an agent of CSIS could walk into an airport in Tokyo and just ask them where Marcus D. Walton flew to or to see their security tapes and expect to get an answer from Japan Airlines without a shit load of red tape.

More likely, that would get them arrested and questioned as to why they’re conducting an illegal investigation of a private individual on foreign soil and probably be seen as an international incident creating a lot of friction between the two nations.

I expect you probably missed that the question denotes foreign agents so no worries.

Valid point, good thinking.

Grab my always packed camping pack and rifle case + ammunition, get in car, drive to airport, call 911 on the way and inform them that armed individuals are breaking into my house providing the address and hang up immediately, park car at airport parking lot and pay with card, take taxi back into city with cash, get bus ticket with cash which takes me out to the woods/mountains, camp there until I can’t.

In my experience, younger people who grew up with the internet write their texts and emails as if they are instant messaging, because they grew up with AOL and MSN messenger etc when it comes to text based communication.

Older people who communicated over text before the internet only did this in one way - writing letters.

As a result their style of texting or emailing is often very long form in comparison.

When writing letters you are limited by how much room there is on a piece of paper.

This leads to using some shorthand which used to be fairly common, but has fallen out of public knowledge for younger people.

You could argue that some of the stuff that younger people email or text informally can be just as cryptic because there is entirely different shorthand that millenials and generations Y and Z use.

If you closely examine how you casually communicate with your peers of a similar age, you will notice it can be just as odd as what you experience from communicating with generations on either side of you.

Yea, having worked in the IT field and knowing a few languages myself, I think that as far as code goes, it can be ok for basically laying out the structure of what you are trying to do. It’s typically the details that it misses in my experience. In that sense, it definitely can be used similarly to an IDE.

It would be great if it cited its information for sure.

hiring a real designer who can create actually original content

You’re doing it right IMO, shaking out the idea with generative AI before hiring a designer probably saves the designer a lot of headaches.

Ahh yes, formatting/styling makes sense as a use case, that is pretty neat.

I agree but only partially. Lemmy is a collection of echo chambers, everyone has the choice to jerk off in all directions.

I’m still so lost on what the use case for chatGPT is unless its like, learning a language (considering it’s a language model as i understand it).

It does not reliably source accurate information.

It does not create nuanced artistic writing.

It does not produce reliable code.

I’m certain 90% of its value is in everyone wanting very badly for it to be something that its not, but it just isn’t.

It’s like if someone invented a claw hammer and people bought into it because “Oh wow, this could be used as a door stop! This could be used to cook my stir fry! This could be used to play a piano!” and yes, you could use it for those things, but really the thing was built for hammering nails and thats about all its actually good at.

This is why I think there is hype, but little usage, because no one wants to use it for what it might actually be good at, and they don’t even market it as such because its more profitable to pretend its an “everything” tool.

It’s like going to a coffee shop, but for some reason there’s pizza on the menu, and of course when you order it, the pizza is dog shit.