Sadly I think in the next 5 years, as LLMs get cheaper and more accessible, there will be nowhere left like this. Nowhere that you can have an anonymous old school conversation using a text interface with the expectation that you are talking to real people.

Maybe there will be some magic anti-AI tech, but I can’t think of a way you could implement that without trashing anonymity.

If Lemmy was as popular as Reddit it would get flooded with bots and turn to shit in no time

It’s basically a big hair dryer, there’s a big fan in it

I have an electric leaf blower, it’s pretty loud and you can definitely hear it >5m away, in fact you could probably hear it several hundred metres away. I do agree they are less disturbing overall though.

He used the USB port on the samsung phone to connect an old blackberry keyboard, via a custom made PCB.

Things were definitely different to today, but I think the factors you listed are not enough to explain the massive decline in that graph.

Things like economic insecurity, cost of housing, increasing isolation / changes in living circumstances, and medication are all likely to be significant factors in my opinion.

That is so ridiculous 😂

Surely that can’t be true?!

It says 1990 not 1900!

Unfortunately, neither Labour nor Conservatives are parties of liberty, although there are some individuals within both that see the importance.

Good shout!

I recently bought a pair for about £35 and was expecting low end quality but they are more like midrange in my opinion (I bought a Chinese brand, “Sanoto DG08”, so I reckon I saved on marketing compared to the market leaders).

I use them all the time now - cycling, listening to adult podcasts around the house or while cooking without being totally antisocial etc. They are great!

Looks pretty cool! Should have known it was an e-bike

What kind of bike is that?

That’s a lot of sugary drink 😂

For some unknown reason, these are known as a “cheese log” in parts of the UK

You could try Chinese takeaway style roast pork in BBQ sauce

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb61bf4NQZ4

Remember this from the Tony Hawk soumdtrack, what a classic!

I get what you mean, for it to be comparable I think we’d need a “should there be legislation to protect kids on the Internet” referendum and then this is the implementation and everyone hates it…

We very much did have a referendum on brexit though

We didn’t have a referendum on this though, and if we had done I don’t think it would have passed

I accept it might be expensive, but in this context where other states have an incentive to fuel conspiracy theories about an attempted assassination of the president of the most powerful country in the world…probably not a reason to discount the possibility that it’s an AI generated video. I think it’s safe to assume they have the budget.

(I’m not saying it is AI generated by the way, but the original comment was a bad argument for it bring genuine)