What are people to do if they want to stay on the non-pirate/legal side of this but also prevent being royally F-ed?

There is a clear open market in the EU for such a service.

A bit tongue in cheek, I know, but a nice comparison I think. If the value is true, it will come to me soon enough without it needing to be pushed in my face every second (AI in notepad for instance, or via a completely unneeded extra keyboard button)

In fact, I see a great need for AI in medical science, security research. But not as a tool to "create art"... (Don't make me ~~puke~~ laugh.) Or as a replacement for human interaction with my insurance company.

Well... They are! ;-) (It's a joke, but at the same time, I do see a terminal resurgence the past few years)

People that like AI are like children watching a magician and are completely hooked and in "awe". They see MAGIC!

Then there are people who see the slight of hand, the misdirection, the plain "being lied to" of the performance. They see the whole picture and can no longer "enjoy" the magic.

AI can be fantastic, there are just to many downsides (we are forced to use it, usage of land, electricity, water, money, other resources, being lied about things, lay-offs, investments that just don't make sense.... etc, etc.)

I hope, I really do, that things will change. And I hope we do not destroy everything we hold dear in the pursuit of "AI everything".

Well, at least for me: no thanks.

Simply because I cannot login and cancel my account?

side note, these are things I feel should be: 1. Illegal: "noreply@" addresses. My inbox is not a dumping ground and email is two way, not one way. 2. Required: phone numbers on you website, easily found, that are picked up by humans.

RSS or Pocket client?

But no, nothing, just the subscription stuff. So it's a no from me.

So yeah, reversing this would make the most sense. The default is: local data only and not connected. They need to pay me to get data.

Just like car companies, phones, etc, should be forced to do that as well.

I wish people would talk to each other more.

And _also_ raise prices on GPU's.

You need a separate storage lan, a seriously beafy one at to use Longhorn. But even 25Gbit was not enough to keep volumes from being corrupted.

When rebuilds take too long, longhorn fails, crashes, hangs, etc, etc.

We will never make the mistake of using Longhorn again.

Without it, we are being manipulated because of all the stuff these parasites now know about us. All in the name of "enhancing the customer experience".. #puke

Because then I know: they have been using it for real human benefit without trying to get humans hooked on re-occurring costs.

When it starts solving actual human problems like climate or start filling in our gaps of knowledge in science. When it starts lifting humans up to higher grounds instead of replacing them to make a buck.

God. That feels good. Everyone should try this.