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Netflix removes its basic tier in the US and the UK

For those looking for alternatives, I would only suggest Plex if you're OK with hitching your wagon to a different company with interests possibly competing with your own. Its great software and easy to set up but they can remove features you like and use at any time. It may be a risk worth taking for you but go into it with eyes open. I dropped them when they removed photo sync and started getting more aggressive about their content offerings.

Jellyfin is my current home and I like it a lot but I recognize that not everyone wants to deal with the setup and troubleshooting.

For some middle ground, there's also Emby which is a commercial version of Jellyfin.

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I made the mistake of checking Reddit (using my last few days of Apollo) and came across a complaint about Lemmy that flabbergasted me

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What did you like about it? Apart from some rounded corners and extra spacing, I think they made it a lot worse. My least favorite things about it are the nag screen to use the app, the "tap to read replies" button, and the fact that I can't always tell where the thread ends and the "other stuff you might like" section starts.

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What could happen a generation of children growing up only consuming AI generated and/or manipulative media?

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It's true that manipulation of information has been the practice of the powerful for a long time, but I don't think it's accurate to say that the degree or scale to which it's been possible to do has remained the same. As an analogy, consider that both knives and nuclear bombs have the ability to kill people while having quite different implications, particularly with regard to the health and flourishing of our species.

Obviously AI isn't all bad. It's not even "bad". It just is. But the blast radius of a Bad Decision by a Bad Actor is much wider if armed with these new tools.

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Over just a few months, ChatGPT went from correctly answering a simple math problem 98% of the time to just 2%, study finds

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Would you personally believe a company if it told you what it's internal motivations were? For me I guess it would depend on the company but I struggle to think of a company that I would trust in this regard. That's especially true when it comes to tech companies which often are operate unprofitably for long stretches of time with the assumption being that they'll be able to make massive profits in the future.