The few devices I have that do connect to the internet are turned off 95% of the time, my router is turned off 90% of the time. My laptop has internet disabled through hardware switch most of the time. The internet connection I do have is incredibly slow (but enough) and download stuff I need in chunks (mostly documentation and movies and whatever) I run NetBSD on an encrypted drive. Most of the data on it I would want to protect is programs and poetry I write and art I create, and maybe some budgeting documents, but I wouldn’t exactly have a crisis if it somehow ended up in someone’s hands. You’d need to be a pretty damn good hacker to get in here, and even if you’re inside getting stuff back is very slow and sporadic. I mean, I’m sure it’s still possible, I’ve heard stories of cops getting data through wall sockets measuring the power rate, but I don’t feel the need to apply slop-heavy patches.

You’re implying I am in need of security (I am not), and that security without AI is not achievable. I say hogwash if the user is willing to make adjustments to their digital hygiene.

This exactly! I don’t understand how one would let an LLM touch their passion projects. I don’t mind someone quickly slopping together a little python script for something, but I would never let it touch my babies. It’d be like buying a self-assembling lego set. Sure the end result is the same, but is the end result why someone buys a lego set?

I have this small Philips mp3 player with 4GB space I bought for 2 euros at a thrift store and it is gloriously offline!

Sometimes my cat comes asking me for food, we go visit his bowl, it’s not empty, he eats, and then comes thanking me for the food. Euh, ok you’re welcome I guess.

Been misgendered as “egg” too many times. No, I’m nb, but thanks for implying I’m something I’m not.

I feel your pain. Hang in there!

It’s probably more because I don’t allow telemetry and I doubt I’m alone.

yeah we dutchies got our own killswitches and madmen ready to push the button

You don’t need no windows for no gaming, this isn’t 2015 jesus

Assuming my wife would be gone so I’d probably grieve for a very long period. Or is there a way to go back? Or is she there too? MARIE??? WHERE ARE YOU MARIE???

Tried piracy?

Right? It’s hands-down the sexiest one.

Yeah, gross. All US presidents were shitheads, none excluded except maybe Lincoln or some shit.

The country was literally built on genocide and slavery. OP, Remove the “if” and replace the comma with a period.

You guys still watching youtube?

I’m not religious (srsly, fuck God), but God didn’t name shit. “And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.”

Wow this thread is a toxic shithole.

I don’t think DuckDuckGo does any crawling, it just searches Bing for you.

It’s Meisje Met De Parel. I agree with edwardbear that De Sterrennacht by Van Gogh would have been a better pick.