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In complete agreement. I hate crossovers so much.

Have you looked at this wagons or Volvo wagons ? Or just a good old tacoma or tundra long box ?

This is why I go the extra mile to keep iot out of my life. Especially in cars , which is getting hard, but I figure my future cars I'll likely retrofit something old. Newest I'll tolerate is 2014, with no touchscreen.

Are modern DJs musicians as compared to a classically trained cellist (sp?)? In my thoughts, not really.

Corporations. Stop giving them money any way possible.

I bet this is it

Trying to get away from corporate trash, so no more spotify or tidal for me. I am only trying to use :

SomaFM, totally donation based radio, very nice for long listening drives or work

Archive.org (AMAZING for so much stuff)

Bandcamp (actually support artists, there has been talk of them enshittifying though)

My own library of physical music.

However, when I had tidal, it worked well. I like to support artists though especially in today's world.

That's the problem. We can't tell the difference.

But look at it this way. In 5 years nobody will be able to tell the difference between an AI image or AI music (boomers already can't). So then what? When an art gallery prints a 30 ft tall AI image and people come look at it and how amazing it is, all while having no idea it was AI, what will be the point? The only art left will be live performance art, which could actually be a good thing in it's own way. But the "at home" artist who only publishes works online will be dead, because there will be no way to tell the difference.

I see this view a lot and I agree with it, but how can you argue with anyone who says well, that's what they said about synthesizers for music. Or ipads for art. Or computers replacing typewriters. Are you saying anyone who doesn't hand write a book in cursive while solely learning the djembe from a scroll is not a real artist ? (Obvious /s but it's kind of valid). Unfortunately we are the old man yelling at cloud, just 20 years too early. The future will laugh that there were AI detractors (in my opinion).

Is this a better alternative to going with bazzite or garuda? Or will support be lost once ms moves to win 11 only ? I love linux but I am worried I won't be able to game or use vr (quest2) without a bunch of work. I play a lot of racing Sims, steam games which I'm fine with, but my friends do play pubg which I'd have to abandon due to the stupid anti cheat. I'd like to not have to dual boot but I may have to for vr..

Question on this, how would you expect the millions of people that heat/cool their homes to get by? Or are you advocating for a return to caves ? Unless you're saying shut those down to build nuclear/solar/wind, which also takes a lot of dirty manufacturing to build. It's kind of a no-win with this many humans.