It's not exactly new. There's a reason customer service is a skill, even in a positive context.

Many people crave affirmation. LLMs compliment their intellect, boosting their ego and affirming that their question falls under critical thinking or research rather than ignorance or stupidity.

They're the type that turn everything into a conversation (more common for elderly people). They crave human connection.

Along the same lines, some people just dislike technology. LLMs are less robotic.

They may trust information coming from a human more than what pops up online. (A large factor in the spread of disinformation)

The additional context/hand holding helps them digest information

Personally: I learn to live with it because search engines are trash. It's faster to fact check what an LLM tells me, and it usually involves less unnecessary reading.

Basically, people don't like researching things. LLMs make it feel more question focused rather than information focused.

The spikes in gas prices and health insurance premiums are doing more than any presidential debates have done in the past decade. Consequences are needed to get the attention of conservatives and moderates. Unfortunately, most MAGA supports are far too brainwashed.

You're more than welcome to try coordinating that. That's our first hurdle. Second is arming ourselves better than the military and DHS. If we fail, we get martial law and no midterm election.

Talk is easy. This defeatist rhetoric only discourages Americans. We should be empowering protestors. Protests are bringing people together and building an army.

We need safeguards to prevent this. Threatening to commit war crimes should be a punishable offence. Can someone come kidnap our president like we so easily did to Venezuela?

Look up the history of Christmas and Saturnalia. There is no mention of when Jesus was born in biblical text. December 25th is completely random. What's not random: December 25th is the winter solstice according to the Roman calendar.

There are more examples of traditions that overlap with Pagan celebrations and don't really have a connection to Christianity.

I agree with what everyone else said. I wanted to add that socialization is very important for dogs. You can have a happy dog without socializing, but they can become dog aggressive or generally scared of other dogs. That can be a huge inconvenience if you ever need to board them, do group training, or have them around dogs belonging to friends or family. The vet can be even more stressful, and you're more likely to have issues while walking if your dog is reactive to other dogs.

I'm a huge advocate for switching to FOSS, but you're being disingenuous by portraying it as supporting the EU. You're boycotting US companies. I do the same for the benefit of privacy, frugality, and, honestly, fun. FOSS isn't for most people, though.

I have heard that Nextcloud is pretty buggy. Libre Office is a Microsoft Office replacement, which is mainly the function of Nextcloud.

Home Assistant has a pretty steep learning curve, but totally worth it in the end. The voice assistant software is still in its early stages, same with cellphone software.

I love that you're spreading awareness, but I wanted to warn others. There are many lists of FOSS alternatives out there!

Could you post a screenshot? I'm very curious about how they're wording it.

The addresses were originally obtained through a Freedom of Information request, so yes, 100% public information.

This is very outdated. It's a decent quick guide, and most of it is still true, but I recommend looking up the current information. Between the parent company's website and Wikipedia, it's easy to find the full list.

I joined reddit ~15 years ago and there was already a very large, active userbase. It's not a young platform, and there have been multiple protests against them by their users, yet reddit is still very much alive. I don't think the confidence from investors is unfounded. Pissing off their users has kind of proven that there isn't a real competitor out there.

We're in the minority of users who have actually gotten fed up with them to the point of finding an alternative. Most people will complain but still stick around and stay active on reddit. They get new users daily who don't know reddit as anything other than what it is now. People generally don't care.

As is, I don't see them going out of business anytime soon. If they continue to make ridiculously idiotic business decisions they might, but that's on-brand for them at this point.

I can see it going either way.

I did this. Luckily, nothing was lost because I was only using it to learn at the time. It oddly boosted my confidence because if I could break the OS, I could learn how to use it.