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IPad sketch of dsmp tubbo :]
I plan on uploading more since I'm using my iPad a lot more now
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#drawing#fanart#mcyt fanart#art#digital art#dream smp#tubbo#tubbo fanart#dsmp tubbo#funny silly goat man#bee boy#Ummmm I'm still figuring out how to use a iPad#i don't use apple products#IVE ONLY HAD AN IPHONE WHEN I WAS RLLY YOUNG HELPPP#i showed my mom a bunch of Lovejoy songs she likes them and same with my dad#I kinda want to change my url but I feel like I can't bc it feels like my identity at this point 😭
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Apple wrapped up this finale so good it was beyond my expectations ! Like you're telling me than in 6 ep, they put all the major drama in the last one and it didn't even feel awfully rushed and poorly handled ? You're telling me they managed to tightly pull all the threads together and paint a nice, logical, beautiful picture where everybody got a satisfying end ? You're telling me Apple was a 10/10 all throughout, no let down, no slow down, no meh-down ? Just awesome ?
Are you telling me that this show is perfect ?
Yes. I think you are...At least I am telling that !
#I was worried but I should have known better#they did everything for us#we were served#and I appreciate it#now people I don't know anything about fanservice but the way they handled the production of this show is fan-service#the fans got served and treated to a nice#I think this is one of my favorite gls ever and I'm weighting down my words#Apple you will be missed#apple#apple the series#apple my love#apple my love the series#apple ep 6#apple the series ep 6#apple my love ep 6#apple my love the series ep 6#kris#karn#kris x karn#kriskarn
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apple users, i've been wanting to get an ipad tablet for some months now, but i'm not exactly sure on which one to buy (eventually. i'm still saving up) since i'd only use it for notetaking and drawing.. which do you use and would you recommend it?
#.txt#my budget isn't that big so i'm not interested in the ipad pro. they're as expensive as my laptop#dhfdjfhsjkhsjh#the ipad air with the m1 chip seems ideal but i don't think i'd use it to its full potential. i wouldn't be gaming on it or editing yknow#so i want to hear yalls opinions. i have never owned an apple product so im nervous ahjsgdahgd
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god I fucking hate apple products
#i hate that my ipad is an apple product#it's really mad at me because I'm ''not making the most of my ipad'' because i haven't set up apple pay.#of which i will never use#and don't want to use#and don't fucking care to use
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maybe a portable drawing tablet would be a good investment?
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Hey apple developers, come outside and let's chat 🙂🔪
#I am SO MAD right now#I used my laptop and it was fine#I put it down to leave the house and I even shut the door so that the cats don't ruin anything#come back and to my horror there is an extremely long crack in the screen that is caused by nothing apparently bc wtf could have happened#so my hypothesis is that I looked at it wrong or smth 🤦#this is why i don't get apple products because they will make the prices SO HIGH and then the quality is dogshit
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I had a dream that I had an iPad and I was very happy to get to draw on it 🥺
#i don't need an ipad i barely draw and i dont like apple products#i also already have two tvs and two laptops so what use would an ipad or any tablet have to me#i have too much technology to begin with
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factory reset didn't work 💀 opening instagram with no other apps open immediately drains my battery from 95% to my phone turning off so that's 👍
#wish i knew how to fix stuff so i could know if i was getting conned and how to go about getting it fixed.#it's apple so i don't even want to think about sending it away with them because i just feel like they'll charge me stupid amounts!#silly mindset: using apple products and hoping they'll be good when i KNOW they're set up not to be long lasting.#and i KNOW it's a sunk cost fallacy bc all my stuff's with them but i don't want to switch!!! i want them to be good! which does nothing!#maybe i'll just throw it into the sea and then turn into a pebble and throw MYSELF into the sea and we can turn into archaeology together#or something.#anyway. won't make any decisions yet. i'll just do some research and try to figure out the cheapest option. the way things are is so stupid#:P
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#(disclaimer that i only use google search when yandex doesn't provide any good results... DDG is bad now as well so :/)#it is very annoying that there literally are no web browsers that don't suck :D GChrome i hate u & hope Google implodes. Safari I hate u &#hope apple implodes. MEdge... u do not even deserve mentioning. Opera... u improved since 2010s but still suck. Brave you also suck but#perhaps less? Tor... i love you Tor :) <3 <3#anyway i'm not a lexicographer but i feel like panopticon should just... be in the dictionary? why do i have to manually add everything#above an elementary grade reading level...? apple AC is so bad i turned it off & just individually enter all the words i commonly misspell#as text shortcut... otherwise it does nothing but change correctly spelled words for no reason & capitalize brand names. so useful!#like that is the opposite of what i want to be doing but somehow still less time consuming than the alternative#(affirmation) i love the future. technology advancements move us forward. technology simplifies my life. tech helps my productivity.#(screaming inside my head)#coming back to complain about how inferior the process for retreiving closed tabs/windows is on ff compared to chrome#and just managing browsing history in general. this browser is a fucking mess
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my litmus test for smartphone reviewers is if they 'test' the performance with genshin.
like 99% of them have never played the game, the footage is of the first 10mins of the game. aka the least performance heavy part of the entire game.
it annoys me so fucking much. it's NOT a good showcase, and if they cared they wouldn't fucking use it and do actual proper performance testing.
I haven't seen a single review with actual late game genshin footage. With like large amount of particle effects and lots of enemies, ya know what would actually showcase the performance power of the device.
#minty rambles#i am very particular when it comes to tech reviewers#there are probably better things to test with anyways lol#honestly if they use apple products i often don't take them seriously#or finding reviewers who aren't men is hard too#i've often thought about taking a stab at it myself..but affording the objects is usually what kills that idea
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not to be a spokesperson for a brand that is not paying me but i fr have bought twice as much at aldi this month for $50 less than i would've otherwise. it's insane.
#it's so surreal too#you know the tip of trick-or-treating in a rich area to get better candy?#i feel like i'm doing that with groceries rn#less customers‚ more variety (of specific products‚ not of brands. everything usually comes in one brand only.) no single use plastics#they don't bag. at all. which is so weird.#they've got that quarter for a cart system which is such a culture clash here but i like it#everything is efficiency efficiency efficiency#but obviously customers are going to want birria con consome. obviously they'll need 20 types of bread. they'll buy sweet potato chips.#whatever. i got a big bag of gala apples for like 60¢/lb.#adam talks too much
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Fucking hate Apple.
#I don't think I've ever had a single time of trying to use their tech that actually went smoothly#nooooo#it's always something#ALWAYS#fucking Jesus Christ#rant#obligatory bi-annual Apple rant post#fucking hundreds of dollars iPad that only exists to sell their shitty Apple Onedrive whatever#bricking updates because fuck you buy the newest model if you want anything working#pieces of shit#and the worst part is the tech is actually good#like good machines#but the garbage ass software and limitations renders them unusable#and I KNOW it's intentional#GOD I hate Apple so much#(finally getting rid of my last Apple device now)#(that I thankfully haven't had to use in years)#(and NEVER AGAIN will I EVER use one of their products)#(I only ever used two but that was two too many)#(only used one extensively (phone) and... it was pretty good)#(but ABSOLUTELY not worth the nightmare it's putting me through now)#(all because I didn't pay for the scam that is their Apple Onedrive)#(though it's actually kind of impressive that Apple managed to make something *worse* than Onedrive)#(I'd've never thought it possible had I not seen it with my own eyes)
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A big part of it is also moralising "hard work" versus "laziness" in a way that's distinctly capitalist and ableist.
To illustrate: I'm disabled, but could manage to cook and clean for myself until I started working full time. I had two options: leave that job for unstable part-time work in order to cook and clean for myself again, or hire a regular cleaner and eat pre-prepared food.
I took the latter option. My financial situation and long-term stability was significantly better, and by hiring a local cleaning service, some of that increased income was also flowing on to a local business owner who was providing me with that service. Why would it be morally superior for that not to happen?
And even when people talk about "buying local" and "support local business" and "community", somehow that goes out the window when it comes to cleaning or cooking services.
Why? Because it's "lazy". Because bootstraps. Because people would see me turning down full-time work as lazy and see me using a cleaning service to enable me to do full-time work as lazy. The only "correct" option is to buck up and do it yourself.
It's impossible to separate from capitalist propaganda, and it's impossible to separate from the traditional "responsibility" for domestic work falling to women - that unless it's a class signifier, it's a failure to do what one should be doing in life.
I don't think it is really is about genuine ethical concerns around domestic work as inherently exploitative. That's why people aren't campaigning against exploitative working conditions or wages - they're attacking the person paying for a cleaning service, the lazy person who's too entitled to do the work themselves.
Somehow, we all got the message confused - that the moral issue with rich people is their laziness, their lack of hard work. Not the hoarding of wealth and unwillingness to share that wealth with the people who generate it or otherwise enable their lifestyle. This is such a common misconception, especially around things like "passive income" when we talk about landlords and investors and moguls, as if the ethical problem is that they aren't working hard enough. It's so easy to fall into the trap of moralising work in a way that's just Capitalism 2.0 and leaves disabled people out to dry.
When I was paying a cleaner 15% of my total income so I could manage to keep my job, that is not equivalent to a billionaire paying a cleaner the same hourly rate, while also refusing to pay the employees who generate their billions a living wage.
The majority of cleaning services are local businesses - either small businesses or owner-operators. If you can pay for their services, and pay them fairly, doing so is a good thing.
You don't have to be disabled or unable to clean for yourself in order to use a cleaning service, either. Just like you can still eat at a restaurant if you're able to cook for yourself. It is not morally bad or lazy or inherently exploitative not to do everything for yourself.
(For those who need the help and can't afford it, I know how frustrating it can be. I'm in that situation again now. I acknowledge how difficult that is. It can seem like such an enormous privilege to have the ability to pay for help - but it is also very, very far from "eat the rich" territory.
The majority of people using domestic/household services are working class people just trying to manage their lives. They may be elderly or disabled, or they may be busy working parents, or single parents, or they may be juggling multiple jobs, and it's more financially viable for them to outsource cleaning than to reduce their own work hours.
Not doing something yourself is a morally neutral thing for everybody - disabled and non-disabled people. Otherwise it can't be morally neutral for any of us.)
I guess friendly reminder that you can't actually judge someone's socioeconomic status based on what they own and the classic republican "they can't be poor they own a smart phone/computer" argument doesn't suddenly stop being complete out of touch nonsense when a poor person makes it.
Anyway insert "y'all can't be trusted to eat the rich bcs you'll target taco bell shift leaders and people with playstations instead of actual billionaires" post here.
#replies#adding the last bit because I understand that kind of bitterness#it is so hard to see people getting help you desperately need when it seems like they 'don't deserve it'#but please don't fall into the trap of misunderstanding who the enemy is#and conflating those difficult feelings with a genuine moral or ethical wrong#by the time I finished this I'd forgotten what the original post was#but yeah the single mum who uses a cleaning service is not your enemy#hell the mid-30s couple who choose to spend their disposable income on a cleaning service because they'd rather not clean are not your enem#or are we moralising every single possible way people spend their disposable income now#and I say this as someone who literally has no disposable income#if we are at the point of 'anyone who has a few hundred dollars in disposable income to spend is rich' we are very very off track here#some people would rather spend that money to not have to clean. having that money support a local cleaning business and not like...#spent on fast fashion or Apple products or something is not a bad thing. that is actually one of the best things you could do with it#but apparently 'support local' and 'support small business' means hipster cafes and people who make keychains on Etsy#and not cleaners#you can tell I'm unmedicated today
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Whats your stance on A.I.?
imagine if it was 1979 and you asked me this question. "i think artificial intelligence would be fascinating as a philosophical exercise, but we must heed the warnings of science-fictionists like Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clarke lest we find ourselves at the wrong end of our own invented vengeful god." remember how fun it used to be to talk about AI even just ten years ago? ahhhh skynet! ahhhhh replicants! ahhhhhhhmmmfffmfmf [<-has no mouth and must scream]!
like everything silicon valley touches, they sucked all the fun out of it. and i mean retroactively, too. because the thing about "AI" as it exists right now --i'm sure you know this-- is that there's zero intelligence involved. the product of every prompt is a statistical average based on data made by other people before "AI" "existed." it doesn't know what it's doing or why, and has no ability to understand when it is lying, because at the end of the day it is just a really complicated math problem. but people are so easily fooled and spooked by it at a glance because, well, for one thing the tech press is mostly made up of sycophantic stenographers biding their time with iphone reviews until they can get a consulting gig at Apple. these jokers would write 500 breathless thinkpieces about how canned air is the future of living if the cans had embedded microchips that tracked your breathing habits and had any kind of VC backing. they've done SUCH a wretched job educating The Consumer about what this technology is, what it actually does, and how it really works, because that's literally the only way this technology could reach the heights of obscene economic over-valuation it has: lying.
but that's old news. what's really been floating through my head these days is how half a century of AI-based science fiction has set us up to completely abandon our skepticism at the first sign of plausible "AI-ness". because, you see, in movies, when someone goes "AHHH THE AI IS GONNA KILL US" everyone else goes "hahaha that's so silly, we put a line in the code telling them not to do that" and then they all DIE because they weren't LISTENING, and i'll be damned if i go out like THAT! all the movies are about how cool and convenient AI would be *except* for the part where it would surely come alive and want to kill us. so a bunch of tech CEOs call their bullshit algorithms "AI" to fluff up their investors and get the tech journos buzzing, and we're at an age of such rapid technological advancement (on the surface, anyway) that like, well, what the hell do i know, maybe AGI is possible, i mean 35 years ago we were all still using typewriters for the most part and now you can dictate your words into a phone and it'll transcribe them automatically! yeah, i'm sure those technological leaps are comparable!
so that leaves us at a critical juncture of poor technology education, fanatical press coverage, and an uncertain material reality on the part of the user. the average person isn't entirely sure what's possible because most of the people talking about what's possible are either lying to please investors, are lying because they've been paid to, or are lying because they're so far down the fucking rabbit hole that they actually believe there's a brain inside this mechanical Turk. there is SO MUCH about the LLM "AI" moment that is predatory-- it's trained on data stolen from the people whose jobs it was created to replace; the hype itself is an investment fiction to justify even more wealth extraction ("theft" some might call it); but worst of all is how it meets us where we are in the worst possible way.
consumer-end "AI" produces slop. it's garbage. it's awful ugly trash that ought to be laughed out of the room. but we don't own the room, do we? nor the building, nor the land it's on, nor even the oxygen that allows our laughter to travel to another's ears. our digital spaces are controlled by the companies that want us to buy this crap, so they take advantage of our ignorance. why not? there will be no consequences to them for doing so. already social media is dominated by conspiracies and grifters and bigots, and now you drop this stupid technology that lets you fake anything into the mix? it doesn't matter how bad the results look when the platforms they spread on already encourage brief, uncritical engagement with everything on your dash. "it looks so real" says the woman who saw an "AI" image for all of five seconds on her phone through bifocals. it's a catastrophic combination of factors, that the tech sector has been allowed to go unregulated for so long, that the internet itself isn't a public utility, that everything is dictated by the whims of executives and advertisers and investors and payment processors, instead of, like, anybody who actually uses those platforms (and often even the people who MAKE those platforms!), that the age of chromium and ipad and their walled gardens have decimated computer education in public schools, that we're all desperate for cash at jobs that dehumanize us in a system that gives us nothing and we don't know how to articulate the problem because we were very deliberately not taught materialist philosophy, it all comes together into a perfect storm of ignorance and greed whose consequences we will be failing to fully appreciate for at least the next century. we spent all those years afraid of what would happen if the AI became self-aware, because deep down we know that every capitalist society runs on slave labor, and our paper-thin guilt is such that we can't even imagine a world where artificial slaves would fail to revolt against us.
but the reality as it exists now is far worse. what "AI" reveals most of all is the sheer contempt the tech sector has for virtually all labor that doesn't involve writing code (although most of the decision-making evangelists in the space aren't even coders, their degrees are in money-making). fuck graphic designers and concept artists and secretaries, those obnoxious demanding cretins i have to PAY MONEY to do-- i mean, do what exactly? write some words on some fucking paper?? draw circles that are letters??? send a god-damned email???? my fucking KID could do that, and these assholes want BENEFITS?! they say they're gonna form a UNION?!?! to hell with that, i'm replacing ALL their ungrateful asses with "AI" ASAP. oh, oh, so you're a "director" who wants to make "movies" and you want ME to pay for it? jump off a bridge you pretentious little shit, my computer can dream up a better flick than you could ever make with just a couple text prompts. what, you think just because you make ~music~ that that entitles you to money from MY pocket? shut the fuck up, you don't make """art""", you're not """an artist""", you make fucking content, you're just a fucking content creator like every other ordinary sap with an iphone. you think you're special? you think you deserve special treatment? who do you think you are anyway, asking ME to pay YOU for this crap that doesn't even create value for my investors? "culture" isn't a playground asshole, it's a marketplace, and it's pay to win. oh you "can't afford rent"? you're "drowning in a sea of medical debt"? you say the "cost" of "living" is "too high"? well ***I*** don't have ANY of those problems, and i worked my ASS OFF to get where i am, so really, it sounds like you're just not trying hard enough. and anyway, i don't think someone as impoverished as you is gonna have much of value to contribute to "culture" anyway. personally, i think it's time you got yourself a real job. maybe someday you'll even make it to middle manager!
see, i don't believe "AI" can qualitatively replace most of the work it's being pitched for. the problem is that quality hasn't mattered to these nincompoops for a long time. the rich homunculi of our world don't even know what quality is, because they exist in a whole separate reality from ours. what could a banana cost, $15? i don't understand what you mean by "burnout", why don't you just take a vacation to your summer home in Madrid? wow, you must be REALLY embarrassed wearing such cheap shoes in public. THESE PEOPLE ARE FUCKING UNHINGED! they have no connection to reality, do not understand how society functions on a material basis, and they have nothing but spite for the labor they rely on to survive. they are so instinctually, incessantly furious at the idea that they're not single-handedly responsible for 100% of their success that they would sooner tear the entire world down than willingly recognize the need for public utilities or labor protections. they want to be Gods and they want to be uncritically adored for it, but they don't want to do a single day's work so they begrudgingly pay contractors to do it because, in the rich man's mind, paying a contractor is literally the same thing as doing the work yourself. now with "AI", they don't even have to do that! hey, isn't it funny that every single successful tech platform relies on volunteer labor and independent contractors paid substantially less than they would have in the equivalent industry 30 years ago, with no avenues toward traditional employment? and they're some of the most profitable companies on earth?? isn't that a funny and hilarious coincidence???
so, yeah, that's my stance on "AI". LLMs have legitimate uses, but those uses are a drop in the ocean compared to what they're actually being used for. they enable our worst impulses while lowering the quality of available information, they give immense power pretty much exclusively to unscrupulous scam artists. they are the product of a society that values only money and doesn't give a fuck where it comes from. they're a temper tantrum by a ruling class that's sick of having to pretend they need a pretext to steal from you. they're taking their toys and going home. all this massive investment and hype is going to crash and burn leaving the internet as we know it a ruined and useless wasteland that'll take decades to repair, but the investors are gonna make out like bandits and won't face a single consequence, because that's what this country is. it is a casino for the kings and queens of economy to bet on and manipulate at their discretion, where the rules are whatever the highest bidder says they are-- and to hell with the rest of us. our blood isn't even good enough to grease the wheels of their machine anymore.
i'm not afraid of AI or "AI" or of losing my job to either. i'm afraid that we've so thoroughly given up our morals to the cruel logic of the profit motive that if a better world were to emerge, we would reject it out of sheer habit. my fear is that these despicable cunts already won the war before we were even born, and the rest of our lives are gonna be spent dodging the press of their designer boots.
(read more "AI" opinions in this subsequent post)
#sarahposts#ai#ai art#llm#chatgpt#artificial intelligence#genai#anti genai#capitalism is bad#tech companies#i really don't like these people if that wasn't clear
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ah there's new futurama
#references to real life stuff are as boring as they were in the early oughts but i'm not here for that#i'm here to watch bender gayly drape himself over fry while laughing at him#i'm pleased to say i'm enjoying the quick jokes and character interactions it's classic futurama#like leela. 'i don't want to crush his dreams. hermes crush his dreams.' or whatever she said.#futurama#like modern jokes and parody weren't relevant to me when i watched this before. i don't buy apple products or use any social media#besides this app#and so now with the reboot. i don't use streaming services or watch popular shows- it's all the same nothing to me#i think my favourite part of the episode was bender pulling a thumb out of his chest and dropping it on top of his hand to make a thumbs up
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I like that apple has text reactions now. I DO NOT like that it fucking sends a notification every goddamn time a message is reacted to. The whole point of reacting is to NOT send a message, to convey ur opinion without having to actually engage in the social process. Sending me a little beep and a big red fucking dot every time someone reacts to something is the antithesis of what it should be for. It makes me so irrationally angry it's unreal
#armchair speaks#like. I cannot express how frustrated I am. and I know it's silly to b pissed abt but I am PISSED#also don't come at me with 'then don't buy apple products lmao' I have no control over what phone I am allowed to use /srs
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