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Not sure of statistics. But imo judging by the picture of media as of today, torrenting is either growing or changing into usenet.

Happened in 2017.

After watching countless interrogation videos, they are not only crying because they got caught. They are also crying cause they are going to jail and that their life is ruined now. If sentence would not be incarceration, they'd be happy and with a smile. It is always "am I going to jail?" rather than an actual sense of guilt.

Book will always be there in its original format, no ads, no change, no tracking, no brainrot, no trends, no algorithmic content creation.

Until someone figures out how to generate books written by AI that will ultilize algorithms, curate them to include ads and trends, and that will have unavoidable AI brainrot. For now books are safe.

Think about it. Today we say that AI will never write a good book. But 3 years ago we were saying that AI will never generate a realistic footage after that "Will Smith eating pasta" video. Today AI-video is getting harder to distinguish. Same with music. Not a lot of time has passed.

It's media being manipulated by megacorps to push whatever they want to cash in on. Also ads. Also also, you're getting old!

Great example would be music industry. If you listen to radio, you would notice that most of the modern music is just bunch of the same artists that are topping the charts. But there are also way more great artists that create music today that are unheard if your primary source of music is radio.

Enter Spotify (or at least how it used to be before 2022). Spotify would give you choice what to listen to. Would suggest artists that do similar music to what you like. It made discovering new artists very easy. For years 3 major labels were dictating what majority of people would listen to. But now people can finally chose what they like. And that is what makes Spotify so hard to drop, considering recent issues.

Same with movies. Not that there are no good movies or series out there. It is just what these mega conglomerates dictate on what is pushed to the masses. An insanely good indie movie has nothing near the budget to advertise itself as some meh-grade Disney flick can have.

I suggest to go off mainstream. Mainstream media is not where "it's at" anymore. Get into indie movies. Might be good to start checking some particular directors and their catalog.

Same goes to YT. I fucking love me some small content creators.

Games? - Single player, online/split screen co-op. Each year there are bunch of really good games are released. Indie genre now is the new hot way to play and enjoy games.

Do not go on mainstream meme subs. These suck. Find some small subs that offer meme experience. Eventually any sub that grows big entshittifies beyond repair.

News. This shit cant be avoided entirely. Maximum you can do is to minimize exposure to news. Do not scroll as much on your phone and use TV just for movies and series.

To artificially populate their instance? I dunno.

Bot prosting AI generated images to niche reddit subs also makes no sense to me. But that is a reality we are dealing with here too.

You can use uBO on shorts to make them dissappear.

For Android, 7 helieve revanced has an option for that.

I am not looking for a purpose. All I care if I or people close to me are having a good life. It is not always good or perfect. But overall, I am happy at where I am but I also have space to grow to.

When September ends

What exactly is good about either of them.

Say, a professional lawyer is making a reaction video to some other video depicting something that breaks the law and gives comments form law standpoint - that is fine. But might as well count as a commentary channel rather than a reaction channel. Also, these are fucking rare!

And then we got trillions of channels that just watch movie/game trailers, funny tiktok/reddit/insta/9gag videos, or worse - movies and just occasionally react in an exaggerated tone to them or dont react at all - that is content cancer prime.

Most of new consumer-grade devices are USB-C while non-consumer-grade ones would utilize other standards. But I haven't seen a proprietary ones in a while here. The one I have for my miniPC is proprietary, but I am skilled enough to either fix it or change it for something else when it's breaks.

I am all up for USB-C for personal/home electronics. I have modified some of my devices to utilize USB-C and am incredibly happy with results. But I also can see why say audio/video equipment would never adapt fully to USB-C. I guess industrial equipment does benefit from much sturdier connectors than USB-C and there are plenty of standards.