Good for you.

DIY filter change? $25 give or take depending on the filter. Service company doing it? $100 for the luxury of them arriving, $30 filter, $150 min labor rate to maybe do a service check, then whatever $ for issues they find.

FWIW think it’s good to have pros check stuff once in a while, they’ll see things I won’t know to check.

Reading card files in libraries.

Servicing and repairing many things in the house, but devices were far more easily diagnosed and repairable due to not being computerized. Really the “it’s broke and I gotta fix it” ability across age groups has really dried up. Doesn’t matter if it’s changing a tire on a car, or a kid having to fix a punctured tube on a bike tire to get to their friend’s house. They don’t ride anywhere for that matter. Changing brake pads. Changing the air filter in the home HVAC. People don’t do this stuff anymore.

Being bored.

Reading newspapers, books, magazines, etc. I don’t think people read as much anymore.

Hobbies. I think they’ve kinda died off, at least the physical ones. Model planes, trains, building stuff in your garage, cars, etc. Some of it’s been priced out of range or has gotten too technological for some, like cars, but manually creating something as a pastime has really disappeared.

Remembering a lot of phone numbers in your head.

I’m sure I’ll think of more, but it’s been a while since I was a kid and thought about pre-modern tech society.

Because they asked AI to tell them?

Yes, that does work. It’s not the vibration, the dents change the contact surface pressure of the seal by making it uneven. That makes less surface to fight against.

I was trying to offer an alternative to something that might chip or break glass. Small odds that it will happen, but it could. I’ve probably only ever had 2 jars chip in a lifetime.

FWIW may I suggest these:

They’re called “strap wrenches” and are used in plumbing or automotive work among other things.

Lots of the suggestions here require grip strength, and that is tough for people who are elderly, arthritic, or just don’t have it. The “toothed” opening assist devices slip, and require strength to hold it against the toothed surface and twist the jar.

The strap wrenches can be levered against each other, grip harder the more pressure is applied, and can be “pushed” together vs needing grip strength. My 78 year old MIL uses these just fine. A pair can be bought for less than $20.

Warming the lid under hot tap water, and gripping it with a hand towel when opening so it isn’t slippery, will also open it much more easily without the risk of chipping glass or damaging lids for something that might need re-closing like pickles vs one-time use like pasta sauce.

Or you can buy a pair of “strap wrenches” used in automotive and plumbing work, for less than $20. I suggest these instead of other kitchen aid devices because many of the made-for-kitchen ones are shit. My elderly MIL uses these all the time.

It will tell you about Grandma’s Töltött Káposzta.

Let us know if it asks for your uneaten peanuts or tries to show you pictures of it’s vacation.

Your example isn’t bad. You could go further. 1,000,000 vs 1,000,000,000. Massive difference.

The problem is when we live in a world when we have millions of people with less than $1,000, and others have more than $300,000,000,000.

Desk job of most any kind.

Any job with the threat of violence, to me or me to others.

Yeah, I get this sentiment. I don’t particularly like cooking, but I like cooking a lot more than what my partner prepares.

What kind of useless article is this? We’ve had troll farms and social media bots operating for at least a decade now. This last campaign in the US saw a crapload of AI generated material. There is nothing new here.

If anything, this is good. It’ll put a bunch of those troll farm clowns out of a job. (Half serious)

Oh great. “Doomer narrative”. The new “woke,” to mean anything I disagree with or dislike is a “doomer narrative.”

Thanks for the heads up. Guess I’m done here.

Then, hyperbolically, and hypothetically, the entire electronic and computing world is massively changed and not just AI. Because such a change wouldn’t be limited to AI’s use. I wish you wouldn’t keep playing with the conditions of the argument myopically in an attempt to be right. If you don’t like someone criticizing hyperbole and hypotheticals, don’t use them.

So copypasting your question does what…? If you can’t be bothered to think through my answer and think of a different question, then go re-read the answer I already gave you.

Oh good. If you resort to hyperbole to prove your argument you’ve already lost.

That’s a massive assumption on your part. Exactly how do you propose that the entire architecture of LLM’s be restructured to not be the massive resource hog desperately seeking a profit that it is? Mind you, it’s shit now and you’re basing your argument on a hypothetical “maybe”, like maybe you’ll win a massive lottery payout tomorrow.

That wasn‘t even the argument. The argument is that AI is a resource waste; it uses too much power and water for what is a shit return.

Who cares how complicated it is.

I’m sure there would be a tax hike or something to pay for construction of more subway, plus all the eminent domain for any land to run the lines.