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If you think AI tools can’t translate texts you must have never tried. I speak two languages natively and sometimes use AI tools to translate text between them, because it is simply a lot faster than doing it by hand. Being able to speak both languages I can easily confirm that the AI translated texts are at least as good as what I could produce myself. It’s a really useful tool for that purpose.

If you hate AI on principle, that’s fine. You’re entitled to your opinion. But to say it doesn’t work is just simply wrong.

Check out “Unwatched for YouTube” on iOS. It’s a bit janky, but it works. Certainly better than paying for premium.

Unwatched for YouTube on Apple devices.

Pulsar: Lost Colony

You play with up to 5 players to collaboratively fly a space ship. Each player has a role (Captain, Pilot, Weapons Officer, Scientist, Engineer) and runs around the inside of the space ship in first person, doing different tasks to keep everything working and you can also beam onto planets and do stuff there or board other ships. It’s clearly inspired by Star Trek. There is on foot and ship to ship combat. Basically you fly from sector to sector doing missions and collecting upgrades with the goal of eventually beating a final boss. Playthroughs take multiple game sessions and you need to communicate a lot, so it’s best played with friends. You don’t need a full crew of 5 to play, but I’d recommend at least 4 players so you can fill all the roles (the captain mainly makes decisions and can easily fill in for one of the other roles). I haven’t played in a while, but it’s good fun.

IMO tech sucks because it is full of turbo capitalist tech bros who idolise people like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, especially in leadership positions. Workers realise they are creating nothing of value, or even actively harmful things, just so a line can go up and make some ghouls even richer. Of course the tech bros love to talk about how revolutionary the product that the workers slave over is and how passionate the company is about it, only to enshittify it the instant they think it would be more profitable to do so.

Meanwhile the higher ups don’t care about the workers and get a boner from gloating about how good the last quarter was and laying off half the company in the same townhall meeting. These days they don’t even care enough anymore to say the company is a big family and put a fruit bowl in the break room.

None of this is new to tech workers. The deal has always been, that the douchebag tech bros get to feel important and the workers get to enjoy the relatively good wages and a stable career (if they got downsized someone else was always hiring), while sarcastically joking about the situation and making fun of their idiot bosses with their colleagues. The only new thing about AI is that now those careers are no longer stable. Not because AI can actually replace them, but because the tech bros insultingly think that an LLM can do the work of actually skilled workers.