I keep seeing comments like this and can't help but feel like that would be like suggesting someone who makes pottery as a hobby could make it way faster by just ordering the vase they want from someone else; I imagine the fun part in this, as in many other hobbies, is making it, because if just want to play something someone else made, you can already do that, can't you? Maybe it won't be exactly what you wanted, but the LLM generated one won't also.

I think operating under the assumption that AI is an entity bring itself and comparing it to dogs is not really accurate. Entities (not as in legal, but in the general sense) are beings, living beings that are capable of emotion, of thought and will, are they not? Whether dogs are that could be up to debate (I think they are, personally), but whether language models are that is just is not. The notion very notion that they could be any type of entity is directly tied to the value the companies that created it have, it is part of the hype and capitalist system and I, again personally, don't think anyone could ever turn that into something that somehow ends up against capitalism just because the AI can't directly want something in return for you. I understand the sentiment and the distrust of the mental health care apparatus, it is expensive, it is tied to capitalism, it depends on trusting someone that is being paid to influence your life in a very personal way, but it's still better than trusting it on the judgment of a conversational simulation that is incapable of it, incapable of knowing you and observing you (not just what is written, but how you physically react to situations or to the retelling, like tapping your foot or disengaging) and understanding nuance. Most people would be better served talking to friends (or doing their best trying to make friends they can trust if they don't have any), and I would argue that people supporting people struggling is one way of truly opposing capitalism.

Feel free to substitute in whatever word you think matches my intent best then. You seem to understand my intent well enough--I'm not interested in discussing the definition of individual words though.

Well, Amazon does have a global presence, for worse rather than better in my opinion, but I live in Brazil and, as far as I am aware, there isn't really any other decent e-reader brand selling its devices here officially and conversion rates plus taxes would make it really expensive to import anything else, so that could be a reason.

I have an 2016 basic kindle that I use often, it is sideloaded with KOreader (official software didn't support epubs when I bought it) and I mainly use it for non-amazon books through Calibre or cable transfer.

As someone who loves reading and uses e-readers a lot (physical books feel cooler though), the experience of typing with an e-ink display doesn't seem enjoyable, I imagine it would have quite the delas. Have you guys coded in e-ink and it is actually okay? (I want my intuition to be wrong about this so much, because that does sound appealing)

I'd take a sharp LCD display over ePaper tbh. They look almost as nice but can run at way higher refresh rates. I agree that ePaper probably isn't quite there for refresh rate for me to want to type on it