Eh... It says that in a room with a thousand people you would be smarter than 345 of them.
That's the same as saying in a ranking where no. 1000 is the smartest and no.1 is pretty much the dumbest person, you would be number 346.
For items purchased online only, I try to. I tend to buy on AliExpress and the photos don't always do justice to the product. It's very helpful to see the experiences of others when making a purchase.
Interestingly I have had many experiences which resulted in products better than expected, and if I see this trend of comments on a product I'm undecided, I'll probably be swayed to purchase. The opposite is true when the reviews denounce a product or seller as a scam.
Other than that I will give my opinion on other products if someone asks. Say for example someone on Lemmy asked about vacuum cleaner recommendations, or wondering about a specific phone model I once had, I would chime in with my personal experience.
TLDR yes whenever possible, because you can't always trust the seller to be honest. You need an impartial opinion.
AI can emulate any style, including traditional styles. It's not just some amateur who can't manage their commissions among uni/high school exams getting fucked over. But sure, you must be right. Every artist deserves their livelihood compromised because some random dude can't pick a proper professional.
As a side note, and hoping this helps others looking to hire an artist:
Whenever dealing with illustration customers I've signed a contract. The contract specifies the amount of revisions covered over a single artwork and how much would it cost to carry on further. It also gives some framework of reference on the type of work involved when doing revisions, ie examples of techniques used or the proportion of the area being reworked (changing half the character would be a major revision, changing small details would be a minor revision, etc). Hashing out a contract gives me and my client time to agree on payment, such as milestone payments, which means that if the client isn't happy with the performance they can withdraw early and only lose a fraction of the money. It also means the artist can hold up on delivering if the payment never shows up. It protects both parties, essentially.
If you as a client chose to throw away your money at someone without working out fair conditions and deadlines, well, what can I say. You gambled and lost.
Be a better client, learn how to pick better professionals.
Depends on what you consider a cartoon.
I can't pick a single decade either. I'm a fan of the 30's-50's cartoons, in spite of any content/stereotypes that hasn't aged well.
Fast forward a little bit I think the 90's have some of the best cartoons produced, with cartoon network and nickelodeon taking the lion's share of it.
If you consider anime a cartoon too, I would say the 80's is where it's at.
Terry Pratchett
Best way to force something is with a partner in crime. Find someone else interested in doing something creative and work a plan. That teamwork can become motivation. This can be very hard though, I'm going through somewhat of a similar situation. What creative field would you be looking into? Ttrpg is a good start, speaking from experience.
I'll be curious.
It never worked properly on my android phone that doesn't have Google services
Just properly or actually not at all? Currently, my android has Google services, but my WhatsApp isn't linked to any Google Account. It runs as expected. I wonder what your experience was, as I'd like to own a google free phone sometime but I don't think I'll be able to remove WhatsApp from my life unfortunately.
It doesn't spam your phone with photos, unless you decide to download them
It doesn't backup your conversations to your already nearly full, Google owned Drive
Dark mode by default
Not owned by Meta
No frills, I couldn't care less for "personal stories" or whatever bs Whatsapp has
Basically it is somewhat more respectful of your agency as a user.
...edit: yes you have a setting to toggle backup off. And to change background to whatever you want. And I'm sorry for you, because your deeply cynical friends (your words) probably won't care about my points either. Because in essence, all my reasons rest on personal values. Which your friends already don't care about, else they would be complaining about things such as no space on phone or being annoyed at having to change settings for things they don't want or need.
I use signal but never managed to get rid of WhatsApp. It's a default app nowadays and most people use it. I constantly deal with random customers and whatnot through it. Only family is on signal. Which is sort of nice, I see a signal notification and know it's someone important.
Maybe but don't you think the light looks fake? Not even photoshopped makes sense. Anyway....
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And the ladybug larvae are so cool looking too, and they munch on harmful mold as well