There will be a new generation that learns about VPNs and torrents. Life is cyclical.

I will have to temper things to a degree so I don’t get fired for my strong and vocal opinion, but there will be celebration. Nothing in writing, but I’ll tell anyone I don’t work with exactly how I feel about the situation. In my head, I’ve already had the argument/conversation with my conservative neighbors that will be upset about it. I will have no shame, and I will bury them in insults and facts. Burn every bridge that doesn’t pay my bills. They may not even be good arguments, but I can always fall back on them supporting a pedophile rapist. That’s indefensible.

I’ll have to get cameras and lights to keep on my flag to prevent someone from stealing it or lowering it. I recently played with a buddies slingshot on a camping trip. That would be fun.

Damn hydration. Always growing too many heads.

Maybe, but CPUs are coming out with LLM tuned chips, and I can run a basic model on an i5, 8gb ram, and no dedicated card. It’s not super powerful, but for most users, it’s more than enough for what they use the big models for. Also, if it does take a discrete card to get that needed boost in performance, then at least consumers would be able to get GPUs again.

I think as hardware improve and is further designed around LLM efficiency, and local models are tuned for specific uses and being able to run on lesser hardware, it will make Nvidia obsolete for large swaths of the population. A good GPU will still be necessary for high performance, graphic/physics intense gaming, but that’s a really small subset of all users.

Hopefully Nvidia just shits and has to grovel back to the consumer to get there marketshare back when all of the DCs go tits up.

It feels like one of those technologies that can’t truly be contained. It’s like how the government keeps trying to end piracy. It’s like a hydration. Cut off one head and two more show up. Local models will be the dagger to premiere models.

I’ve said it before, but I’m going to go buy a flag pole and American flag, and put that shit square in my front yard and put it full staff. Might even surround it by smaller flags to really sell it.

Sounds like there’s a market for a hugging face comeptitor.

Nvidia is seeing the writing on the wall that local models are the only viable future for AI. They have to try and squash that now before it’s too late. I mean, it is already is too late, as they’ve hooked there wagons to these AI companies, and that shit’s going to end and nividia is going to be a bag holder. I can’t wait.

The first thing I do every morning when I wake up is open Lemmy hoping to see the headline that Trump is dead. One of these days will be the best day of my life.

Mostly inherited wealth, but also those things.

For sure. I’ve already contemplated switching to a different streaming service for music, but while I have YT premium I’ll keep using YT music, although they keep making that interface worse and worse. My YT consumption will just plummet to only a couple of channels, and I’ll just work through my backlog of the terabytes of media I have on my Plex server. Hell, might even go outside and see what that’s all about, but I don’t want to rush into anything.

I have my sub shared across a couple different families in 4 different houses, in 2 different states. If they crack down, I’m dropping my subscription.

This is my setup, and we are spread across 4 houses in 2 states. Never been an issue.

Are you suggesting just rolling over and accepting everything bad because fighting against Trump is an uphill battle?

Fair enough. I strictly use it for comms in games I play with friends. I’m not active in any other communities and I’m certainly not paying for nitro. I’d like to migrate but getting everyone to do so probably won’t happen. I could maybe convince my closest game friends, but I have a clan in a game with people I don’t know that we use discord to chat. Definitely not getting all 40+ to move.

What solution did you end up on post Discord? If you had a group of people you communicated on Discord with, did you have luck migrating them out? I’d like to move, but my use is already really minimal and I feel like getting my friend group out is going to be difficult to non-existent in some cases.

Also Bethesda. Skyrim has been released so many times since 2011.

I was chatting with it CEO the other day and the your of recording glasses came up. He said they are band in the company, and they’ve had conversations with their lawyers, that also say not to allow them. I was happy to hear that.

I agree. It would be nice to know why, but I’d imagine we’ll never know. We can just speculate.

I think it had the opposite effect. I believe the recently didn’t renew their contract with Google because they were upset people weren’t coming to the site, just getting answers from Gemini. I could be wrong, but I thought I read that

For laptops, I’ve successfully run arch on dell, HP, Lenovo, and a Surfacebook, all within the last 3 years. The only issues I had were on one of the dells and the SB, the touchscreen didn’t work, which I had no issues with. I did have intermittent issues with the Lenovo fingerprint reader, but that laptop was about 10 years old when I got it, so less surprising.

I wouldn’t limit yourself to manufacturer at all, and I would recommend a business class model, but if you can get a consumer grade for stupid cheap, I wouldn’t say no to that either.

When my company cycles out laptops, they pull hard drives and then send them to recycling. We are allowed to take them. I had an older 2018 Dell and got a 2023 Dell to replace it. I just moved the nvme from one to the other and everything just worked. I didn’t expect it to be so smooth, but I literally didn’t have to do anything. I say that just so you know it’s simple to upgrade if you find a better option later.