TeaWithDani

May be an orange, but you sure have a smart system to alert you if the kibble is late.

An app is always a red flag, especially if it’s the only way you can interact with the device.

We could live without anything that uses ads to “sustain” itself. Nobody hosting ads on their service is doing so to “maintain” themselves. They just want profit for their labour… they are entitled too, but its a business choice, never a necessity.

And yeah if I use something, I’ll always pay for no ads. Ads cost so much more of our lifespans and contribute so fucking little to those that host them. Garbage.

I respect your take, but I think it is wrong.

Who’s houses are the datacenters being built next to?

I think Ai hate might be the single most unifying position in the west right now.

Most people didn’t even trust algorithmic automation before agents came along. lol

Some transit channels have uploaded mirrors to PeerTube but the numbers are minuscule compared to their Youtube channels.

At this point I don’t understand why he is still hustling new products and ventures all the time. That’s the mental illness at this point. Using LLM is a symptom, like plagiarism would have been.

Why is it so important that he keeps producing content? What is there left he can possibly teach himself that platforming someone else wouldn’t achieve better.

There’s just something maladaptive here.

Listened to someone talk about a bad video he made about knitting and how clueless he was about the topic. He then acknowledged that and made a subsequent video interview… about weaving. There’s just this lack of profoundness you’ll inevitably reach when you yourself are out of your field.

I’m kind of done with edutainment. Like I’m tired of singular smart people acting like they know everything, when they don’t.

Cynically though… they’ve been peddling nothing for two decades now. Big data, the cloud, SAAS, web 3.0, metaverse, nfts, llms, there’s always a new nothing born.

They are all going into debt over datacenters. Google issued new shares… how? why? They all make so much money and still they can’t cashflow this expansion.

What blood will there be to take?

Or his pivot to threads?

Yeah, that’s the neat part about servers, they don’t necessarily need to be snappy. Most of what it does is background work and it doesn’t have anything else to do. DDR3 and DDR4 get the job done just as well, and save you a buck.

My NAS has 16gb of ddr3 ecc, it has 10tb of ZFS pools and it runs an embedded OS. No problems with that. Not going to use it to host Gitlab lol, but it gets the job done for what it has to do.

Farming equipment is a particularly annoying one, that and construction vehicles, are becoming increasingly locked down by proprietary software and impossible to maintain yourself. You can’t even employ mechanics outside the dealer network in some instances and it will be more so in the future.

Do you really need 64gb though? Do you want a PCIe in a low wattage, low air circulation mini PC? Are you running a docker swarm of VMs within the same system? Why?

What’s your use case for this?

You won’t get Local LLMs if the PSU is minuscule. Best get a big old workstation with good cooling. Fried motherboards overloading them with local LLMs. That stuff is mean on hardware.

16gb is still fine for most people.

I think that’s how it went down for most people.

I remember getting free games with Gold back on the 360 and One. Eventually they became unplayable without the subscription. Kinda enshitified.

There’s just something about your progression being tied to a subscription that makes you want to invest less in the game.

There’s some kind of threshold of # of subscriptions and $ of subscription people are willing to be tolerant of.

Like most people were ok with Netflix/Prime when they were the only two in town and it cost like $20-$25 for both.

Now there’s how many different streaming services? You don’t even have an easy way to know which provider has what anymore either.

Microsoft currently sells 4 different passes… and I have no idea whatsoever which gives me what… And the prices range from $14 to $25 CAD, which is the upper limit of what people want to pay in total subscription cost alone.

People get games with Netflix and Prime on top of their existing subscription and I’m sure most people don’t play or even know about them. lol

I’m actually really surprised this didn’t work. They had acquired such a large amount of quality studios, IPs and a huge back catalogue. They had enough money to keep the subscription low indefinitely. Getting added to the Game Pass was a huge deal for indie devs at one point, but I think those who did were disapointed with returns.

Granted the article says they dropped 300 million on Jedi Survivor and Suicide Squad… which gets to the point of how unsustainable subscription models are. It’s like a smaller version of the Ai market. Just like how you can’t break even on 300 million selling a $10 a month subscription, you can’t break even on $30 billion investments with the same $10 subscription.

Still, how could you possibly mess this up. lol

The only requirement of the BSD license is you credit the code somewhere in a disclosure. That’s pretty much it.

At least it supports 64 bit then. 😅

Listen, can’t speak for 20 year old cpu, but yeah snaps are more optimized now than in 2018.