Surprise, surprise!

While I’ve been into computer hardware for decades (built my first PC when I was 16), I don’t understand people who are “fans” of AMD or Nvidia or any other company. The best option is to have a large number of competitors (at least 7-10 on a global level) in every major core technology area (operating systems, cloud services, office products, social media, different CPU architectures - x86, ARM, RISC-V. GPU design fabs and so on) with such an intense level of competition that something like Zuckerberg’s $60 B+ spend on metaverse BS would be impossible (because their margins would be too low).

• Better on-boarding - For non-technically inclined users, Fedi can be challenging. I personally strongly oppose the “join by selecting instance” type sites. There should be an algorithm automatically signing up users based on region, refer header and perhaps some sort of random selection
• With respect to Threadi, when a user is logged in, all links to instance/communities should automatically be transformed to the “view via your instance format” ([email protected]).
• Movement to Piefed (I am aware I am posting from a Lemmy account, this one is used for managing [email protected], I used Piefed) - tankies are a major turn off for people across the globe and across the political spectrum.
• Target users who are recognize the severe dangerous of US oligarchy. More and more people are recognizing that the American model is a dead end.
• Target open source communities. I don’t understand why r/linux or r/BSD are not making a move to directing users towards Threadi

And most importantly: post, comment, upvote.

Note, I am doing some of these thing when I can.

Have they already reached $60 B torched on ZuckZuck’s autosexual metaverse Mii fetish?

I generally agree with your thinking at a high level.

I wouldn’t be so pessimistic though. Not saying everything will magically work out OK, it will probably get worse before it gets better. In the long term, oligarchs too subject to human weaknesses. hubris, factual ignorance, ignoring the notion humans aren’t like parasite and can be very unpredictable.

That being said, this is all in the long term. We might really be fucked for the next 30 years.

Don’t really remember which Stable Diffusion model was used. I followed a guide.

I am just looking for generation of simple two tone flat icons and very basic 3D photo images for products. It to save time making presentations. I would usually just cook something up based on free iconsets or Google images. It actually doesn’t take long.

Gemini works pretty well for this (and support multi -model prompts), but I would prefer to use local models.

So the consumer market is not worth it?

I wonder why they didn’t sell the brand to a third party, I guess they don’t want to be tied to providing RAM.

I have a 3080 with 10 GB VRAM.

I wasn’t getting very good results with Automatic1111, it felt like I was spending more time fiddling with config than getting the images I was looking for (nothing special mostly generic home hardware type objects, but done in a specific and consistent style and view).

32 GB VRAM won’t be common for at least another 5-7 years IMO, perhaps more.

The corrupt oligopolists have completely given up on QA; why would they bother when they don’t feel any real competitive pressure.

AFAIK, this has been happening as far back as Windows 8. I believe they had a giant pool of physical PCs (laptops, pre-builts and various popular component combinations for desktop) that they physically tested updates on, but they scrapped all of it because they know they don’t need to worry about competition.

That has become less of an issue now because of a recently announced feature called Windows ML 2.0, which does not distinguish between different NPUs, CPUs, GPUs, and AI chips, O’Donnell said. Microsoft earlier this year also added the Phi and Mu small language models (SLMs) for AI applications to run directly on PCs.

While the new AI features announced at Ignite also take advantage of the NPUs, Microsoft’s hard requirement for a performant NPU has been dwindling, analysts said. There are signs Intel may be deprioritizing NPUs and switching back to GPUs as a minimum compute standard for AI PCs.

While my DIY use cases (i.e. not using cloud services) in ML are somewhat limited in their scope (mostly video upscaling, I honestly gave up on local LLMs and local imagine generation), the NPU concept seems like a bad fit for a market that’s still in its early stages (and likely needs a massive corrective decline for us to understand truly valuable use cases).

This is one area where I will agree with MS. 32 MB extra RAM consumption is worth it for even a moderate speed boost.

That being said, the vast majority of modern applications run like shit. You have electron apps which are comically terrible in their performance metrics, but even beyond that you often have apps takeing up 100s of MBs and eating up a stupid amount of RAM considering what they do.

Tapet is also good for dynamically created wallpapers.I bought it a long time ago way before the current AI hype cycle.

I don’t know the exact formula, but there will be a significant drop in heat when your components power consumption goes down by 96%.

Then why partake in ML?

Sounds like a move driven by politics.

That being said, that’s not a bad thing. All democratic countries would benefit from more active state intervention drop American technology, services and hardware and limit acquisition of promising local companies by American oligarch groups (e.g. Qualcomm’s acquisition of Arduino).

You support continued internment of Ukrainians in the occupied territories, abuse of Ukrainian children and russian genocidal imperialism.

The “don’t care about lines on the map” statement is not believable coming from someone who repeats putin’s statements about “Watzis in Ukraine!1!1”.

Why would I need to remind you about something you already know and have taken to heart? Good to see progress on this issue! One day you might even remember your ghoulish “leftist” online roleplay with a profound sense of shame and disgust. Stranger things have happened in life…

Sure you were! It’s not like tankies aren’t known to lie about Cuba being a democracy or NK being a “vanguard against imperialism”. No ma’am!

Someone claiming to have family in Ukraine supports neither Ukraine or russia. That’s very realistic! Or wait, I know, you support the DNR not russia ;), got you tankie!

Yes, pushing russian narratives about Ukraine is supporting putin.

You’ve never lived in Ukraine (Donbas or otherwise) or even russia and the whole “Nazis in Ukraine” pitch is just cover for your disgusting commie belief in the extermination of undesirable ethnicities (who in your view don’t submit to your messed up understanding communism).

You think Ukrainians don’t have a right to self determination and you have the gall to say you oppose the war?

Don’t play with dumb with me tankie!

I don’t support Ukraine

Thank you for proving my point (once again) about tankies supporting extermination of Ukrainian culture/identity/language and continued internment of tens of thousands of Ukrainians in the occupied territories (and mass discrimination and prosecution).

You even openly admit that you support putin’s “de-nazifiction of Ukraine” rhetoric.

You most definitely do not “oppose the war entirely”. Rejection of self determination for Ukrainians (and the right to speak in Ukrainian) is support for the russian invasion of Ukraine.

lemmy.ml is predominantly socialist.

Saying ML is socialist (which it’s not, it’s a tankie instance) is de facto discrediting socialism.

It’s like saying that socialists oppose any criticism of russia and china (authoritarian, imperialist, hyper-capitalist oligarchic countries that have nothing to do with socialism) and socialist only read Russia Today.

Congrats! You went on an American eurotrip in your youth. And you know a few people who were born in the USSR on Lemmy (does that include me)?

If you know so much about the USSR, can you tell me which professions were (outside of being a party goons) considered profitable and why? Wikipedia answers aren’t going to cut it. Something that shows basic knowledge on this issue without web searching. Indulge me, lil commie bro!

Yes, meat was widely available in the USSR and common access was not limited to well-connected individuals and party goons! What a great life!

The Holodomor never happened and it was CIA psyop! The CIA made a time machine to travel back in time and discredit comrade Stalin! I see. My great grandmother was a time travelling CIA agent working to discredit communism!

Local language education was definitely not suppressed and cultural group of occupied nations weren’t prosecuted! You could make movies in your language and vote to have education be primarily in your own language, right? You could even vote leave the USSR since it wasn’t an occupation!

The real irony is that even the russians don’t believe in your cointelpro and counter-revolutionary gibberish (wrt Czechia and Hungary). They are lucid enough to understand that it was matter of imperialism and ethno-national supremacism.