Leave it to NVidia to think that adapting their bloatware to Linux is what will make Linux users come back to them instead of not making proprietary drivers that suck.

It must level off at some point, if anything for purely mathematical reasons. But the higher it gets before that happens the better.

I like that the line appears to take an exponential growth curve. Hopefully it will keep going. Microslop sure is helping right now.

I came back to see this removed comment and now I can only imagine what it was

sudo dnf up

I do want them to stay alive and sort themselves out though. Otherwise in a few years it will be AMD who will start outputting overpriced crap and this time there will be no alternative on the market.

They’re already not interested in seriously putting competitive pressure on NVidia’s historically high GPU prices.

I am brave enough to say it: The ocean has water in it.

Praise me for my braveness.

Also, furries.

“Bought them out” is a weak word too though. He placed loyal people on the board and had them vote to give him control of the company.

And now he has been having them vote to give him absurd unseen before “salaries”

Musk nearly bankrupted Tesla when he insisted that the door handles must be flush after stealing the company from its original founders.

A man had free water in his house. This is what happened to his brain.

So you end up paying more in a few years than you would have paid to buy instead. And you are limited in how much you use it. And I imagine you have to deal with bandwidth and latency issues. And you don’t get to keep it.

The future is stupid.

I had an old NVidia gtx 970 on my previous machine when I switched to Linux and it was the source of 95% of my problems.

It died earlier this year so I finally upgraded to a new machine and put an Intel Arc B580 in it as a stop gap in hopes that video cards prices would regain some sanity eventually in a year or two. No problems whatsoever with it since then.

Now that AI is about to ruin the GPU market again I decided to bite the bullet and get myself an AMD RX 9070 XT before the prices go through the roof. I ain’t touching NVidia’s cards with a 10 foot pole. I might be able to sell my B580 for the same price I originally bought it for in a few months.

Cool. Now I can not watch them by choice.

Best prank idea: Put someone’s browsing history on one of those.

When in a gold rush, be the one selling shovels.

I’m off to buy stocks in bananas.

Shit like that is why AI is completely unusable for any application where you need it to behave exactly as instructed. There is always the risk that it will do something unbelievably stupid and the fact that it pretends to admit fault and apologize for it after being caught should absolutely not be taken seriously. It will do it again and again as long as you give it a chance to.

It should also be sandboxed with hard restrictions that it cannot bypass and only be given access to the specific thing you need it to work on and it must be something you won’t mind if it ruins it instead. It absolutely must not be given free access to everything with instructions to not touch anything because your can bet your ass it will eventually go somewhere it wasn’t supposed to and break stuff just like it did there.

Most working animals are more trustworthy than that.

Gabe wins the internet once again.

Look up the phenomenon called “Chatbot Psychosis”. In its current form, especially with GPT4 that was specifically designed to be a manipulative yes-man, chatbots can absolutely insidiously mess up someone’s head enough to push them to the act far beyond just answering the question of how to do it like a simple web search would.

What if, bear with me here, what if people just don’t have as much disposable income after the dramatic transfer of wealth to the rich class we’ve been seeing?

The economy is collapsing and the lower classes are feeling it already. The rich investor class isn’t seeing it because the tech industry has been propping up the market with their investments going all-in with unrealistic expectations for AI technology. We are currently experiencing a K-shaped recovery where the richest are on a spending spree while the poorest are cutting back their expenses. How much more obvious must it be that this is what’s going on?

You want the general population to start wasting their money on useless crap again, you’ll have to give them more money to work with.