Why are you describing me so well?

The number of times I’ve seen eyes glaze over after someone asked a question they shouldn’t have and didn’t want the answer to, is too damned high.

Also, sometimes, I’ll go into a ridiculous level of detail just to intellectually beat someone over the head with how much I know so they’ll stop asking questions. They seem to think they’re being clever and trying to “prove” that tech guys don’t know much more than the rest of the “tech literate”.

I’ll tell you, the amount of information in my brain from working IT support for a decade would make most people’s head spin for hours. And that’s not including the countless years of time in college, and doing personal/independent research, simply because a fancy new technology captured my ADHD hyperfocus.

I’ve gone from being a novice with a technology, discussing it with someone who seems to know a lot about the topic, to researching everything about it, and the next time I meet them, they don’t have half of the knowledge of the subject that I do by that point. It happens… A lot.

If you don’t want a lecture, and just want things to work stop asking questions, just tell me what you expect as the outcome and I’ll figure out everything in-between.

It’s excessive, I’ll give you that. I can’t really argue with your point here.

Oh, right, they’re cool.

Along with humble bundle. Those guys are cool too.

Woohoo to being responsible for others not having any fun playing a game!

Woo! Woooooo.

What?

I don’t know why you would admit this.

… Because when it comes to billionaires, gaben is the least of our concern?

Don’t get me wrong, billionaires are always bad, but not all billionaires are hated.

You won’t see Bezos doing anything that helps people, not unless it will line his pockets. Valve doesn’t charge us for using vac, they’re unlikely to sell a lot of new copies of CS2 by making it harder to cheat in the game. They have nearly zero financial reasons to bother with any of this. They did it anyways.

Yeah. Go buy hollow Knight, or schedule 1, or anything from an indie studio. Support both good devs and studios, and valve. And you even get a fun game to go with your support. Honestly, everyone wins.

… Does anyone still wonder why I boycotted all other gaming platforms other than steam?

You think you’re going to get anti-cheat this good from the likes of epic? Ha.

I was blissfully unaware, probably because I’m not cheating scum.

Couldn’t have happened to a better community of people.

Fuck cheaters.

IMO, cheating is just taking away all the fun of the game. The cheater didn’t have to get gud to be able to win, and the victim is denied any recourse or any fun in playing the game. Bluntly, I have absolutely no sympathy at all for these kinds of people. If you suck at the game and need to use cheats to win, maybe don’t fucking play it competitively?

There’s a reason I’ve kept my counterstrike antics to private games among friends and local matches against bots. I have no interest in larder boards. I just want to have fun. Dying over and over before you can even do any damage, isn’t fun.

If you’re a cheater, get wrecked.

Bravo valve. Bravo.

I’m in this boat. I didn’t hate BL3. The story was meh, the antagonists were unlikeable, but they were supposed to be, so good job there. Overall, I enjoyed my time with it.

I tried to go back to BL1/2 and was hit in the face by all the usability issues, since it seems like they added mouse and keyboard support as an afterthought. BL3 is one of few borderlands games I can stand the UI enough to actually play.

My expectations from BL4 were/are small. Better mouse/kB support (or at least on par with BL3), and more story. I could give a fuck about the graphics, and most of the “loot” is randomly generated vendor trash. Unless it has a name and a gold title, most people couldn’t give any fewer shits about it. So all they literally had to do was mix up the gold tier weapons, and work on the plot line.

I see they fucked with the engine, otherwise it wouldn’t be so bloody unstable.

Oh well. I’ll wait for the goty/master collection/turbo Max ultra digital edition or whatever, that has the game and includes all the nickel and dime bullshit they’re going to try to get people to buy… Then wait for it to go on sale.

They’re not special. They’re going to end up enshittifying the game. It’s happening. I’m just going to stand on the side lines and watch.

I mean. Even putting all the borderlands expectations aside, it was a pretty low quality movie.

Like, a lot of films that are adapted from games or other media, if you set aside expectations from the original media, you at least end up with a halfway decent movie.

This one was just a train wreck all the way through.

It can be. It depends on context and tone.

If they say that shit with a tone of defeat, I’d address it head on. If it’s typical banter like this sucks kind of tone then whatever.

People say a lot of concerning shit if you take everything that they say literally. Fact is that a lot of us use sarcasm and hyperbole as coping mechanisms.

Today, I joked with a buddy at work that the day made me want to hang myself from my shoelaces. I have zero suicidal ideation right now, I’m just unhappy that I have to put up with the people I have to work with right now. He’s much the same, sick of the shit, so he gets me.

It really depends on the tone and context more than anything.

It very much used to be.

Some of the newer stuff they’ve been putting out has been surprisingly good. Full explanations of how things interact, descriptions of what each option does, what options are available, how to configure things, useful examples…

Then you get to one option called something like “-outputformat” or something and the docs literally just say “this option configures the output format”, and you fall flat on your face and perish.

I assume everything I read on the Internet is someone’s opinion. Unless it’s about an Internet thing, by the company that made that thing.

Like finding usage articles for Windows/office/whatever, on Microsoft’s website…

This. This is the reality and the root cause of a lot of the issues regarding homelessness, starvation and preventable illness in the world.

Aggressive capitalists value money more than anyone’s, and everyone’s life.

They will let you die to bump their profits a fraction of a percent.

The fact that they’re not mentioned, does not constitute proof that they were not included in the statistics.

I would say, they’re not necessarily good, just less bad.

Same idea though.

I wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest if they are included in the list. I dunno, I’m not the statistician who crunched the numbers here. I didn’t collect the data, and that source material is not available for me to examine.

What I can say is that the article defines “discrete” GPUs instead of just “GPUs” to eliminate all the iGPUs. Because Intel dominates that space with AMD, but it’s hard to make an iGPU when you don’t make CPUs, and the two largest CPU manufacturers make their own iGPUs.

The overall landscape of the GPU market is very different than what this data implies.

I didn’t say there was.

I just want this specific billionaire to continue to live because, unlike most billionaires, he’s not making my life more difficult.

He’s basically refused to let steam become enshittified. Other billionaires would have long ago succumb to the one that they serve, the almighty dollar, and done whatever they can to extract the most value from their user base. Enshittifying the platform in the process, and actively making my life worse.

So as far as I’m concerned, when it comes to billionaires, gaben is far from the worst.

I have a short list of billionaires that kinda fit into the category of: I don’t mind that they exist.

There’s a much longer list of billionaires that I’d like to see pushing up the daisies.

Not that I can, or would, do anything to make that happen. I just, wouldn’t hate it if it happened.

The original post is about Nvidia’s domination of discrete GPUs, not consumer GPUs.

So I’m not limiting myself to people running an LLM on their personal desktop.

That’s what I was trying to get across.

And it’s right on point for the original material.

… Yeah, for yourself.

I’m referring to anyone running an LLM for commercial purposes.

Y’know, 80% of Nvidia’s business?

Who the fuck buys a consumer GPU for AI?

If you’re not doing it in a home lab, you’ll need more juice than anything a RTX 3000/4000/5000/whatever000 series could have.