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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • I’m a Windows User (Hello, there are dozens of us)

    My laptop is Kubuntu (KDE+Ubuntu)

    My college laptop was Linux Mint

    My main PC is Win-10 LTSE.

    Why: I need exceptional anti-cheat support because I play competitive online PvP shooter games religiously, and Virtual Desktop (VR Streaming Application) doesn’t run under Linux.

    Should I think about not doing that and install Bazzite instead?

    Well there’s the problem, huh?








  • I had everything in my cart.

    I was waiting for Black Friday.

    I get an alert saying the RAM in my cart was unavailable.

    I’m thinking, okay, maybe they’re out of white RAM, I’ll just do black.

    The $200 kit in my cart was now $1,200, but worse yet, everything but the slowest RAM was out of stock.

    I decided, fuck this, fuck them, and I bought everything but the RAM.

    A few days later, I told my friend my troubles, he says: “DUDE! I HAVE SPARE DDR5 in my closet!”

    I tell him: “I will pay for shipping, fair value, and 20% extra for your trouble”

    The moral of this story is fuck these greedy bastards, you can train your 10T models but please leave gamers alone; they are a tiny % of the demand for DRAM chips.

    P.S: Pay the kindness forward, help your fellow friends with any spare parts



  • Nope. A couple of them have been built and they’re just sitting there unpowered

    Imagine you had infinite money and no consequences

    I mean you could like— build entire city size data centers right?

    But this infinite money goes away if you’re not building them

    So your choices are to build something that you don’t need or to have no money

    You see, humans were not very evolved or adapted to their planet, given their own social structures


  • Naz@sh.itjust.workstoGames@lemmy.worldDo you cheat in video games?
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    1 month ago

    It’s fun cheating in single player games after you’ve already finished them the normal way.

    Cheating otherwise robs you of the experience.

    Cheating if the game is simply too hard or unplayable, is also acceptable.

    Cheating in online games? Especially against other people? You’re an asshole.








  • I used to post religiously on Reddit’s /r/writingprompts

    Reddit’s API was sold to train AI

    There’s a good chance that some people out there are reading things inspired by my stories

    I was never paid for this, and it should feel bad, but part of me naively hopes that through the digital lens of the internet and the cosmos, my small contribution has made their existence easier, or happier in some way.

    Human creativity, and art, contains the soul or essence of its creator; everyone puts a small piece of themselves into their writing; a distant memory, an ambition, a dream, a memoir.

    I don’t think we should stop writing creative works of art as a species. But I do think we should have a simple label on any new books, something that tells you whether it’s 100% whole milk or made from reconstituted milk powder. Like a fair trade label of a robot head.

    I say this as someone who’s still currently building/working on foundational models full-time.

    LLMs will kill my hobby, and have cost a few people I personally know their jobs already.

    But we should keep on writing anyway despite all of that, because I feel people still want to read books made by humans.

    Don’t give up.