Wat

You’re allowed to say “fuck” here, btw

System-core-wise, my setup is similar to yours. I also recently upgraded (arguably, sidegraded I guess?) from a 3080FE (10gb) to an RX 9070XT (16gb) that I found a deal on last month, with the intent of finally jumping ship on windows and converting to Linux for my gaming box - already got a bunch of Linux machines between a couple spare laptops and my homelab stuff, but gaming was my last major windows use case… and their market capture is frankly crumbling lately, what with how shit W11 is. I’m not planning on upgrading my setup any further in the next couple of years, because it handles whatever I want these days @1440 qhd pretty great.

its 6ish feet/2ish meters, which is pretty good for an ambulatory meat block the mass of an early 90s Honda CRX

I’m just hoping none of my sticks shit the bed in the next couple years, because I do NOT want to support that price point 😬

Holy shit, even in the states it’s quite bad. This is just sorting by cheapest on Newegg - either 2x32 or 1x64 DDR5 modules, no speed filters:

Nope - proxmox is the way

I was silly and got myself a 5950X. But I feel less silly about it now tbh. It’s gonna become my new homelab core whenever I get the chance to do a new gaming build again that’s not a high 4-figure investment.

Claiming you’re a patriot has no bearing on whether you are a patriot, or are simply confusing it with nationalism - either through stupidity or bad faith. ICEcubes are not patriots. They are the American Sturmabteilung.

They really don’t.

Nationalism is much more jingoistic and dogmatic - unflinching and unquestioning loyalty to a flag (or regime).

Patriotism is more along the lines of appreciating the positive aspects of one’s country, wanting to make the good parts materially better, and wanting to make the bad parts materially less bad. One can, for example, be a patriot, and simultaneously hate what one’s country is doing.

Patriotism and nationalism are not equivalent.

…except that MS keeps fixing what’s not broke by adding AI to it, which is part of why people are ditching it.

The real trick will be in figuring out some sort of solid state device - probably at least partially (if not predominantly) analog, not digital - that can reliably mimic the behaviors of biological neurons.

The actual breakthrough of AGI isn’t going to occur until we figure out how to do machine learning with analog circuit design. Digital simply does not scale well - what we’re doing now with “AI” using GPUs is simply brute forcing the problem by layering dozens of markov chains on top of each other.

I mean, would you want a cat that tries to reverse engineer your thumbs?

Because he’s a narcissistic psychopath, and Nationalist Christians are a big part of his core supporting demographic.

It’s pretty easy to set up a cron job to fire off some sort of bullshit LLM request a handful of times a day during working hours. Just set it and forget it.

We just completed the first 1.5h of a 4h meeting block

Kill me 🥲

S1 of almost every ST series is rough to get through. The only exceptions imo are, curiously, in the nuTrek sphere: SNW and LD.

DS9 is an absolute banger. Probably my favorite series.

Who is “no one”? Because yeah, there will be splash damage, but some sectors (“AI” companies and the megacorps involved in the massive ongoing self-dealing circlejerk) will collapse, but others will simply see a correction. And I’ve already dumped anything LLM-related (as well as most US-based securities and ETFs) as of early this year. So I’ll take a hit (everyone will take a hit), but it’s not going to be nearly as bad as it will be for all the bag holders.