Eh I’m of the opinion that erecting statues of people who are still alive, especially politicians, is a bad idea. Never know who will turn bad and when.

2/7 bama house seats went blue actually.

Yanks also get paid more than people in most of the world though.

What shit exactly? Most of what that use is not useful for consumers

Isn’t there also a vote for blocking future wealth taxes?

This doesn’t require chrome either, I just drove around on Safari on my phone. Firefox is definitely going to be supported then.

The original required Windows which I consider worse than requiring a browser, even if you can run it via Proton.

Sorry, but AMD stopped pretending to be giving any fucks about the little guy. Lisa has been visiting those Trump AI dinner events. AMD is all in on producing AI hardware first and consumer hardware second.

Wait how did we suddenly get to Diablo 2?

It was also the first online DRM most gamers interfaced with.

Fair, misunderstood the “they are”.

It’s quite the opposite though. People are demanding open-source devs to toil away for free because using the thing that can automate a bunch of work is bad.

A more apt comparison would be:

Tractors put people out of work so we shouldn’t buy produce from farms that use them, BUT we also don’t want to pay extra despite the fact that these farms require more labour to produce the same amount of crops.

You’re always free to start your own tractorless farm and you’ll see how many people are willing to pay extra just for not having a tractor involved versus how many people would prefer things to be cheaper.

Maybe not a perfect analogy because food is essential, but it kinda shows how annoying the people that demand their completely free software is handwritten seem.

Go donate a couple grand a month to a project you truly care about and maybe the dev can afford to work on it full time instead of using LLMs to build the things they want to exist.

I should also mention that whatever device you’re posting from, likely benefits from slave labour somewhere in the supply chain, as do many other goods in our lives. Living in the west, most of us benefit from some form of slavery or another happening somewhere we don’t care about because it’s out of sight. It’s quite unfortunate. Comparing LLM usage to actual fucking slavery is WILD to me though.

How do you know what their consumption habits are?

And the mountain of slop provides a way for those who can’t buy several different consoles, to play the games for those consoles. Emulators exist too, sure, but they’re also far from perfect and require a much beefier machine usually. My Gameboy Advance emulator runs fine on my iPhone. Yuzu was having trouble on a fairly modern PC a few years ago and it’s not even emulating a new console by any means.

It’s not so much that there’s intentional barriers as much as it is that there’s a bunch of trial and error work to do to recompile a binary for a different OS potentially running on a different CPU architecture with different audio hardware and different graphics and…

AI can even keep going at it while you’re asleep.

You’re free to do it yourself manually or just buy the consoles your games run on.

Which one? Or, like, all of them? Naaaah.

I’ll let my friends living in apartments know they can run an extension cord from the 5th floor then lol, I’m sure there’s nothing unsafe about that.

Daily mileage isn’t the only factor either. I’m not sure why I would pay 30k for a used EV if it costs almost the same to charge per 100km as a diesel car worth under 2k takes to refuel per 100 km but takes much more time to do so. EVs start making more sense for people in apartments when public fast charging is nearly free, like charging at home is.

Okay, now what about the people who don’t live in SFHs? I could charge at home most nights if I had an EV, but a lot of people literally can’t install chargers.

Can’t really start a new memory manufacturer without nation state backing anymore. China is doing it, has taken them several years to get production going and it’s still too slow to affect the market.

I’m sure Bernie has good intentions but this is exactly what Altman and Amodei want and why they’re constantly shouting how dangerous AI is.

Any AI startup can then be labeled as developing artificial superintelligence. Not them though, they’re working together with the government.