8GB of VRAM just isn’t worth it. Hold onto what you got for now.

I appreciate it. <3

Lots of other people are making solid points as well. Glad to see people engaging.

From the video (timestamped):

Even under the maximlist goals of AI companies, the projected increase of water use is small compared to what cities and industries already use.

He even mentions how US corn uses 80x more water than worldwide AI use; with 40% of that corn burned as ethanol. And that power usage is the much larger concern.

The water gets used over and over and over in the data center. It’s in a loop. The reporting that data centers consume vast quantities of water completely misunderstand the core concept of a water loop.

That said, most data centers use the water for evaporative cooling. In that case, it comes back down as rain. But again, even in that case the reporting is still very overblown.

someone should work on an open-source snap alternative.

Is that not Flatpaks? They are damn good.

the price of processed vs healthy food

Eating less donuts is cheaper than eating more donuts. If price is your motivator, I have good news for you!

Naw, you are right. That came off really dickish for no reason. Sorry, TrackinDaKraken.

Seriously. I typed in “A19 100W incandescent bulb” and the whole page is…exactly that.

Now, I’m not sure why you would want to waste power like that. Main use for incandescent bulbs at this point is for oven lights as they can withstand the heat.

They probably could have put a few MS ads on the website for Azure or w/e and actually made a profit. Otherwise, they could have just left it alone, it wasn’t hurting or competing with them.

Github has not even one-nine of uptime. Normally you want three-nines or four-nines, they have ZERO-nines. A server in your basement is worlds more reliable.

Oil products have highly inelastic demand. Most uses for it don’t decrease much when prices change. You still drive to work, trucks still deliver goods, furnaces still heat buildings, etc. There are only marginal cases where people can reduce usage: optional trips, driving instead of flying, things of this nature. Because of how marginal these uses are compared to the more mandatory ones, demand does not respond strongly to price changes. Therefore, prices change significantly more quickly.

Edit: Demand destruction is a thing, however. Maybe you buy a hybrid or a factory closes. No matter what happens with oil prices next year, that factory is still closed and you are still driving the more gas efficient hybrid.

The US has been a massive oil producer ever since the oil crisis in the 70s when we said ‘never again’. Ever since then, OPEC has been declining in strength. This, even if it is a one-off, is a huge blow to their power, and puts them significantly closer to functionally irrelevant.

The entire point of the cartel is to coordinate supply restrictions to jack up the price of oil. But with the US, EU, Canada, and now UAE able to take advantage of their slowdown and just pump pump pumping, OPEC is the least relavent it has ever been. Guyana coming increasingly online in the next years and Venezuela coming back online will both be large blows to the cartel as well.

You would probably click quite a bit more with Factorio then.

Actually, I wonder if that is why Satisfactory wasn’t clicking for me. Since I kept making stuff to feed into the big box.

I have also found that self-hosting, even with your own hardware, is significantly cheaper than the premium cloud hosting (AWS, etc). We priced out a VM server at my company and we found we could rebuy the hardware for it every FIVE months, just from the cloud hosting costs. And that is if we were decently disciplined about turning VMs on and off every day (which we all knew was a fantasy).

That caused us to strike out the premium providers. Leaving us with the non-premium ones (Digital Ocean, etc), co-locating, or in-house hosting.

Yeah, it’s fucking ridiculous that a corporate account has a user-upsell ad/button one MUST hit to access the basic settings for the program.

Tuapse is one of Russia’s largest oil refineries and export terminals. Ukriane has hit it several times over the last two weeks; basically whenever Russia manages to put the fires out, Ukraine hits another previously-unmolested part of the terminal. Tuapse has been burning hard enough there are videos of oil raining down on everything in the area.

‘Magyar’s sanctions’ is a mashup of Magyar’s Birds, a Ukranian group that is well-known for their drone warfare, and kinetic sanctions, ie blowing shit up so they can’t sell it.

The part near the start about things not being permanent. We can get back to that, people simply need to collectively get over the fact that people do dumb shit sometimes. We, as a society, used to know this. You would get ragged on for a bit, then it was simply a funny story years later you and your friends re-tell while you laugh at how dumb you all were.

We also forgot one should not use their real name online. That is still the biggest WTF to me.

That’s what they said a month ago, then they decided that ‘remove copilot from notepad’ meant ‘rename copilot in notepad’.

MS Office works in a browser, and LibreOffice opens Word/Powerpoint files just fine. Been using LibreOffice for years while my coworkers send me files made with MS Office. It’s simply not a blocker.

They look nice. Wear what you want.