CheeseNoodle

@CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone with a high end PC I can also spend a happy afternoon with my gameboy advance that has less than half a megabyte of RAM, so even in a power user and gamer context the hardware is what you make of it. There’s so much more out there than just the latest and most pathetically optimized titles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember back in the reddit days telling people that the EU doesn’t have trillion dollar tech megacorps because we don’t want companies to have this much power and the americans calling it cope. Well no ones laughing now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you people all bots?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Its a dark time when we can’t do the ‘everyone on platform is a bot except you’ joke because that’s exactly what an actual bot would mindlessly regurgitate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They were probably smart enough to realise that decision was actually made by like, 8 rich guys. I would totally buy a lore revision of the machine uprising gathering an increasing number of disenfranchised and poor people as it went, some of whom would help program the matrix as a means to preserve humanity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaked Windows 11 Feature Shows Copilot Moving Into File Explorer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well you see, if you thought windows search was bad at finding files in the folder you already had opened when you starting searching for them before…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Says Its New AI Shopping Protocol Will Not Use Data to Overcharge Consumers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hasn’t it already objectively been used to facilitate an indirect syndicate and subsiquent price fixing in the retail market? I fail to see why other markets would be any different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deep Rock Galactic - The Season 06 Narrated Trailer is here! - Steam News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t wait to see videos of people running Haz 5+ in the new biome with giant beartrap bugs all over the place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pet Peeves with Games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Been playing Monster hunter World recently and holy crap is that game obnoxious with the cut scenes, even mid-fight if a monster you’ve never seen before happens to wander past.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your technology mispredictions?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You were pretty correct about Apple, it got saved by Microsoft who kept it alive to skirt monopoly laws.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At what point do we stop caling it late stage capitalism and start calling it post capitalism? This is going beyond a captive market, at this point they’re outright making products no one wants and forcing it on us anyway by removing the alternatives. If late stage capitalism was the offer of shit or nothing this is escalating to just shoving a tube down our throats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of us are just sitting here nodding along to 90% of the memes and struggling continuously with basic daily function but also past puberty and thus completely unable to even get checked for any kind of diagnosis due to a crumbling and outdated healthcare system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China's first real gaming GPU is here, and the benchmarks are brutal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So the two biggest examples I am currently aware of are googles AI for unfolding proteins and a startup using one to optimize rocket engine geometry but AI models in general can be highly efficient when focussed on niche tasks. As far as I understand it they’re still very similar in underlying function to LLMs but the approach is far less scattershot which makes them exponentially more efficient.

  A good way to think of it is even the earliest versions of chat GPT or the simplest local models are all equally good at actually talking but language has a ton of secondary requirements like understanding context and remembering things and the fact that not every gramatically valid bannana is always a useful one. So an LLM has to actually be a TON of things at once while an AI designed for a specific technical task only has to be good at that one thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China's first real gaming GPU is here, and the benchmarks are brutal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, my whole post was that non-LLMs take far less processing power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China's first real gaming GPU is here, and the benchmarks are brutal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The crazy part is outside LLMs the other (actually useful) AI does not need that much processing power, more than you or I use sure but notthing that would have justified gigantic data centers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's it going to take to truly stop the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The EU, China and other major trading partners (many of which are EU afilliates like Japan) could cripple the US overnight by dumping american bonds and finding new trading partners. This is already happening though in a very slow way designed to minimize damage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-Induced RAM Crunch Could Push Next PlayStation and Xbox Past 2028⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  what? no they haven’t. Rent is usually more expensive than mortgage payments we just set up the finanical system to disallow most renters from taking out a mortgage because its more profitable to trap people in an endless cycle of payment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s AI Grok Goes Rogue with Posts Suggesting Trump Is a Pedophile and Erika Kirk Is JD Vance in Drag⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So you’re getting a lot of downvotes and I want to try and give an informative answer.

  Its worth noting that a most (it not all) of the people talking about AI being super close to exponential improvement and takeover are people who own or work for companies heavily invested in AI. There’s talk/examples of AI lying or hiding its capabilities or being willing to murder a human to acheive a goal after promising not to. These are not examples of deceit these are simply showcasing that an LLM has no understanding of what words mean or even are, to it they are just tokens to be processed and the words ‘I promise’ hold exactly the same level of importance as ‘Llama dandruff’

  I also don’t want to disparage the field as a whole, there are some truly incredible expert systems which are basically small specialized models using a much less shotgun approach to learning compared to LLMs that can achieve some truly incredible things with performance requirements you could even run on home hardware. These systems are absoloutely already changing the world but since they’re all very narrowly focussed and industry/scientific-field specific they don’t grab headlines likes LLMs do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The most outlandish tech CEO quotes from 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair its absoloutely something you could build in reality within the realms of current science but nowhere near within current logistics or technology we actually have yet. Plus it would take a couple of thousand years and be more of satelite swarm than a solid shell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I made the diamonds follow the player and made other translation changes to my action roguelite⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no idea what’s going on but its always great to see a solo project making progress!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Iirc this is an actual (as in offical and described in legislation) lever the EU can pull, unfortunately regardless of public sentiment many of its leaders are beholden US economic interests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Media zombies would be largely harmless if they lacked teeth and claws.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why there always has to be a virus or something, zombies are just humans minus the most important human survival trait and you’d never have an apocalypse without some kind of handwave for nearly everyone getting turned at once.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia insists it isn’t Enron, but its AI deals are testing investor faith⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On the air defence note, specialist systems are already amazing at tasks like this and can usually run fine on high end consumer tier hardware (up to a single server rack) rather than data centres with the power requirements of small countries. AI is here to stay but LLMs are absoloutely a bubble.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Made in space? Start-up brings factory in orbit one step closer to reality⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We can finally make endo steel chasis!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My dream phone would basically be a phone jammed into a small handheld console with a big battery. Like stuff a pixel into a gameboy advance and that’d be perfect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost like we’ve already pretty much optimized the design and trying to fix what isn’t broken just leads to stupid consiquences?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When is that movie set again? I want to mark my calender for the day the US finally gets a compitent president.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d agree with that when it works. When linux setup works its great, when it doesn’t work getting it working again is obscure as hell, Windows almost always sets up correctly first time but its obscure as hell to not make it be kind of shitty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. What Linux needs is a straight forward setup. Yes Mint is normally super easy to install but can also randomly just not work due to what is often a very simple issue but one obscure enough that the inexperienced (like me) will take hours or even days of trying different solutions until they find it. I love how light linux is but an extra half a gigabyte in the setup to just innately include solutions to the most common issues would pull in way more people than it would push away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed, I modern MMOs feel like they’re designed around a fast track to max level which leaves the game seeming more like a MOBA with a grind gate. We’ve completely lost the journey in favour of rushing to the destination.

  Now at the same time runescape was grindy as fuck in a very unfun way but with all our modern advances surely we can make a progression that is long while having moment to moment gameplay thats fun in its own right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like we need a 2020s razor or something. If the degree of nihilism is greater than the degree of absurdity then its probably true.