dogs0n
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- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 16 hours ago:
Yeah, I think Letsencrypt (and others) are one of the best things to happen for the internet.
You used to have to cough up a good chunk of monies for a certificate.
Now it’s easily accessible and you (i) never have to think about it after the first setup because a robot automatically renews expiring certificates for me.
Generally this is one of the best improvements: a more secure web that is easier to achieve.
- Comment on My review on the AYN Odin 3 2 days ago:
That banana feels like its cheating on the banana for scale scale
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 3 days ago:
Don’t worry, once we set it up we’ll have a consistent supply.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Oh wow, I didn’t know they had teardowns yet, that’s kinda funny hehe
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 1 week ago:
True, forgot about that. They are the best free option that forces you to use webmail if you don’t want to pay (and their app).
I’m not sure if there are any other free mail providers that i’d trust to be honest.
Posteo should work for you and it’s very cheap (1 eur).
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Makes sense, I haven’t seen dimensions, but the space for pure compute has definitely increased greatly.
It is still very small, but the deck (in comparison) is quite thin which I assume made it much harder to engineer. I’m sure a lot of knowledge has transferred over though and i’m not gonna act like i’d know anyways lol
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 1 week ago:
Hehe idk, posteo for 1 eur/month?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
- Personally don’t think it’s as easy to compare the deck to a box. It’s harder to stuff the power of a steam deck into such a small package. I’ve seen the compute of the machine be related to about 600$ if you purchased parts on your own to build the pc, but considering Valve have economies of scale, custom deals for customized chips with amd and having priced “painfully” in the past, there’s a good chance it’s less than 750$. All the Steam decks had the same performance too, the expensive ones just came with more storage and a case (so using the top end price in your example seems unjust?).
- Very true, those keyboard/mouse combo things that resemble a gamepad are the best!
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 1 week ago:
Xbox feels like the biggest one being eroded rn… i don’t think what Xbox is doing is any good nor would it help the main business
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 week ago:
Lol thats a good solution.
I haven’t seen anything like that happen to me luckily, I can sleep fine, but on wake it’s a black screen with my cursor (luckily² this is recoverable without rebooting).
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 week ago:
What stuff do you switch off? (Did you have this bug previously?)
I tried researching this issue a while ago, it was hard to find anything, but it’s not a bug worth spending any more time on unfortunately since it’s an easy fix whenever it happens.
Wish I was smart enough to contribute hehe, sadly don’t even have the time anyways to sit down and figure it out (someone might already be figuring it out, it’s slowly getting rarer and rarer that the bug occurs, still at least one every other day, though much better than the at least multiple times a day from before).
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 week ago:
Oh interesting, I guess a general bug then.
This is over many years so memory might be bad, but I never had this on my old rx 580, then started getting it sometime after swapping to an nvidia gpu. Guess it was just coincidence, if I’m remembering it right anyways. That always fueled my suspicion it was nvidia.
Thanks for sharing your experience, it’s eye opening. I guess I have no problems specific to nvidia then (pre and post open source driver).
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 week ago:
Windows you don’t have to think about it.
To be fair, that’s only because most people are trained on windows first and use it for decades, so the annoying Windows quirks and defects have been embedded into you (their workarounds too).
Nvidia is not easy on Linux
I think this problem is mostly solved, for newer cards at least. But I guess I have to agree since older nvidia gpus will be stuck on the terrible old proprietary drivers (though idk maybe the older ones have better support because theyve been around).
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 week ago:
Me no use Mint, but the only problem I get is the sleep bug (waking from sleep results in a black screen). I’ve looked into it a few times and all I can assume is it’s probably nvidia so I gave up on solution hunting and pray one day it’s fixed (it’s getting slightly better over the years or maybe thats a placebo idk, it seems to fully break quite rarely now).
After my pc sleeps I usually have to switch sessions with ctrl+alt+<fn key> then back to the one running KDE and it (nvidia?) revives itself and I can keep working on watching my movies.
Just sharing my experience because mby someone smart here is thinking “yo yur dumb just do this”, but honest it’s not a big deal for me anymore.
- Comment on Peter Thiel dumps entire Nvidia stake, slashes Tesla holdings amid bubble fears 2 weeks ago:
I can’t say I’m an expert in the theory of this stuff, so big chance I’m very wrong.
All i know is experts have already likened the current “AI Boom” to the dot com bubble.
Nvidia might not be propping up the bubble in certain ways, but they could be deemed the center of the bubble. They went from a $370B market cap 3 yrs ago (around ChatGPT launch) to now being around $4.5T (peaking very close to $5T near the start of this month I think).
They could be the king in non-ai compute, but 99% of their revenue comes from b2b sales (and has done for a very long time I believe) so I can’t see them keeping any of those gains if we see an AI burst (this entire gain in stock seems very related to AI, not to any other advancements made for their chips to my monkey brain).
Most big (and small) tech companies are really buying into this AI hype, not sure if using AI has caused gains in stock market prices for certain companies, but I imagine we could see some drops here too (im thinking along the lines of hey your business “relies of ai tooling now” so mby u cant compete im gonna sell).
So I think all these businesses getting on the AI train could be bad too.
And final note again, if we see a burst, I think everyone panic selling could spread over to people panic selling everything and trying to get their hands on cold hard cash so their entire life savings dont vanish in an instant, so market wide we could see big drops? Certainly this could be very bad. I’m not very sure though on all the theory, I don’t think i’m smart enough to theorise this type of stuff, but I tried anyways. Maybe the govt have learned its lesson (pressing doubt rn) and will do ANYTHING to stop a crash, idk.
- Comment on Peter Thiel dumps entire Nvidia stake, slashes Tesla holdings amid bubble fears 2 weeks ago:
From the wiki article:
Speculation about a bubble largely originates from concerns that leading AI tech firms are involved in a circular flow of investments that are artificially inflating the value of their stocks.
Example: OpenAI buys gpus from nvidia. Nvidia invests in OpenAI with the expectation of them using the money to buy more nvidia gpus.
The hype of any company partnering with OpenAI right now is boosting stock values crazily. Look at the AMD partnership, they basically were given one of the largest stakeholder positions in AMD and given the chips they wanted because they paid AMD by boosting their stock with the hype of the partnership.
If it’s a bubble, it’ll likely impact those in the picture, but it’s not a bubble because of the picture.
Yes if this bursts it’ll effect those in the picture, but we are also in the picture. If it bursts, who gets bailouts with public money? Who has to not buy things because it becomes too expensive?
There’s more to it than a simple picture. If the stock market crashes because of AI (or for any reason), we will all be effected (even just think about peoples retirement funds).
And final note, it’s not a bubble because someone made a graphic, they made a graphic describing how it could be a bubble.
- Comment on Peter Thiel dumps entire Nvidia stake, slashes Tesla holdings amid bubble fears 2 weeks ago:
Think this one was the one going around
Not sure what you can lookup, probably stuff like “AI investment bubble”
This is probably a good resource (haven’t read it) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_bubble (specifically look under
Speculation > Circular Financing, soz dunno how to link to a header) - Comment on Peter Thiel dumps entire Nvidia stake, slashes Tesla holdings amid bubble fears 2 weeks ago:
I don’t doubt they’ll keep selling more GPUs, but AI certainly looks like a bubble that’s ready to burst with all the fake money going around in circles (assuming those diagrams are correct, which I assume they are).
Not the mention the lies that are keeping AI companies propped up, like AGI that will replace everything “in 3 months”. Pretty sure they missed that deadline already.
With the current “fake” money, lies and over-investment, something bad is surely going to happen unless someone steps in.
AI advances quite a bit each day, but I’m not sold on AGI becoming a thing any time soon, maybe even ever idk.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 2 weeks ago:
I agree we should have better laws to protect people against evil monopolies (google, etc).
Steam has been at the top of pc gaming for a very long time, so they would have enshittified by now if that was the plan, but luckily they are a private company and their leadership caters to their user base.
If someone evil took over Steam somehow then yea that’s bad news and the laws we should establish will help if that happens.
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 2 weeks ago:
YEESSSS I WIN
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 2 weeks ago:
Idk but im seeing cyberpunk, the apartment you have
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 2 weeks ago:
The difference is that a monarchy usually rules over everything and has the last say.
Steam is a monopoly only because every competitor has tried but failed to make a new compelling service.
Steam does have the last say within their platform (usually it’s the correct say), but they don’t disallow competition by lobbying or with other anti-competitive practices.
Some company just has to make a better service.
It’s not impossible, just no one wants to do it because they can’t make bajillions like they usually do in their other sectors where they can freely abuse the customer because there isn’t someone like Steam looking out for them.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 2 weeks ago:
That’s always a possibility, but if it was going to happen, it would have already by now.
It’s very obvious to me that Valves leadership cares about the end goal of making gaming accessible and as easy as possible for everyone.
If they ever become evil, I feel it’s guaranteed to be because of leadership change to someone who is secretly corrupt, we just have to hope the reigns are handed down to someone good.
And if they do become evil and their product suffert as a result, they are going to create an opening for the others to fill.
The market gets harder to join as Steam makes their platform better and better. This is very very good compared to other companies that get to the top and then add physical and legal barries to others to stop them becoming competition.
Xbox has killed itself and I can’t see Playstation going anywhere anytime soon. Steam machines could take some tiny % of Playstation users, but if they do, the users stolen might have been people who wanted to swap to PC anyway. + you can access other stores on a steam machine
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 2 weeks ago:
Luckily unlike monopolies in other sectors, Steam doesn’t involve itself in evil oractices that more or less stops others from competing.
Someone just needs to make a better store, but they can’t because no company big enough to compete is willing to be as user friendly.
Epic, probably the second biggest store people thing about, can’t even make a good platform. They try underhanded practices like bribing developers and customers… maybe they should make their store work properly first.
- Comment on Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users? 3 weeks ago:
There are tools for that, no?
You can install NAS software that turns self hosting stuff into one click installs.
- Comment on Breakthrough gel can regenerate tooth enamel within weeks 3 weeks ago:
It didn’t sound like a big deal, but somehow you just instilled in me an existential dread of having no teeth to enjoy solid foods when craving some.
- Comment on They even do Price Discrimination on video games now 3 weeks ago:
True, but that won’t stop them from acquiring more data so they can squeeze more out of you.
Anything to make them more.
Maybe my examples would’ve been better for other industries, but yeah, I think this will happen everywhere if we don’t stop it.
- Comment on They even do Price Discrimination on video games now 3 weeks ago:
The future we are headed towards if we don’t start caring about privacy and where we hand out our data.
Obviously Playstation has their own data, but stuff like this is gonna start being way more obvious in other places because they can so easily buy data on you through data brokers.
Websites you visit saying they share your data? Yes they sell it and it’s directly going to have an effect on other parts of you life just like this.
So you won’t just “pay with your data”, you’ll pay with your money too in a less direct way (prices on other sites shooting up because x website sold your data to y and they know you need this product so they price gouge you).
Not only will this occur for gaming stores or web shops, it can become a thing in banking (maybe they give you a worse interest rate on a loan, etc) and worse.
- Comment on They even do Price Discrimination on video games now 3 weeks ago:
Long live Steam & GOG in their current moral states.
- Comment on They even do Price Discrimination on video games now 3 weeks ago:
Airlines are the worst example of this that I know of.
It’s not just the rich they will target.
They (including everyone) will and do use this technology along with data they harvest from you (from other parts of your online life) to make you pay as much as you can to get things you need.
