TheGrandNagus
@TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 14 hours ago:
That absolutely won’t happen.
Everybody on Lemmy and Reddit were saying the same when they banned account sharing and price increases. In reality their subscriber numbers went through the roof and so did their profits.
- Comment on Nvidia reportedly raises GPU prices by 10-15% as manufacturing costs surge — tariffs and TSMC price hikes filter down to retailers 1 day ago:
Unfortunately, it’s quite difficult for AMD and Intel to make any big difference in the short term.
On the Intel GPU side, bluntly, they are far behind in tech, so they have to mitigate that with more aggressive pricing.
Don’t believe me? Look at the process node they use and the die size of their chips, now look at the performance and power efficiency they get compared to similar mode/die size Radeon or Geforce cards. That means Intel has to spend a lot more but can’t charge anywhere near as much.
Intel doesn’t make money from their GPUs yet. They literally don’t want to sell too many cards because they generally lose money on each one sold. They’re spending right now to build expertise and expertise before doing a bigger push later.
On the AMD side, there’s some good news in that their latest generation is pretty great and has massively outsold their previous generations.
The bad news is that even if AMD has doubled sales or whatever, they were already such a small part of the overall pie that Nvidia (85%+ of the market) shitting the bed isn’t something AMD can suddenly fix.
It’d be like if all carmakers except Mazda shat the bed, Mazda can’t suddenly expand and fix the market.
Whenever there’s excess demand for CPUs, AMD would also prefer to service that market. It’s far higher margin.
- Comment on AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented 1 day ago:
Nope. I’d still say social media/social media algorithms.
Imagine if social media didn’t exist (beyond small, tight-knit communities like forums about [topic], or BBS communities), but all these AI tools still did.
Susan creates an AI generated image of illegal immigrants punching toddlers, then puts it on her “news” blog full of other AI content generated to push an agenda.
Who would see it? How would it spread? Maybe a few people she knows. It’d be pretty localised, and she’d be quickly known as a crank.
Add social media to the mix, and all of a sudden she has tens of thousands of eyes on her, which brings more and more. People argue against it, and that entrenches the other side even more. News media sees the amount of attention it gets and they feel they have to report, and the whole thing keeps growing. Wealthy people who can benefit from the bullshit start funding it and it continues to grow still.
You don’t need AI to do this, it just makes it even easier. You do need social media to do this. The whole model simply wouldn’t work without it.
- Comment on Thanks to the american FPTP voting system, Nigel Farage could obtain an absolute majority with a minority of the votes 1 day ago:
Yes. One of the only benefits of FPTP is that for most of its history it has stopped tiny, insane, extreme, populist parties getting a foothold, and instead encouraged relative stability. For all the issues we have, the UK has been a phenomenally stable democracy over the years.
That is no longer a protection against Reform, as they’ve broken past the “not being popular enough to gain any traction under FPTP barrier”.
- Comment on Man arrested after fires at homes linked to PM 2 days ago:
Set fire to his house, a flat “linked” to him (family member perhaps?), and his old car.
We live in an unhealthy democracy when people are being this extremist and violent over a political figure so bland he makes Gordon Brown look fun and care-free.
- Comment on Man arrested after fires at homes linked to PM 2 days ago:
Nonce? I think if Starmer was a paedophile our press would be having a field day.
- Comment on ‘Massive’ increase in pensioner shoplifters in past year 3 days ago:
Where I live there are frequently people that come into pubs to sell things that were clearly stolen from the nearby Morrisons.
I’ve found blocks of cheese to be an extremely frequently stolen item.
Makes sense. Fairly easy to conceal, surprisingly expensive (depending on what you get, like £8-16 per kilo), doesn’t usually come with security tags like steaks often do, and there’s lots of potential buyers for cheese since it’s used in a lot of things and it’s bloody lovely.
- Comment on ‘Massive’ increase in pensioner shoplifters in past year 3 days ago:
And yet they’re the only demographic who gets a pay that always matches or exceeds inflation. Seems weird that they’d see a disproportionate increase in shoplifting.
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 4 days ago:
Ah yes, there’s famously never been fires in brick buildings.
You knew your actions could easily lead to a massive fire and loss of life, you said so yourself, and still you chose to do it repeatedly anyway.
Now you don’t seem to be showing much remorse, which is unfortunate. I guess I just hope you’re a bit less of a piece of shit.
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 4 days ago:
The content of your reply to me was the weird thing, not the fact that you replied itself…
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 4 days ago:
Weird reply, in that case.
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 4 days ago:
I never said he was a piece of shit.
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 5 days ago:
John Lennon admitted to hitting an ex girlfriend. He came out, apologised for it, and said he was trying to better himself but he had a whole load of problems.
Bizarrely, his ex later came out and said John didn’t beat her and that she didn’t know what he was talking about.
Ringo has also admitted to hitting a girlfriend before.
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 5 days ago:
You literally said you nearly burned the school down multiple times.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 1 week ago:
Correction: they’ve been doing it since Windows 8 came out.
- Comment on “No Apple tax means we will lower prices” - Proton announces lower prices for users by up to 30% after US ruling against Apple fees 1 week ago:
They literally do not lol
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 1 week ago:
The article exposes the title as a lie. People shouldn’t reward that kind of journalism by reading it.
- Comment on The fact that even 3D games are old now blows my mind on a regular basis. 1 week ago:
Moore’s Law has been dead for a long time.
Moore’s Law hypothesises that transistors in an integrated circuit will double every two years, primarily down to transistor density improvements.
Intel in particular really like to say it’s still alive, because it’s what investors want to hear, but in reality transistor density improvements have slowed quite a bit, and we’ve had to rely on other things for better performance.
- Comment on Tesla Board Opened Search for a CEO to Succeed Elon Musk 1 week ago:
Huh? EVs are more popular than they have ever been, and most of the developed world is edging ever closer to ICE bans for newly sold cars (most are 2035).
Why are you being so ideological about the fuel type people’s cars use?
- Comment on AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals 1 week ago:
People frequently act like Lemmy users are different to Reddit users, but that really isn’t the case. People act the same here as they did/do there.
- Comment on Warning RTS electricity meters in 300,000 homes could stop working 2 weeks ago:
This deadline wasn’t some unknown thing suddenly sprung upon energy companies, this deadline has been known about for a long time, why have they left it this late? Were they just expecting the government to keep extending the deadline?
- Comment on You never forget your first 2 weeks ago:
I can’t believe I threw away my Dreamcast. I’m such an idiot.
- Comment on Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it 2 weeks ago:
We’ve been there for a long time.
Broadly speaking, outside of some specific niche workflows, Linux has been pretty easy for a long time, and Windows has a lot of unintuitive stuff that we only think is easy because we’re used to it.
- Comment on OpenPin is an open-source project to revive Humane's dead Ai Pin - Liliputing 2 weeks ago:
People can put their energy wherever they damn well please. You can work on Linux phones if you want to.
- Comment on OpenPin is an open-source project to revive Humane's dead Ai Pin - Liliputing 2 weeks ago:
This is the question that should’ve been asked before it was built and shipped.
Now that it has been, though, any effort to keep it out of landfill and find a use for the hardware is good.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Why is this a thing for US phone networks?
Why do they care whether the ones and zeroes sent/received stay on the phone or not? Data is data. It shouldn’t be any more complicated than that.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] Death of affordable computing | Tariffs impact and investigation 3 weeks ago:
Bloody hell, this is a damn documentary.
- Comment on OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, web browsers cost hundreds of millions per year to maintain, they’re mind-bogglingly complicated and costly.
I’d really hope the Linux Foundation would help contribute towards the budget, but LF is quite pro Chromium.
I don’t think end users can even come close to funding Firefox development, unfortunately.
- Comment on OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience 3 weeks ago:
Also their initiative to recognise images and generate alt-text for screen-reader users.
My sister is blind and screen readers are close to useless on the web, so it was great to hear Mozilla is working on that.
- Comment on Hungary’s Musical Road plays a melody through your car tyres as you drive—an amazing fusion of road design and sound engineering. 3 weeks ago:
Seems like an interesting way to get people to slow down (people will want to time the melody not just hear a sudden clash of notes), but it’s a bit irritating to see an AI-generated article being posted here.
It’s frustrating to read this, it’s so repetitive and verbose, like a student trying to pad out their homework to meet a word count.