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- Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics 8 hours ago:
That’s not what I’m implying.
TSMC would not have thrived if it was purely nationalized, and could have easily collapsed into capitalist hell.
For the processor fab business, specifically, the ideal conditions seem to be some kind of basdardized hybrid. Samsung and China Semi are not far from this either, while the corpses of pure extremes (GloFo, Intel, the Soviet’s and modern Russia’s computing efforts, other pure government efforts and some RISC ones) are littered everywhere.
- Comment on What to watch next after ST: Voyager? 12 hours ago:
Ah, right!
I’ll also add that Enterprise is pretty ‘standalone’ too. It’s not like how Voyager and DS9 directly continue TNG’s politics/characters; you can go back and watch it later. You can watch other series without missing much.
If I were you, I’d watch Picard as a “scenery change” to modern ST. Call it a breather after your Voyager marathon.
Then I’d go back to classic, more episodic ST and watch enterprise.
I dunno about movies, as I am not an expert on those (and which ones are good or not).
- Comment on What to watch next after ST: Voyager? 13 hours ago:
Obviously make sure you have watched DS9, the best Star Trek (fight me!).
Star Trek: Enterprise is not as bad as the internet would lead you to believe. I say watch it, and skip around if you find you don’t like it. But if you watched all of Voyager, I think you will.
…But if you skip it, I’m not sure? Chronologically and character-wise (other than movies) ST Picard seems like the next step. It kinda ‘picks up’ from where TNG and Voyager left off.
- Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics 13 hours ago:
A bit of chip history: Taiwan Semiconductor (the current pseudo-monoply in cutting edge processor making) rose as Taiwan transitioned from a dictatorship to democracy.
They got state funding, and support for thier business as trade opened up. To simplify, it was like a mix of hyper capitalism and technocratic command economy/socialism no one on either end of political spectrum would like. And it worked! It’s still working.
The CHIPS act in the US was a baby step in that direction, which (even with Intel’s incredible corporate dysfunction) got me excited.
…And that is basically the opposite of what Trump is proposing.
Basically, take away Intel/Micron/IBM subsidies and tax the shit out of their existing overseas business. And deregulate them instead of directing them.
In other words, drain their capital, and give them free reign to think short term as their manufacturing circles the drain.
- Comment on U.S. Senator Tom Cotton probes Intel board over CEO Lip-Bu Tan's former China links, raises national security concerns amid Cadence scandal 1 day ago:
He presided over a ton of dyfucntion too, but yes exactly.
- Comment on U.S. Senator Tom Cotton probes Intel board over CEO Lip-Bu Tan's former China links, raises national security concerns amid Cadence scandal 1 day ago:
Isn’t this the guy who outright said their focus is now short term profitability and cost cutting?
For Intel’s sake, I hope he goes.
- Comment on U.S. Senator Tom Cotton probes Intel board over CEO Lip-Bu Tan's former China links, raises national security concerns amid Cadence scandal 1 day ago:
Because Intel was in a hole and has no business distributing so much capital they need, when their entire business is basically intense research and 10 year+ investments.
That’s just a small part TBH. They are like a poster child for corporate dysfunction and game of thrones-ish drama in the executive levels.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 1 day ago:
According to an imageboard’s iCame top 100 index, it’s Princes Jasmine.
By a huge margin.
- Comment on YSK Iranian developers have created an open-source censorship bypass solution that works on desktop and mobile. 2 days ago:
Ah I see, heh.
It kinda makes sense to reassure people.
- Comment on The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) 2 days ago:
Yeah, 7B models are just not quite there.
There are tons of places to get free API access to bigger models. I’d suggest Jamba, Kimi, and Google AI Studio.
- Comment on The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) 2 days ago:
It’s too small.
IDK what your platform is, but have you tried Qwen3 A3B? Or smallthinker 21B?
huggingface.co/…/SmallThinker-21BA3B-Instruct
The speed should be somewhat similar.
- Comment on The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) 2 days ago:
It’s going to be slow as molasses on ollama. It needs a better runtime, and GLM 4.5 probably isn’t supported at this moment anyway.
- Comment on The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) 2 days ago:
I am referencing this: z.ai/blog/glm-4.5
The full GLM? Basically a 3090 or 4090 and a budget EPYC CPU. Or maybe 2 GPUs on a threadripper system.
GLM Air? Now this would work on a 16GB+ VRAM desktop, just slap in 96GB+ (maybe 64GB?) of fast RAM. Or the recent Framework desktop, or any mini PC/laptop with the 128GB Ryzen 395 config.
You’d download the weights, quantize yourself if needed, and run them in ik_llama.cpp (which should get support imminently).
- Comment on Netanyahu to urge ‘full conquest’ of Gaza as ceasefire talks reach an impasse 3 days ago:
Masks off.
- Comment on The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) 3 days ago:
Open models are going to kick the stool out. Hopefully.
GLM 4.5 is already #2 on lm arena, above Grok and ChatGPT, and runnable on homelab rigs, yet just 32B active which is mad. Extrapolate that a literally bit, and it’s just a race to the bottom.
- Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water? 3 days ago:
No.
The path I see forward for ML is small, task specific models running on your smartphone or PC, with some kind of bitnet architecture so it uses basically no power.
If that sounds incompatible with corporate AI, that’s because it is.
- Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water? 3 days ago:
To add to what others said, it’s a tradeoff.
Your gaming PC not only runs up your electric bill from the wall, but the AC as well. It has to work to get all that heat out.
This is the equivalent of water cooling your PC, and piping it to a hot tub outside. It would heat it and evaporate water faster, but it’s basically free and uses basically no electricity.
That’s the tradeoff. It’s water evaporation instead of heat pumps. It’s trading water usage for lots of electricity usage, which in some cases, is well worth it.
- Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water? 3 days ago:
To be fair, the “infinite scaling” vision Altman and such are selling is quite a dystopia. And they are the ones pushing it.
It’s not reality at all. But it’s kinda reasonable for people to hate that specifically.
- Comment on Chad NATO 3 days ago:
And to be clear, the larger part of non-tankie Lemmy is just fine acknowledging recent, heinous western atrocities, though doesn’t give NATO quite as much thought I suppose (in lieu of the raging dumpster fires in our own backyards).
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 3 days ago:
I think the rose tinted glasses effect is strong. Fallout 4 wasn’t that bad and had some neat characters and sidequests. I played heavily modded NV too, and while great, has plenty of missed beats.
Also, making a (mostly) top down text game is very different than producing a voice acted 3D world. It’s like trying to compare the writing quality of a novel vs a blockbuster movie.
Not that I disagree with the decline, but I think that’s putting it too strong.
For me the technical and artistic of aspects are factors too. Starfield would’ve been unreal if it came out in 2012… but look at its contemporaries. CP2077? KCD2? Even ME Andromeda utterly trounces it in artistic creativity, animation quality, graphics, scripting, performance, HDR quality, combat, even some voice acting; I could go on and on. And it’s basically the same premise.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 3 days ago:
ODST was lovely. Halo needs “side stories” like that.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 3 days ago:
Yes exactly! Same with the characters.
- Comment on Starting out with Selfhosting 3 days ago:
5557U
Ah, no eDRAM on that one I think, though I’m not 100% sure.
Still, with 16GB its plenty for a server as others said.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 3 days ago:
It’s more that they wrote themselves into a corner with Cortana’s state/loss, all the forerunner lore being out in the open now, the weird Guardians stuff…
Infinite could have been a much more subtle expansion on the forerunners, keeping them enigmatic like the trilogy, and kept Cortana. That’s much more straightforward and “Halo”
The open world stuff wasn’t awful. I loved the marine encounters. But yeah, it felt half baked.
- Comment on Starting out with Selfhosting 3 days ago:
So some 2015 MacBooks came with Broadwell-eDRAM chips, great CPUs with (IIRC) a 64MB cache chip the CPU or GPU could use.
chipsandcheese.com/…/broadwells-edram-vcache-befo…
If that’s what yours has, it’s a gem, and punches way above its age/clockspeed for the power draw. Keep it!
Jellyfin might be able to use its iGPU (and not just the hardware blocks) for some offloading as well, though I’m not sure of Broadwells Vulkan support or what exactly Jellyfin uses it for.
- Comment on Starting out with Selfhosting 3 days ago:
AFAIK that is a problem for some Macs, which need the lid open for ventilation. Check where it exhausts.
I disagree with OP though, display-off laptops are very power efficient and even have a built in UPS.
- Comment on Starting out with Selfhosting 3 days ago:
Desktop and laptop chips are similar, if not identical silicon, and task energy is objectively lower since the same cores run at lower voltages. They idle lower too, especially on AMD’s side where the laptop chips are monolithic.
The only exception I can think of is like an X3D chip with tasks that love the extra cache, or one of Intel’s exotic “E core” server chips.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 3 days ago:
Yeah! There was a twist with the Kett to kinda justify 2 meter humanoid aliens, but still.
And obviously most parts of the art departments did their job well. Hilarious but not game breaking bugs were the exception to the rule.
It was released like a month too early; I don’t remember any bugs or art oddities in my playthrough. In fact, I thought the movement animations in particular were the best of any game I’ve played, and might still be.
Ugh, that game needs a redo, even though I know that would never happen.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 3 days ago:
Fallout 76?
I played it with coop mates, all EGS fans since Oblivion well after it was released and patched up, and it was just… boring. And grindy. Yet kept trying to upsell us stuff. I kinda get how some like the game, but that was a shock to me.
Starfield did nothing either. I watched YT story videos/tried out of a friend’s Steam library instead of buying and felt like I was looking at a AI slop Skyrim mod, both technically and in terms of writing. Again, I’m a hardcore fan going way back, warts, glitches and all.
It’s remarkable the studio has fallen so far, without basically changing anything, yet still has such a loyal following. I just don’t get it.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 3 days ago:
4/5 made soo much accumulated story baggage though.
Infinite would have been better if 4/5 and whatever requisite novels didn’t exist.