SabinStargem
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- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 1 day ago:
China’s CXMT might go for it. Apparently they are rolling out DDR5 8000+ memory, two or three years from now. They can rebrand as Crucial for the western market, thus using familiarity to push their product.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 1 day ago:
As someone who does AI and gaming as hobbies, I look forward to a corporate bubble popping. Being able to max out an EPYC or Threadripper Pro’s DDR5 capacity would be awesome. :)
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 1 day ago:
I view AI to be like the internet: Most corporate players won’t survive the bubble, but the ones that do, will be incredibly influential. Ordinary people made great use of the internet - but failed to make it really decentralized. Thus the enshittification of Reddit, Youtube, social media, and so forth.
We can choose to embrace local LLM that is fully under our control, or cede ownership to the 1% forevermore.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 3 days ago:
The ways I cheat depends on the game. Sometimes to get rid of grind, others to obtain abilities that are mutually exclusive. EG: X-COM, where I had soldiers with all branches of their abilities active, rather than having to pick just one. Max stat spreads, without having to pick a specialty.
I pretty much play games for narrative or to simply keep my hands busy while listening to Behind the Bastards.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 3 days ago:
Someday, we will be using AI to generate fake IDs and faces, simply because our governments refuse to respect our privacy. They will have uncanny resemblance to political critters who enacted the surveillance.
As with everything born of enshittification, I do not know if this is to be a lame joke or reality. 😒
- Comment on The President of the United States of America 3 days ago:
One of the few museum pieces that Indiana Jones would gladly punch, and never be put on display. Probably put it in storage by the Ark of the Covenant, just in case it needs to be melted by Yahweh’s fury.
- Comment on Elon Musk Had Grok Rewrite Wikipedia. It Calls Hitler “The Führer.” 1 week ago:
The man can literally afford to have a harem island, fund an entertainment company to create anything to amuse him, or solve world hunger…and he fawns over Hitler.
His wealth is truly wasted.
- Comment on An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026 1 week ago:
Provided you don’t need to upgrade for the next year or two, I think you will eventually have a ton of cheap and quality DDR5 memory to buy. I am looking forward to that, I want to build an endgame Threadripper Pro, and be set for a decade.
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 1 week ago:
Speaking as someone with 128gb DDR4 3600 RAM and uses mid-size AI like GLM Air, it is too slow to have much fun with. I suspect that a lot of hobbyists will adopt and discard DDR4 in short order, so you can probably get a good deal if you buy used.
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 1 week ago:
AI is an technology, and like any technology, it improves. The AI we had two years ago was something akin to the Orville flier, the ones we have now are equivalent of a biplane. Those examples of technology weren’t very useful, but the planes that followed were far more capable and economical.
Your assertions that AI is useless, is merely burying your head in the sand and hoping things will go alright. The outright refusal of AI by people like you, only ensures the most evil people can use it. This is like only allowing Nazis to own guns, peasants not being allowed to own land, or newspapers to only be owned by the wealthiest. It is power that you are giving up, and power doesn’t care about who has it.
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 1 week ago:
I view AI to be like the printing press: It is good for the everyman…if that everyman was willing to own and make use of it. By ceding AI to oligarchs, society would be allowing the 1% to have more tools to do stuff, while denying the public from making effective use of them.
The answer isn’t to reject AI, but to fund publicly developed and owned AI. Every minority who has 95% of Disney’s legal acumen in their pocket, will be able to more effectively resist Kavenaugh Stops in court. An AI can scour the web and spot discounted goods that a person actually wants, and create a shopping list that is cheap and convenient. People can have a competent teacher, if their rural household lacks a school. All these things lend a little extra agency to ordinary people.
My point, is that we shouldn’t refuse tools. Instead, we should adopt them on OUR terms, not the techbro’s.
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 1 week ago:
I think that in the long run, the RAM shortage will turn into a glut of much faster and larger DDR5 RAM sticks. Provided if you can wait for the transition to AM6, an AM5 endgame system will have pretty good RAM.
- Comment on Samus Aran drawing I made 1 week ago:
You might want to try AM2R if you haven’t already. It is basically Metroid 2, but fully remade to be like Zero Mission mixed with Prime scanner lore.
- Comment on Microsoft says Copilot will 'finish your code before you finish your coffee' adding fuel to the Windows 11 AI controversy that's still raging 1 week ago:
I would like to someday use AI to remaster Stars!, Magic Carpet, and Judgment Rites. However, it won’t be through co-pilot, because I fundamentally don’t trust Microsoft.
In any case, I think genuine “hands off” development from an AI would be at least a decade off. Partially just for it to have the ability, but also for local hardware to support it. (I only use local AI, but a 100b like GLM is slow as heck on my gaming rig.)
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 1 week ago:
La-Mulana 1 and 2. They have excellent music, and more importantly, the exploration is a lot more interesting than most metroidvania games. This is because these games are all about puzzles, which come in the form of riddles, lateral thinking, and so forth. You don’t complete any area in one go - rather, each place you can go has information about the other zones, so you criss-cross and cross-reference, completing them piecemeal. Plus, there is a great deal of cultural architecture for each area, making them very distinct. If you want an lengthy and difficult metroidvania that is all about the details, this fits the bill.
The original freeware version of La-Mulana is also worth playing, due to the audio and graphics resembling what could be on the MSX computer.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 2 weeks ago:
Quality?
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’ 2 weeks ago:
…Drat!
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 2 weeks ago:
Now THIS is a usecase that I can get behind. Microsoft shouldn’t be forcing AI, and instead just develop an optional tool for diagnosing PC issues. Problems logged in Event Viewer are not easy to understand, and an AI could be what is needed for making the unreadable into something actionable.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 2 weeks ago:
The issue that I have with Microsoft’s AI, is that I simply don’t trust Microsoft to not serve the interests of the 1% against me.
If I am to use an AI, it is with the expectation of privacy and following my intentions.
- Comment on Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3 2 weeks ago:
I think the biggest decider of how quickly the world transitions away from Microsoft or Apple, is dependent on how the USA looks within a decade. If fascism in the USA stays strong, it would have knock-on effects with foreign relations. Should the USA pull out of NATO and sides with Russia, that by extension implies that US software could be hostile to European powers. The excel spreadsheet with fiscal data for Polish military expenditures? It might be sent straight to a three-letter agency and shared with Russia. Internal French memos that oppose the US? Leaked. And so on.
That would cause a major shift towards FOSS from governments across the world.
- Comment on Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk 2 weeks ago:
In theory, I could use an AI for doing stuff. For example, opening ripped videos, finding the timestamp where the episode name is given, and then copying that into the video’s filename. Afterwards, it can open Handbrake, use my preferred settings for audio and subs, then start the conversion of multiple files.
However, this is all predicated on the AI not doing unwanted things - such as giving Microsoft my personal information, preferences in hentai, and passwords.
Someday I will use agentic AI, but it will be on my terms.
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 2 weeks ago:
I hope that we someday have a Linux-based Steam Whistle from Valve, so that we have a phone that is actually ours.
- Comment on Every accusation is a confession? More like everything is a confession 2 weeks ago:
The southern spear in question is their dick. This regime is into molestation, be it child or country.
- Comment on Me when Valve releases a phone 2 weeks ago:
No, I actually do like Steam Whistle. It goes well with the rest of Valve’s nomenclature. I figured people would just like to see an old-timey picture of the past.
- Comment on Me when Valve releases a phone 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 2 weeks ago:
Personally, I would be interested a different type of Steam Machine: A shrouded motherboard as a sort of LEGO base, into which you place modular blocks or cartridges that contain the PSU, CPU, USB, RAM, Wi-Fi, audio, drives, and graphics. Each block can have rails, to provide connections for power and signals, so that users don’t need to futz around with wires. Just plonk a brick down onto the rails below it, and you are good for that part.
Would it actually work from an engineering perspective? No idea. All I know is that I would replace parts of my PC more often, if I didn’t have to worry about screwing up in some fashion.
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 2 weeks ago:
Mhm. Can’t say I enjoyed Dishonored much, myself. I prefer Thief 1-3, probably because they are slower paced and have less combat.
- Comment on CHAT CONTROL 2.0 THROUGH THE BACK DOOR – Breyer warns: "The EU is playing us for fools – now they’re scanning our texts and banning teens!" 3 weeks ago:
Oh, it is. Whoever masters Chat Control, gets to decide whom they can blackmail and rendezvous. Especially the underaged.
Police and triple-letter agencies abuse information all the time to stalk their lovers or to get ahead in life. I bet this will be more of the same.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 3 weeks ago:
Hopefully, this means an official release of SteamOS desktop. I want to switch away from Windows 11 IoT, if I can get a flavor of Linux with official backing from an 800lb gaming gorilla. While I can try out Bazzite or Cachy, I would prefer to have only one Linux for the rest of my PC’s life.
Would have stuck with Windows, if it weren’t for the fact that Microsoft has been channeling the spirit of an overly controlling parent.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved 3 weeks ago:
Mhm. Sure. I totally trust the guy who didn’t walk the talk when the UN presented him a plan for solving hunger.
