RamRabbit
@RamRabbit@lemmy.world
- Comment on New Site Lets AI Rent Human Bodies 1 day ago:
AKA: A job.
- Comment on Bethesda x Nintendo Switch™ 2 — Oblivion, Fallout 4, and Indiana Jones Coming to Switch 2 2 days ago:
Never understood why people rebuy Skyrim over and over. Buy it once on Steam and call it a day. (even works as a handheld via the Steam Deck)
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 2 days ago:
The ISS is one of the most expensive pieces of infrastructure humanity has built, it costs something on the order of $150B. My home I personally paid for, out of my own pocket, and it has 3x it’s power power supply of the ISS.
How about this. You give me 10% of the cost of the ISS and that datacenter rack, and I’ll use the $15,000,000,000 to buy a big AC unit to cool the rack. We both make out. You saved 10x your money and got 3x as much power capacity, and I got FIFTEEN BILLION DOLLARS to service and maintain a residential sized power line.
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 2 days ago:
There is no magic bullet for “move this massive amount of heat somewhere else”
Space does let you dissipate heat via radiation (just not convection or conduction). Space radiators are a well understood and often-used technology.
The problem with space data centers isn’t the technology, we have the technology. It’s the cost. Everything in space is orders of magnitude more expensive than terrestrially. It’s simply not economically feasible to build a data center in space when you can build hundreds for the same cost on Earth.
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 2 days ago:
14 kW
This is a tiny amount of power. My house alone can feed and service over 3x that (48 kW). Feeding my house with 48 kW and dissipating the heat is MUCH MUCH MUCH cheaper than doing this even once on the ISS, then twice, then thrice on this ISS…just to achieve what my home achieves right now.
Space datacenters are a meme.
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 2 days ago:
Odd to say that while referring to Musk, a person who famously paid the most taxes by any individual ever in a year, over >$10B in a single year.
- Comment on VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files 3 days ago:
Microsoft managing to make even their Linux software not achieve basic functions like…deleting files.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 4 days ago:
This was me. Hit the update to 11 button because I have always liked new things. About a week later went back to 10, then about a year ago saw the writing on the wall and jumped ship to Mint. Shoulda done it earlier!
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 6 days ago:
alleges Valve “forces” game publishers to sign up to conditions which prevents them from selling their titles earlier or for less on rival platforms.
Given Epic is gives away games for free. This assertion about Valve is laughable.
- Comment on What is the optimal handle to chain length for a flail? 1 week ago:
I second bottom right as the best pictured, but the chain is still too long. Below is the correct length of chain. Maximum control and damage. Best against armored opponents that one needs to bludgeon.
- Comment on Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020 1 week ago:
Windows is a core driver of many of the other services. Linux certainly isn’t pushing OneDrive ads and Copilot ads like Windows is. Hell, Microsoft doesn’t even make a OneDrive Linux GUI for some reason. Their share on Linux is probably trash. The more people switch, the more those customers move to Dropbox or w/e.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I have a strong feeling they won’t be removing the spying, AI everywhere, ads, and bloatware.
- Comment on Four FINAL FANTASY games have arrived on GOG in the Preservation Program 1 week ago:
I haven’t played 4, 7, or 9. Any opinions on which one is most worth playing?
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 1 week ago:
Because they don’t have to. The next quarterly report is better. Copilot use is up (because it was shoved into yet another app) and costs are down (because they layed even more people off). Businesses are locked in for the near future, so sales will remain high.
It doesn’t matter desktop Linux use is drastically increasing. That doesn’t affect this quarter. This quarter is all about cutting costs and pushing AI.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 1 week ago:
Yeah, it sucks. Windows used to be dependable and solid, the whole point of the OS was IT JUST WORKS. They had some downturns in the past (Vista, 8) but you could just skip those. XP, 7, etc. Now though? There is no skipping 11, not if you want security updates. They could have made Copilot it’s own app that you can ignore, but no, even notepad needs AI for some reason. The start menu has ads, the notification center has ads.
Finally pushed me to switch to Mint this past year. My SO followed too. Been happier with it. Feels like I’m in control of the OS again, and it is there to do what I wish. Never going back.
- Comment on Yes I know Christmas was a month ago but SantaCorps 4 perfectly captures Sega Dreamcast era Sonic so play it anyway 1 week ago:
I think they did 3D sonic better than Sega did!
- Comment on Meta’s Reality Labs cuts sparked fears of a ‘VR winter’ 1 week ago:
I remember being excited for the Oculus Quest. Then Facebook bought it and my interest in it went to zero. Even now, whenever someone talks about different VR headests, ‘Facebook’ is always put in the negative column of their various things.
I’m pretty excited about the new Steam VR heasdest that is fully self-contained, though. :)
- Comment on Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
Microsoft railroads you into this though. This isn’t some checkbox you have to go turn on. Your Bitlocker key will get exfiltrated unless you do a bunch of bullshit to make sure it isn’t.
And that is the thing with Microsoft, they just keep doing this. There is and endless torrent of shit to turn off. No reasonable person will keep on top of it. And if you fuck up a singular time, they just vacuum everything.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Naw, you are fine.
- Comment on Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on How do I defeat this bot? 2 weeks ago:
Call their customer support. I realize they don’t publish a number, but you can often go in a round about way through any phone number they have. You are going to lose hours of your life doing this though.
The real suggestion: Stop giving Ubisoft money, cut your losses, and use a storefont that doesn’t actively hate you, like Steam and GOG.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 2 weeks ago:
It is pretty common to write unit tests for functionality that doesn’t exist (test driven development). ‘freezing the results’ is ok, as long as you know the results are currently correct. The AI has no way of knowing this and poor programmers often don’t verify either.
It is very easy to write a shit test.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 2 weeks ago:
Just make copilot it’s own program that is uninstallable, remove it from everywhere else in the OS, and let it be. People who want it will use it, people who don’t want it won’t. Nobody would be pissed at Microsoft over AI if that is what they had done from the start.
- Comment on How much RAM is in your average EV car, and is it DDR5? 2 weeks ago:
Combining RAM and NAND (flash) is really annoying as they are nothing alike. I’m assuming almost all of that is NAND, with 2-4GB of it being RAM.
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 2 weeks ago:
The cars with solar panels on them are a gimmick. There isn’t enough surface area on a normal car to meaningfully charge the battery.
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 2 weeks ago:
Works pretty damn well for France. Maybe we should follow their lead.
- Comment on Fluid gears rotate without teeth, offering new mechanical flexibility 2 weeks ago:
While neat, I highly doubt you can get any notable amount of torque through this.
- Comment on Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware 2 weeks ago:
While it won’t be usable by consumers, lots of businesses will happily scoop up the pieces for their own servers. Not only will a ton of demand vanish, but a ton of supply will appear at the same time.
- Comment on Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware 2 weeks ago:
Millionaires shouldn’t exist.
Most middle-class people who put their mind it it will become a millionaire. It involves not buying cars constantly and investing your money and letting it grow for decades. I can’t stress enough how big of a difference those two things make.
Seriously, a huge portion of retirees are millionaires because they were responsible and didn’t blow all their money.
- Comment on Oop 2 weeks ago:
Don’t cheat in multiplayer games.
