LemmyEntertainYou

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI surpasses 2024 Bitcoin mining in energy usage, uses more H20 than the bottles of water people drink globally — says AI demand could hit 23GW and up to 764 billion liters of water in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  All this energy wasted on products most people don’t even want but big CEOs think it’ll earn them loads of money so fuck the planet I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Ways to Corrupt LLMs: The wacky things statistical-correlation machines like LLMs do – and how they might get us killed ⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  What a genuinely fascinating read. Such a shame most people don’t even question what AI tells them and just assume everything is correct all the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess it’s not so much the discs I’m against (apart from the fact they do deteriorate faster than other types of storage) but the fact that there’s no option to retrieve and backup the data on said discs. Although saying that, most games require huge downloads to install anyway so is there even any benefit or security in ownership of physical media if it’s still useless without a significant download from a server than could theoretically cease to exist at any moment?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought we were MAYBE heading that way in the days of iTunes but then the oh-so-convenient streaming came along and entirely killed the majority’s desire to actually own movies.

  At least music is a medium that managed to transition to DRM-free digital storefronts, even if it is barely used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s nothing stopping you from having multiple backups of your own game installers though if the DRM free options are there. It’s not too unfeasible for people to have dedicated offline storage in the form of a NAS or even just an external drive. Yes this has the same waste implications as discs but they’re at least multipurpose and have a longer lifespan. Obviously we should never rely entirely on a server that’s out of our control for backups to our purchases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This will probably be a controversial take but physical media shouldn’t exist in 2025.

  Ownership of games SHOULD exist and so should multiple competing store fronts. We need to normalise DRM free digital copies rather than ewaste blu-ray discs that’ll one day degrade and become useless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure we should always have choice but if you’re hopping out of Microsoft’s monopoly into Google’s is there even any point?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  As much as I dislike Microsoft, I see no reason for Windows users to download Chrome when Edge is right there.