Lettuceeatlettuce

I'm pretty sure they have removed this recently.

The concern is for value though. Like, if I'm going to use a massive amount of power and water to compute, I should be considering value to humanity as a whole.

AI is being sold as that, but so far, it's actually harming instead of helping. Supercomputing was helping pretty much right away.

I suppose you could argue that if general supercomputing was invented now, it would be used for just as superficial uses. Maybe the context of personal computing, the internet, and corpo interests shape that.

The difference is that supercomputers by and large actually help humanity. They do things like help predict severe weather, help us understand mathematical problems, understand physics, develop new drug treatments, etc.

They are also primarily owned and funded by universities, scientific institutions, and public funding.

The modern push for ubiquitous corpo cloud platforms, SaaS, and AI training has resulted in massive pollution and environmental damage. For what? Mostly to generate massive profits for a small number of mega-corps, high level shareholders and ultra wealthy individuals, devalue and layoff workers, collect insane amounts of data to aid in mass surveillance and targeted advertising, and enshitify as much of the modern web as possible.

All AI research should be open source, federated, and accountable to the public. It should also be handled mostly by educational institutions, not for-profit companies. There should be no part of it that is allowed to be closed source or proprietary. No government should honor any copyright claims or cyber law protecting companies' rights to not have their software hacked, decompiled, and code spread across the web for all to see and use as they see fit.

Let's use this as a catalyst to support them and similar projects. I'll be donating a chunk of money to them and also to the Wikimedia foundation and other related FOSS projects.

If you are able to donate, please do! If we all do our small part, we can make a big difference.

Not FOSS? Byeee!

God bless iFixit, and God damn Samsung.

This would be an even funnier comment if the subject wasn't so horrifying.

Welcome to our cyberpunk dystopian future. It's not the sexy, aesthetic, neon hacker-world version. It's a dull, dreary, hyper-capitalist, hyper-consumerist, post truth, AI sludge hellscape.

Been using GrapheneOS for close to 2 years, love it. Not perfect, but it's solid & does everything I need well enough. Even with the minor bugs, it's a hell of a lot better than having Google's or any other vendor's proprietary bloatware stuck on there.

I would say you should use GrapheneOS first, if you don't have a Pixel, use DivestOS, if you can't use that, use /e/. That's the order I would put them in for security and privacy.

I've been on 1080p since highschool, over 15 years, works perfectly for me. I value high frame rate over resolution/fidelity. Luckily for me, even mid-tier hardware is so powerful now, AAA games on ultra at 1080p can easily hit 160+

I have an AMD 6700XT and a 5800X3D with a 240Hz 1080p monitor, it's wonderful for me.

Obligatory reminder:

Email is not a secure medium! If you need truly secure and/or anonymous communications, DON'T USE EMAIL!

Use a platform/protocol designed from the ground up for those things!

I'm happy for you, I wouldn't wish it on people, it sucks.

So glad my job allows me to use Linux as my OS. I do IT, and everybody else in the company uses Windows.

Constant problems, brutal driver issues, OS crashes and lockups, software installation failures, hardware incompatibility problems, it's awful.

Linux at work, Linux at home, such an improved experience.

I'll still always love XP though, the last OS from Microsoft that felt like it had a soul.