Well color me informed.

i forget what its called… pihole? You can set up a small box on your network that can filter out ads on devices that you cant install adblocking on, like on your TV and stuff.

If only that were true. To many people are addicted to google to ever give up chrome/chromium without a series of catastrophic fuckups from google.

IIRC the hardest thing about PS3 emulation was the fact that Cell was an 8 core cpu, and at the time of PS3’s release, single core CPUs were still very dominant, and even years after the PS3s release only dual core CPUs had become a thing, with the bleeding edge just getting into 4 cores.

its nvidia and AI creating a bubble on the belief they’ll be able to get profit and get out before it pops.

But all it is… is imaginary money going around in circles. nvidia invests a trillion in AI, AI buys a trillion dollars of nvidia videocards from some nebulous point in the future where they arent made yet, nvidia invests that trillion back into AI, AI uses it to buy ridiculous amounts of ram that wont be made for years, RAM invests it back into AI, and on and on they go, generating imaginary money and value, by buying imaginary things.

under a sane government this would be investigated as raw stock manipulation and fraud

I really hope when this bubble pops nvidia is destroyed in the process along with the AI companies.

always the EU.

They’ve certainly improved things for people globally with their rulings.

AI is changing everything. Its not a lie, its absolute truth.

The problem is the changes are fuckawful terrible for everyone and everything.

None of that is far left you numpty.

The only thing remotely leftist in what you said is capitalism bad. Which we have ample evidence for how and why unregulated/deregulated capitalism is bad for anyone that doesnt own a personal yacht

There has got to be a lawsuit against this shit.

There was a massive lawsuit for simply including IE in the install as default, and this is 100 times worse than that.

Sort of the joke in this. Crime in western countries has declined as police hyper-surveillance has increased

Crime has been on a significant downturn ever since lead was removed from gasoline, and thus stopped being vaporized in the air.

Are there places where crime spikes upward? yes, but almost 100% of the time thats caused by the failure of local, state, or federal governments creating disadvantaged, poor, underserviced people. . and you treat people poorly and keep them desperate long enough, then crime is going to occur.

They’ll happily spend millions on the crime part, but they wont even acknowledge the underlying issue that could be addressed for far less than what oppression costs.

You think authorities wouldnt be on prime time news gloating about stopping attacks before they happened and justifying the privacy destroying bullshit they use as a necessary sacrifice for safety?

yeah.

Its amazing how they never once stopped an actual act of violence, but someone venting about a stressful day gets a full swat deployment.

How DARE you!

If that was true landfills wouldnt be filled at the end of every season with perfectly usable goods.

No worries.

Industry doesnt need to overproduce so much product right now, but it does, and sends tons of it to landfill every quarter

So if its already doing it, what makes you think they’ll stop doing it if sales reduce a few % points.

Where did I even allude to that?

I very clearly laid out where the problem is that we have to deal with. Which is the actual drivers of climate change. Not you choosing to drive to work instead of walking 8 miles in the heat.

This sounds like some empty corporate focus tested “Don’t blame us, its not our fault” BS.

nvidia gives a trillion dollars to AI, AI buys a trillion dollars of future, currently unmade video cards to run the AI, nvidia gives AI another trillion dollars, AI buys another trillion dollars of unmade future cards, etc etc etc.

Its the biggest, highest energy economic ouroborus I’ve ever seen.

I cant see how nvidia survives the pop, and quite frankly, I’d be glad to see nvidia die. its been dragging the GPU market in bad directions for a decade+ now and I think it’d be better to be free of its influence… and it’d open the door to new players to step up and competition again.

I understand the sentiment, but doesn’t “the industry” essentially produce things that are for “us”, even if indirectly?

No. They produce for income. For brand imaging. To keep shelf space and maintain market presence.

And they do that by producing significantly more than the market requires. More than customers would ever want to buy.

They do it by making low quality slop products that they specifically engineer to be as unrepairable as possible, to fail as soon as they can get away with it, to force consumers to buy replacements more frequently than they would ever want to.

Do you go to the store and go “Wow, I wish this brand would generate more waste to take up shelf space so (competitor) cant have it?”

Do you look at a brand and go “I will only support this company if it fills the landfills every 3 months with perfectly usable products?”

Do you go “Wow, I wanna pay 500 dollars for this device thats gonna fail in 18 months and need to be replaced, because repairing it is gonna cost so much that its better just to get a new one again”?

Do you go “god, I like this product, I really hope entire communities lost their access to clean water to cool the AI’s that generated the design?”

No?

Neither do I.

Because they don’t serve the interest of the customer. They serve the market, which has taken a life of its own (which is especially apparently with the AI scam bubble, where companies keep making promises to buy future products from each other with the same imaginary trillion dollars that keeps getting passed around, generating endless imaginary value without producing anything… and when the AI bubble pops, its going to crash harder than the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs)

If they served the interests of the customers, they’d keep prices low, and pay high, and produce quality goods that people would have the money to buy.

By putting the burden on the end consumer for climate change and pollution, they are escaping blame, and are allowed to continue to pollute and accelerate the decline of our climate. Its like blaming you for growing a tomato, while ignoring the industrial farm that mowed down 2 million acres of south american rainforest to produce alfalfa for saudi horses.