Why the flip do they make ph*nes so big now? They're practically the size of mini tablets at this point. My carrier recently shut down the 2G network and basically forced me to buy a new phone even though my old one from 10 years ago still works fine. The new one is heavy, too large and unwieldy to use with one hand and it makes hand ache after longer periods of use (lying in bed looking at boorus) and it just barely fits in my pocket.

Have you considered moving next to the junction point for undersea internet cables.
Just hook up directly to the grid and get free high-speed internet.

Someone needs to pioneer a study into develeper innefeciency as correlated to skill issues of the userbase.

¥ I don't like choice #1 because it's hard to use and I make mistakes
¥ let's do way #2 instead because i think it's easier
¥ I don't like way #2 because it's hard and I make mistakes
¥ let's do way #3(what he really meant was do way #1 again with another coat of paint)

If people would just learn the quirks of software and stop complaining that their individual methods don't work as well(AKA Adapt to reality) then society would be more productive. The Western entitledness is bloat and forces devs to constantly redesign UIs to meet managements demands.
It's wasted economic potential

So what happens to bitcoin when quantum computing is realized and there's no development on it because there can't be?

Give me a pic and I'll do an animation generation thingie with local "WAN Video". You need to include a "natural language" description of what will happen. There is an AI to autotag the general description of the static image.
For instance this was what I wrote for the OP video:

Himari Burg

Strong, smooth animation. Cartoon anime animation. The girl looks around. She blinks her eyes. She lowers the blanket, revealing a hamburger. She holds the hamburger to her mouth and takes a bite. She then covers herself with the blanket and hides her face.

This was the autotag for the image:

AI Tag

Anime-style drawing of a cute, young girl with light pink hair and large, expressive purple eyes. She is wearing a white hooded cloak with a hood, and is sitting on a red couch. The background is a simple, dark brown gradient. The girl's expression is neutral, and she is looking directly at the viewer. The image has a soft, pastel color palette. The style is clean and detailed, with a focus on the character's delicate features and soft shading.

I can do NSFW too since it's a local model, but that should be on the appropriate board. *cough*
I'm trying to figure out the painful installation of this 'sage attention' thing that is supposed to half generation time, but until then I'm going to limit the size and duration of things. It took me 3 minutes to generate this, which is definitely not right. Not sure how I was able to do 50 second generations a couple days ago...

Since it's such a hot button issue that's distracting from happenings, how about a thread for containing all your fights over AI and the acceptability of its usage. Don't really want to say it's a discussion that can't be had at all because it's something actually feel quite passionately about in a non-shitposting manner.

There's a lot of talk about the controversies of AI recently on kissu. People aren't sure whether it's good or bad for humanity. I can't answer that question, but I know how to improve life on an individual level. This is for windows, but linux nerds can probably do something similar.

First, you need some tools:
1. AI image generation. Ideally local, but if you can do stuff that you like online then that will work. If you're an artist it will also work, but due to the size of the results I don't think people would find the motivation to draw this.
2. Image editing program to do some cropping and maybe a little editing of the AI image.
3. A program that can export to the windows icon (.ico) format. I use gimp.

WHY THE FUCK IS EVERYTHING A SMART TV NOW? EVEN IF IT'S NOT FULLY SMART IT'S ALEXA/FIRE POWERED! I DON'T WANT YOUR Kuso OS OF "WE CAN DO SOOOO MUCH AND LAG THE FUCK OUT OF YOUR TV IN THE PROCESS SO YOU NEED TO CLEAR THE CACHE EVERY WEEK BECAUSE WE DID SO MUCH SMART SHIT ON THE SIDE EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE NOT EVEN CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET" IT'S NOT HELPFUL OR USEFUL JUST HAVE A STATIC FUCKING SETTINGS MENU THAT ALLOWS ME TO CUSTOMIZE HOW I PLEASE YOU STUPID FUCKING TV!

This must be why people buy monitors instead. No hassle there and no trying to force their kuso extras on you. I don't know why no TV brand seems to be able to exist selling extremely capable products that don't come with all the extra baggage that only seems to serve for raising prices. Hell I don't think I've ever even seen a TV that offers 240Hz while there's plenty of monitors out there that do.

Have you undervolted your GPU or CPU? It's something I read about a few years ago, but dismissed because I assumed it would reduce performance.
Well, with my 3080 I went from 350 watts when running Stable Diffusion to 270ish. The temperature is down 9 degrees Celsius, too. The trade-off is that I went from 40 seconds per generation of 4 images to... 41 seconds. I could tinker it to make it 300 watts and keep the 40 second time, but that doesn't seem worth it.
Seems like a great thing to do to make things run a little bit cooler and quieter while saving a tiny amount of money.

Reminder not to dox yourself!

I wanted to show off my current working environment for my laptop. Which is mostly for writing so it's free of many of the usual distractions on my six monitor mult-monitor workstation set-up. The DE: LXQt is a lie by the way. The last release of firefox broke its GUI unless you fake having a DE installed through your .profile/.xsession.

This is probably my most comfy system at the moment. My own custom version of dwm that has terminal swallowing set-up. Driven mostly through keyboard although touchpad, trackpoint and touchscreen is fully working (but rarely used). Running latest OpenBSD snapshot. Most things compiled locally (kernel, packages, emacs). I primarily live in emacs and have a custom dashboard set-up when it first opens. Emacs running as daemon. A few things like weechat, newsboat, neomutt and firefox running on other tags so they don't distract me when working in emacs. A custom script I wrote to access youtube and pipe content into yt-dlp+mpv for viewing locally so I never have to visit the actual website. Following channels I like via RSS feeds and using my browser cookies so I can get content that requires log-in.

Everything kept really simple. Picom is only set-up for transparency and to prevent screen tearing no other fancy effects set-up. Hyperthreading disabled so no logical CPU cores being used (more secure). I do not miss it everything is as fast with it off as it is with it on. No wine/linux support though so no Steam on this machine which is a bonus for what it's intended for.

Will be replacing this set-up very soon with my own BSD-based kernel and user space tools I mostly wrote myself or adapted from other people's work. Arcan+Plan9 inspired. Hope to show it off soon. I have a total terminal emulator+shell replacement that solves many long standing issues. It can even embed videos right in the terminal, supports multiple jobs and has a real time clock. Integrates directly with the new window manager as well. I've posted about it before. Started as my own little Linux distro based on Gentoo and then I ported everything to FreeBSD. Now I've ported everything again to OpenBSD and started mixing and matching things from various BSD kernels. Replaced almost everything in userspace over the last few years on my dev machine.

Although all the usual stuff still works so I haven't lost access to those tools. But I'm replacing them to take advantage of my new GUI onePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Did we really need an AI to come to this solution?

https://www.palladiummag.com/2020/10/19/the-centralized-internet-is-inevitable/

I think this article makes a good point. Many people here miss the "old internet" not realizing that period is destined to disappear from the start, since the inherent cannot be anything else: the inherent property of the internet leads to the eventual centralization of control:

> One of the core functions of the internet is to record material of human interest in digital format.
> This information is not made available to us as individuals. Even if it were, it would not be the kind of information we could use. It’s only useful en masse—in other words, only insofar as it makes us legible and visible to centralized institutions.
> The centralizing trend that we have seen over the lifespan of the internet is not a fluke to be corrected as we learn to properly harness the power of this new technology. Rather, the internet cannot be anything but a centralizing force, so long as there are groups that are situated to disproportionately benefit from that which it renders visible.

Firefox pushed an insane ToS change

Guess who's back
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Tell a friend

Right now AI is a mess of large language models each trying to out-everything the other as the ramp-up in operation costs seems infinite while the profits seem to remain at a net-loss even if revenue is increasing. Is there actually a viable future for any of these companies or will the hype around AI die off as the utopian promises remain unfulfilled and leave a burning pile of expensive rubble where all the data centers used to be?

The only thing I've seen some actual promise in have been the more singular focused LLMs trained on specific tasks like speeding up diagnosis and assistance in the health field. This along with other AI 'marvels' seem to still require trained human correction/review, but maybe at a smaller scale. Otherwise generative AI on its own doesn't seem to make much greater than acceptable output.

I guess the idea for companies right now is to take the usual cheap approach of bleeding money for a while until they can assert themselves in some way as a critical part of a workflow/lifestyle and then massively up the cost when people can't are too stuck with them to simply drop them. Otherwise they need to find some way to reduce costs by a lot.