As I always say:

…Most people need an iPad with a better keyboard, and a touchpad.

That’s all they use their computers for. They don’t want to mess with filesystems or specs or any concepts like that, they just want to add text to their kid’s picture or send an email or read a PDF or scroll YouTube, or do things like banking or streaming that are honestly better supported as iOS apps anyway.

And that’s basically what the Neo is.

Laptop makers are up shit creek if they insist on staying with Windows, as Microsoft stupendously bungled that experience.

It’s basically iOS at that point.

So we call them what they are: megacorp games!

I just don’t like the term “AAA.” It feels like these mega studios are hiding behind that as a badge of quality.

“If this is all surprising to you then you’re not talking with the women in your life.”

To be fair, maybe Lemmy is less social than “average”? I’m certainly contributing to that statistic.

…Still, as a guy, it’s kind of my experience everywhere. The longer I live, even as isolated as I am, the more I’m bewildered by other men being incapable of following the “don’t be a jerk” rule, incapable of shutting up and listening to women, or doing/saying straight up terrible, sexist things, all while knowing that’s the tip of the iceberg.

I can’t even imagine the experience of being a woman using Uber. It’s mind boggling that so many male commenters wag their fingers like they somehow do.

I buy that. It fits with literally all of Meta’s previous behavior and lobbying efforts.

I remember playing with Stable Diffusion in 2022, and thinking “Oh. That’s the end of NFTs.”

NFT art was stupid to begin with, of course, but SD was such a blatent, extreme inverse of the “artifical digital scarcity” angle. If I wanted a shitty, albeit “unique” and deterministically reproducible digital image, I could just make it in 30 seconds on a desktop. If I wanted a certain look, I could use img2img or eventually controlnet and all sorts of augmentations.

Yes, junky AI was junky AI, but ironically it was the antithesis of everything NFTs stood for. Instead of “digital information is worth commodifying at great expense,” it was “digital information is basically free.” And I still find it amusing that Tech Bros and con artists jumped from one ship to the other so quickly, or somehow have feet in both.

Man, that is not my experience at all.

I’m a guy. And even some of the things my (former) guy friends said about women and their relationships dropped my jaw. Same with some family.

The longer I live, the more I think “man… can my sex just not be such pricks? Please? It is not that hard.”

Yeah, I’ve seen some women abuse or take advantage of men too. But it’s not even close to so prominant with women I’ve known, especially when I dive into the issues and see what happened.

Came here expecting misogyny-adjacent comments.

…It met my expectations :/

Depends what you define as “AAA”

Baldurs Gate 3, for instance, has no nonsense, and every word out of the director’s mouth is “we made this decision because it’s what our developers wanted.” But while the dev team is “AAA” large, Larian doesn’t really fit the mould of Ubisoft, EA, Rockstar, Blizzard or whatever.

I think we need a new designation for what are basically megacorp operations.

I don’t mean being anonymous, but basic hygeine.

Block ads.

Use startpage or something instead of Google.

Avoid getting stuck on YouTube Shorts for hours, don’t trust ChatGPT implicitly. Maybe use a password manager.

It is not that hard. But, even compared to a dysfunctional person like me, people literally cannot help themselves, apparently.

No one cares.

Maybe I’m just down today, but most everyone I know is getting sucked into ChatGPT, short form videos, Discord, political extremism, getting screwed by the corporations they work for, you name it. They get their eyeballs scanned, they do the verification; no one cares. They aren’t even intrerested in basic privacy steps.

And even in things I have some expertise in (like transformers LLMs), I can’t talk anyone out of anything.

Even Lemmy feels like its spiraling.

It feels like humanity is losing.

Exactly!

Users generally don’t check citations though; they read and make a judgement. This is why Wikipedia, with all its flaws, is still such a valuable resource to me, as at least it’s built on citations.

Human brains just aren’t wired for citations. Especially outside academia I guess.

I think it would help if people were more “LLM literate” though, eg they took a lesson in school on how they work at a low level. Folks would be horrified they ever put so much trust in them.

Your country going to war, as the belligerent, should be more than just “news.”

We are in a hot war with Iran.

I get it, I can see how it’s missed, but I think that shows just how screwed up the system is here.

Or Lemmy.

Information hygiene in the news subs is terrible, at least here on .world.

We certainly did. We learned Chicago/APA style, types of sources, and how to make citations in reports.

And that Wikipedia is not appropriate as a source to cite.

That’s not true, unfortunately. It’s not economical to transplant RAM ICs once they’re packaged and soldered onto something.

And if they’re produced as, say, HBM modules, they absolutely cannot be repurposed for, say, DDR5 or LPDDR5 CPUs, or GDDR GPUs. There’s no reworking, the memory buses on processors simply do not support them electrically, and altering those processors would have a massive development cost with years of lead time.

Some of the RAM (like the LPDDR5X for the Nvidia Grace Hopper ARM CPUs) can be re-used, but it seems most is being made as HBM.

That’s not true, from what I’ve read:

https://www.trendforce.com/presscenter/news/20251113-12780.html

despite higher ASPs boosting profitability across the memory industry, capital spending on DRAM and NAND Flash is only anticipated to increase modestly in 2026. This limited investment growth is unlikely to significantly affect bit output.

Memory makers seem skeptical, hence aren’t planning to spend on more capacity in 2026.

Too late, I’m afraid. The supply for DRAM basically can’t adjust, and already-manufactured chips can’t be repurposed, so even if Oracle, Meta, and OpenAI went bankrupt tomorrow, it would take some time to build up inventory again.

The issue with AI is “now”

Can they power with solar? Nuclear? Hell, even a natural gas plant? Nope, the data centers need the power right this second, so they get gas turbines on site. Same with cooling; evaporative is just the quickest and cheapest to set up.

Same with its architecture. There’s no time to fix temperature/sampling issues, no time to try bitnet or any of a bazillion interesting papers that came out. A shippable product (model) is needed yesterday; just scale up what we have. “Fail” a single experiment? Your team is fired, which is exactly what happened at Meta.

Everything has to happen right now because of corporate FOMO. So, while this is an interesting musing and maybe Intel or someone will play with it, the actual AI labs could not care less because they can’t get it immediately.