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Tons. I think if people read my opinions on AI they likely see me as a luddite.

My concerns are not about whether it’s useful. It’s that if the 1% use it to replace most actual workers, the lack of input will make future models actually worse than current ones, and at the very least would stifle innovation.

I’m very concerned about models built on the IP (voluntarily given or not) of people, being used to replace those same people.

I’m very concerned with where we go as a society if we do go down the route of losing so many jobs.

I’m concerned about the race to get the best model, using so much energy and natural resources.

But do I think AI is and can be a very powerful tool, to enhance productivity? Without a doubt it can.

Well see, a lot of businesses are B2B. Now yes for sure ultimately their customer’s customer’s customer is going to be a normal person. So eventually the lack of custom and with it, revenue will hit them. But, here’s the thing I’ve observed about large organisations (not just businesses). I liken their operation to be very similar to insects. That is, they don’t really plan ahead, they’re reactive purely to stimuli, and mainly just do “what the other orgs are doing” without thinking about the effect beyond the only horizons they can see. Month end, quarter end and year end. Anything after the end of their current financial year. They’re not even thinking about right now.

So, the point is, this logic while completely correct will fall on deaf ears.

I boot into windows every time that one NTFS partition I never converted gets locked for needing a check… Come on kernel 7.1. I need that new ntfs with the fsck tool!

Yeah I could convert it. But there’s some stuff on there I might want to run from windows, once every 1.5 years or something.

Well it’s also. Windows XP. There’s updates. Install them when you want to. Windows 10: There’s updates, install them soon unless it’s pro then install them when you want. Windows 11: Please install your updates, you have twenty seconds to comply. Windows 12: What’s that, you were in the middle of editing a file with 8 hours worth of edits? Tough I’m rebooting now bitch.

Well I was thinking more home users since this was what the post was about. Pretty sure data centres have solutions for this already with price tags that would make us cry.

At home I can see only edge cases where even going to 2.5 would be useful for us here anyway. Let alone more.

Now I’m sure as time passes demands will continue to increase and we’ll need more speed. But for now running 2.5/10 internally and 1gbit to the Internet is more than enough.

I’m pretty sure that nic cards for those speeds would really need more hardware offloading and dma to stand a chance of those speeds. With those it should be possible. With the right hardware handling there shouldn’t be a problem, ssds connected to pci manage a lot more.

In real terms, right now who needs it aside from to post speed test results?

I have gigabit symmetric and can upgrade to 2.5. But, I cannot imagine we’d need 2.5 let alone 10 or 25. And I’m a fairly heavy user.

The only RGB things I have is an NVidia 3080, and the RGB ram. Unplugging those would cause me a problem. I could set them to off. But, they’re there now. So I make them Borg green.

But if either of them (or the case) cost me more to have the RGB/Glass I’d not have gotten them. It’s absolutely not something I care about.

You’re not kidding. I have no real interest in RGB. But it was cheaper to buy a case with a glass panel and the RGB ram of the same spec was cheaper than non RGB… I just made all the LEDs Borg green and left it that way.

Hey, it was really better times when you could have your computer in any colo(u)r you wanted, so long as it was beige.

Way way back. I was given a 486 (when pentium 90/100s were normal) at work to run the experimental internet connection on (the head of the company at the time didn’t think this internet fad would last). So I installed some magazine coverdisk linux and connected the office to the internet via a single modem.

I think it had a peak uptime of 550 days before it was replaced.

windows is crashing linux is flowering, with linux there is no old pc only bad OS.

Unless it is a 486 and you want to stay current :P

So, I cannot buy new books or download my current ones. But, I can download them without paying and then install them still over USB? OK Amazon, that clears things up fine for me.

Yes, I am wishing I bought a spare drive or two for my home array. When one fails it’s going to get costly now.

I was also thinking that. As an example, retail work seems to me to be a kind of hell I don’t think I’d want to endure. But I know people that really enjoy it. So it’s probably true of any job you might think is only done by those that are forced to.

I think, if AI and robotics replace most jobs. After some years of pain when capitalists enjoy the infinite money glitch they’ve discovered, there will either be a revolution or a natural coming to understand that things need to work differently.

Now, understand this would only work if the vast majority of work could be done via automation. In this case the vast majority of people would be able to pursue what they enjoy, a bit like the star trek anti-economy. If all remaining required jobs were no longer filled by those that volunteered to do them, there would be some kind of draft (think like jury duty), where people able to do a job have a chance to be called in to do it for a few months then released back to pursue their own interests.

I’ve always seen capitalism as the carrot on a stick we need, when we need human productivity from the vast majority of people. If that’s no longer the case, it’s not a suitable solution and all the ideas like universal basic income are just stopgap measures to try to eke a bit more time out of the capitalist system that has already run past the point where we can keep enough people usefully employed to make it work. That’s almost certainly the reason we’re seeing the huge wealth disparity that increases. As the productivity per person goes up, all the increased value only ever rises to the top.

Bit of a mini rant there, sorry about that.

I’m not saying you’re wrong. But you realise how that reads right? It sounds like you’re saying we should keep a boot on the neck of “the little people” so the rest of us can have a good life.

The thing about peertube is… It’s actually a tough one to run for non-profit. I run an mbin instance and it’s fairly easy to afford the hardware to host that and securely back it up.

But for peertube, you need storage, and realistically you also need backup for all that storage. That can be pretty costly unless you self host. In which case even with fibre your home connection will be hammered.

Video content eats storage like nothing else.

The enshittification will continue until… No man, it’ll just continue.

Enjoy it while you can. The age of enshittification will be upon us. With fully locked bootloaders and the only way to install true FOSS mobile OS is to pay 3x the price for half the capabilities of a normal Android phone.

Yep I’m hearing a lot about this and there’s a few Lora nodes on it in my area. So am considering looking into it.

If you set the ip of the router to fe80::1 then anything directly connected should be fine to connect using that address.