Ah i completely missed that context.

I thought we were just discussing consumer subscriptions. I don’t often think about corporate entities as customers because often the product is a complete different class i don’t qualify for and i have radically position on economic organisations

Interesting thing i just found out is my internet providers has a plan for business which is identical to the one i own except its cheaper and doubles the upload capacities.

As far as my level of knowledge , people at work come to me because i understand computers, but not for finances.

Don’t worry, i still get trapped in the same biases at times.

I used to make fun of bottled egg liquids till someone accurately pointed out that for some cracking an egg is a real obstacle.

MFs, i liked that song.

Does anyone know if MGMT has commented on this phenomenon?

I don’t need one but i know plenty of old/disabled people for who a straw is a necessity.

I am happy we moved away from plastic straws being mainstream but i also feel like there should have been possible exceptions for medical use. The paper and aluminium alternatives are really not that good.

I get it but its rather ableist.

Also you never tried drinking from a fast food drink cup full of ice. Freezes your damn lips.

Must be different requirements indeed. But yours don’t sound like typical consumer requirements. Why do we need the same scale as a large corporation?

I can respect the corporate ability to serve thousands at a time but a typical household simply doesn’t need that.

Me and a few of my friends all work in IT and each have a dedicated proxmox machine that runs all of these things just fine. Nextcloud has so far only failed me once when i needed it and it was actually a cloudflare issue and still worked locally.

Navidrome i use all day every day and need accessible from anywhere. I have not updated or checked the container since setup and it has been stable as a rock. Fuck spotify which doesn’t have the bootlegs i listen to anyway.

The endgoal, which i archived is that i have no need for subscriptions and actually own my data which is the point right?

My actual hobbyist goal is to create something that can persist locally if the internet one day disappears.

My jellyfin can stream 4K just fine, even remotely through a vpn so i am not sure what you mean.

Depending on transcoding you might require a gpu but still not a standard “gaming spec” pc cant handle.

Come to think of it, my internet provider does allow upload up to 25mb/s and this is the highest end available for consumers in my area. Technically thats a subscription but realistically its bill similar to water/electricity.

The upload limit is also purely and artificial cap, they could easily quadruple it if they wanted.

Also Realistically usecase for 4k movies is usually your home couch so it be streamed on Lan speed. Quality is often better than common stream providers because they do cheat to keep bandwidth down.

What kind of subscriptions require large infrastructure?

Music/media/cloudstorage can all run on a single pc/server costing maybe half a day of setting it up by most people at the level of having switched to Linux.

Acces to a big multiplayer game server is the only one that really comes go mind.

If it’s just for a few people there is very little need for maintenance, rarely any developer work.

I doubt that the first ones to break it will be eager to communicate their findings to the public.

This tech is far to valuable for military/spionage goals. For all we know it already exists.

Your not wrong that corporations win regardless of the party but how does a Trump appointee removing posts turn into an example of democrats being guilty of this?

Like, there is a inexhaustible lists of examples of how the class war is ingrained in politics, you don’t need to invent any and regardless of your intentions i doubt this is accomplishing them.

They really cant help themselves, its so on below the nose.

Never thought that my dislike for the taste and smell of coffee would become something that actively makes me glad.

I was going to pick 1 as the most practical for most usecases….

But then i saw 4 has a moomin on the handle, easily overriding all other arguments.

What the LILE

Fuck all intellectual property.

Monopoly on ideas is though police. Information that is not hidden for personal reasons should always be free.

All of human creativity is recycled from internal interpretations, interpretations from the real world that we live in that is increasingly blocked off with real punishment to conceptual crime.

The counterpoint here is that many neurodivergents managed to fit in way more and that they are actually a natural evolved important subgroup of a human society.

What you are saying is not wrong but at some point we did evolve mass production and consumerism catered to majorities making everyone else stand out more and eventually be considered disabled as modern society no longer needed their strengths and the misaligned creating new challenges,

This creates a feedback loop where people also avoid being seen doing non-typical behaviour and called others out for it.

The more our general knowledge grew the more unnecessary it appeared for anyone to specialise in subjects where books where already available and if they want to eat they ought to be working in the factory rather then have their head up in the clouds.

I am not saying i understand it at all. My comment is genuine, not rhetorical.

On the contrary i express that i do not understand this to the point of deeming it strange or weird, triggering my curiosity.

I was hoping someone would chime in an explain how text generator techniques (which i do know alot about) known to have no capacity to use real world reason or logic can be used to help solve dna puzzles unless as a sub module of general machine learning. In which that later case would be within my understanding

Machine learning sure, but an llm? For anything other then as a module to translate abstract data into words that just seem weird

We are on the same base,

I actually had a friend who jokingly mocked me for liking ai because i was initially very exited ablut Dall-E and ChatGPT 3.5

Back then i could only see the potential that it continues to have. OpenAI appeared to have altruistic goals and was a non profit. Trojan horse it turned out to be.

Had to make pretty clear to my friend that “ yes, but not like this, everything but this” about the current slop situation.

I should nuance,

For a person who already actively uses comfyui, knows how the different nodes work,

Makes complex flows with them,

Making their own checkpoints is not a big step up.

I have not gotten to this level myself yet, i am still learning how to properly using different and custom nodes, and yes

In the mean time yes, i experiment with public models that use stolen artwork. But i am not posting any of the results, its pure personal use practice.

I have already seen some stuff about making your own models/checkpoints, if i ever get happy enough with my skills to post it as art then having my own feels like a must. The main reason i haven’t is cause it does take a lot of time to prepare the training data.

People that don’t use their models while calling themselves artist are cheating themselves most of all.