We are designing this flow specifically to resist coercion, ensuring that users aren’t tricked into bypassing these safety checks while under pressure from a scammer.

Translation: if they want scamware, it better be from Google Play, where Google gets a 30% cut. On top of the cut they got for the phishing link in Google Ads.

And if anything thinks I’m being hyperbolic, go on Google Play and search for pretty much anything. Or turn off your adblocker.

…Oh. I see, I misread the generation.

Yeah, that’s a huge caveat, one that would get me to reconsider the whole box, as FSR4 is way better than 3. I wonder if there’s a chance for AMD (or Valve) to backport it?

AMD must feel good about this, given their (apparent) alarmingly small desktop GPU marketshare.

…They really just need OEMs to ship the things, and now they got a great one.

I’d be neat if Steam offered an Intel Arc variant too. The B series is massively underrated.

Yeah.

I was with family, on an RTX 2060 laptop and a nice TV. I fed it 1080P for the TV to upscale (since that’s the only res it would take at 120HZ or something like that), and it looked good. Those TV ASICs are quite powerful these days.

I mean, it will do 4K in old games just fine.

FSR(4) is less noticable at higher res, anyway.

Yeah, that’s tiny. That’s like 3.8L.

I travel with a 10L SFF PC, and that’s small for an SFF case.

Random tangent, but I tried PaleMoon to see if it used less RAM these days.

…And it seems they’ve forked pretty hard. All the rendering acceleration is years behind FF, and frankly it lagged on the test page (a web app text editor) I was interested in.

…The picture says 'Start Now. Download."

I posted some similar ads above.

I mean, I’m using Firefox now? Cromite blocks them by default too. I tested with and without a VPN as well.

If you’re gonna get all pointy, what I was trying to politely imply is your original statement is incorrect.

I wouldn’t call fake download links on a download page ‘restrained’

Firefox blocks them by default. You have to turn off enhanced tracking protection.

Yep. For Windows and Mac, but not the source tar download, interestingly:

All my ads (on FF or Cromite) seem to be for addons:

It’s… interesting those ads one absolutely should never click on now exist in the Chrome/FF extension store.

Do the Star Wars aliens count?

Otherwise, probably something from Marvel or DC, if we don’t have that already.

That’s putting it a bit abrasively, but there’s a nugget of truth there.

An anecdote: I saw some (drug?) commercial where the wife orders pizza because the Dad’s a bumbling idiot for even attempting to use the kitchen. Everything about the way it was presented just screamed… ‘50s sexism,’ basically?

Behold, an outcast so slimey he got thrown out of office and shunned.

…And he’s trending on Twitter. He’s getting clicks and into people’s feeds.

This is why whe don’t use Twitter. Don’t feed the trolls.

Not sure I understand you but I think I get it?

Like, most of what AI bad is the cultism and corporate shit. Like literally shaving 2% off costs to drain a town’s water or something, or proselytizing scaling up transformers while ignoring the efficiency/scaling papers that keep coming out (because that would break the Tech Bro grift).

…At the same time, the absolute energy cost is ridiculously overstated compared to, say, global aluminum or steel production.

And then you have the ridiculous politicization. An example I often cite is a TV series that was ‘fan remastered’ and (as one component in a long chain) upscaled with an oldschool GAN that cost peanuts to train. Beloved years ago, but all of a sudden the fandom hates it because it has something to do with ‘AI’.

…At the same, you can’t ignore how irresponsibly its presented, where these companies are making pennies from spam/slop literally destroying everything. It’s quite reasonable to say “The idiots making this put no effort into it” or “I just don’t like it, yuck” when 99.99% of user-visible AI generation is slop/spam.

See this comment for math and specifics: https://lemmy.world/post/38090104/20233592

But the TL;DR version:

• Launching anything into space is heinously expensive. And CO2 emissive.

• With very generous math, you’d need a radiator like a mile across to cool a space data center, but practically? Larger.

• Datacenter hardware is unreliable and goes obsolete quickly, and any kind of maintenance in space is basically cost prohibitive.

• There are other smaller yet still crippling engineering challenges, like bit flips from radiation (which gets move severe as lithography shrinks; look up Nvidia’s research on this), assembling large structures in space reliably, cooling loops for such gigantic structures, and extremely difficult/expensive networking (with distinct issues in LEO or geosynchronous).

And most of all… Solar is dirt cheap on Earth, compared to that.

So is just sticking a pipe in the ground for a geothermal loop, or ambient radiative cooling. We literally have tons of mass to dissipate heat into for free, instead of having to radiate it thermally, yet that’s too expensive for ground data centers, apparently.

That’s the joke.

It’s like saying “air conditioning is difficult” and proposing “I know! Let’s live under the Antarctic ice sheet!” That’s not hyperbole. It might be more practical, actually, as getting mass there is waaaay cheaper…

To answer your question, it’s very hard at that scale/temperature: https://projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/heatrad.php

The really hilarious thing is evaporative cooling (that takes so much water) is simple penny pinching over a closed loop system. That’s all.

…Yet Bezos and Musk are talking orbital datacenters?

Pick a lane?

Pasty faced millennial here.

Also EE dropout (working on that).

I hope I am as enlightened and put together as you when I’m 50. Cheers.

But I do have one answer for you:

I lost hope for this nation when Trump was elected this last time. I couldn’t understand how people could not see the obvious.

Facebook.

My ‘moment of clarity’ was when I saw a local news station running clips of college girls’ enthusiasm for Trump, just after the election. The sentiment was along the lines of “He’s so strong!” or “I really feel like he gets us, you know?” and almost directly quoting some meme’s I’d seen.

And seeing die hard libertarians I know swallow Trump’s accumulation of executive power, via their perception of events, drove it home.

…Walk the street, and look around. I’m using ‘Facebook’ as a catch-all here: algorithmic feeds and influencers are warping reality for smart folks, both ways. Every generation is caught up in it, but I feel the age extremes (Boomers and Z) are most vulnerable here.