So you’re uncomfortable about admitting that you want people to work for free to bring you the open source software you want instead of using assistive software to automate the process. Alright, whatever. Have a nice day.

And you’re entitled to believe people need to labour for you for free. Have a good one!

But that’s what this is. “Waah waah nobody spent thousands of hours to bring me this free thing”. It’s always been a pain point with FOSS but now people are getting especially pissy that they’re not getting more for free.

Fair, misunderstood the “they are”.

It’s quite the opposite though. People are demanding open-source devs to toil away for free because using the thing that can automate a bunch of work is bad.

A more apt comparison would be:

Tractors put people out of work so we shouldn’t buy produce from farms that use them, BUT we also don’t want to pay extra despite the fact that these farms require more labour to produce the same amount of crops.

You’re always free to start your own tractorless farm and you’ll see how many people are willing to pay extra just for not having a tractor involved versus how many people would prefer things to be cheaper.

Maybe not a perfect analogy because food is essential, but it kinda shows how annoying the people that demand their completely free software is handwritten seem.

Go donate a couple grand a month to a project you truly care about and maybe the dev can afford to work on it full time instead of using LLMs to build the things they want to exist.

I should also mention that whatever device you’re posting from, likely benefits from slave labour somewhere in the supply chain, as do many other goods in our lives. Living in the west, most of us benefit from some form of slavery or another happening somewhere we don’t care about because it’s out of sight. It’s quite unfortunate. Comparing LLM usage to actual fucking slavery is WILD to me though.

It’s also HBM not DDR or even GDDR in those GPUs. Good luck finding a consumer board that takes those.

The used GPGPU (is that still a term?) server market will have a metric fucktonne of supply I suspect.

Nvidia is already bracing for this. They did a bunch of stock buyback instead of investing that money in anything that could lead to more future sales. 150 billion dollars I believe.

That’s what they want you to do, yes. Because margins right now are massive. They could be even bigger next year or they could drop. If you buy now, they’re guaranteed a fat stack of cash.

Don’t worry, they’ll be outdated soon. If you mean AI GPUs that is. Those are obsolete once the new gen is out because there are massive generational improvements (particularly amount and bandwidth of memory which is what matters most)

How do you know what their consumption habits are?

And the mountain of slop provides a way for those who can’t buy several different consoles, to play the games for those consoles. Emulators exist too, sure, but they’re also far from perfect and require a much beefier machine usually. My Gameboy Advance emulator runs fine on my iPhone. Yuzu was having trouble on a fairly modern PC a few years ago and it’s not even emulating a new console by any means.

It’s not so much that there’s intentional barriers as much as it is that there’s a bunch of trial and error work to do to recompile a binary for a different OS potentially running on a different CPU architecture with different audio hardware and different graphics and…

AI can even keep going at it while you’re asleep.

You’re free to do it yourself manually or just buy the consoles your games run on.

Even if I don’t use AI, I don’t start with an empty repo usually. Reason being, I’m too lazy to even do git init until I know I’m actually going to work on the project for more than the one session. ADHD and all that. Repo is created when I’ve got enough there to not be ashamed of myself when I come back in a year and see what I’ve created.

You CAN just go out and buy the console you know.

China and it’s a dictatorship but if you mean economic system, it’s capitalist. It also manufactures everyone else’s shit for them so if you order shit off Amazon in the US or Canada, that increases China’s pollution too.

You just named several platforms with about 7 users each. Would have to be using xitter and twitch, maybe instagram. And obviously tiktok.

See anything in common between those platforms?

Alphabet didn’t “take” Google and YouTube. There was no takeover or purchase. Alphabet was created as an umbrella over Google’s sprawling business empire.

You’re only mentioning the hard bits like renting a VPS and installing software, but you shouldn’t gloss over the easy bits like spending tens od billions on getting a user base big enough to make it worthwhile running a video hosting platform.

YouTube’s network effect is what makes being a career YouTuber possible and Google spent billions and the better part of two decades making sure no other platform can offer this.

In my defence just because I could afford it 6 years ago doesn’t mean I could afford it now.

Hey buddy, instances can already track you anyway. The voyager link is better for voyager users sharing things to eachother because it opens in the recipient’s preferred instance in their voyager app instead of being taken to the web UI of some random instance you don’t even have an account on. You don’t have to use it if you don’t want it.

It still needs to be connected to the grid to receive power at night unless you think every village can afford battery storage

There’s more competition in the storage market than RAM. Someone was going to do it, might as well be them.