The entertainment oligopoly falsifying the appearance of democracy and choice while limiting the range of presentable choices is actually symbolic of how many authoritarian systems fake democratic parliamentary procedures and such.
I duno, I still can't make a payment on the net without Visa or Mastercard, still a problem to be solved to me
Looks like other people still trying to solve as well:
> Earlier this year, Coinbase changed online payments forever with a new protocol called x402. But could this technology really usher in a new age of 'machine to machine' payments? Let's run it...
over time you would assume the models will get more efficient and the hardware will get better to the point that buying a massive new gpu with boatloads of vram is just not necessary
maybe 128gb of vram becomes the new mid tier model and most llms can fit into this nicely and do everything one wants in an llm
given how fast llms are progressing it wouldn’t surprise me if we reach this point by 2030
i don’t quite see the point in waiting, if you’re using something like lm studio just download the latest and greatest and you’re on your way, where is the fatigue part?
i can understand maybe if you’re spending hours setting it up but to me these are download and go
It is incredibly addictive inducing drug like state:
> You’ll just be in this pleasurable dopamine state, carried away. It’s almost hypnotic, you’ll keep watching and watching. - Dr. Julie Albright
> You keep scrolling, she says, because sometimes you see something you like, and sometimes you don’t. And that differentiation — very similar to a slot machine in Vegas — is key.
I detest slot machines, so many lives wasted away, and I feel like we already spend too much time on computers to the detriment of both ourselves and society, let alone giving the CCP a hand to manipulate people on top of everything else
Very similar to me, I went nexus 5 > 5x > pixel > pixel 2 after the 5/5x/p1 broke in different ways, but the Pixel 2 I used until it ran out of support and I was annoyed at having to replace a phone so quickly because it was fine for me, so I switched to a second hand iphone XS and it still works fine even though it's only 1 year older.
I doubt I'll ever buy an iPhone brand new (I go out of my way not to support the CCP) but until Pinephone and linux becomes a usable mobile OS I'll stick with the XS until it either dies or Apple stop supporting it in: