If seat 2 comes with weed or seat 4 comes with coke either one might actually be a fun flight. 🤣

Amen and Hell yeah comrade 👈😎

I have my sister’s dog on my LinkedIn profile. Cat fishing employers feels acceptable to me lol

If only a giant corporation like steam made their own Linux based OS and poured huge resources into an open source compatibility layer(maybe even call It proton) that would move more people to Linux and even create more incentive for third party developers to have Linux versions of their applications because of the growing market sjare of end users using linux that would be exciting… 👀👀👀

I mean the hardware is a cool toy but everyone else here is excited for the software that will be available and accessible elsewhere. Gotta be honest sounds like you just want to hate it lol which more power to you but you’re not really making sense to me. 🤷

What makes you think you wouldn’t be able to load a different Linux distro on this box? Sounds like it’s just a PC with steam OS pre-installed. Or are you just against an OS being pre-installed?

So are PCs lol

Lol I should have known 👈😎

What do you think it will change? Seems like everyone that isn’t a hardcore trumper already knows he’s on the list. Do you really think those who still deny it will think anything other than that the list was altered before release?

Idk I have a hard time thinking it will actually effect trump tbh. Hope I’m wrong but 🤷

I’m seriously stoked about this, even though I’m not planning to buy any of the new hardware! It all comes down to the fact that Valve’s hardware projects force them to pump huge resources into open-source development, and we all get the benefits. That means the compatibility tools like Proton—which are essential for the high-end Steam Machine and Steam Frame—are immediately available to my desktop rig. By pushing Linux into the living room, VR, and high-performance space, they’re pressuring game developers to finally treat Linux as a serious platform. Basically, Valve’s huge investment accelerates development and developer adoption, which makes my own Linux desktop a way better and will hopefully get more people into Linux and open source.

You got drawers for your gadgets and gizmos? I’m jealous all I got our unsorted canvas bins lmao.

Damn, well best of luck with that task then. I dread tedious work like that.

I definitely agree about search engines. I miss old google 😭

You got it dude. Feel free to ping me if i forget to respond. Im a very forgetful comrade 🫡

Had to google it to check but you are right. The sum of all the energy used to prompt a model over its life time is usually greater than whats need to train it to begin with.

I didn’t know that but that makes sense. I meant more like prompting The Thing Once isnt that big of an energy drain where as the intial training is. Average of 0.34 watt-hours per prompt but to train GPT-3 cost around 1.3 gigawatt-hours (GWh) and GPT-4 requiring an estimated 62.3 GWh. I see all these memes about how prompting an llm once is super wasteful and thats the misconception i was addressing.

I think there are ways to minimize it. My job pays for gemini and i frequently use it to ocr serial numbers off scanned in pdfs. I can check these against records i already have so there is less chance for bad data to slip through. Maybe use a second llm to ocr it too and compare the results. Line both results up in the same spread sheet and highlight duplicate values. Anything thats not highlighted the llms got different results on and needs to be double checked. 🤷 Idk just a thought

You and another commenter have good points about rhe bigger models ans how many prompts users hit them with. I think its dimishing returns after about 8 billion parameters and you can run those ones on old hardware. My home server is a 10 year old desktop. It cost $200 bucks to buy used last year and i didnt notice the energy costs. Me and my wife try to use it for any thing wed use an online one for instead. Probably only gets prompted about 10 times a week between the two of us.

🤔 I actually have a energy meter thing i could plug the the server into. I could do 100 prompts and tell you how much energy it ate for the day. Anybody interested?

Nothing you said is wrong and i mostly agree. I talked about the 8b parameter one because it can even run on 10 year old hardware and is just as useful as the bigger ones to me. I think it starts to be diminishing returns. Like you said tech capitalists think its the messiah and put too much time money and resources into it. But also lile you said thats a problem with them and their view of the tech not the techbology itself.

Ive definitely noticed. I find the strength of opinions odd on both sides. Like conservatives treat AI like is a genius human who has a phd in everything and thats dangerously false obviously. LLMs make basic spelling and math error ans frequently hallucinate misinformation.

On the other hand the libs tend to demonize the hell out of the tech. One example is the energy costs. There is a misconception about how much energy it takes to prompt an llm. Doing so is pretty damn low power cost. I have a 10 year old desktop i use as a server. If can run a 8 billion parameter version of gemni while it’s also streaming my music on jellyfin no problem. The reason for this misconception is there is a huge amount of energy needed to train these thinga ans having every conpany and their mother make their own is a huge waste.

My personal opinion is that ai is like a a small team of dumbass interns. Its great for grunt work and busy work and thats about it. For example, one day my bosses boss decided that i need to update our approved software list with a paragraph description of each and every software listed. 900+ approved pieces of software and 400+ banned. He assigned this to me and one coworker. Told us its urgent… Bullshit but i need my job. So google sheets has a function where you can point to another cell and add a seperate prompt for gemini to fill the cell based on it. Dude i had that whole list done in a minute. It was like commanding a small army of interns. Did the ai make up incorrect descriptions for like 50 pieces of software? Yes. Does it matter and do i give a flying fuck? No

If you made it this far, thanks for reading my 2 cents comrade 🫡

Damn, you know what. im sorry.

I really marginalized you there. Wasnt my intention but i did it and there really isnt any merit to my orginal comment anyway. Thanks for perspective stranger. Best of luck to you and thanks for the understanding that i was just trying to vent (even though i did it in a shitty way)

Disability should be AT LEAST $1000 a week in my opinion but it could be even more than that. Its disgusting how little is given out now 😔