Corporations that are incentivized to make number go up and grow indefinitely at the expense of all else are a big part of the problem. Proper anti-trust regulation that is actually enforced to limit their size, as well as an aggressive wealth tax to limit individual wealth would go a long way.

Fundamentally, though, capitalism rewards those who seek power over those who contribute to society and also doesn’t incentivize long-term societal well-being. Regulation would only limit how much power any one psychopath can gain. If we could start from scratch and create a new society with any system we wanted, it would not be Capitalism.

While Sodium-Ion sounds legitimately promising, we’ve all read so many articles about “revolutionary new battery tech” over the years that the default response is “cool, let me know when mass production starts.”

Capitalism may be workable with strict regulation and proper social safety nets. The problem is that we have crony capitalism, which allows billionaires to essentially control the laws, which concentrates power into too few hands, similar to other oppressive forms of government. A key piece we are missing to make capitalism more workable is right in the word itself: “cap”. There should be a cap on how much wealth any one individual can accumulate.

Now the AI is basically powered by private jets. The billionaires are buying carbon offsets, so it’s all good.

Cool, let me know when NVIDIA has a SoC comparable to its discrete GPUs that can use regular RAM instead of artificially limited VRAM, or at least when their GPUs have expandable VRAM that’s reasonably priced.

I have OpenWRT on my router running a VPN that my servers and various other devices use. I’d rather do that than have to setup a ”kill switch” with iptables that might accidentally conflict with IPAM for k3s.

There are several common refrains on Lemmy that many people find cathartic. If you don’t care to tell us about your preferred Linux distro again, maybe another thread will pop up soon about how streaming services are enshittified and you can tell us about what you’re self-hosting again.

Automatic Theme Transitions: Configure when your theme will transition from light to dark and back

Neurodivergent people when it automatically switches to light mode:

I had great luck with this tutorial for Mint, but didn’t bother with the steps after configuring the snapshots because the preceding sections get me everything I want. Works quite well, and makes Mint even more solid than it already is.

https://www.dvlv.co.uk/making-linux-mint-a-pretend-immutable-distro-with-btrfs-and-timeshift.html

I see where this is going:

btrfs with grub-btrfs and Timeshift to have cheap automatic snapshots so I can boot from and restore the most recent snapshot when I inevitably mess something up and would otherwise have to reinstall or spend hours troubleshooting.

Knowing a game is spying on me ruins the fun. My Steam Deck is blocked from the internet for that reason, but a fair number of games on Steam won’t work without connectivity. I seem to remember hearing about some girl who shares a huge collection of games that don’t require connectivity, though.

99% of the population is either too lazy…

Nudges an unopened box of Zigbee door sensors ordered 2 years ago to the back of the shelf.

Local, private, no subscriptions, ONVIF, and no need to actually self-host anything. I haven’t found any other options with that combination.

the issue imo is a legislative one

Couldn’t agree more. Feels quite monopolistic that everyone buying mass-produced, commodity hardware is also forced to buy a Windows license.

MafiaSoft is definitely taking their piece of the action, but laptops from smaller companies like System76 end up costing a fair amount more extra for equivalent hardware than the $50-$100 tax you’re otherwise paying for an OS you’re going to promptly replace. I’d say vote with your wallet, but I realize not everyone can afford to do so.

Making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC

Great, so everything runs locally, making it a self-contained “AI PC”. Otherwise, the headline surely would’ve been, “Making every PC collect data to train Microsoft’s models with little benefit in return“. Right?

I think IPA where every sound has one symbol would be a lot better than our current barely phonetic writing system. Not sure how to broadly effect such a change, though, so guess I’ll just write in the suboptimal way that everyone already understands instead of being an opinionated asshole and having everyone ignore what I write while rolling their eyes.

That would be wild if a SoC approaches 5090 performance. In this Blender benchmark here, it shows a M3 Ultra with 80 cores being similar to a 5070 Ti, though you’re going to pay several times the price for the M3 machine. At this rate, it’s quite possible that SoCs will make discrete GPUs the less practical choice for most GPU-intensive workloads in the not too distant future, though the opposite is true today, even despite the silly power requirements of top-end NVIDIA GPUs. I think NVIDIA is especially digging themselves a hole with the VRAM nonsense, and we will all rejoice when we can run GPU workloads with 64Gi of shared, cheap RAM. It would certainly be ideal if other competitors could develop equally powerful chips, though, since being stuck in Apple’s walled garden is a fairly undesirable tradeoff.

Thought I was clicking on a deez nuts joke, but must say I was pleasantly surprised. Nice work!