I don’t know if they’re conflating rendering with display or just assuming those GPU are at max TDP 24/7, but they’re way off on actual energy consumption.

There seems to be a lot of recent articles attacking datacenters, particularly those involved in LLM “ai” work. This feels like one of those articles.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t keep them in check, but I also don’t like being manipulated by “grass roots initiative” marketing companies, particularly on Lemmy.

Using the max power use of a video card to math this is ridiculous. It’s not at full TDP pushing this content. They aren’t playing max FPS 3D raytraced gaming, they’re playing videos.

Under normal circumstances I wouldn’t expect any privacy between processes on a desktop OS under the same UID.

If you use Chrome’s password manager on Windows your password database is unlocked with your password upon login and is available to every process you run.

There’s only so much you can do, as an app, to protect against OS deficiencies.

The desktop app on Windows is a sacrifice of security for convenience.

TeamViewer sold out long ago, formed a new company (AnyDeak), fooled us all, sold out again, and there’s still people trying to use the same business plan.

There’s zero money being spent on security, this is pure profit extraction.

The states probably need to opt in for state income tax filing or data. Red states typically don’t have income taxes and wouldn’t need this to begin with.

They’re just bad at rotating stock 🤣

“about 10 years ago” in our house 🤣

I feel like this article took a quick turn from “Bing went down” to “Google bad”.

I am glad more people realize who’s actually behind DDG and such.

You’ll probably start with virt-manager then move to proxmox. This is the way, it’s only a matter of how long before you realize it’s better.

His point wasn’t to find a CPU, it was to make a political post in a tech community.

LTT talked about this a while back… it’s because the GPU companies don’t want modular GPUs.

You don’t use the technical term, but you do ask.

I’m not against telemetry, I’m against making it hundreds of different hidden options.

We did fine without it for a very long time. We still do with a lot of software. It’s called voluntarily submitting a bug report and/or core dump.

Right. That’s why you build the software against a common library version.

Having every application load their own version of a library into memory is bloat.

The applications have binaries and libraries bundled for multiple arches. I wasn’t speaking to the package manager.

Of the future? They’re a duplicate of what Apple was doing with software as far back as the mid 90s.

Every ounce of performance we squeeze out of our hardware is replaced with pounds of bloat like this.

It’s fine for a utility or something you’ll hardly ever need to use, but running every day software like this is a complete waste.

It is opt in. someone didn’t read.

Lemmy has downvotes, but some specific instances (servers) do not allow them.

Thinking about this further…

I can purchase 10GE fiber, at home, for $299/mo.

I can purchase a solid 16 bay Supermixro server for around $5k

16TB drives are $168. There’s $3,700 left so let’s buy 21 drives (336TB, 235TB usable under raidz3 zfs). We’ll leave that last $170 for … electricity.

Leasing all of this from a regular hosting provider woul be much more cost effective. I work for one, what the heck are you doing man?