I really want to buy from Gog but

1. Their games often don't work as well in multiplayer, at least not with steam users where the majority of my friends have their games. Along with this, it's a pain getting steam workshop mods working
2. Their bundles kinda suck without sites like Fanatical or Humble offering gog codes

That said, I do buy from them when it's an older game like heroes of might and magic (goes back to the site's roots as Good Old Games I guess). Or when it's a single player experience without a lot of mod support, like Jrpgs

I’m suddenly reminded of when people used to give out doge coins as a meme

I mostly agree with you, except that The Pirate Bay is mostly regarded as risky for software. https://rentry.co/megathread-all-purpose under “untrustworthy websites”.

The only LG phone I ever had, it just randomly decided to not boot one day. Apparently it was a common issue, and they were not giving any refunds, at least when I asked. I swore off of LG then, and I wouldn’t be surprised if many other people did as well.

I think the phone was the LG G4: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_smartphone_bootloop_issues

Hold on, I’m not familiar with Star citizen, but do you have to spend real money to get ships in this game?

The MISC Hull C added with the Alpha 3.20 update costs an eye-watering $500

Even as someone living on the east coast of the US, I’m always surprised when I visit the Midwest and Central US to see just how much “nothing” there is. At least compared to the relative density of driving up and down the northeast corridor

Maybe I’m the odd one out, but I’ve never felt like moving to a different country to work. I can barely imagine moving from the east coast to the west coast. Perhaps I’m missing something, but never once have I visited a place and said, “I would love to spend 8 hours of my life every day in an office here.”

But I am at the ripe old age of 30, so maybe I’m past that demographic

If they pay me more to go back into office, then I’ll take the trade if the money is high enough. Everything has a price, as they say. But it better be worth all the extra shit you have to deal with, least of all being the sick people at the office. I haven’t gotten sick since COVID started basically

That makes me think- will the AI see a kid that’s about to run out from behind a parked car? As a human, if I see a kid run from the house into a row of parked cars, I know he’s still there and will slow down before I get there. But would self driving make that same leap of logic? I’m not sure what the range and capabilities of self driving cars are right now in terms of scanning, but hopefully it would be smart enough to take preventative measures

SR3 was the top game for me. SR4 was a bit too much, but SR3 felt like it hit that sweet spot of goofiness, insanity, and just enough realism for me to keep me invested in the world

Sorry, just seeing this now- I think with 24gb of vram, the most you can get is a 4bit quantized 30b model, and even then, I think you’d have to limit it to 2-3k of context. Here’s a chart for size comparisons: https://postimg.cc/4mxcM3kX

By comparison, with 24gb of vram, I only use half of that to create a batch of 8 768x576 photos. I also sub to mage.space, and I’m pretty sure they’re able to handle all of their volume on an A100 and A10G

Nvidia just has been the dominant player in workstation GPUs for so long that it’s almost impossible to see AMD catching up. The hardware is one thing, but I don’t see AMD closing the gap even if they had a GPU that could perform as well as Nvidia’s. Just look at some of the benchmarks on stuff like blender and unreal engine. And that’s not to mention all of the work that’s gone on for optimizing ML and deep learning models for CUDA.

I won’t pretend like I’m any sort of expert on GPUs, but I feel that Intel and AMD need to team up to create some standard software implementation for AI/ML, and then support it instead of just relying on open source (like with Pytorch and ROCm)

So now you have an ex-Twitter account. Or an X account for short.

Maybe Elon was truly 200 IQ with his naming

Am idiot, still use Instacart though because it saves me at least an hour a week (probably closer to two hours after accounting for shopping time and getting ready to leave) for $20, which is worth it to me

I have access to Financial Times, and this is what they showed in their article

Maybe it should be called Doomer Shooter instead

I wish I did this… Diablo 4 has been such a disappointment. The story was pretty mid and the gameplay loop post MSQ is just not as fun as D3. Also, I played 5 hours this season and I was still only like level 20 or something, because of all the stuff I had to do again with waypoints, side quests for renown, and season journey in order to progress the seasonal quest. I just stopped. Kinda regretting getting the ultimate edition now

Generative art is actually much easier to run than LLMs. You can get really high resolutions on SDXL (1024x1024) using only 8gb of Vram (although it’d be slow). There’s no way you can get anything but the smallest of text generative models into that same amount of VRAM.

Yeah but I want to know just how fucked I am when I sign it

I really wonder if there’s a way to use LLMs just to point out every concerning thing in a EULA/TOS