They’re mostly not AI specialized, though. That’s why they’re so inefficient and why their demand contends with consumer hardware in the first place. Which makes sense, because AI is still in rapid development. They don’t know what the right answer is yet, but they know they need a bunch of fast memory and parallel processing.

The AI specific hardware being added to GPUs is still pretty general. CUDA cores are just parallel compute. Tensor cores are for doing parallel compute with fewer bits of precision. Yes, there are niche applications for fp16 and lower, but rendering is one of those applications.

We also need to accept that this isn’t the crypto bubble, this is the dotcom bubble. Like it or not, there is a real advancement in technology happening here, and it’s not going away. The bubble will pop because there’s far more money being invested per unit time than can be returned as profit per unit time, not because the tech is a farce. Yes, 99% of AI applications right now are a farce, but that 1% are giving us actual useful abilities we simply didn’t have before. Point being: our world after the bubble pops will still make use of AI, so any hardware over-production will still be useful to the general public for AI applications.

I agree. But you see how that’s beside the point, right?

The big problem is that nobody thinks about those people that don’t have the hardware right now.

Literally yes they do, because even though they don’t have the latest and greatest hardware, they have some money to spend. That’s the argument being made: until now the assumption was that new hardware would get cheaper over time, and people would gradually move to new hardware. Devs spend years making games, and historically bank on that assumption so that when the game comes out, it has the largest audience available to purchase it.

The fact that it looks like that won’t be the case in the near future means devs have to shift their behavior to accommodate what their playerbase has, i.e. continue developing and optimizing the same hardware.

That said, this is all temporary. Whether they widen the pipeline, or the AI bubble bursts, in 2-3 years there will be a deluge of hardware hitting markets. (Provided trade/actual wars don’t get in the way, which is the bigger concern imo).

For the record, the science shows that Destruction Therapy is not effective at actually managing anger, and may actually cause more harm long term, as you’re normalizing that behavior in your brain.

But as for why we don’t see more games along those lines, I don’t know. It does seem like a genre that would sell well right now. I remember there was a series of desktop games when I was a kid called Stress Reducer that would give you a set of animated weapons to “destroy” your windows desktop (an image of it).

I’ve invented a new type of Vegetarianism: instead of eating veggies for every meal, occasionally you’ll add meat to your diet as well. It’s really the best of both worlds.

I don’t know what is typical, but when I use AI locally I’ve been running llama-cpp with models grabbed from HF (ex. QwenCoder). Then in my VS code plugin (RooCode) I use the “OpenAI compatible” option to point it at my local server.

Not sure how hard that is to get working, but my hope is that “OpenAI Compatible” helps.

Yes, and it is a masterclass in both narrative and environmental story telling.

Are there plans for mobile apps? In particular, obsidian and nextcloud don’t seem to work well together on android. Changes made to files via obsidian don’t get picked up by nextcloud unless I manually go sync the file. This might just be nextcloud’s app dropping the ball.

I see on the page it says you can bring an anthropic or openai key. Can I also point it at my own locally hosted model?

If everyone else moved, they would too. But no one will, so they won’t. Same as it ever was.

Sure can

I haven’t followed the development communication much, but yes, screen sharing works now. It wasn’t working on wayland like 8mo ago, but I tried again a month ago and it’s now working.

I haven’t tried mumble yet.

You pay for the hosting resources yes, but you can host it anywhere. I’ve been playing around with it using a docker instance in my homelab.

Were you trying Teamspeak 6? The UI is different, but the functionality is on par I believe. Not open source, but at least you can self-host.

The issue is that full screen games wouldn’t hold onto the mouse? Are these games running through proton (windows games being launched through steam)? If so, I know there’s an option in protontricks to tweak this behavior per game. “Automatically capture the mouse in full screen windows” in winecfg.

Alternatively, you can try tweaking your steam launch params to use gamescope. Ex.

gamescope -W 1920 -H 1080 -r 60 -- %command%

Where the params denote the resolution and refresh rate of the window. You may need to install gamescope from your package manager.

I have an edge router and switch, and two unifi APs. All accounts running locally. Works fine for my uses, though I think if I had it to do over again I’d investigate pfsense or opnsense. Not sure about hardware tho.

since it uses ZFS I don’t know it would be good for home use

TrueNAS is all I’ve used for my home for the better part of a decade. It’s been fine, what is your concern?

Because HBO has a good track record for fantasy shows?

Yeah, I am interested in understanding your world view, and am trying to ask direct questions about it so I can understand it better (such as how you arrived at your definition of escapism), but if that’s not something that interests you, and you’d rather stoop to ad hominem jabs (like telling me I’m drunk, or to touch grass/look at trees), then we can call it here. Your call.

Escapism: Using any method to interpret reality instead of directly facing said reality.

Interesting. I’ve never heard anyone attempt to define escapism like that. Where are you getting this definition?

Or from the other side, what word would you use to mean,

habitual diversion of the mind to purely imaginative activity or entertainment as an escape from reality or routine

Hopefully you agree that “purely imaginative…escape from reality” is distinct from “any method to interpret reality”.

If you’re looking at a picture of a tree and using your imagination to marry it to the real thing, that is escapism.

What if I told you that looking at a real tree is an act of using your imagination to marry it to reality? Consider that humans looked at the moon and stars every day for centuries before we understood what they were in reality. Some people still do to this today.

Regardless of whether you’re considering something in front of you or a concept in abstract, if you’re attempting to grapple with the nature of reality, you are most certainly not engaging in escapism.

Yes, almost certainly. A gaming device is a gaming device, what matters is how many users you have.

If we’re concerned about distinguishing between platform, then steam is statistically insignificant on the vast majority of platforms people game on.