SpikesOtherDog
@SpikesOtherDog@ani.social
- Comment on Recommend me a simple hub 8 hours ago:
Ahh, that’s right, they are c to a.
- Comment on Recommend me a simple hub 9 hours ago:
Tragus makes one. It’s okay. Out of 30 users I hear that they sometimes need to reseat it when it stops working. Might be related to the users connecting it to a docking station and reconnecting a laptop to it once or twice a day.
- Comment on Lazarus | OFFICIAL TRAILER | adult swim 4 weeks ago:
Why does this remind me of cowboy bebop?
- Comment on Microsoft removes Windows 11 24H2 official support on 8th 9th 10th Gen Intel CPUs 5 weeks ago:
This really pisses me off, but because Windows 11 is not significantly different from Windows 10. I’m running Windows 10 on decades-old hardware designed for Win7.
Sure, its a bit pokey, but most of the bottleneck is HDD technology.
DDR2 throughput is about 8GB/s. SATA III is 600 Mb/s
Just installing a SSD and having 8 GB of memory is enough for the average office worker who has a browser, mail, PDF, and productivity suite.
Anything released in the past 6 years should be sufficient for this.
My bet, hands down, is that they are betting hard on AI.
- Comment on It is time to ban email. 1 month ago:
None of these examples are problems caused by email itself.
The Metropolitan Police has apologised to victims of the Westminster “honeytrap” scandal after it accidentally sent an email which named all of them.
This could have just as easily been a social media post or a newspaper publication.
sent an email newsletter with all patient email addresses in the ‘To’ field, rather than the ‘Bcc’ field
This is caused by not understanding the tech just as much as they described. Sure, carbon copies are antiquated and hardly used. With those stakes, the newsletter should be sent using a managed process, not a human. Using some kind of proprietary delivery system has its own risks. I wouldn’t want a specific HIV app on my phone to identify myself, and not everyone even uses smart phones.
Search any social network at any time of the year and you’ll find people kvetching about its inadequacies.
Friendly reminder to use anything other than email if you need to have a conversation between multiple people that you have any hope in following.
You can literally find people bitching about anything. Look into why people hate Tom Hanks. Snarky complaints on social media are not great points
Email is getting out of hand and people use it in suboptimal ways.
Not everyone meditates on the most optimum way to use a tech product. You ever watch someone open Chrome, type Google in the unibar, locate the search field, and then type a url? I have watched techs paid much more than I do this same thing.
I am only now realizing that some … [People] do not understand the concept of sending a file via email.
Again, everyone needs to learn it. I have met so many people afraid of their computer that this does not surprise me.
- Comment on Microsoft should be terrified of SteamOS 2 months ago:
My bad. I read that it had to be enabled on the console.
- Comment on Microsoft should be terrified of SteamOS 2 months ago:
I heard that the gesture navigation was amazing. Relying on you brand to coerce developers for nothin for them.
- Comment on Microsoft should be terrified of SteamOS 2 months ago:
Microsoft attempted to address this with Windows 8, but by forcing touch interface styling to a desktop user they created a massive flop. Adding Windows Mobile trying to do it’s own thing in 2015, and failing to gain market share by not investing enough early enough, and they were solidly outclassed. If they had hot the right points, we might have seen smooth Mobile Microsoft gaming 10 years ago.
What might be the real killer feature of SteamOS is the ability to run a Linux desktop. For $400 one can have both a mobile gaming console that can dock with their television and also dock with a traditional PC for other traditional uses.
- Comment on Claw machine deckbuilder Dungeon Clawler arrives November 21 and it's going to grab you 4 months ago:
My older teenage son got into the game pretty hard for a month or two on beta or whatever and got me to play.
The mechanics are fun. I’d like to see more story.
- Comment on Bruce Schneier: China Possibly Hacking US “Lawful Access” Backdoor 5 months ago:
Pretty sure the dangers of backdoors were explicitly outlined the 1980’s documentary, “War Games.”
- Comment on Microsoft details security/privacy overhaul for Windows Recall ahead of relaunch 5 months ago:
I’m in govt IT and looking to prevent this feature.
- Comment on Using GPT-4 to generate 100 words consumes up to 3 bottles of water — AI data centers also raise power and water bills for nearby residents 5 months ago:
This may be rude, but we talked about this elsewhere in this thread.
- Comment on Using GPT-4 to generate 100 words consumes up to 3 bottles of water — AI data centers also raise power and water bills for nearby residents 5 months ago:
That’s a good point. I’m guessing my numbers might refer more to cloud providers than individuals with smaller data sets.
- Comment on Using GPT-4 to generate 100 words consumes up to 3 bottles of water — AI data centers also raise power and water bills for nearby residents 6 months ago:
I was using a pretty broad brush. Some of the figures were higher, some were lower, but it many were consistently around .3. Feel free to take it with a grain of salt. Even if I’m over by 50%, it is still a large number.
- Comment on Using GPT-4 to generate 100 words consumes up to 3 bottles of water — AI data centers also raise power and water bills for nearby residents 6 months ago:
I’m not 100% down with these numbers. The verge has a breakdown of energy usage for generation and training, and you could argue that demand is responsible for training.
I would also argue that energy usage would be directly related to water usage. Unless there is passive cooling unrelated to the energy generation, the evaporation would be directly related to the energy cost.
I didn’t collect sources while I was coming this, but I found that it takes about .3 KWH to generate an AI image - about the same as fully charging a smartphone. 1kwh is ~860 kCal (one Calorie = kCal = 1000 calories) 1 image is ~282 Calories 1 Calorie heats 1 liter of water 1 degree It takes ~540 Calories to vaporise 1 liter 2 images vaporize a liter of water There are ~30k liters in an 18 foot above ground pool with 4ft of water. There were 15 billion images generated daily in May 2024 As of August 2023, people have generated almost 15.5 billion AI-generated images, and each day sees approximately 34 million new AI-generated images. 17 million liters vaporized daily, about 500 swimming pools This put my numbers at ~250k swimming pools vaporized so far.
- Comment on Google still recommends glue for your pizza 9 months ago:
Good job Verge. Now, how about we discuss the proper use of thermal paste?