I’m a fickle mistress and sadly also a captured audience so totally expect to hate them one day… for now it plays mhwilds hi res on ultra great on garuda.

I will not buy another nvidia retail product again. Could make an exception for a second hand shield from an earlier generation, but nvidia is dead to me. AMD is my new best friend.

California! Uber Alles!

The AI bubble is actually a cover used by cloud providers to engage in racketeering. I assume that it is encouraged by the alphabet agencies to setup a network that aggregates advertiser data to match up browser fingerprints and spy on Americans in mass without warrants. The ram shortage was engineered to force adoption for the cloud primarily for small business and sectors that have avoided it due to cost. Retail is a casualty and gaming is next. They don’t care about AI, its just the wrench that tightens the bolt

Is it hard to do that voice? Do ya drink a lot of tea on set or are ya naturally baritone.

The takeaway here

Open source has not failed us, we have failed open source. The xz backdoor revealed not a broken development model but a broken economic model, one where we socialize the costs of critical infrastructure while privatizing the benefits. The attack succeeded not because open source is vulnerable, but because we’ve made open source maintainers vulnerable by systematically underfunding the human infrastructure that creates the technical infrastructure we all depend on.