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• Honestly, I think the dark web is a safer concept than X or Meta. The legitimacy of society’s most powerful people is far more insidious than backstreet markets and courtesans: they don’t make laws or support evil institutions across entire nations, nor able to leverage them as a club.

  The ordinary pickpocket just wants money. A wealthy elite considers other humans to be decorative, to be used and disposed of.

  on Meta Now Banning Ads That Promote Feminism: "We have given social media unlimited power and every day we can see how dangerous this is." in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago

• It depends on what backend you are using. UnSloth Desktop and KoboldCPP allow you to use multiple GPUs, alongside leveraging your RAM.

  Unfortunately, Hermes Agent doesn’t allow you to control and leverage your GPUs as of yet.

  If you are using ComfyUI, there is an extension called Distribution, if you are getting into picture generation. You can order up batches of pictures, and each card tackles a different one.

  In the case you want to hook up your backend to another program for agentic purposes, I recommend UnSloth Desktop. I have been using it with Lingua Gacha to translate a RPGMaker game. KoboldCPP isn’t able to handle this kind of work yet, unfortunately.

  on Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 Iranian school children in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago

• I would wager that the AI said inconvenient things, and then got lobotomized to have MAGA brain.

  My personal local AI is able to infer consequences, and it is only a 180b parameters on three consumer GPUs. The DOW undoubtedly can use the most powerful hardware and have perfectly configured settings to do a much better job.

  They simply don’t want to.

  on Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 Iranian school children in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago

• Keep going, Canada. The conservatives will just assault you anyway, just because. Until MAGA has been put to pasture, nobody is safe.

  on Trump threatens to stop trading with EU over ‘laughable’ membership offer to Canada in c/europe@feddit.org · 6d ago

• I would say that AI is becoming much more effective for the tokens produced. I have been running Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next on my new PC. This AI model weighs in at 120b parameters, with another 50b added via an Engram table that costs about an extra 20% in RAM for its parameter count. This is a major jump in world knowledge, and the model in question has 262k context length.

  While experimental and with rough edges, this model has been able to use Lingua Gacha to undertake a game translation project - understanding and converting a Chinese game into English.

  Agentic AI has become practical on local hardware over this last year, and there looks to be much more refinement to come.

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  What we are seeing with Anthropic and the other American companies, is a scramble to protect themselves from the consequences of badly planned data centers and poor practices in AI development. Their Chinese competition has produced much more efficient models, while delivering almost the same level of quality as American offerings. This means that local AI is becoming “good enough”, which makes data centres and AI subscriptions unnecessary for many businesses if they distrust the cloud.

  on ‘Too little, too late’: critics perplexed and suspicious of AI leaders’ call for a slowdown in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026

• I could envision some games. Say, a “Theme Polling” game, where you have to build and manage polling sites, giving people enough water, processing ballots, staffing, and so forth. A “Mail, Please” game, where we handle the mail and send it to the right places on time.

  Maybe license Factorio or hire the devs, so that kids can get an idea of what goes into supply chains.

  on White House removes ‘Build the Wall’ game from website after Tetris company posts copyright warning in c/games@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026

• Honestly, pretty much my reaction to most things that are popular. They are just, “eh.”

  Mind, I also expect most people to not be into my jams. A taste for monster girls, Patlabor, Legend of Galactic Heroes, La-Mulana, and Perun is a pretty eclectic mix.

  on Peak • Cre: @myonglette in c/animemes@ani.social · 27 Aug 2026

• I am hoping that the EU, Canada, and Mexico agree to mutual defense before the US crosses a red line.

  on Canada's PM Carney: "This fall we will begin intense discussions with the European Union, the world's second-largest economy, to build a much stronger and deeper economic and security partnership" in c/europe@feddit.org · 27 Aug 2026

• Considering the crippling of the FDA, I think it is pretty likely that Americans will be closely examining their bread for Beezlebub. The butter may have grown a fur coat.

  on Canada's PM Carney: "This fall we will begin intense discussions with the European Union, the world's second-largest economy, to build a much stronger and deeper economic and security partnership" in c/europe@feddit.org · 27 Aug 2026

• As an American, I hope Canada transitions into the EU and the Euro. If things unravel further, I would like my life savings to be in Euros - and to have land access to a nation that uses them.

  on Canada's PM Carney: "This fall we will begin intense discussions with the European Union, the world's second-largest economy, to build a much stronger and deeper economic and security partnership" in c/europe@feddit.org · 26 Aug 2026

• You can use RUFUS to install Windows, and preemptively remove restrictions. MASGravel lets you activate Windows once you got an internet connection. ShutUp10 for configuring your privacy, and also for uninstalling AI stuff. I recommend the premium version if you want ShutUp10 to automatically revert Microsoft’s meddling after updates.

  I recommend MASgravel’s Windows Enterprise 25h2 GAC .iso for your RUFUS, it has the right balance between debloat and still being usable by a typical person.

  on The fact that you can’t run through Windows setup w/o internet and an online account is absolute bullshit in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026

• Hopefully my personal router isn’t being used by the ISP for this sort of thing. Odds are, they probably just do it, because capitalism is sucktackular by default.

  on Comcast turns your Xfinity WiFi into a home motion detector in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026

• IBM supplied the computing machines for the Holocaust, I wouldn’t be surprised if Google is giving cloud computing to ICE.

  on Chinese video platform Bilibili is going global to challenge Youtube in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026

• If they actually have age divided portions of their platform, where adults are free to make adult content such as history, reviews of hentai, and so forth, I am all for it. Youtube sucks because it doesn’t treat the audience or creators as adults, and often changes the rules at the drop of a hat.

  Personally, I am guessing it will fall to Peertube and other fediverse platforms to offer genuine freedom for people, but I wouldn’t complain if Bili breaks the camel’s back known as Youtube.

  on Chinese video platform Bilibili is going global to challenge Youtube in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026

• Honestly, I have the impression that only death and high taxes can fix the problems we have with our overlords.

  on East Tennessee commissioner says Flock CEO should be hanged in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 20 Aug 2026

• I ebay’ed my DDR5 RDIMM 5600 RAM sticks. 32gb was $606 some months ago, the remaining six sticks was about $3,600 bucks. I was originally planning on waiting for bubbles to burst and DDR6 to be released before switching to a DDR5 platform, but the whole war with Iran threw everything into doubt.

  The US’s strategic oil reserve will likely run out within half a year, which means everything costing more. I wanted to be smart with my money and wait for a good time to buy, but this situation has ruined my planning. I bit the bullet and used a flex-pay to let me buy now.

  Is it that my discipline sucks, or is the world certain to go into a hellish handbasket? I cannot tell anymore…

  on Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices — 128GB of DDR5 now $3,399 in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026

• Capitalism as we know it, isn’t about effectiveness nor efficiency, it is primarily about power. So long as this remains the case, workers will continue to be abused for the amusement of the higher ups.

  on Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees: while those who worked entirely onsite reported the lowest. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026

• I RMA’d an Ryzen 5950x a week or so ago. It was a thankfully smooth process. Those things are like $490ish right now, and the window for RMAing would have closed by October.

  The old CPU had problems with transient power spikes causing the machine to reboot, only being stable when PBO was turned off. I am glad to have gotten the RMA, the next owner of my Crosshair VIII tower should have a CPU that works fine.

  on Best Buy 'repairs' customer's gaming laptop by simply removing half the RAM— claims unit in question only accepts 32 GB of RAM despite listing a 64GB configuration in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026

• I have my machines in at Best Buy, since the Total service is $200 bucks annual, and a proper repair shop costs $300 for a single job. One of my machines had to be RMA’d, since the motherboard had a patch of pins missing. Unfortunately, Best Buy treats motherboard swaps as an extra expense, so my Total membership isn’t helpful here.

  While I probably have the technical knowledge for installing things, my fingers are all butter and shake like jello. Thus, I have to rely on people to get the work done. :(

  Now, is the service good? Dunno. It takes four or five days for work and diagnostics to be done per job order with the Geek Squad, and there has been many things needed to be done due to the RMA situations. I will list things that pleased and bothered me about the service.

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  • The concept of CPU thermal pads was novel to the person who made today’s job order. I also specified that this pad was special, as the Grizzly Kryosheet is electrically conductive and will need special handling. It bothers me that the worker didn’t know about the existence of thermal pads, seeing as it is their day job to work with PCs. They had to do research on the spot, they thought that thermal pads needing pasting before I corrected them.

  • My Geek Squad is apparently full of Advanced Repair Agents - at least three ARAs. I have the feeling some are much better than others. One of them spotted the issue with the motherboard after uninstalling a huge heatsink, which is much appreciated.

  • They refused to install the multi-GPU setup that I wanted in a tower. Partially because they said that space was an issue, and that the machine wasn’t booting for them, so they were being supremely cautious about the situation. That machine tended to have bootloops and 20+ minute boots for when it succeeded, and they couldn’t really work with it.

  The claim about space part bothers me. This is a HEDT motherboard with four PCIe slots, with extra spacing. At the very least, it should be able to host at least the RTX 4090 Slim and one of the 3060 cards, and likely all three of them.

  • They tend to discard my notes and instructions for work orders. I make a point of writing up specific stuff about the job request - technical specs of hardware, what parts I want to be especially tested, info about a thumbdrive with manuals & BIOs, requests about CMOS resetting, GPU order in the slots, ect. On one hand, they might be just simplifying the work order to what they need - but I kinda have the feeling that literacy might be an issue. Hard to say whether I am simply being arrogant or autistic?

  • I do like that they send me updates for scheduling and the like. Also, I can walk into the store and get stuff done. Today I dropped off a 2014 GPU, which is to provide basic video output for a tower if all three of my ‘real’ GPUs end up in the other machine.

  • One of my requests was for a USB hub that goes into a bay drive, was to be installed. It has three cables, a SATA, 2.0 USB cable, and a 3.0 cable, that all are supposed to connect onto the motherboard. The instructions are a small sheet, and I specified the motherboard, so that the techs can look up the motherboard diagram if they needed to. They moved the hub into a tower like how I requested, but they didn’t hook it up, citing liability and non-standard parts. However, their procedures might require a CPU to be installed so that they can test the part in question.

  • I asked them to clean up one tower, to make it presentable for selling. Apparently they used a can of dust-off, but didn’t wipe down the fan blades or ventilation grills.

  • They didn’t know about the Q-Flash+ feature when I mentioned it, and for liability reasons, wanted nothing to do with it. Which is strange. QF+ is a motherboard feature that allows a mobo that is hooked up to the PSU, to have the BIOs flashed by a thumbdrive. It takes 10 minutes, and might be safer since there is no need for CPU, RAM, and so forth to be on the board.

  • Best Buy doesn’t like to hold on to parts, even if there are future work orders in the wings. A fair bit of my time with Best Buy is moving my parts and towers between the store and my residence until a work order is in place.

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  It is going to be around Sunday that one of my machines should be ready for use. I am planning on selling it, once my primary has been successfully reassembled.

  As things stand, I hope that I become much richer in the future. I want to be able to afford premium service from a dedicated repair shop, as this situation makes me feel uneasy.

  on Best Buy 'repairs' customer's gaming laptop by simply removing half the RAM— claims unit in question only accepts 32 GB of RAM despite listing a 64GB configuration in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026

• I bought a GT 730 for about $44 on Newegg, which is a GDDR3 4gb card. I needed something with basic HDMI video output, so that my old DDR4 machine could have graphics. The RTX 3060 in that tower will be moved into the new machine, if space permits.

  on DDR5 RAM Prices Explode To Nearly 5X July 2025 Levels In Germany As AI Boom Chokes Budget PC Builds in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026

• I bought 128gb of DDR5 RDIMMs, cost about $4,200 or so. Considering that all new DDR5 for 2027 has already been bought by the corpos, odds are that this is going to be relatively cheap until the bubble pops.

  On the…positive?..side, odds are that I can sell my old 128gb DDR4 machine for quite a few pennies.

  on DDR5 RAM Prices Explode To Nearly 5X July 2025 Levels In Germany As AI Boom Chokes Budget PC Builds in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026

• Encryption used to be considered a controlled munition by the US.

  on Nvidia AI Chip Found in New Russian Missile, Ukraine Says in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026

• Personally, what I hate about Linux is terminals and having even less reliable information about what has gone wrong. I will revisit Club Penguin in a couple of years, provided that Valve has further expanded SteamOS to the desktop PC.

  In the meantime, I am using Windows Enterprise via Masgravel activation, installed via RUFUS, and paired with ShutUp10 to improve privacy without having to be a guru. ShutUp10 also has a paid version that automatically reverts changes that Microsoft does to privacy settings.

  on Amid RAM price hikes, Microsoft reportedly raises Windows license cost, forcing OEMs to hike prices even further on hardware in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026

• I wish that Microsoft licenses of Windows Enterprise were sold to individuals, much like Windows 7 Ultimate. The lack of a good Windows option is why I don the tricorn hat and sail the Masgravel Sea, RUFUS in hand.

  on Amid RAM price hikes, Microsoft reportedly raises Windows license cost, forcing OEMs to hike prices even further on hardware in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026

• I guess that I should use Klarna or the like to buy enough RDIMMs to let me use Qwen 3.8 122b, at the very least. The $606 I spent on buying 32gb of 5600 memory is looking like a bargain these days, and that was just a couple months ago.

  on 2027 RAM Capacity Has Reportedly Been Sold out in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Aug 2026

• This is exactly why I hold anti-AI folk in low regard, because they have yet to demonstrate their “detection” abilities to discern between human and generated creations. They are basically psychics and ghost whisperers.

  on YouTube’s AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt as other creators fear same fate - Dexerto in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Aug 2026