Are you aware that reducing the energy consumption on monitors is competely irrelevant compared to the giant data centers coming up now, taking as much as power as a full city?

One typical AI data center ≈ 1 TWh/year ≈ the electricity used by 100 000 average homes annually.

A very large AI data center under construction ≈ 20 TWh/year ≈ electricity for ~2 million homes annually.

Fun times isnt it.

Totally agree. Huge difference when moving windows or gaming on a 120 Hz or higher monitor. So smooth.

Upvoted because its gog. :)

But I went to use OpenOffice, not watch it do its thing in the background…

I like reading those actually. Its always interesting to see people leave and why they do it. And many of the reasons can be summed up with how its not worth it anymore.

Since i left tech myself after 25 years also. :)

Techno fascism is a thing. But thats not why I left. I just didnt like AI being forced into the culture. Changed the entire profession from creating solutions to asking for solutions.

They have nothing consumers want.

Yeah but foss has its own problems. Mainly financing. People are expected to work for free on most open source projects, and some do because they enjoy it. I do that myself too. Its fun.

But foss doesnt create products that require a lot of funding to get off the ground.

Its nice with chat bots like chat gpt but companies who bet on their own Ai… Or who believe they will be the next billion dollar Ai startup… I dont believe in any of that.

I think we pretty much have seen what is going to come from Ai. Chat bots. People will pay for those, specially programmers. But also other people. Outside of that… I cant see much value to pay for. Nothing in fact.

Its called the matrix, and people will work super hard if you give them a nice title for that external validation that is so juicy. One day they wake up 60 years old, with a house full of old stuff they rarely used, since they were so busy all the time with working.

Probably missed seeing their kids grow up, and maybe also grew disconnected with the partner they liked as a young person.

So yeah. Gather money and get the hell out of that.

To me, I dont care if my friends remember my birthday. I care if they are genuine friends and I have good conversations and laughs around them.

Someone remembering your birthday is just them putting a reminder in the calendar. Doesnt mean much, not to me at least.

So you have an actual human connection to these people? Friends could have a laugh over forgetting someones birthday, because its built on a real connection that doesnt go away over missing the small things.

“they required you”

Have you never thought that you can actually NOT do these things?

I mean, sure, maybe you had a good reason and you felt it was fine. But I wonder how many people just do what the screen tells them without realizing they can actually say no and be ok with the consequences.

Are they the police?

Would never upload picture to American big tech service and im surprised people think thats something they agree to. I guess the addiction is too strong, to these shitty services.

Thanks copie.

Copilot created this patch with pride.

Winter is beautiful. I take daily walks near the forest and it can be better looking than in summer.

The complexity of everything is just ridiculous now.

And its a moving target with constant new things to try and learn, as quickly as possible, while doing your already full time job.

I dont know. I think working in tech is definently mostly for 20-30 year olds now. When you have that desire to prove how smart you are, and the energy to learn everything.

The endless meetings and the return to office has also really killed a lot of good things about the job.

This seems like a battle he cant win.

None of us can win it. I already see tons of Ai channels on YouTube where machines are taking on the voices of celebrities and saying things from a script… And those channels actually get followers and make money.

So my conclusion is, these services will become more and more filled with ai bullshit and most users wont even care.

I predict, due to market forces, more than half of YouTube videos will be Ai generated in 2030. And most users will not mind it.

Doesnt really work in practice. If a community exists on Lemmy world, you are not going to have success running the same community somewhere else.

Its just the nature of things. Even Lemmy is mostly centralized to large instances, despite its federated technology.

Yeah stuff like that. Or “where is bennet? He is letting off some steam”. :)

They are going to use Ai to moderate, lol… That will be fun to watch.