I’m inclined to believe that it’s because you can simply bribe him to change his mind. He’s a convenient idiot puppet with power and you can tug on any string to get him to do things you want him to. It’s probably why TACO. There’s probably a bribery match going on in the background.

It he was a zealot of his beliefs, rigid in his thinking, I believe he would be put down. But he’s so malleable, so it’s more useful to people that have the option to assassinate to bribe instead.

Well, you pretty much continue until you get what your want. So the most effective thing to do is to strike indefinitely.

I just started to use Hyprland yesterday after switching to Cachy OS. Was previously Linux Mint cinnamon. I don’t know why but I’m kind of enjoying the thrill.

Do you have any footage of that confrontation from your perspective by any chance? Would be interesting to see.

And I’m Captain Planet.

Yep. I really really want Waterfox on IOS but I’ve settled for Qwant. It’s not bad.

Absolutely! I saw zero citations and mostly baseless opinions. I would’ve failed her as well. It was very poorly written.

The redacted text can actually be selected and copied, then pasted to read what is underneath. They literally used a black digital highlighter.

I liked it but wish it had better multiplayer. My friends kept dropping out of the party and there wasn’t much to do as part of a small group other than to collect corvette parts to make bigger (or smaller) outrageous ships.

Could be tempted to do the massive week long runs but… I just got back into BG3.

Around 30 years ago in Port Arthur. I think 40 people were killed that day. It triggered our national strict gun laws, although they’re continually being watered down since we’ve been experiencing more gun violence in the last decade.

Hi. How’s your day/evening been? Learn anything new today?

Mumble and Pigdin won’t be banned right? Also, swapping mobile numbers and getting on conference calls… Writing letters and all that. There’s still other ways to communicate.

I’m almost thinking of making a quick phone app to give them options and ideas on how to communicate outside of the big tech bubble.

I wonder if making your own personal website on Neocities/Geocities will come back in vogue again.

I wonder if Roblox squeezed through the cracks.

They gave root permission and proceeded to get rooted in return.

Does that phrase work?

Ok. We’re deviating off the point of LLM profitability here and have driven this conversation off into the weeds. So I’ll make this one last comment, and then I’m done. This debate has been interesting but exhausting.

Final counterpoints:

• $3.5mil is the cost of the connection footed by the energy provider and tax payer, and provides no ROI to investors like NVIDIA, hence no profit to LLM and “AI” in general.
• As far as I can tell, the biggest method of external income for LLM companies are subscriptions and there is simply not enough uptake in subscriptions to get ROI, so they try to force consumers to use it which ends up pushing away your customer base since you’re taking away their power of choice.
• For them to obtain ROI, literally the entire planet needs to use it which isn’t feasible because, as a consumer, you need income to consume and the larger driver of investment into LLMs is to reduce the cost of labour.

LLMs have long since gone beyond the scope of interesting science project to something driven by pure parasitic greed.

And how, pray tell, will doing all of that return a profit?

I’m from Australia, so I can only speak to the Australian climate and industry. I can confidently say that the model shown in Vienna is not feasible in our country. We simply don’t have much use for excess heat and we are highly susceptible to droughts. DCs use a lot of water to cool down and having these all over the country for private enterprise is bonkers. So, that’s instantly a market that isn’t profitable. Furthermore, it’s not feasible to build a pipe and re-route the heat across large distances with minimal heat loss.

However, even when or if they implement this throughout all of Austria, it won’t return a profit (which is what I thought your attachment was here, not the feasibility. We are talking about profitability, right?). This project cost $3.5m Euro and partially funded by tax. It’s not a great example of profitability but a good example of sustainability measures.

Also, reading comprehension assistance: not feasible != Impossible.

These companies have BILLIONS in revenue and millions of customers, and you’re saying very few want to pay…

Yep, I am. Just follow the money. Here’s an example:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/microsoft_earnings_q1_26_openai_loss/

not saying this is an easy problem to solve, but you’re making it sound no one wants it and they can never do it.

… That’s all in your head, mate. I never said that nor did I imply it.

What I am implying is that the uptake is so small compared to the investment that it is unlikely to turn a profit.

If OpenAI can build a datacenter that re-uses all it’s heat for example to heat a hospital nearby, that’s another step towards reaching profitability.

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I’ve worked in the building industry for over 20 years. This is simply not feasible both from a material standpoint and physics standpoint.

I know it’s an example, but this kind of rhetoric is exactly the kind of wishful thinking that I see in so many people who want LLMs to be a main staple of our everyday lives. Scratch the surface and it’s all just fantasy.

It is unlikely to turn a profit because the returns need to be greater than the investment for there to be any profit. The trends show that very few want to pay for this service. I mean, why would you pay for something that’s the equivalent of asking someone online or in person for free or very little cost by comparison?

Furthermore, it’s a corporation that steals from you and doesn’t want to be held accountable for anything. For example, the chat bot suicides and the fact that their business model would fall over if they actually had to pay for the data that they use to train their models.

The whole thing is extremely inefficient and makes us more dumb via atrophy. Why would anyone want to third party their thinking process? It’s like thinking everyone wants mobility scooters.

Mature age student here where my classmates are half my age:

The ones who have authority/inferiority complexes are awful but it’s so easy to just push them aside. For the most part, they’re inquisitive and sweet, and i adore them.

I get it’s a joke but, dude, being an adult is knowing how to look after yourself both physically and mentally. Also, I don’t have a favourite spatula; it’s a very expensive commercial grade pot. I love that thing.

Growing up, no.

Will my potential kids be sharing the work equally? Definitely. I always got into so much trouble for asking why I had to do housework and my brother didn’t.